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First they came for a 90K skill and I didn't speak out because I didn't have that 90K skill.
Then they came for a 200K skill and I didn't speak out because I didn't have that 200K skill.
Now they come for my 2 Mill skill and there is nobody left to speak for me because the precedent has been established.

So,
we have a skill that was used to deal with an old game mechanic. That mechanic has now gone away so the skill is no longer needed.
We have a new skill introduced to deal with a new, unrelated, game mechanic. It's the same difficulty so we'll just get it in place of the old skill.

This is very different from having an old skill that still deals with something different that exits but has been rebalanced. SC pilots with Drone skills can still use drones if they change hulls. Pilots who had sensor damper skills or hybrid weapon skills before they were nerfed could still use those items, and indeed for hybrids they are now doing that after they have been rebalanced.

For skills before learning skills, when they were removed they only impacted a smallish number of people so CCP got away without a SP refund. For learning skills they had a mechanism available after some really prolonged downtime issues and since it was going to affect almost everybody they used that mechanism.

That mechanism is still available. It should be used since the old skill was removed because the game mechanic which it influenced no longer exists. It's not been nerfed, not been buffed, it has been removed and given to everybody for free.

This is a matter of principle, of maintaining good precedents that have been set in the past.
CCP, you have the tools you need to do the right thing. Please do it so that we can have confidence that you will do the right thing in the future, like when you redo ship hulls and their skills. Because when we get there it'll be an eye watering number of skills points and we need the confidence to know that you'll care and do the right thing to ensure "People will still be able to fly the hulls they used to" rather than "Hey, here's a new hull in place of an unrelated old one, have a skill to fly that because it's a cool thing we want you to use more and we reused some ID numbers".

hmmm... are you sure the laser damage was given as percentage? Because I did find it a bit weird that module damage was given as percentage and crystal damage wasn't.

I can check it out on a reference server later today.

There is a lesson to be learned here -- for CCP.

Why isn't the functionality (and past functionality) documented in plain language for reference?

Still in this release the new inventory system got a unbelievable bad performance when just one other character at a pos is manipulating anything in any hangar anywhere. All other clients lag out to full stop for a second.

I still cant believe that this made it live in the first place.

I still think the tooltips need to be made optional. Im frequently in a position where my mouse is hovering over a shield booster for pulsing reasons etc, therefore having the tooltip continually sat there is distracting, annoying and not needed.

Also find the lag encountered doing anything at a POS has returned with a vengeance with the latest patch.

Made 2 posts on it now.

Since the patch, when in fleet, my drones has the same color brackets as the drones belonging to another in fleet. It's stupid that my drones apperence doesnt differ from the other drones in fleet, cause i want to see what the hell my drones are doing.

Otherwise good patch

Yeah - Tutorial Icon that keeps reappearing.

Oh and the Unified Inventory that was supposed to have been fixed, but looks like it was "unfixed" and is just as crappy as it has ever been.
For example: Inventory windows don't "remember" if the Filter option was expanded or collapsed, for ANY and EVERY inventory window, IN AND OUT of station (in every ship, every POS, etc, regardless of how many times you have been in that ship, on that toon, opening that container, within the last few minutes/days/weeks/etc).

The "Item" Icon that decides you really don't want to look at your hangar inventory, but would rather display the contents of your Pod cargo bay (WTF ?!?!?) (or whatever ship you are currently in).

Or like how if you have your Hangar window open and undock, suddenly it is now your Ship Cargohold window, regardless of where you normally would have that window positioned.

Or how when you click the icon to open your cargo hold, it opens in the same location/size window that your Item (Hangar) window would normally open in. Of course, if you use "shift-click" it opens where it should, but if there is a specific icon to open a specific thing, why do I have to "shift-click" to have it open where I want ? It's not like I can click the same icon IN STATION and therefore confuse the client about which CARGO HOLD window I want to open.

Same goes for POS mods. Seems odd if I click on a POCO and then the "Access Storage" icon, the POCO window opens where I had it set previously, but if I click on a POS mod and then click the "Access Storage " icon, it opens the window in the same place as my Item (hangar) Inventory window, unless (again) I use the "shift-click", which (again) if there is a specific icon to open a specific thing, why do I have to "shift-click" to have it open where I want ?

Oh yeah - another feature that I really, REALLY like is the way that, when you transfer a large number of items from one window to another (say, from a trade window to your inventory, or from Inventory to a corp hangar, or from a cargo hold to a CHA) the inventory tree has to refresh after EACH item is moved. Item moves, inventory tree refreshes, next item moves, tree refreshes, next item (etc, etc).
That is and especially AWESOME feature when transferring a couple hundred items at a time ! Simply AMAZES me to have to sit there waiting and waiting until finally the last item gets moved and the tree refreshes for the last time !

Ah forget it. I give up on this crap. Maybe they'll refix it (again) in 2-3 years. Or not. After all, it has been YEARS and I still can't get the Trade window to open where I want it, regardless if I pin/unpin/resize/relocate it 3,000 times.

So can we have patch notes for todays update?

Sould'nt you guys know what you are patching before you are doing it?

I thought first came then list then the stuff on it.

Some things never change...