rswfire
Firesworn Security
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Posted - 2013.05.05 08:29:00 -
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Daedalus II wrote:I guess the original certificates could be kept, at least for the basic stuff, but there need to be a possibility to inject new custom certificates. This also opens up other interesting things, such as personal skill planning (like a built in EveMon). Also new types of services where you for example could sell fully fitted ships + certificate to fly them properly.
I really like this idea, especially if it is also integrated into the Corp APIs so we can use them in out-of-game assets. I can see a lot of potential in this area. One example that comes to mind would be for corps that offer ship replacement programs but require certain skills to be met for whatever ship they are in. We do this currently and considered using certs but they are just not robust enough to be helpful in this regard, so we have to define our prereqs based on skills.
I happen to show my certs publically. I know that I am part of a small percentage, and I know that it gives an idea of what my skills are, but it can be misleading. It might say "Basic" but if I never claimed the ones after it, you would not know that I've trained them beyond that (so I actually use that to my advantage by giving misleading intel). In the same light, I could be missing a single level of one skill but meet all of the other requirements; you really just don't know.
Also, some of the certs are very important -- we teach all of our new players to focus on core certs because they are so integral to basically any activity that involves flying a ship. So some certs are certainly more important than others. I would encourage you to take a fresh look at Eve and see if there are ways to improvise an improved certification path. As it stands, many important skillsets are not present or they are incomplete or they are tied to other skills that are not intuitively related.
I don't like the idea of them being removed. I like to display mine. And I don't see why you would remove them just because not many people do. You're just taking away something that already exists, so you'd be expending effort on actually "removing" things from Eve rather than "adding" things. I tend to feel that MMOs should not remove things in most cases. I don't like the idea of showing how many basic, standard, and elite certs a player has, unless they can be hidden (for many reasons, one of which is listed above.)
Please consider this carefully. While they are "meaningless" to many, some of the proposed changes are "harmful" in my humble opinion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYAz0aWEzpw
http://www.firesworn.com/index.php?/topic/69-about-firesworn-nation/
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