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Manssell
OmiHyperMultiNationalDrunksConglomerate
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Posted - 2012.03.06 18:07:00 -
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CCP Ytterbium wrote:...We fully acknowledge having to re-train for ships you can already fly is not appealing at all.
Understatement of the day. |
Manssell
OmiHyperMultiNationalDrunksConglomerate
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Posted - 2012.03.06 19:31:00 -
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Pallidum Treponema wrote:For a new player:
Drake: 3 skills (current scheme) vs 4 skills (new scheme) - 33% increase in skills. +Hurricane: 5 skills vs 8 skills - 60% increase in skills required. +Harbringer: 7 skills vs 12 skills - 71% increase in skills required. +Myrmidon: 9 skills vs 16 skills - 78% increase in skills required!
Effectively, you're almost doubling the amount of skills a new player will have to train in order to crosstrain.
Additionally, you're removing one of the big incentives for crosstraining, namely if I train up two skills, I get access to a whole new range of ships for free! Training racial frigate and cruiser, two skills that can be trained in a short amount of time, would give a new player access to battlecruiser at whatever level they had battlecruisers trained to before.
Under this scheme, crosstraining for another race instead becomes a chore.
This is inherently new player UNFRIENDLY, as well as being excessively annoying for veteran players.
Pretty much this.
Leaving aside the older player reimbursement (which I think CCP could get right) how exactly does this help the new player experience? One of the great things about the destroy and BC skills was it lets new people hop in to a few new ships from all races and figure out what ones they want to really start concentrating on the support skills for. If they keep the new skills at the same rank as now then that just becomes a new skill grind for noobs and severely hampers what they can fly and to find out what they really want to fly. But then again if they lower each race skill rank so the total is equivalent to what it is now that could work, but would also put people in a perfect BC perhaps too quickly. It seems that we already have the compromise between these two problems as it is now. |
Manssell
OmiHyperMultiNationalDrunksConglomerate
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Posted - 2012.03.06 21:38:00 -
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Aphoxema G wrote:We've never had "Minmatar Assault Ships" or "Amarr Covert Ops", so what isn't arbitrary about these changes?
#***#! **&&$$$! ***$#@@! Shhhhhh Don't remind them. |
Manssell
OmiHyperMultiNationalDrunksConglomerate
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Posted - 2012.03.07 03:11:00 -
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[Crumples up paper, throws over shoulder] Well there goes my skill plan... BCV here I come! |
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