GÇ£if you could fly it before, you can fly it nowGÇ¥

Does this apply to command ships as well? I note the added skill requirements - armoured warfare V etc. will these also be given to characters who can currently fly a Damnation but won't be able to after the expansion?

In before JF purge in summer expansion. Hint: they are missing in those screenshots.

All the other vessels not listed here (shuttles, frigates, Interceptors, Assault Ships, Covert Ops, Logistics, Strategic Cruisers, Black Ops, Marauders, Pirate Frigates, Pirate Cruisers, Pirate Battleships, Pirate Supercarrier, Transport Ships, Jump Freighters, Mining Frigate, Ore Industrial, Exhumers) are not directly affected by the skill modifications, although this may create prerequisite changes in nested requirements. For instance, Marauders require Battleship at 5, whose own requirements are changing.

It does not make sense to train siege warfare skill for a damnation.

You are gearing for a Specialized skill training tree and you are saying that I need to train SHIELD Leadership skills for a Damnation?

This is ********!

You need a blurb in there about where to apply for reimbursement and when you want us to apply.

Reposting + definite statement would be good.

regarding capital skills, with capital ships 4 being a prerequisite for the racial skill, surely also having it as a prereq at level 1 for the hull is redundant and unnecessary?

Please can I get a Dev comment on this?
(even if its just a its something we are looking into / keeping and eye on/ we have no plans for this at the current time)

I am concerned, and I have heard murmurings, that CCP will not reimburse the current battleship 5 requirement to fly capital ships. I have two characters whose sole purpose is to fly carriers and dreads and once these changes go through, my two characters and everyone else that has characters for dedicated capital roles is going have 1,984,000 SP of wasted training time.

Needless to say, if these changes go through without reimbursement, it is a ****-move and huge loss of goodwill on CCP's part.

what i found odd about the blog is that all the command ships require training the skills for the 4 main links...
when they are only going to be bonused for 2 links so surely they should only require the 2 links skills they will need

e.g. vulture will be bonused towards

siege warfare link

information warfare links

Also on that note, say you have command ships I and all the warfare skills to 4. After the patch I appreciate you will retain command ships I and still be able to fly the ship, but can you train command ships to level II? (I apologise if this has already been answered).

SHIP[/u]** before, you can fly it after".

"if you have the **SKILL** before, you will have it after (and can use the skill to fulfill other requirements just as if you had trained it after the changes even though you don't have all of its new prerequisites)".

what you gonna do to keep your tier system alive?

As far as i know...any RED X on a prerequisite skill listed on the hull means I can't sit in the hull.