Basil Vulpine
Blueprint Haus
Get Off My Lawn
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Posted - 2012.08.14 12:50:00 -
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First they came for a 90K skill and I didn't speak out because I didn't have that 90K skill.
Then they came for a 200K skill and I didn't speak out because I didn't have that 200K skill.
Now they come for my 2 Mill skill and there is nobody left to speak for me because the precedent has been established.
So,
we have a skill that was used to deal with an old game mechanic. That mechanic has now gone away so the skill is no longer needed.
We have a new skill introduced to deal with a new, unrelated, game mechanic. It's the same difficulty so we'll just get it in place of the old skill.
This is very different from having an old skill that still deals with something different that exits but has been rebalanced. SC pilots with Drone skills can still use drones if they change hulls. Pilots who had sensor damper skills or hybrid weapon skills before they were nerfed could still use those items, and indeed for hybrids they are now doing that after they have been rebalanced.
For skills before learning skills, when they were removed they only impacted a smallish number of people so CCP got away without a SP refund. For learning skills they had a mechanism available after some really prolonged downtime issues and since it was going to affect almost everybody they used that mechanism.
That mechanism is still available. It should be used since the old skill was removed because the game mechanic which it influenced no longer exists. It's not been nerfed, not been buffed, it has been removed and given to everybody for free.
This is a matter of principle, of maintaining good precedents that have been set in the past.
CCP, you have the tools you need to do the right thing. Please do it so that we can have confidence that you will do the right thing in the future, like when you redo ship hulls and their skills. Because when we get there it'll be an eye watering number of skills points and we need the confidence to know that you'll care and do the right thing to ensure "People will still be able to fly the hulls they used to" rather than "Hey, here's a new hull in place of an unrelated old one, have a skill to fly that because it's a cool thing we want you to use more and we reused some ID numbers". |