The "Perfect" Starting Character

Okay, fine, you may be wondering at this point, after trying the trial and learning the basics, what character setup is best to start off with. Ideally, I would start saying that there is no "best" character setup in character creation that will help you train faster or give you more skills in what you like, etc.

Realistically, however, some people actually have found ways to get the most time-efficient-training characters from the character creation process. I myself happen to be using one of the "builds" in my pet project.

The Skills section of the forum has many guides to help you along in maximizing your character creation, and thus, faster training in certain fields of skills. For example, Tripoli (character name) has taken the liberty to create two guides to help you along in creating the perfect character attributes by explaining how they work, here, and here.

Secondly, Akita T has created a rudimentary attribute start comparison guide, and Juwi Kotch has extended that into the starter skills available depending upon the choices of careers you can choose during character creation.

Long-story short, a Caldari Achura Inventor, with Industry-Engineer training is the best start off for balanced-training characters, and is the race and ancestry of my pet project, due to the speed of training. Most skills are Intelligence/Memory based, or use either in most of their training attribute scores. Having them both high is a great asset. For combat, a high Preception and Willpower helps as well in training weapon and ship skills. Charisma suffers in this "build" so no trade, corporation, and social skills will train as fast.

This is just an idea of what you should plan for when you have decided upon a profession you want to take for real. Trials are, of course, without obligation, so you can have as many as you'd like to learn as much as you can on your own. I would recommend taking that chance. Besides, its 14 days of fun, for free :D