This guide is aimed at newer players, more veteran players and multiboxers (people playing multiple omega accounts at the same time) like myself.
I started experimenting with the Air Career Programme because the 750,000 Skill Points (SP) provided seemed like a pretty sweet deal. But I wanted to know whether it’s worth the effort and share my findings with the community.
Basics
The AIR Career programme is divided into four Careers and this Step-By-Step guide will take you through a quick way to finish all of those, providing you with tips and guidance.
- Step-By-Step Guide - Career Agents and SoE Epic Arc
- Enforcer
- Explorer
- Industralist
- Soldier of Fortune
Each of the Careers is divided into 10 sections and each section has individual tasks. Each completed task provides Career Points (CP). To get the 750.000 SP, one does not have to complete every task available though.
You will get following SP:
- 100,000 SP for graduating from each career- that means reaching 750 CP out of the 1000 available in each career
- 50,000 SP for reaching 750 CP overall
- 75,000 SP for reaching 1,500 CP overall
- 100,000 SP for reaching 2,250 CP overall
- 125,000 SP for reaching 3,000 CP overall
- Total: 750,000 SP
Considering the current price of Large Skill Injectors (LSI), even a brand new player can get more than 100M ISK/h worth of SP, whereas 80M+ SP characters can calculate with 360M ISK/h worth of SP per character (considering using LSIs instead of accelerators).
Multiboxing: Large parts of the Air Career Programme are easily multiboxable. But some tasks will increase the time it takes for completion slightly. I have personally tried running it with 4 characters in parallel (twice) and 2 individual fresh characters for testing purposes.
Even if you don’t care about the SP, I recommend to all veteran players to run the AIR Career Programme at least once for multiple reasons:Note: I have added details about multiboxing to this guide, not because I believe that one has to multibox to enjoy EVE, but because I think that the AIR Career Programme is valuable also for more veteran players. In ISK value (as SP) it can easily compete with other common multibox activities like Moon Mining, Ishtar ratting, etc. as you can see in the napkin-math above.
- New Career Agents - worth seeing the gorgeous new environment and dialogues, as well as how new players are being guided into playing EVE
- Faction Standing Boost through the Career Agents and the Sisters of EVE Epic Arc - if you don't know which one to choose - Caldari standing helps reduce Broker Fees in Jita - that's always nice to have.
- The Air Career Programme also serves as a reminder of the beautiful complexity of EVE Online and how many things new players can and should experience.