Mendolus
Aurelius Federation
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Posted - 2011.09.02 14:26:00 -
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Originally by: arbalesttom imho, the machariel counts as a frigate too!
Otherwise known as King Frigate, a frigate's frigate, first among frigates!
Ok I'm done,
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Mendolus
Aurelius Federation
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Posted - 2011.09.02 16:24:00 -
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Edited by: Mendolus on 02/09/2011 16:24:38
Originally by: Tippia àor put another way: have a look at which ship classes require you to train Battleship, and how many do not.
Decisive, answer is decisive, I have not seen this chart in awhile, it's good to see someone can link it when it is in context, cuz I like the theory behind it.
I love flowcharts for stuff like this, although if you play long enough it of course begins to dawn on you that not a whole lot requires battleship skills, and a plethora of other stuff does.
Being that cruisers and battlecruisers generally share the same size weaponry, you already have a wide swath of ships that need like weaponry training, in principle. And of course, they all require some sort of armor or shield skills, core skills, etc.
Battleships will likely always be more of a plunge into a whole new area and theory of ships for the game as a demarcation point between lesser and greater combat mechanics, insofar as frigate hulls obviously have more immediate navigation options available to them on an actual grid itself, compared to say a dreadnought.
In fact, I specifically train my accounts based on whether they are cruiser or smaller, battlecruiser (because of fleet support related skills), and battleship or larger.
I have a command ship, fleet support, ewar, scout, and logistics pilot. I have a jump freighter, turret battleship, rorqual, and barge pilot. I have a cruiser hull, future Minmatar pilot, for the ubiquitous Vagabond/Cynabal/(..and now Loki) style gang warfare, the first ship of which has been popular for a very long time. I have a carrier, supercarrier, dreadnought, and potential titan pilot that has Calibration V, Fighters V, Carrier V (Soon), and etc.
There are of course overlaps in skills no matter what with four characters all devoted to PvE/PvP, but some of the latter stuff will take six months to a year just to knock out when you finally get to that plateau, so you had better prepare well ahead of time for that day to come, or you will find yourself with a single pilot who could potentially train any number of directions, but every direction you choose takes half a year, (i.e. Warfare Specialist V, Wing Command V alone can take two months).
@OP SO if battleships or anything are boring to you, by account of the nice flowchart Tippia linked, you can obviously choose to simply train everything else instead, as the ships that require the battleship skill are likely to not entertain you anymore themselves.
The neat thing is racial cross training once you get both shields, armor, and multiple weaponry or electronics system skills... then you look at T2 ship requirements, and it dawns on you that all you theoretically need to fly 7 more cruiser hulls is Racial Cruiser V for different race than you already have.
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