Skill injectors are a double edged sword, but I gotta say, for me personally it is what keeps me in the game. I got sick and tired of all the NS bull ■■■■ going on in the game and quit. Like literally every aspect of it, caps, cap alts, proliferation, powercreep, uber mega blobs, all the multiboxing needed whenever you wanna do something for yourself cause can’t trust anyone in your own corp / alliance, botting, o god just ■■■■ the botting, and 2 different corps tried pushing me into it, etc. etc.
So all that sort of stuff got me to basically quit. My combat main was PvP and has horrible standings from podding folks to the point that I basically can’t function in HS and the grind to get back the standings is so insane and horrible that I had no choice but to say “■■■■ it” and just quit. But I still kept in touch once in a while and followed the major game news.
Then the skill injectors were announced, so I came back into the game about 3 months before they got implimented, I don’t remember exactly when but when they 1st announced them and have stayed since.
What the injectors allowed me to do is make my HS alt into a functional character, without having to re-grind anything or wait 2 years or so to train up. I dumped my cap alt, mining alts, streamlined my hauling toon, to extractors. Then I used all that SP and sold off my assets and bought even more injectors. When they 1st came out they weren’t as expensive as now, so I got a lot.
Even with all that I still have a lot I need to train across 3 different toons. The one I consider my main is pretty good now and just training more QOL and what I think are kinda novelty skills for things to do once in a while, which is awesome.
None of this stuff would be possible without injectors.
And I would keep at least 2 fitted drakes, they are still good ships for some situations, marauders and battleships will often just unnecessarily slow you down in a lot of cases. Double this if you duo with someone and can provide some buffs. Definetly keep that, its very usefull.