The best things that could happen is that either you get refunded those points, or you are given your racial BC "half trained".

In either case, you would lose on any potential bonus they're handing over, so I'd train it ASAP if I were you. BC V is one of the skills that makes me the happiest, currently. Incredibly useful.

I am afraid I don't understand.

In order to FULLY and ABSOLUTELY ensure that you will receive all racial Battlecruisers V and all racial Destroyers V, you need:

-All Frigate skills to IV.
-All Cruiser skills to III.
-Battlecruisers V.
-Destroyers V.

Before the patch hits, you have PLENTY of time to train all this from ZERO, even if you started today (I think).

Frigates to IV and Cruisers to III takes less than a week in total, even if you don't have ANY Frigate trained to IV already (which is pretty stupid).
Cruisers to III takes around 3 days in total, even with low skills, if I'm not mistaken.
Destroyers V takes 8 days or so from zero to V.
Battlecruisers V takes 15 to 20 days depending on your skills.

I don't know when Inferno fully hits, but they've said that they want to revamp the ship lines before the skills changes. You HAVE time, more than enough. But don't delay it if you can.

I would have liked to be training Large Blaster specialization or maxing Gallente subsystems, but in 2 days I finish Destroyers V and I can get on with my EvE life, forgetting about all this until Inferno hits and I still find myself ABLE to fly all the ships I can fly today.

Latest info is that they are not going to remove current destroyer/battlecruiser skills before they have done with rebalancing. We don't know when they start rebalancing ships. They do T1 frigates and cruisers before T1 destroyers and battlecuisers.

But that's what I meant. Inferno hits in 27 days, but as far as I know, these changes to BC and Destroyer skills will NOT BE IMPLEMENTED BY THEN.

CCP claimed they wanted to review the ship lines first, possibly introducing new Destroyer hulls. ONLY after they've revisited and redesigned the ships themselves, the changes to skills will be implemented.

So no, you don't JUST have 27 days. You probably have months.

(come on T1 missile Cormorant)

Still have 2 months to run on the Int/Mem remap... was then going to remap for the social/trade skills BUT I will probably have to go to Per/Will again instead for BC/Dessie V. Every so often I petition CCP to check if there's an implementation date for this yet... if I catch wind of a fixed date I'll have to jettison the remaining Int/Mem and go straight on to BC/Dessie V.

This seems like too big of a free gift to be true, but on the other hand I can fly three races' Command Ships currently. I'd be more than mildly annoyed if I couldn't fly at least 2 of those 3 after. (and yes I also have Command Ships V also)

Why does everyone just assume that the Commandships/Dictors will require BC/Dessie V?

Hmmm you may be right but all the non Dictor and CS tech 2 hull skills weren't bound to a racial ship type, because they were made to work with all the racial hull types of the qualifying class, maybe you just need 1 racial hull to unlock the skill or something.

How long do we have until this change hits? I'm currently on an INT/MEM remap.

**** it. I will play the OCD guy and train to V WHATEVER might be even REMOTELY affected by the changes to Destroyers and Battlecruisers.

Before the end of the year, I will finish training all racial frigates and cruisers to V, Interdictors V and Command Ships V, which is no small fear seeing as I never invested a single SP in any Leadership.

Until I'm done with this, screw every other training. Yes, I will train Amarr Cruiser V despite not even having Small energy turret injected (yet...).

And if it all comes to zero, I hear good things about the Sabre and the Sleipnir/Claymore and having them at V can't hurt.

doubt that will happen but keep wishing