Laylle Nightblade
Silence of the Darkness
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Posted - 2013.06.10 09:45:00 -
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The certs as they are laid out right now are pretty misguided and generally focus too heavily on taking certain skills higher than most people would bother with. As a guide for new players... there are just too many of them. Outside of the core stuff, it's too hard to just dig in and figure out what would be good for a new player to work on. Personally I use them more as an achievement system more then anything else.
I would start by ripping out all of the current certificates. Then get together with the big corporations that deal with new characters (RvB, Eve Uni, etc) and figure out what *they* recommend new players train for certain roles. Make it a tree branching off PvP, PvE, Mining, Manufacturing, etc.
Make the certificates broad and covering the skills required to fly the class of ship, the skills one typically needs for a minimum fitting in said ship, and the skills that corporations generally expect you to have while flying that ship.
Basic is the minimum required for the ship class and it's normal fittings. Normal would be a version that corps would recommend new players work on for flying said ship. Advanced would be for T2 fittings. Elite could be maxed out (within reason) for flying said ship.
Additionally, you could then have basic doctrine certificates which focus on being able to use the modules for the most used doctrines.
This way, a corp could then say... link certificates for a ship class and a doctrine to a newer player as a recommendation on what to train. It would also make a lot more sense for having in the Recommended tab for a ships info.
With something like the above, it could be really useful to have the ability to sort and filter through corp members that match specific certificates. Especially if the corp could then group certs together. Add to that the ability to list members capable of using specific fits and you have some really solid corp tools.
Sorry. Guess I am supposed to say, "As they are right now the visibility doesn't matter much" :P. |