I wonder how man threads there will be today of people admitting they can't do planning of any sort, even when told multiple times over the past year it was coming, with pictures no less.

In other news, I think it would be really cool if we could put smilies in thread titles.

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Edit: I was expecting this negative feedback. but i'll add this:

For all those saying I had over a year of knowing this would happen, I'm only 5 months old. I shouldn't be expected to go looking around on forums for this kind of thing. Why would I be doing that? Don't you think if I knew something like this was going to happen i'd be more prepared? Like I said, I began my training for the freighter only a month ago. I didn't even know what odyssey WAS until about 2 weeks ago.

Yep, I agree with every single person who replied. The new skill tree was published long long ago. Sorry you had your head in the sand for the last several months. File a petition, see if CCP will exchange your skill points, my guess is they will not.

On an unrelated note: I like the new tree A LOT! Now instead of wasting time training to fly a ship you don't plan to fly, you train skills to help you fly the desired ship better. At least for the most part that is what happened.

All my attention is IN game where it belongs, not on every EVE forum out there.

I see nothing wrong with the way I play EVE and I stand by the fact that I am the victim here. It's easy to stand on the sidelines while laughing and pointing at those of us that did not get the infomation. Important changes like this should've been brought to my attention, not the other way around.

Yep, that's got to be it. Great input.

I think i'm starting to get the trend here.

New players = Stupid and should not even try to play the game

Voicing opinions on forums = Attack player at once, regardless of thread's content.

Every single reply so far (except one) has been telling me that I didn't go and look for the information. If this information is so obvious and in my face like you're all saying then why did I not know? Obviously the information was not in a place that is seen by all players, including the new ones such as myself.

The bottom line there would've been not a single player left in the dark if CCP had just sent a mail to everyone It would be in the players face every time they logged in until they actually opened it and read it.

Hiding it on the side of a launcher is not good enough.

Forums are the last place I would go for useful information because it's populated by vicious, elitist, unforgiving trolls who can only offer information on how much of an idiot you are.

YES, I will concede. This could all have been avoided if I had come to the forums and stumbled on the relevant link to the skill training changes. However that just simply shifts the blame off of CCP and on to the new guy that doesn't know what he's doing in this VERY complex game for which it is so infamous for.

You cannot blame the newbie for not branching out to every source out there for tips on how not to get screwed over. This is unacceptable and more blame should be placed on CCP.

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*Shields face from the incoming abuse*

If you don't know what stat implants are, then I've just helped you get more than the 6M SP you've lost by never talking to other players or reading the official information channels. Spaceship command skills like Batttlecruisers and Destroyers have a training rate based on your PERCeption and WILL character stats. Implants can increase those stats and therefore your training speed.

Incidentally ALL MMOs communicate to their playerbase via their websites. CCP are unusually diligent in also communicating via their forums. It is not practical to send an email concerning every change, as CCP make many dozens of changes in every expansion cycle, and all of them are important to someone. It's your responsibility to keep yourself informed by the official channels.

I hope that you've learned that keeping yourself up to date on upcoming game changes can be very much to your advantage.

Incorrect.



Like I've already said, many times. I'm a new player. What good is tradition or history for a new player? Oh wait you expect me to take a history class on EVE for that, don't you?

Players don't need to read about what's changing. Many of us are happy to play the game as it is when the new expansion comes out.

However that being said, I have watched every video CCP has posted on YouTube and nowhere was it even mentioned that ship skill prerequisites would be changed. That's plenty of interest on my part. I watched them because they interested me, not because I felt the need to do it for my own protected.

My fellow players? Give me a break. If I've learned anything from my forum experience over the past two days it's that "my fellow pilots" are my enemies and they certainty aren't on my side.

Losing a ship for whatever reason is my fault.

CCP did this to me, I didn't do it to myself. I'm not going to claim this is my fault just to satisfy you and the others. I stand by what I believe is right and I know this is wrong.

This punishment of 24 days is wrong, considering I was mere hours from flying the ship. This should be compensated.

Yes I could have avoided this, but it's not my burden to. It's CCPs.

I think the real problem here is you're just FAR too harsh. loosen up, just a little.

How dare you demand that people test stuff before complaining about them???

NONSENSE!!!

once in a while even I might stop and have a look, and if a monkey starts to throw bananas at spectators I am not disinclined to throw it back for the monkeys entertainment.

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If CCP really wants to share a message with everyone and make sure everyone reads it they should make it POP up like the Downtime window, and then some people would just see a window pop and close it right away ...