oh lol, you must be new here.

YOU... must be new here. Every time they have done away with a skill they have refunded the skill points the player spent on that skill to reallocate as they see fit.

YOU... must be new here. Every time they have done away with a skill they have refunded the skill points the player spent on that skill to reallocate as they see fit.

except ccp's stance in this case is that no skills are being removed, just repurposed. For reference, I direct your attention to the "ethnic relations" skill that was changed from completely necessary to completely useless with no reimbursement.

Frack it! I just want some free skill points man

Why is this a topic? They've already come out and said directly that if you have Combat Drone Operation V, you'll receive both Light Drone Operation and Medium Drone Operation at level 5 once they hit.

They really should just change SDO -> LDO and CDO -> MDO.

I trained it long before the devblog.
I still have no clue whether I should be upset about wasted training time or not.

so you're saying i trained a 10d skill on 6 accounts (2 months total training time) due to a dev blog... but now that's all gone, my time was wasted, and also, they are straight up removing that skill itself from the game and not reimbursing the sp?

that sounds like wasted sp then, aka wasted training time... that's not right at all

Except the people who trained CDO 5 are getting something they already trained for, whereas those who only had SDO 5 are getting a lot more.

You will have more SP after the change than before the change. I.E. There is no wasted SP.
Combat Drone is getting split into 2 skills. & you will get both at the level of Combat Drone

However due to edge cases where someone didn't train Combat Drone Operation but was using T2 drones (Terribly obviously but hey) they also are allowing Scout drone skills to transfer as an instead option.

But you do not loose SP so no need to compensate. In every case you get more SP.

if there was no need to train it, i wasted training time. not hard to understand.

Sure you are getting a benefit from it. But you could be training something else in that time instead and be getting a benefit for *that* instead.

Sure you are getting a benefit from it. But you could be training something else in that time instead and be getting a benefit for *that* instead.

Choices --> consequences/benefits.

It was your choice. If you only just trained either of those skills to level 5 (I did too. Just finished CDO to 5 a few days ago), then ok. It's not wasted time and it was your choice to do so.

The information during the lead up to an expansion is often subject to change. I speculated that training CDO to 5 would be good for me, but it turns out that maybe my judgement was wrong because something subject to change, changed.

If you want to be immune to these types of things, then train skills not part of the rebalancing/nerfs/buffs/etc. as part of an expansion.

I trained CDO long before this expansion was ever announced.
I trained it because it provided benefits to me.
If those benefits are then given to people who did not train the skill, then I should be reimbursed in some way for having trained the skill.
It's pretty simple.

I trained CDO long before this expansion was ever announced.
I trained it because it provided benefits to me.
If those benefits are then given to people who did not train the skill, then I should be reimbursed in some way for having trained the skill.
It's pretty simple.

so you're saying i trained a 10d skill on 6 accounts (2 months total training time) due to a dev blog... but now that's all gone, my time was wasted, and also, they are straight up removing that skill itself from the game and not reimbursing the sp?

that sounds like wasted sp then, aka wasted training time... that's not right at all