Yeah a new learning skill, just like Signature Analysis is a learning skill, etc.

I guess people are upset only cause they kinda got used to current skills - should the game had these eccm skills from the start, hardly anyone would have argued.

I like new skills - they give us something to train other than supercaps/industry. And let's face it, introduction of new skills is inevitable if CCP plans to retain its older playerbase.

Not all of us have 100M Sp.

And I don't a have Titan - yet I don't ask CCP to remove titans from the game. My only concern is about making them balanced. And those saying new skills are imbalanced and complaining about someone having 5% better sensor strength are overacting. That's a marginal advantage by any standard! Now compare that with an ability to gain free killmails via portal.

Oh, im not complaining they are imbalanced, I just think the skill point multiplier should be knocked down by 1.

Well this is an excellent post to go right before my next announcement.

We agree that the rank of the new Sensor Comp skills is a bit excessive and have decided to lower it down. However 5% per level at a rank 2 was a bit too powerful in this case so we're also reducing the effect to 4% per level.

The end result is a better bang for your hour spent training, but a slightly lower potential end result.

So the skills are now Rank 2 Int/Mem, providing 4% increased sensor strength in their chosen sensor type per level.

Skill book was never seeded on Buckingham in 6-c. Will using the skill book be testable before it hits TQ?

Well this is an excellent post to go right before my next announcement.

We agree that the rank of the new Sensor Comp skills is a bit excessive and have decided to lower it down. However 5% per level at a rank 2 was a bit too powerful in this case so we're also reducing the effect to 4% per level.

The end result is a better bang for your hour spent training, but a slightly lower potential end result.

So the skills are now Rank 2 Int/Mem, providing 4% increased sensor strength in their chosen sensor type per level.

I still don't understand why we have the skillbook at all. Shouldn't you just raise the sensor strengths of all ships or lower the strength of ECM mods? There is a time commitment there, but I don't really see why there has to be. It just seems like a time sink unless you have some other things planned down the road using these skills? Modules, etc.

These are sincere questions...

Sensor strength skills lead to greater variability of players' ships' sensor strengths, leading to less predictable ECM dynamics, relative to a uniform change. Increasing variability and decreasing predictability to this extent is a good thing.

Well this is an excellent post to go right before my next announcement.

We agree that the rank of the new Sensor Comp skills is a bit excessive and have decided to lower it down. However 5% per level at a rank 2 was a bit too powerful in this case so we're also reducing the effect to 4% per level.

The end result is a better bang for your hour spent training, but a slightly lower potential end result.

So the skills are now Rank 2 Int/Mem, providing 4% increased sensor strength in their chosen sensor type per level.

Add nothing and practically required to train.

Don't you see an inconsistancy here ?

It is a bad mechanic to train something to make other people worse at what they do.
It is a good mechanic to train something to make yourself better.

How about 2%/level as a rank one, and then an advanced version 3%/level as a rank 2? This gives you 1.1*1.15=1.26, very close to the original 25%, but allowing noobs to train something (and feel good about having it Ved), and allowing people with a billion skill points (and people who hate being jammed) to spend a bit more time on it.

That's even worse ! Learning skills AND advanced learning skills !
Man, so much deja vu right now

How is it worse? Its the exact same thing we have currently (rank 3 for 25% total)?

Sensor strength skills lead to greater variability of players' ships' sensor strengths, leading to less predictable ECM dynamics, relative to a uniform change. Increasing variability and decreasing predictability to this extent is a good thing.

Why not add skills to counter missiles, even though there's already a module that does that? .

So why is the "5%" nerf to tracking disruptors a different kind of "5%" from every other "5%" change you are making?

Edit: Your statement also applies sometimes to afterburner V

Good point about the afterburner skill, although take a look at it on Buckingham you'll be pleasantly surprised.

You cant trick me into logging in that easily.

lol

Skill is changing to offer -5% to Afterburner Duration per level and -10% Activcation Cost per level.


Dear CCP Fozzie,

In relation to the above Afterburner skill change, will the Fuel Conservation skill remain unchanged (leading to Afterburners having the same Cap use as now)?

Regards,
Sparks