Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would like to see a new sill added called something "Strategic Cruiser Interfacing" which would mitigate the skillpoint loss that comes with getting destroyed while in a T3 cruiser. With the coming Crimewatch changes, T3 cruiser pilots will be stuck with limited options for preserving their skillpoints as they will have to choose to either run (if possible) or fight and lose skillpoints if they die (since they will no longer be able to eject because of the weapons flag). Anyhow, the new skill would help mitigate the skillpoint loss by reducing the so-called damage a pilot receives by being ripped from their T3 cruiser.

It would work like this:

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You mitigate the pain of being ripped from your cruiser by being more adept at creating loose connections that allow the same level of management at a lower integration level.

Rank 16 racial skill (like a Titan)
- Amarr Strategic Cruiser Interfacing
- Caldari Strategic Cruiser Interfacing
- Gallente Strategic Cruiser Interfacing
- Minmatar Strategic Cruiser Interfacing

For every each level 1-4, skillpoint loss of the a random sub-system wold be reduced by 8% - a 32% reduction in 14 days training with evenly distributed attributes and +4 implants
Level 5 would grant 100% reduction - total training time 76 days with evenly distributed attributes and +4 implants

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The whole T3 skillpoint loss mechanic seems kind of arbitrary to begin with, but there should be an in-game mechanic to reduce this loss to zero if CCP is going to make it so that you have to go down with your ship. A VERY LONG training skill seems a fair way to address this issue.

Flame away....

Because losing 5 days of training time is the end of the world.

T3s are supposed to be painful to lose (in more than one way). Take your loss like a man.

If you think T3s suck to train into then you've clearly never trained to fly a battleship.

I think it is fine that they make losing a T3 painful...whatever makes CCP warm an fuzzy. It's just that they are planning on taking away the only mechanic that allowed the T3 pilot to have a chance to avoid skillpoint loss through ejecting in a losing battle - not ejecting in time cost you skill points.

I think that they should provide a way to mitigate that change, and having a skill with the longest training time is fair.

Having it be rank 16 would give it a training time equal to training two racial Battleships skills to 5 - equivalent of losing a rank 5 subsystem skill 15 times.

Not training it to 5 would not provide much benefit (only 32% mitigation) if done as I specified above.

And yes I would wish for a skill that provided this...giving me the choice to take the pain up front in training for 75 days or take it in chunks from losing a level 5 skill.

The reason I do not think they should change the rank of the existing T3 skills is that many/most already have them at 5. I think changing the rank on existing skills would be far more complicated than adding a new skill of a high rank which is just another row in the database and a change in the calculation for skillpoint loss to check the level of the new skill and remove the appropriate amount of skillpoints from a random subsystem skill - if not a level 5 in the new skill.

How about you stop sucking so you don't have to worry about such a miniscule detail. That you are being penalized for your own pvp incompetence is hilarious.

Come on, Visiability, Procurement and Daytrading should stay this exceptions cause it is really hard to find a system where you are more then "max-level" jumps away from a system in the same region. And a further skill which would add further jumps in the same regions wouldn´t be bought by anyone, because it would be mostly useless.

But I think the formula is wrong it should be 5 * 2^(level-1) starting with level 2.