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Racial skill bonus on t2 ships is more of a role bonus.
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Spr09
Galactic Deep Space Industries
Brave Collective
#1 - 2012-07-29 03:03:40 UTC
Does anyone else feel this way? You get the maximum level of minmatar cruiser to fly a muninn, so no matter what you will always have a 25% bonus to RoF and damage. Yeah they're really useful, but it just seems silly for me to get it maximum level and still show the bonuses as a per level bonus.

Just my 2 cents.
Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-07-29 07:02:04 UTC
WTF is your point?

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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#3 - 2012-07-29 08:13:32 UTC
I think it was originally done that way for balance. One creates a balancing formula and a shopping-list of bonuses, then each ship gets X points to spend, and a 25% bonus costs more than a 5% / level bonus.

All that is likely to change during the current round of re-balancing and move to ship "lines" instead of tiers (i.e. higher tiers = more points to spend).
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-07-29 16:18:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Abdiel Kavash
CCP might at some point in the future decide to make the TII ship not require level 5. In fact I believe that's one step in the planned future skills revamp. (Go look for the devblog.)
Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-07-29 23:06:58 UTC
Abdiel Kavash wrote:
CCP might at some point in the future decide to make the TII ship not require level 5. In fact I believe that's one step in the planned future skills revamp. (Go look for the devblog.)


no it isnt, and would be silly...

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Michael Harari
Genos Occidere
HYDRA RELOADED
#6 - 2012-08-06 16:44:53 UTC
Jack Miton wrote:
Abdiel Kavash wrote:
CCP might at some point in the future decide to make the TII ship not require level 5. In fact I believe that's one step in the planned future skills revamp. (Go look for the devblog.)


no it isnt, and would be silly...


Why would it be silly? I for one fully support vagabonds being pilotable wih minmatar cruiser 3
Dread Pirate Pete
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-08-07 14:43:16 UTC
Michael Harari wrote:
I for one fully support vagabonds being pilotable wih minmatar cruiser 3


I too, want easier Vaga killmails! Pirate
Gibbo3771
AQUILA INC
Verge of Collapse
#8 - 2012-08-08 17:33:58 UTC
Spr09 wrote:
Does anyone else feel this way? You get the maximum level of minmatar cruiser to fly a muninn, so no matter what you will always have a 25% bonus to RoF and damage. Yeah they're really useful, but it just seems silly for me to get it maximum level and still show the bonuses as a per level bonus.

Just my 2 cents.


If you get podded with out of date clone and lose minnie cruiser 5 then no, you dont always get the 25% no matter what. You can still fly the ship since minmtara cruiser is a secondary skill.
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#9 - 2012-08-08 18:27:27 UTC
Gibbo3771 wrote:
Spr09 wrote:
Does anyone else feel this way? You get the maximum level of minmatar cruiser to fly a muninn, so no matter what you will always have a 25% bonus to RoF and damage. Yeah they're really useful, but it just seems silly for me to get it maximum level and still show the bonuses as a per level bonus.

Just my 2 cents.


If you get podded with out of date clone and lose minnie cruiser 5 then no, you dont always get the 25% no matter what. You can still fly the ship since minmtara cruiser is a secondary skill.


That's actually not true as you can't board a Vaga without cruiser 5. Where it does come in to play is the BC skill vis-a-vis CSs. CSs only check for racial cruiser 5 and the CS skill itself, so you could theoretically fly a CS without getting the max bonus from the BC skill.
Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
#10 - 2012-08-10 12:01:22 UTC
It's mostly a flavor thing to fit the whole "T2 ships are T1 ships with extra stuff bolted on" theme.

Also I suspect that they kind of figured that if they were going to make Racial V a prereq they should make it clear that you're getting something from those skill ranks other than useless prereq training time. While there's no _practical_ difference, there's a great deal of difference in _design philosophy_ terms, designers rightly hate useless filler bullshit (thus the removal of, for instance, learning skills).
Indalecia
#11 - 2012-08-10 14:41:11 UTC
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Racial skill bonus on t2 ships is more of a role bonus.
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