Useful Skills

[gimpyone]

Dug this out of the monster eve thread:

Engineering tree: Energy Grid Upgrades, Energy Systems Operation, Energy Management.  Gives you nice boosts in capacitor max and recharge.  Energy Management 4 is required for a handy gadget, the Micro Auxillary Power Core.

Navigation tree: Fuel Conservation, Acceleration Control, Evasive Maneuvering.  The first two are useful to pilots who use afterburners, which I imagine includes most anyway, and the last is good for all.

Gunnery tree: Rapid Firing, Motion Prediction, Sharpshooter.  Fire faster/hit fast targets easier/hit from further.  Surgical Strike is also a good combat skill, but one for later because it's relatively pricey.

Electronics tree: Long Range Targeting.

Mechanic tree: Hull Upgrades.  There's another nice gadget called Damage Control which gives bonuses against all damage types, only requires Level 1 in this skill, and should be quite affordable.

[Yoru]

A few others that come to mind, especially for us missile-whores.

Missile tree: Missile Bombardment, Missile Projection, Rapid Fire, Target Navigation Prediction and Guided Missile Precision. Pretty much just the missile analogues to the Gunnery tree.

Engineering: Energy Emission Systems (nosferatus).

Electronics: Signal (or Signature, I forget) Analysis. Speeds up targetting on smaller targets.

[WayAbvPar]

Don't forget the social skills- Social and Connections especially. Crank up that standing and get better agents!