Have you ever got the feeling that Eve Online is too tightly dependant on number crunching and less on free role playing with no strings attached? It might be the case that you simply didnt have enough time to waste on tedious calculations and skill planning to actually enjoy the number game. Should that be the case, you will absolutely love EveMon, that perfect tool to help players organize and plan ahead of time their skill-point investments. In fact, the program is so good that youll wonder how you ever managed playing Eve without it. Be fast and get it
here.
Originally, EveMon was Six Anaris brainchild, an individual effort of a dedicated Eve Online fan with some skill in programming, whose goal was to make a database of all skills and training times and put it into a user friendly form. In time, the team got more and more support and now there are 14 people working on improving and maintaining the existing features. The software is distributed under the General Public License, so feel free to use EveMon at your discretion, with no attached fees or any form of malware.
In order to gain access to your Eve Online skills, you must provide EveMon with a user name and password, proceeding to character selection afterwards. At first, I was skeptical about giving this kind of information to software I knew nothing about, but let me assure you this information will never leave your computer. EveMon is perfectly safe in this respect. Following these easy steps, you should now have all your in-game skill tree selection downloaded into your EveMon and the fun can start.
For one thing, it will grant you hassle free access and information to your Eve Online skills while the game itself is not running, perfect for those tricky situations when you are at work of simply dont have the time to keep an eye on things. Upon receiving immediate notifications about skill training completion, you can casually enter the game and start a new one, without wasting any precious learning time.
Secondly, you can start a skill plan for your avatar. You start from
the current Eve Online skill profile youve just downloaded and work your way up to certain desired target skills. By simply using drag and drop techniques, you gain new skills and EveMon does a great job by automatically adding the skill prerequisites too. Imagine you one day wish to fly a tier 2 cruiser, say Cerberus, but youre not quite sure what skills are required or how long will it take. All you have to do is look in the ship description panel and remember the skills you directly need. Add them into your profile and after a couple of clicks, youll have the necessary ingredients ready. EveMon has a lot of tips to improve your current skill setting, by adding some learning skills in the mix and reducing the overall training time. As a mater of choice, you can also automatically sort the skill tree to learn the fastest skills first, for a more efficient leveling curve.
In order to tweak your character a bit more, be sure to check the implant calculator. It will provide accurate information about how much of a boost will that +3 Intelligence implant will provide to you learning progression. Its always nice to toy around with the primary statistics, if nothing else, you can catch a glimpse at how the character should look after a couple of months of Eve Online playing. Toying around with different implant boosts will tell you exactly what stat is the most important for the current build. This kind of hint can prove relevant to your further development within the Eve universe.
Mineral worksheets are quite commonly found on the internet, yet EveMon has one incorporated, for fast and accurate mineral transaction calculations. If youre the kind of player that likes to PvP a lot, chances are youll wreck the ship more often than the average player. With help from the mineral worksheet, you can always do the math and see how much the production cost will hurt you, when rebuilding the ship. It automatically imports mineral prices from four different sources and it does so in real-time, so you wont have to enter the game and start scouting the market for hard to find deals.
Dont forget you can save different skill plans into .xml format for later use. Additionally, you can even run EveMon from your home and have it send emails to a certain address, provided you are unable to run third party software on your day-computer. The program has the option of automatically updating itself on a scheduled time frame. Its not a bad idea, since CCP patches are known to occasionally disrupt the softwares activities, calling for another EveMon build.
Overall, EveMon is a reliable skill planner with many special additions that will make your life easier and the Eve Online experience more enjoyable. This kind of tool is of paramount importance to new players and has its uses for the hardcore Eve Online players as well. Since its a freeware effort, I can only commend the EveMon team for their dedication and initiative.
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