Editing Skills and Implants (section)

===Too Long, Won't Read===

''WARNING! The following recommendations are not the official advice of Signal Cartel, its leadership and membership, or the wiki administrators and contributors. They are not even the advice of the wiki contributor who is writing them... he thinks that you should read the guide. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.'' 

If you're looking at this guide and wondering what you should be doing right away, here's your answer. It's a much better idea to read, and consider, and take your time, but for those who need to take a running leap, here you go:

The immediate factor that will get in the way of successful exploring is not having enough virus coherence to hack cans, which is how you get the loot. Train Archaeology and Hacking both to 3 as soon as you can. 

Your Racial Frigate skill and Astrometrics will come next, because your other major obstacle will be scanning down difficult signatures. If you can't get to the sites, hacking won't do you much good. Your starting skills will be good enough to scan down signatures in hisec, but the big risks and the big rewards are in j-space, and your scanning will have to be better. Astrometric Rangefinding is worth training at this point, but Acquisition isn't as important, and Pinpointing has time-consuming  prerequisites. 

If you're willing to upgrade to Omega, train Cloaking 1 as soon as possible. That prototype cloak is a bell-and-whistle worth having. 

That should get you through about a week or so, which means you now have plenty of time to read the rest of this and make some considered decisions.