Sunday, August 14, 2011

What are the "payoff" times for EvE learning skills?

Question

"Learning skills" are the skills that increase a character stat, thus reducing the time it takes to train other skills that require that stat. This creates a trade-off. I can learn skill X now, taking the "normal" amount of time to train it, or I can train the learning skill now, and then train skill X, which will now take slightly less time.

My question: what is the "payoff" time for each learning skill - how long do I have to spend training skills utilizing that boosted stat before the total training time is lower than it would be without the learning skill?

Ideally, I would like a chart that lists all the payoffs for all levels of all learning skills.

Answer

Learning skills were entirely removed from the game in mid-December 2010. Any points invested in learning skills were reimbursed. Players can instantly apply these points to any other skill they like.

Skill books are no longer available on the market, and any skill books sitting around in containers were reimbursed at the NPC selling price.

All new and existing characters have an extra 12 points in each attribute, to make up for the skills' removal.

The developers have a more extensive post about the change over on the EVE Dev Blog.

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