Tampopo Field
Blue Republic
RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2013.07.19 20:25:00 -
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The current certificate system is almost completely pointless. The basic certificates can give new players some direction about what to train for. Or possibly Inform them about some skills they didn't know about and could get if they trained some skill or another a few levels. Also I believe the proposed skills and skill gorups renaming and organisation thingy, if implemented, will further reduce the usefullness of certificates.
Personally the only reason I even bother to claim certificates is because the "you can claim this many certificates" announcement every time I log in is annoying. As for certificate visibility, showing what certificates you have, or even how many certificates you have, is practically giving out free information to people who'd like nothing more then to reduce your ship to a smoldering pile, loot all you had fitted and stored in your caro hold(s), salvage the wreck for some scrap to sell, crack open your pod, and add your cadaver to some creepy collection of cold dead corpses used for god only knows what. And wishes to himself/herself that he/her didn't.
The contets of the certificates are also dated and do not, beyond the most basic level, reflect in any meaningful way, to a character's ability to fly this ship or tha effectivly. It was proposed (too lazy to look for a quoute) that the certificates could be reworked into something that would reflect more accurately the requirements to fly effectively the doctorines used in todays meta. How ever, doing this would meat that the certification planner would give dated information when the meta has changed. Doing so would also either leave a large number of docorines out of the certificates or require far too mutch work.
All that being said, remaking the system into something that would allow corporations and alliances to create their own certificates could be very useful. These certificates could be set visible to corporation members or corporation members with a spesific role. This type of system would make it easier for new-player friendly corporations to give recommendations about what to train, give corporations/alliances that use doctorine fleest an easy tool to tell their members what they should train for their doctorines, as well as giving those same corporations/alliances more easy a means to make sure the members could actually fly the doctorines properly.
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