Why not more industrial certificates? Why only one very basic mining certificate?

It would also be helpful to have something like the (bad!) old profession certificates. For example, a wormhole exploration certificate that would have some basic scanning skills plus basic combat skills, as a way of focusing new player's training.

Hmm.
Could be interesting, I suppose. If only to collect the shinies that I've accrued.

By the way, your title says 'certifcates' at the moment. I assume it should be 'certificates'.

For example, maxing out the Navigation certificate requires micro jump drive operation, this means to master every ship in the game you need micro jump drive operation V, but there's only a couple of dozen ships that can even use it. It's one thing to have one or two ships require a cert that has one or two skills that aren't applicable, but in this case there's far more ships it doesn't apply to than does. Given that, you probably should tweak things so the specialized skills aren't in the certificate.

Re: capital navigation, certificate-wise making a jump from JDC 1 / JFC3 on the level 4 cert to both at level 5 is a touch nuts.

Considering the level 1 cert for capital navigation doesn't even require JDO 1 (wtc?!) you should probably remove level 1, shift levels 2-4 across to 1-3, and insert a new level 4 that sits at a more happy medium.

JFC 4 is a pretty standard place to leave things unless you have nothing better to do, and JDC 4 is acceptable, I guess - but implying a ~level 4~ competence with JDC1/JFC3 is setting people up for a fall.

Of course this isn't like some of the whining about "oh why are the highest level certificates so many level 5 skills", but more about making the jump from comparatively useless at a level 4 cert to superuseful at level 5 without anything inbetween.

edit: a similar thing in the capital remote repair and capital gun certs where you go from TLR/TWR 1 to TLR/TWR 5 on levels 4/5.

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Will there be player-defined certificates? I think of corporate or alliance ship doctrines who could be planned for and followed using such certificates, which might be useful to determine how many pilots could fly a ship with a defined setup...

Shirolayyn

Thoughts?