Originally Posted by Flowergnome

I'm still quite new to all this, so take my comments with a grain of salt.

1) Why go to lvl 9 in all those the tier 1 skills? Compared to lvl 7 you gain 1 measly point more in skill bonus but have to spent a ton of skill points that could be used elsewhere.

2) No starship attack vectors on a solo PvE ship? Isn't that a bit odd?

3) In general, you seem intent on taking as many skills to lvl 9 as possible. That might not be the most sensible approach. You might want to take a look here http://theenginescannaetakeit.wordpr...s-the-numbers/. Based on that, you could, with a bit of shifting points around, get nearly the same skill boni out of your build and cover a lot more ground skill-wise.

4) 6 hour difference? I take it UK-based fleets are not an option then?

5) Weapons: solo PvE in a science ship means you won't be able to fly circles around your enemies - but they will. So you want to be able to hit them with as many weapons as possible whereever they are. For me that says beam arrays, with a 250° attack radius. I currently use 2 phaser arrays fore and aft plus one torpedo launcher fore. Turrets would be another option, but I have no experience with those.

That's all. I only just became captain on my first char myself, so no comment on higher up skills.

Hope this helps, fly safe!