Starting skills

New characters in EVE start with around 400k skill points (before the Vaguard expansion in September 2015, characters started with around 55k skill points), with the following skill levels trained.

Starting skill points

Amarr	Caldari	Gallente	Minmatar
408,995	399,718	394,824	406,666

Common Skills

• Armor (See Tanking below.)
  • Hull Upgrades II
  • Mechanics II
  • Repair Systems I
• Drones
  • Drone Avionics I
  • Drones I
• Electronic Systems
  • Electronic Warfare I
  • Propulsion Jamming I
• Engineering
  • Capacitor Management III
  • Capacitor Systems Operation III
  • CPU Management IV
  • Electronics Upgrades III
  • Energy Grid Upgrades I
  • Power Grid Management IV
  • Thermodynamics I
  • Weapon Upgrades II
• Gunnery (See Ship and Gunnery Skills below.)
  • Controlled Bursts I
  • Gunnery IV
  • Motion Prediction II
  • Rapid Firing II
  • Sharpshooter II
  • Surgical Strike I
  • Trajectory Analysis I
• Missiles
  • Missile Launcher Operation I
• Navigation
  • Afterburner III
  • Evasive Maneuvering I
  • High Speed Maneuvering I
  • Navigation III
  • Warp Drive Operation I
• Neural Enhancement
  • Cybernetics I
• Production
  • Industry I
• Resource Processing
  • Mining III
  • Salvaging III
• Scanning
  • Archaeology I
  • Astrometric Acquisition I
  • Astrometric Rangefinding I
  • Astrometrics III
  • Hacking I
  • Survey III
• Science
  • Science IV
• Shield (See Tanking below.)
  • Shield Management I
  • Shield Operation I
  • Shield Upgrades I
  • Tactical Shield Manipulation I
• Spaceship Command (See Ship and Gunnery Skills below.)
  • Mining Frigate I
  • Spaceship Command III
• Targeting
  • Long Range Targeting I
  • Signature Analysis I
  • Target Management II
• Trade
  • Trade II

Racial Differences

Ship and Gunnery Skills

Amarr	Caldari	Gallente	Minmatar
Amarr Frigate III	Caldari Frigate III	Gallente Frigate II	Minmatar Frigate III
[[Skills:Amarr Industrial I]]	[[Skills:Caldari Industrial I]]	[[Skills:Gallente Industrial I]]	[[Skills:Minmatar Industrial I]]
Small Energy Turret III	Small Hybrid Turret III	Small Hybrid Turret III	Small Projectile Turret III
Controlled Bursts II	Controlled Bursts II	Controlled Bursts II	Controlled Bursts I

Tanking

Amarr, Gallente, Minmatar	Caldari
Hull Upgrades III	Hull Upgrades II
Mechanics III	Mechanics II
Repair Systems III	Repair Systems I
Shield Management I	Shield Management II
Shield Operation I	Shield Operation II
Shield Upgrades I	Shield Upgrades II
Tactical Shield Manipulation I	Tactical Shield Manipulation II