Originally by: Andrew Redburn

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All gunnery skills that are needed to train specs (except small and med spec) give great boni to all your turrets (rof, dmg, tracking, range, etc).

For missles there are no such skills. How could we get prereqs that force us to train and additionally give us equal boni if there are none?

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Originally by: Moominer

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Edited by: Moominer on 19/07/2005 15:51:05
Your argument is missing two vital points:
1. Gunnery sub-skill ranks vs Missile sub-skill ranks
2. Large gunnery spec allows the pilot to use medium and small t2 guns, missile tree doesnt.

Even ignoring the second point, the difference in ranks between the gunnery and missile sub-skills bridges the training gap considerably:

Count the ranks:

Large gun spec lvl 4
Large Gun Spec - 8 * 4 = 32
Medium Gun Spec - 5 * 4 = 20
Small Gun Spec - 3 * 4 = 12
Large Gun - 5 * 5 = 25
Medium Gun - 3 * 5 = 15
Small Gun - 1 * 5 = 5
Gunnery - 1 * 5 = 5
Sharpshooter - 2 * 5 = 10

Total Ranks = 124

Plus other gunnery sub-skills to lvl 5
Controlled Bursts - 2 * 5 = 10
Rapid Firing - 2 * 5 = 10
Motion Prediction - 2 * 5 = 10
Surgical Strike - 4 * 5 = 20
Trajectory Analysis - 5 * 5 = 25

Total Gunnery Ranks for lvl4 spec and lvl 5 sub skills = 124 + 75 = 199

Cruise Spec Level 4

Cruise Spec - 8 * 4 = 32
Cruise Missile - 5 * 5 = 25
Heavy Missile - 3 * 3 = 9
Standard Missile - 2 * 3 = 6
MLO - 1 * 5 = 5

Total Ranks = 77

Plus other missile sub-skills to lvl 5
Guided Missile Precision - 5 * 5 = 25
Missile Bombardment - 2 * 5 = 10
Missile Projection - 4 * 5 = 20
Rapid Launch - 2 * 5 = 10
Target Navigation Prediction - 2 * 5 = 10
Warhead Upgrades - 5 * 5 = 25

Total Missile Ranks for lvl 4 spec and lvl 5 sub skills = 77 + 100 = 177

199 gunnery ranks compared to 177 missile ranks for pretty much optimal t2 gunnery vs optimal t2 missiles.

You are complaining about 22 ranks even when considering the large gunnery specialization tree gives access to all tech2 guns in that line, small, medium large??

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