Everyone wants the flashy skills first, the big guns, the titans, the fancy ships. But here’s the secret nobody tells new players. If you want to actually get rich in this game, train Accounting and Broker Relations to level five before almost anything else.
Every single time you buy or sell on the market, CCP takes a cut, sales tax on the way out, broker fees on the way in. Untrained, you’re bleeding a chunk of every transaction straight into the void. Multiply that by every ship, every module, every skill injector you’ll ever trade over your whole EVE career, and that’s real wealth you’re just giving away for free.
Two skill books, one modest chunk of skill points, and suddenly you’re keeping more of everything you touch, forever. It’s the most boring investment in the game and also the highest return one. Train it once, profit from it every single day after.
And if you really want to squeeze every drop out of this, don’t even use your main. Roll a trading alt through a referral link, that gets you a free chunk of starter skill points right out of the gate, throw a couple of cheap skill injectors at it, and train Trade, Accounting, and Broker Relations to five on that character alone. Now every single trade you ever make runs through the cheapest possible tax rate, forever, without touching your main’s skill plan at all.
Yes, it would mean that your trader alt would actually yield you real profits and yes you can expand it with standings and other trade skills. You want to buy the char?