Dixie
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Posted - 2007.09.23 22:38:00 -
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I think sooner or later ccp needs to reverse the skill logic a bit. If the new ships should be done like this is up to them.
For Black-OPS.
Level 5 required at a rank they think fits, and the skill is released with the ship or slightly before. No ship bonuses for training it, just access. A 8 mill sp character vs a 50 should take just as long to enter the new ship.
All other skills are required at level 4, and some level 5 rank 1's ones. The normal tree ship tree. There would be 4+ bonuses based on different skills, so specialization happens there. Keeps the barrier to entry difficult enough for year old player, and nearly as difficult to get for a old player.
There is just a lot of players who have dug down and have a lot of level 5s and it would pay off in having max bonuses, not getting the ship much faster.
I would probably keep the secondary tree for the recon cruiser and tertiary for the logistics command ship. For people asking for a harder tree, like i said before, you could require black ops V or have a rank 16 level 4 requirement with 1% bonus  . Also i remember back to when the recon cruisers and how you needed recon ships V to get the covert cloak to fit and have a good setup, wouldn't mind seeing something like that again. However rigs seem to make fitting issues too easy to fix these days.
Skill tree is best done in math. Say a newer player is looking at the black ops vs the command ship, however their style is solo lonely killer. To get to command ship is 120 days, and the black ops is 150 days. However the branch point is at 75 meaning if he went to black ops and then wanted command ships, it would take 120-75 days to complete that. Basically saying it would be well off the beaten path and a little closer to to recon.
All the stuff above could apply to any new ship, just black ops is fun to talk about, the name is equivalent to completely rouge dark agency, assassinations, not allowed in empire, government friend or enemy for dark projects, instant standing drop. Why should the skill tree be that attached or the ship able to be built or researched in empire. Anyhow with no details its a shoot in the dark.
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