I did not make a mistake. It's not my fault. Forums are separate from the game and players aren't expected to use them. Important information like this should be posted in-game where there's no excuse to missing it. Forums aren't the primary place for game deveopers to share news. And that IS the bottom line.

24hrs too late.

Have to be able to fly the ship before the new expansion. It can be cooking in the queue with 1 min remaining before downtime, but it was 1 min you still couldn't fly that hull.

It's why they advised people who were cramming to fly Command ships before the new expansion to not only insert the skill, to make sure to level it to 1.

#1 - Forum use not required to play this game.
#2 - Launcher not user friendly, very small and buggy.
#3 - News section in character selection screen, not reliable and buggy.
#4 - In-Game Browser use not required to play this game, not reliable and buggy.
#5 - Newsletter definitely not reliable and mostly non-existent.


Within my 5 yrs of playing this game I've never received a Newsletter from CCP. Twice I've received a regular Email message to partake in a survey. All other notifications from CCP are automatically created, such as a response to petition or administration warning or notice about subscription expire / renewal.


DMC

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CCP sent everyone a notice in-game to vote for the CSM. They can surely do the same for important changes to the game which will affect everyone.

I see a lot of new characters all stroking the same BS, obviously they have either too much time on their hands due to having no real life or simply just don't play the game.

I know that now, unfortunately I couldn't get it inserted until moments after the update happened. Just very unlucky I guess.

I did not make a mistake. It's not my fault. Forums are separate from the game and players aren't expected to use them..

Yes you did. Yes it is. No they aren't and yes they are.

Furthermore the change was amply and repeatedly communicated through devblogs. What the hell else did you expect CCP to do? Send you a kissagram?

You screwed up, son. Suck it up and deal with it like an adult.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. This is the funniest story ever. I hope your ignorance serves you well up to ASC V.

I don't read blogs. I don't even know what a blog is or what it's meant to even stand for. Players are NOT expected to go outside of the game to other websites doing research. That's just not how it works.

As said earlier, you sure had no problems finding the forums to come and whine.

And as also said earlier, the news items on the GAME LAUNCHER which you ignored also contained the information.

However, since I'm your friendly player representative, I'll contract you a PERC and WILL implant to help you on your way training those 6 million SP if you like. Can't say fairer than that.

This change has been incoming for ages, literally you must have been living under a rock to miss it. But anyway, even if so, you still have a valuable skill there, industrial ships V is a good skill you will find it invaluable trust me. And also you would have needed to train advanced spaceship command anyway if you were serious about flying a freighter. So just put this one down as a mistake and remember to look at the dev blogs from time to time. Luckily you got of this one lightly.

Erm.. I'm assuming you're offering me something but I don't know what that is.. I'll do a quick internet search. Thank you for the offer, regardless

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.

then I've just helped you get more than the 6M SP you've lost

There are news bulletins to the right of the character select screen? did you just ignore that for the last 1.5 years?

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

Oh, I know about implants. I just didn't understand "PERC", I'm not familiar with all the EVE lingo quite just yet.



Have you? I don't feel any different..

I believe he sent you some implants, to reduce your skill queues

Check your contracts

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.

This guy is hopeless and will never get it.

EVE is an adult game.

EVE has a tradition of "out of game" tools (EFT, Evemon, EVE-Survival, the wiki etc etc) and indirect communication with it's players (communicating through blogs, the CSM etc).

That's what I thought he meant too. I don't have any contracts assigned to me though..