Jim Nakamura
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.03.02 08:10:00 -
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Edited by: Jim Nakamura on 02/03/2008 08:13:55
 Originally by: cal nereus
CCP regrets implementing Advanced Learning skills, and it's pretty much a fact that learning skills tend to make the initial month less entertaining than it could be for some new players.
Perhaps if you're the sort of new player that blidnly follows what people tell you to do, EVE isn't the game for you anyway?
I only started this character about a month ago, read the stuff about training learnings skills, and though "screw that". I stuck the occasional learning into my plan when it helped me get to the next stage faster, and largely ignored EVEMon when it kept trying to make me take advanced learnings when I didn't feel like it. I'm about a day away from Battlecruisers now, which is probably not optimal, but I've been largely doing my own thing with skill progression and picking up all sorts of bits and pieces here and there.
Leanring skills are only a burden if you let them be. Nobody is forcing you to learn them, and the training times on low-level skills certainly don't make them essential for new players. The way some people are going on, they make it sound like you absolutely have to buckle down and do nothnig but train your learnings for the first month. Big deal, it might save you a week or two over the course of your first six months.
Edit: After all that, I forgot the point I was trying to make. Learning skills are fine, and fit exactly with how skill progression works - you can sacrifice some immediate progress for improved progress in the long run. I don't see people complaining about levelling, say, Engineering to 5, but it undoubtedly provides similar long-term gains for a big initial investment of time. But I agree, an Advanced Learning skill would be nice - say, another 4% per level to base stats, with basic and advanced learnings at 5 as a prereq. Big timesink, but again, a big potential timesaver in the long run - and it would get around the diminishing returns issue and actually give people a reason to train their learning to 5 if they were so inclined.
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