Back to New Eden once more and one other milestone second as my most important character in EVE Online hit 250 million ability factors.  I stick with it with this largely as a result of this has been an everyday sequence of posts since I began enjoying the sport approach again within the day.  Since the introduction of ability injectors having any given variety of ability factors is feasible if in case you have sufficient actual world money.  I’ve not gone that route, although I can’t declare any actual purity since I’ve accepted my share of free ability factors for login rewards and such.  But this sequence does, in its approach, monitor my progress by way of the sport.

Here is the complete historical past for these with an excessive amount of free time on their arms:

As I famous on the 240 million SP mark, my progress has typically slowed down over the previous few years.  If I’m diligent I find yourself getting 10 million SP about each 8 months.  But I’ve been spreading out the coaching with my alts on the identical account pretty often.  So I’m closing in on 300 million SP throughout my account.

My account ability level unfold

If I had maintained sole concentrate on Wilhelm, I might possible be at 300 million SP on him right now.  I nonetheless leap him into the +5 coaching clone in Jita after I know I’m not going to play for a few days.

But I don’t concentrate on him solely as a result of having alts is helpful once in a while.  If nothing else, all three of them now do Planetary Industry, so I’ve incrementally extra earnings on that entrance.

Also, there was a little bit of a decelerate after I spent February as an Alpha clone, so no coaching was accomplished then.  Turns out being an Alpha clone form of sucks while you’re used to having a pair hundred million ability factors enabling you, so I got here again to Omega in March.

Anyway, lets see the place the abilities on my most important character stand as of this milestone.

Spaceship Cmd    80,297,970 (71 of 85)*
Gunnery          36,069,569 (50 of 63)*
Drones           19,564,708 (23 of 28)
Fleet Support    15,872,000 (14 of 15)
Missiles         12,252,872 (22 of 26)
Navigation       11,346,275 (13 of 13)
Electronic Sys    9,821,179 (15 of 15)*
Engineering       8,939,855 (15 of 15)
Scanning          7,168,000 (7 of seven)
Armor             6,131,137 (13 of 13)
Shields           6,074,039 (12 of 13)
Science           5,714,282 (21 of 39)
Trade             4,626,275 (11 of 14)
Planet Mgmt       4,352,000 (5 of 5)
Resc Processing   4,585,347 (10 of 31)*
Subsystems        4,096,000 (16 of 16)
Neural Enhance    3,810,275 (7 of 8)
Targeting         3,207,765 (8 of 8)
Rigging           2,576,865 (10 of 10)
Structure Mgmt    1,446,824 (6 of 6)
Production        1,157,986 (5 of 12)
Social            1,130,040 (5 of 9)
Corp Mgmt            24,000 (2 of 5)

Total ~250,265,220

As traditional, the classes that modified since final check-in are marked with an asterisk.

This time round Gunnery gained probably the most ability factors, including practically 8 million to that whole.  Gunnery has probably the most abilities of any class moreover Spaceship Command, so I suppose that isn’t shocking.  Spaceship Command nonetheless has nearly double the SP, however Gunnery was clearly my focus.

Why Gunnery?

The Vorton specialization abilities for the EDENCOM ship weapon programs, which fall below gunnery, have lastly turn out to be, if not low-cost, not less than not ludicrously costly.  This, and the truth that there was a buff to the EDENCOM ships to make their particular weapons more practical, signifies that we’d really use a few of these hulls for particular operations at some future date.

Vorton weapons in use

So I went all in and skilled all of these as much as V, plus rounding up a number of the assist abilities that make them more practical.  I’ll most likely by no means find yourself killing something with them, however it wouldn’t be the primary set of unused abilities on my checklist.

Spaceship Command additionally noticed some SP added, because it nearly all the time does.  I used to be rounding out the Precursor ship abilities to degree V, one other set of abilities I’ll possible by no means use.  Oh effectively.

Electronic Systems obtained some contemporary ability factors.  I feel Weapon Destabilization made it to IV.  Not a giant deal, however it would possibly come in useful in some unspecified time in the future.

And, lastly, Resource Processing obtained some ability factors?  That is sort of loopy speak round right here, as I haven’t mined in years and don’t have any actual need to take action since CCP’s useful resource hunger plan.

But then the coalition was asking folks to begin doing gasoline mining, as a result of we want gasoline merchandise to be able to construct capital ships.  So I skilled Gas Cloud Harvesting as much as V.  I had the abilities for the Prospect already, so I fitted one out, obtained my scanning alt out and went into low sec searching for gasoline websites.

3+ hours later, having not noticed a single gasoline web site, I headed again for house swearing I might by no means waste one other second on this sport on useful resource harvesting.  More wasted abilities, however not less than I obtained a studying expertise out of it… I realized that I now not have the endurance for that type of factor.

So it goes.  That about sums up the abilities I skilled up since final check-in.

Overall I’ve 361 abilities injected and skilled to not less than degree I.  That is down from the 367 I had at peak, earlier than they redid the Resource Processing abilities, however up from the 357 I had from the 240 million SP submit.

My abilities are scattered as follows:

Level 1  -    1
Level 2  -    3
Level 3  -   15
Level 4  -   80
Level 5 -   262

That is ten extra abilities at degree V.

Of course, the query is all the time what to coach subsequent.  My ability queue stays within the 600 day vary, however little or no on it will allow something new.  It is generally rounding out the 80 degree IV abilities to degree V.

It may be time to show the queue over to considered one of my alts once more.