Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The E-war drone skill increases control range of all drones, and thus is an important skill for any kind of frigate focusing on them.

One requirement I don't like is all 4 drone specializations to 5 for master 5

As an AMARR player, (closet RPer), i will NOT use drones from other races, so why should any amarr player be forced to train other races drones?? Thats like requiring caldari pilots to train autocannons... its just silly.

that's a bit odd as T2 is meant to be specialist ships/modules so surely all T2 things in the game should require lv5 skills should it not?????

racial drones have different damage types.

I'm a Caldari close to RP'er and I trained drones, currently working on gunneries... so your assumption that weapon or damage type is tied to race is somewhat close-minded. and racist

then again, Caldari are more permissive about bending the rules for the sake of one's achievement.

Nobody is requiring you to do anything.

Every ship in the game currently require those. Freighters require afterburners and MWD. There's a number of silly things in there now. That's why it's on SiSi this early, I bet.

I understand why you might want to have Weapon Upgrades and Advanced Weapon Upgrades under Core Ship Operation - the vast majority of the ships use weapons. Some ships that you wouldn't normally think to arm, like Logistics, even have turret slots. However, I don't see needing WU and AWU as required to master a ship that does not normally benefit from those skills when used as intended. WU and AWU do nothing for fitting remote reppers, tractor beams, strip miners and the like.

Perhaps move WU and AWU to the turret and missile certificates?

Edit: Found some other... interesting things.

Capital Remote Shield Booster and Captial Remote Armor Repairer both require Spaceship Command 3. I would argue they need 5, as that is needed to train Advanced Spaceship Command, and you need that at 5 to train Capital Ships, which is what you really need to have trained in order to use a capital module. Ahem.

Astronautic Rigging for Capital Navigation? Other than Rorquals and the oddball "fit for speed and maneuverability" carriers that you sometimes see on the victim side of killmails, I honestly don't see the need for this.

Manufacturing:

Battleship Construction does nothing past level 4. Zip. Nada. In fact, level 4 of that skill is the only level needed to do anything with it, as both marauders and blackops require that skill to build the hulls. So requiring it for level 5 of the cert is simply a waste of time.

No Industrial Construction at all? Odd. Oh by the way, beyond level 3 for that skill does nada/zip/zilch as well.

Outpost Construction is needed from level 3 and on, at the matching level. Seriously? Most of what that skill allow you to do is simply attach something that can only be obtained from NPCs to an existing outpost. 99.9% of industrialists have no use for that skill at all.

Capital Ship Construction not listed at all. Now this skill is useful to industrialists, as they use it to make capital ship parts, fighters, fighter bombers, freighters and the like.

The "Target Painting" certificate at level 3 and above requires the "Electronic Superiority Rigging" skill, but there are no rigs which affect target painters

thank... yes

Awesome, I think that pretty much covered everything I didn't like. I'll try to pick through it with a fine toothed comb and see if I can dig up any other suggestions.