Anderling
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Posted - 2009.03.11 09:18:00 -
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 Originally by: Valis Ubik
I have one question that I haven't seen addressed on here:
Will the queue switch my skills during downtime?
i.e. if I set up a queue, and the first skill in that queue finishes at 1130 UTC, smack in the middle of downtime, will my next skill have points like I started it at 1130?
It should. If I remember correctly (I'm not a technogeek, so don't kill me over this), everything concerning skilltraining is handled in a way that when you start training, that action is set into a databse. This entry notes when you started the skill, and when it should finish. When you change the skill training, the databse entry will change accordingly. With the skillplanner, things are handled the same way. All the skills you have planned to train will have set start and end times, which are not messed up by downtime.
On another note:
People start complaining about not being able to log in regularly, so they want a longer skill queue. Should you even be playing this game if you cannot access your computer for more than 4 days? In all seriousness, after one week of dedicated planning you have access to at least 3 skills that need to be trained to level 5. Most of them take 4 to 5 days, if you are a character fresh out of the tutorial. More experienced players maybe even have a couple of 30 day skills waiting for training. The skillqueue is meant for skills that finish within a shorter timeframe, so that we who have dayjobs don't have to get others to start skilltraining for you (and finding out your wife has started Exhumers 5 instead of Advanced Spaceship Command 5 when you're on a two-week business trip).
You should plan your skilltraining according to your lifestyle. But I shouldn't have to lecture you about it. You have been playing this game for quite a while now, and have accepted it the way it was. If you didn't, you would've left, right? Right? Now that CCP has added a bunch of new features, you want to have it changed. Go cancel your subscription and leave the happy fanbase alone. We don't need real life griefers.
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