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If you ARE caldari as a main, and missile biased, what training line would you suggest would be easiest to feed training into? Amarri and Lasers? or what? At this point I can have an uber decked out Caldari Drake if I had the money.
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Here are the training lines you need to consider when talking about cross training:
1. "racial" ship skills (ie racial frigate, racial cruiser, racial battleship, etc)
2. shield tanking skills (in engineering tree) and/or armor tanking skills (in mechanic tree)
3. Weapon systems, including Gunnery (Energy, Hybrid, Projectile), Missiles, Drones
For the most part everything else is sorta universal. Minmatar need good navigation skills but everyone benefits from having them, etc.
Average Skills per race:
Caldari > Caldari ship skills, shield tanking skills, missiles.
Gallente > Gallente ship skills, armor tanking skills, hybrid guns, drones.
Amarr > Amarr ship skills, armor tanking skills, energy guns (or projectile guns)
Minmatar > Minmatar ship skills, armor tanking skills, shield tanking skills, missiles, projectile guns.
The first thing you need to cross train is that races ship flying skills obviously, can't even enter a caldari frigate without the caldari frigate skill. The other skills are about fitting the ship properly once you can fly it. After that though, who you cross train over towards should be a function of how much you want to fly the other guys ships compared to how long its going to take you, training wise. Most people would say for caldari go ahead and cross train over to gallente as they have the most in common (both use Hybrid guns) except most caldari don't really have any gunnery skills, and only have a few dedicated gunship platforms that most skip over anyway, so that's not always true. Now caldari *should* have hybrid gunnery skills to get the most out of all their ships, but that doesn't mean that they will.
So if you are looking for easiest, just look to see who has the most in common. And for a missile caldari, that's Minmatar.