Kitfox Shachi
Reckless Spendings Trading Company
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Posted - 2013.08.05 06:29:00 -
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CCP Ytterbium wrote:
- Remove the ability to set Certificates as public
- Offer the ability to drag and drop individual Certificates, or a whole Certificate profile from a character into any kind of text input field (conversation channels or EVE mails for instance GÇô this already is possible for individual Certificates from the planner)
- Offer means to compare Certificates with a particular individual that give you permission with your own
- For bragging rights, display unlocked Certificates publicly on all character show info, but donGÇÖt mention to which fields they apply GÇô for instance, running a show info on character A would list this pilot has 53 Certificates to Elite, 24 to Standard, but do not allow me to know their names or related skills.
None of the above.
Visibility of certificates is nonsence. I use it simply to bait noobs sometimes who dont know any better thinking im a hauler and miing alt.
Alot of new players dont even know some of the modules that are required to fly a ship they want to get into let alone the myriad of supporting skills to fly that ship effectively. They have to go on battleclinic, look up builds then find out what those modules are then look into setting up skill training plan.
What does happen time and time again people come with OPTIMAL BUILD mindset and often OPTIMAL=MAX OUT so they pick a certificate and they think they need ELITE to be good at flying that ship. zero experience and maybe lack of community participation and they just go by the certificates. Alot o them dont even think to get the ship and start flying it with all 2s and 3s in the skills necessary but wait till they max out a certificate and then come and whinge trainign is taking too long to be a good pilot.
Certificates should be SHIP based competency list of skills. So a noob or any pilot can pick up a say BASIC Stealth bomber certificate and get a list of skills needed to GET INTO a bomber. the advanced bomber certificate can have a torp bomber skill needs and bombing skills too. the elite one would have things like tech 2 capability on launchers etc. at the very list a vanilla setup of these ships and their most common loadouts should be the 'norm' for these CCP provided certificates.
having the ability to make customized certificates would be great, even greater if a corp recruitment ad can contain said certificates so anyone applying for the corp that willing to enforce a minimum completency the required certificates will be compared to the applicants skills and auto rejected the application if skills missing. or maybe just a warning of list of skills missing so the recruitment officer can have a look and adjudicate on the matter. no point of auto rejectng someone is he is missing only 1 skill that takes 20 minutes to attain. this will save lots of time and remove alot of "we need your API to see if you have the skills you say you have" and let the certificates speak for themselves.
maybe even allow corp ranks to have certificates linked to them so only certain people with specific minimum skills are in those roles and not just because some dude is a friend of a friend of my missus. |