Guide to Skill Learning in Eve Online

By training the basic attribute learning skills it is possible to increase your base attribute by up to 5 points each. If you are considering playing the game long term then the "learning" category skills will save you a significant amount of time, allowing your character to progress much more quickly.

Many people will generally increase their entire "Learning" category learning/attribute skills to at least level three or level four. As learning level five skills take a long time to train, it takes a long time for them 'repay' themselves in saved time, longer for the training effort to be repaid in saved time on other skills.

It is probably not worth training them up to level five unless you know for sure that you are going to be doing a lot of training using particular attributes.

• If, for example, you decide to become a fighter and are going to have to train a lot of Gunnery class skills, training Spatial Awareness (perception) and Iron Will (willpower) skills to level five will repay itself very quickly!

How to train attributes
Obviously training of learning and attribute skills also takes time. The primary attribute required for the learning class of skills is Memory and the Secondary is Intelligence.

Therefore, if you train the Instant Recall (memory) and Analytical Mind (Intelligence) skills first it will save you time training the others. The Memory and Intelligence attributes play a role in the training of many useful skill classes so you should consider training them up to at least Level three (and preferably level four) as soon as possible.

The following is one suggested training routine for a new character which will help you maximize your learning and attribute skills most quickly. It is based on calculations not explained here: