So? when CCP originally talked about the skills way back in closed beta they said over 7 years of playtime just to max out everything, we've been playing with shortened skill trees so that we could test things out, now we're getting to the real meat and potatoes of the game and actually looking at a full game here

You only need Weaponry level 3 for light weapons and it doesn't offer a damage bonus anymore so there is no need to get it to level 5 unless you plan on using heavy weapons.

Thanks, this is what i've been wondering. So about 10,000,000 for a maxed out proto? I'm 2 million short. I'm going to miss all the variety I have now, need to specialize this time.

Good thing you have all of the standard and advanced equipment to fill the gap, eh? Lots of 5's you put up there on that list..

EVE Online Thanatos takes what... a few hundred days from scratch? HTFU.

EDIT: Also, you shouldn't NEED proto to be good.

nobody is going to believe the bold portion.

Thanks OP i was working on the same figures glad we both came to the same number

im surprised its so low personally

i expected the dropsuit skills to take much more to get out of basic suits, i was expecting that my play time may let me get into the first of the role based suits

the whole idea is that you cant max out all the core skills, you should only be maxing them when there is nothing else more important for you to get

I have no intention of maxing those skills, i have them on my list and will be building my fit as i like it then skills to make sure it works, hopfully that means i dont need to max them from the start

We shall see

That's a lot of skillpoints right there, cat, but you might not wanna spend your hard earned SP exactly like that and let me tell you exactly why, man. I'm not going into too much details in this thread but I'm gonna just throw a couple of general pointers out there for you, bro. Number one, we all know the Dust skill system works in a way that every level in a skill increases in cost which makes it sometimes so that you might not wanna go to level 5 in some skills. Let's take engineering or electronics as an example, guys. You might not wanna go blindly rushing there because in many cases your fitting doesn't even require that skill at all, because as we know any unused CPU/PG doesn't give us any bonuses, boys and girls. So go ahead and check your fittings before spending all that SP so fast.

Number two. Some of those requirements skills you mentioned do not need to be at level 5 for you to access the skills following that in the tree. And yeah, you might wanna skill up them eventually for a bonus, but like you said, man, you're on a budget so you might wanna be very selective on what you going after. Peace out!

how much can i get with just 4.5m sp? O.o
I could do without max armor plating and repairs and biotics..

Well then you've already calculated everything, I don't need to say no more. Other than I still think I'd save somewhere and go for a better suit skill. I was thinking of going for at least the prototype generic suit, but I still haven't decided anything. On a side note, and as a scout player, bro, I was inspecting the stats of the assault suits compared to logis and I might be missing something here but it seems like logis are superior to assaults in so many ways. What do you think about that?

how much would neglecting assault proficiency give in sp?
Also, by electronics and engineering, is it considering mostly circuitry and combat engineering (plus shield enhancements), or is it considering all the skills in those?

Yes, that is a core skill to what YOU need.

But if I'm Logistics with a focus on repairing, reviving, and resupply, weaponry will not be a core skill (after Uprising, like Spy Mouse said, it no longer gives damage bonus).

And If I'm a tanker, Weaponry before OR after Uprising build wouldn't help me since I would need turret skills, not handheld weapon skills.

So it should be "Weaponry is a core skill [that I need]."

Like as in, by electronics and engineering, they're not new individual skills right? I'm wondering what skills u would consider being under those umbrellas as taking up most of the SP
such as like Circuitry, nanocircuitry, sensor upgrades, etc being under ELectronics

incorrect
there are proto base suits which are more like our current suits we rocking now
the race bonus suits are a different more specialised tier and that category also comes in std, adv and proto just like the basic

Word.