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== 'Good Support Skills' ==

The need for 'good support skills' is often emphasized in discussions within the Uni, and in EVE generally, because a skilled character can  easily be twice as effective as an unskilled pilot flying exactly the same ship.  

== The 80/20 Rule of Skill Training ==

Of particular importance to new characters is the concept of the 80/20 rule, which is as follows: '''you'll receive 80% of a skill's possible maximum benefit from training only the first four levels, which will only take about 20% of the total training time'''. This is based on the exponential increase of training time as you train a skill. You can train the first four levels of a skill and receive 80% of the benefits in roughly 1/4 the time it'll take to train the last level. This means it's typically most beneficial, though there are always exceptions, to train multiple skills to level four before going back through and bringing them up to level five. There are some skills you may never bring to level five as they're simply too time intensive for too little benefit.

When someone says they have 'good' skills in a certain category, they most commonly mean that they have most if not all of those skills trained to IV or V.  

Note that there is some overlap between these lists.  

=== Capacitor ===

**[[Skills:Engineering#Energy_Management|Energy Management]]: 5% bonus to total capacitor capacity per level  

**[[Skills:Engineering#Energy_Systems_Operation|Energy Systems Operation]]: 5% cap recharge rate reduction per level  

**[[Skills:Navigation#Warp_Drive_Operation|Warp Drive Operation]]: 10% reduction per level in capacitor use when initiating warp  

**[[Skills:Gunnery#Controlled_Bursts|Controlled Bursts]]: 5% per level reduced cap use for [[Turrets#Hybrid_Turrets|hybrid]] and [[Turrets#Energy_Turrets|energy]] turrets (important for hybrid/laser users, no use for projectile/missile users)  

**[[Skills:Navigation#Fuel_Conservation|Fuel Conservation]]: 10% reduced cap per level for afterburners (hefty bonus, together with the duration increase from the Afterburner skill itself, makes it very easy to permarun an AB at level IV or V)  

**[[Skills:Electronics#Propulsion_Jamming|Propulsion Jamming]]: 5% reduction per level to warp scrambler/disruptor and stasis web capacitor need (essential for tacklers)  

**[[Skills:Engineering#Shield_Compensation|Shield Compensation]]: 2% less capacitor need per level for shield boosters (though in the long run it's good to train for both kinds of tanking, if you only use buffer tanks when you shield tank, this may not be useful for you)  

*'''EWAR-related capacitor management modules''' - if you fit EWAR modules, you will want to train the relevant EWAR capacitor improvement skill(s) to level IV or higher  

**[[Skills:Electronics#Electronic_Warfare|Electronic Warfare]]: 5% less cap per level for ECM jammers and ECM bursts (required for Caldari EWAR)  

**[[Skills:Electronics#Target_Painting|Target Painting]]: 5% less capacitor need per level for target painters (useful for Minmatar EWAR)  

**[[Skills:Electronics#Weapon_Disruption|Weapon Disruption]]: 5% less capacitor need per level for tracking disruptors (useful for Amarr EWAR)  

**[[Skills:Mechanic#Remote_Armor_Repair_Systems|Remote Armor Repair Systems]]: 5% reduced capacitor need per level for remote armor repair modules (vital if you ever do [[Spider Tanking|armor RR]] work)  

**[[Skills:Engineering#Shield_Emission_Systems|Shield Emission Systems]]: 5% reduced capacitor need per level for shield emission modules (important if you ever find yourself in a shield logistics ship)  

**[[Skills:Engineering#Energy_Emission_Systems|Energy Emission Systems]]: 5% reduced capacitor need per level for energy emission modules (important if you ever find yourself in a Basilisk or Guardian logistics ship)

=== Mobility ===

Since your ability to move around often depends on keeping your propulsion module running, capacitor skills are indirectly very important for mobility too.