DamienEx
Three Headed Dog
Permanent Transience
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Posted - 2012.03.07 21:39:00 -
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I ignored 99% of what everyone else posted. I did read the parts where CCP said, "If you can fly it now, you can fly it then.
That being said, I feel these changes are long over due. I never made any sense that someone who was in a different race could over the course of a week train up and be sitting in a ratting drake for the sake of having a ratting drake because their own race lacked something as useful. I feel that the progression from Frig > Dessie > Cruiser > BC > BS > Cap makes more than perfect sense. So the new players have to train stuff for longer periods of time. They also got all the learning skills for free with that one patch not to long ago. You know.... that one patch that the people who trained all the advanced learning skills to 5 b!tched about even though they got all the SP back because anyone making a new toon would be able to skill up just as fast as they could? Well now it seems like the process is being steam lined and it makes logical sense to do what they are doing
I have spent the better part of my EVE life training for and learning to fly every combat ship in the game. I have every races Frig, Cruiser, and BS to level 5. I have all the T2 ship skills to level 4 if not level 5. I have trained every weapon system, e-war, drones, and their T2 counter parts so I can use them with all the ships. CCP has said that if these changes would occur, it would not effect me in anyway. As long as they keep to that, I fully support all the changes they are looking to implement. FFS, right now half the ships I have trained are utterly useless, but I trained them none the less.
This is an opportunity for the game to rebalanced, reformat (for the better), and to make things occur in a more logical fashion. The number of ships that I have never seen in combat is staggering. Everyone is always flying the same ships, in the same fleet, to fight a fleet of identical competetion. Then it turns into a 'blob' game. This is a chance to try to eliminate blob warfare and reintrodue a combat system that takes skill over numbers to work right. Thats not to say we will need a situation where a fleet of 10 can take out a fleet of 200, but it will put an interesting twist on how people change their play styles as well as how fleets will function.
Doing away with tier's, focusing on ship roles father than ship classes, and reformatting the troubled areas of the ship skill tree will all make this game a little easier for new players to manage, old players to organize, as well as giving us an opportunity to reintroduce old ships into the equation of combat again.
As long as myself and other players who have taken the time to specialize in a ship we have trained to fly get to keep that, then I say hats off to CCP and stick with the changes. As a sugestion for determining how players should get the different levels of racial battle cruisers, if they have cruiser 5 for a race and battle cruiser to whatever level, then they should get the races BC skill to that level as well.
Simple examples:
I have Caldari, Minmatar, Amarr, and Gallante cruiser at 5 as well as Battlecruiser 5. I should get all Racial battlecruiser skills to 5.
Someone else has Amarr and Caldari cruiser to 5 and battlecruiser to 5 as well. They would receive Amarr and Caldari battlecruiser 5.
Number three has Amarr and Caldari cruiser to 5 but only has battlecruiser to 4. Well it only makes sense to give them the Amarr and Caldari battlecruiser to 4
A new player has caldari cruiser to 4 and battlecruiser 3. Clearly they only get Caldari Battlecruiser set to 3
One other thing to touch on are the people who have racial battleship skills but lack the battlecruiser skill to go with it. If a player can fly a battleship of a certain race and does not have BC trained to 4 or at all, then they should be given the racial skills to fly those ships. The fact is, if the racial BC skills will have the same multiplier, CCP would only be handing out a weeks worth of training. I am ok with that. As for people with vastly larger skill sets, sure they are giving out a few million SP, but hell, we already worked hard to get where we are, and its not like most of you will catch up to the 100mil SP toons anytime soon. That being said, bring on the changes, and make them work. |