Starting skills

New characters in EVE start with around 400k skill points with the following skill levels trained. This represents a considerable increase to the past, when (before the Vanguard expansion in September 2015) characters started with around 55k skill points. The higher level of starting skills allows brand-new characters to access a wider range of activities in EVE from the start.

Starting skill points

Amarr	Caldari	Gallente	Minmatar
386,739	384,047	386,739	384,410

Common Skills

• Armor (See Tanking below.)
  • Hull Upgrades II
  • Mechanics III
• 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
  • Weapon Upgrades II
• Gunnery (See Ship and Gunnery Skills below.)
  • Controlled Bursts I
  • Gunnery IV
  • Motion Prediction II
  • Rapid Firing II
  • Sharpshooter II
  • Trajectory Analysis I
• Missiles
  • Missile Launcher Operation I
• Navigation
  • Afterburner III
  • Evasive Maneuvering I
  • High Speed Maneuvering I
  • Navigation III
  • Warp Drive Operation II
• 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 Upgrades I
  • Tactical Shield Manipulation I
• Spaceship Command (See Ship and Gunnery Skills below.)
  • Mining Frigate I
  • Spaceship Command III
• Targeting
  • Long Range Targeting II
  • Signature Analysis II
  • Target Management III
• Trade
  • Marketing I
  • Trade II

Racial Differences

Ship and Gunnery Skills

Amarr	Caldari	Gallente	Minmatar
Amarr Hauler I	Caldari Hauler I	Gallente Hauler I	Minmatar Hauler I
Amarr Frigate I	Caldari Frigate I	Gallente Frigate I	Minmatar Frigate I
Controlled Bursts II	Controlled Bursts II	Controlled Bursts II	Controlled Bursts I
Small Energy Turret I	Small Hybrid Turret I	Small Hybrid Turret I	Small Projectile Turret I

Tanking

Amarr, Gallente, Minmatar	Caldari
Hull Upgrades III	Hull Upgrades II
Shield Management I	Shield Management II
Shield Upgrades I	Shield Upgrades II
Tactical Shield Manipulation I	Tactical Shield Manipulation II