Just remove all support skills while you’re at it. /s
Seriously though, no support. The magic 14 are fine as they are. Some people make the mistake of thinking these skills are somehow required. They’re not.
The ‘magic 14’ are base flying skills that are very often useful and for that reason they are recommended to newbies who do not yet know what they should train. These skills are not the most important skills and neither are they required to train to 5 right away. Training all these skills to level 3 is sufficient for a newbie and that takes very little time.
These 14 skills, like any other skills, are optional. A choice for specialisation. And as such, I see no less reason to remove these skills than to remove any or all of the other skills in the game ‘just because it is less for new players to learn’.
Why are they optional?
- Magic 14 is only useful for characters that fly in space. Many characters do not need to train them. Most of my characters have only trained a couple of them at most.
- The Magic 14 consists of very different skills that improve different parts of your flying, even if you fly a lot, not all of these skills are used. You do not use Long range targeting when you’re hauling.
- Like any other skill, you can choose to train for only 20% of the time to get 80% of the effect. That last part that people like to complain about ‘it’s so time consuming!’ is completely optional, unless you have some really tight fit that you cannot solve any other way by using compact modules or an implant
- Unlike learning skills, which were terrible because you had to start training nothing useful before you could train other things more efficiently, the Magic 14 do not stop you from training other skills first. You can choose to train your mining or exploration skills first if you want to, and it’s recommended even to do so, because the Magic 14 is only if you don’t know what else to prioritize.
Just like the EVE uni wiki on Magic 14 suggests:
Important: This page is NOT intended to be a skill plan. This is a list of ‘support’ skills which impact all the ships you will fly. Training them is important because it will give you an edge, but there is no point training support skills without first training the skills you need to actually USE the ships and modules. We would suggest you get these skills trained up after training the minimal skills required to actually use the ships you want to fly.
Magic 14 are support skills, just like any other support skills that improve your flying capabilities. They’re a bit more general than support skills that allow my guns to fire faster, or support skills that give me more resistance against ECM, but they shouldn’t just be removed because people find them boring to train.