Starting skills

Every new character in EVE starts with the same 11 skills, two of which are race-specific: Frigate and Gunnery skills are based upon your racial choice. You start out with 55,824 skill points no matter what race you choose to play.

Attributes are also standardized across the races; they are all set at 20 (with Charisma at 19).

Here are the skills all characters start with:

• [[Skills:Armor Mechanics]]
• [[Skills:Engineering CPU Management]]
• [[Skills:Engineering Powergrid Management]]
• Gunnery Gunnery
• Navigation Navigation
• [[Skills:Resource Processing Mining]]
• [[Skills:Scanning Astrometrics]]
• Science Science
• Spaceship Command Spaceship Command

Additionally, each new character starts with a racial frigate and gunnery skill:

Amarr

• Spaceship Command Amarr Frigate
• Gunnery Small Energy Turret

Caldari

• Spaceship Command Caldari Frigate
• Gunnery Small Hybrid Turret

Gallente

• Spaceship Command Gallente Frigate
• Gunnery Small Hybrid Turret

Minmatar

• Spaceship Command Minmatar Frigate
• Gunnery Small Projectile Turret

Completing the tutorials will reward you with additional skill books.