If you are going to be flying a command ship in a fleet, you really already should have all those skills to V anyway, to provide those benefits to your fleet.

The problem is that what are called the field command ships (absolution, sleipnir, astarte and nighthawk) are often flown as combat ships, not as support ships. What I would like to see done (though this would add yet more sp to clones) would be to make the fleet command ships the only command ships, and make the field command ships a separate ship entirely, like a heavy assault battlecruiser - that is essentially how they are used now in everything but the alliance tournament. I'm sure someone will jump in and say how they use the nighthawk in place of the vulture for some kind of fleet, or something similar, but outlying cases don't disqualify the larger issue at hand.

So there's an opportunity for people who do not have Command Ships injected but have (or will have) BC5 and Spaceship-Command-5.

They can just train Leadership to 5, Warfare Link Specialist to 4, and inject the Command Ships skill before the change comes into effect .

This way they never had to train the Fleet/Field hull prerequisites and will not have to train the Warfare Link skills to 5. Is my understanding correct?

Erm go read: http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=73530 from back in November.

"We are removing the distinction between GÇ£fleetGÇ¥ and GÇ£fieldGÇ¥ Command Ships. All of them will now have 3% bonuses to two Warfare Link fields and be able to fit three warfare link modules simultaneously (instead of 3 for fleet versions only). That also means that the previous fleet Command Ships will be rebalanced to fit combat roles."

Ah sorry yes. I blame the brain damage from reading the same question/response cycle so many times in the thread so far