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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 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[ | 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 third party tools like [ | 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] | ||