Editing Skills and Implants (section)

===Attribute Increases===

Attributes in EVE are used to calculate the time it will take you to learn skills, and that's all that they do. Every skill has a primary attribute and a secondary attribute that govern training time, so adding implants to raise those attributes will accelerate your learning. But by how much? 

EVE University's wiki gives a more detailed look at the [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Skills_and_learning#Effects_on_Skill_Training math involved in skill training], but here we'll keep it as simple and accessible as possible. Even though Alpha clones and Omega clones have a different base training rate, the time savings can be expressed as a percentage that is the same for both. 

The Alpha training rate is set at 15 points per minute, and the Omega rate is twice that at 30 points per minute, with no implants at all. If you were to add a +3 implant for both the primary and secondary attributes for a particular skill, the training rate will increase to 17.25 points per minute for Alphas and 34.5 points per minute for Omegas. So, with +3 implants, your training time will be about 87% of the time without implants. That works out to a savings of about 3 hours for a day-long train, or about 1 day for a week-long train. 

Omegas can use more potent implants, which can increase attributes by 5, but the math works the same way. An Omega with +5 implants for the primary and secondary attributes for a skill will train it at a rate of 37.5 points per minute, which works out to about 80% training time. That's a savings of not quite 5 hours per day, or about a day and a half per week. 

So, how much is the savings worth to you? At the time of this writing, a +3 implant costs about 10 million ISK, and a +5 implant is around 100 million ISK. As with anything in EVE, implants have diminishing returns, so eventually a small improvement costs a lot more time or ISK. If you need to prioritize your implant purchases, Intelligence is going to help most exploration skills, with Memory coming in second place. A Charisma implant, on the other hand, is going to be almost useless.