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{{Deprecated | {{Deprecated|[[Ship Tree]]. Certificates were a way to identify which skills to train. At least for flying spaceships now you can use the [[Ship Tree]]. There are levels up to 5 to show your mastery of the ship and you can see which skills you should train to increase the level.}} | ||
{{Hatnote|This page is about the old pre-Rubicon Certificates - these do not exist anymore since the Rubicon expansion.}} | |||
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It seems to be a more or less well accepted fact that the certificate system in | It seems to be a more or less well accepted fact that the certificate system in EVE Online is less than entirely useful as it currently stands. Articles tend to stress relatively complicated ways of approaching what skills to train. Long descriptions of the skills and how they interrelate are quite important to understand, but for the beginning pilot, they tend to overwhelm. | ||
The game has a system that can help simplify the decision as to what skills you train by allowing you to focus not on the individual skills so much as the underlying foundations of what pilots end up doing in New Eden. This is the certificate system. | The game has a system that can help simplify the decision as to what skills you train by allowing you to focus not on the individual skills so much as the underlying foundations of what pilots end up doing in New Eden. This is the certificate system. | ||
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*Shield Upgrades IV | *Shield Upgrades IV | ||
*Tactical Shield Manipulation II | *Tactical Shield Manipulation II | ||
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*EM Shield Compensation III | *EM Shield Compensation III | ||
*Kinetic Shield Compensation III | *Kinetic Shield Compensation III | ||
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The certificate system can be seen as a helper on the professions side of this picture, while the detailed understanding of the skills trees should be seen as the career side. Some occupations may require specific skills that either fall out of the scope of a certificate or fall under what seems to be an entirely unrelated certificate. A useful metaphor might be the distinction between law school (where you learn what the law is) and the training you get in a law firm (where you learn how to practice the law). | The certificate system can be seen as a helper on the professions side of this picture, while the detailed understanding of the skills trees should be seen as the career side. Some occupations may require specific skills that either fall out of the scope of a certificate or fall under what seems to be an entirely unrelated certificate. A useful metaphor might be the distinction between law school (where you learn what the law is) and the training you get in a law firm (where you learn how to practice the law). | ||
The EVE Careers Guide | The EVE Careers Guide has an interesting breakdown of the various career paths available in EVE. Not only are the normal industrial and military careers considered, but discussions of role playing careers and metagame[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metagaming] play. | ||
These are some of the basic occupations that you can get into very early and very easily in your career: | These are some of the basic occupations that you can get into very early and very easily in your career: | ||
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=== Planning with Certificates === | === Planning with Certificates === | ||
In the same way that one plans an academic or professional career based on goals, the pilot should plan one's skill training. Using certificates helps the process by laying out in relatively perspicuous form, just what you need to train to be able to do what you wish to do. I recommend using some form of skill training | In the same way that one plans an academic or professional career based on goals, the pilot should plan one's skill training. Using certificates helps the process by laying out in relatively perspicuous form, just what you need to train to be able to do what you wish to do. I recommend using some form of skill training third party tools like [http://evemon.battleclinic.com, EVEMon], [https://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=1096971, Mac Eve Tools], or EVEUniverse. | ||
The idea is not to follow whatever these certificates tell you to train (unless your goal is to just collect certificates), but to use them in order to get a working template for fine tuning. | The idea is not to follow whatever these certificates tell you to train (unless your goal is to just collect certificates), but to use them in order to get a working template for fine tuning. | ||
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== Supplementary Reading == | == Supplementary Reading == | ||
[ | [https://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1467427| EVEMon - Windows character progression program] | ||
[ | [https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=10200| Mac Eve Tools - MacOS X character progression application] | ||
[http://www.isktheguide.com| ISK: the guide] | |||
[http://www.isktheguide.com| ISK: the guide] | |||
== Authors == | == Authors == | ||
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[[User:Diane yanumano]] | [[User:Diane yanumano]] | ||
[[Category:Skills]] | |||