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Looks like it. Because the skill "command ships" is generic, not racial. But as other stuff has been removed, the total training time is about the same.

Now that we are getting loads of new sp could we please get cheaper clones.. i want to pvp in frigates without having to pay 20mil everytime i welp

How many people have charisma maps? Not many would be my guess. Command ships will be severely penalised.

Fair enough, but isn't your argument kind of stupid? You want to break the norm for one or two shipclasses because it would take longer to train for (although for the ppl currently using them nothing would change) and for this you'd rather have an exception rather then to say that your explanation in the devblog accounts for EVERY ship in EVE ?

Awesome change, any thoughts on allowing refunds for the now unneeded barge skills?

It just occurred to me that there is another step in preparation all us players should be doing, other than getting the skills Destroyer and Battlecrusier high:

The requirements for injecting some skills will be changing. Some you could inject before the change will not be inject-able after the change without additional training. So go thorough your sheet and inject every skill you can. Lock it in while its still possible.

That doesn't make any kind of sense.

The Jump Freighter skill is like any other t2 ship skill, like Heavy Assault Cruiser. There is no requirement for the hull in there. The hull comes in the determination of which jump freighter(s) can be flown by the character who has the Jump Freighter skill.

However, to be consistent, you should be making racial freighter 5 be the prereq to fly the racial jump freighter, just like racial frigate/destroyer/cruiser/battlecruiser/battleship/industrial/(mining barge) are required to fly the racial t2 variants of the same hull.

Can you please answer directly: do we have to train skill prerequisites to progress in that skill?
To level Freighters V without Advanced Spaceships Command V, or to maximize Command ships V without all those useless links?
I dont worry about "you will able to fly" thing. I want to know if I need to maximize skills now to skip useless skills that you introduced as prerequisites for command ships today.

If you are going to be flying a command ship in a fleet, you really already should have all those skills to V anyway, to provide those benefits to your fleet.

The problem is that what are called the field command ships (absolution, sleipnir, astarte and nighthawk) are often flown as combat ships, not as support ships. What I would like to see done (though this would add yet more sp to clones) would be to make the fleet command ships the only command ships, and make the field command ships a separate ship entirely, like a heavy assault battlecruiser - that is essentially how they are used now in everything but the alliance tournament. I'm sure someone will jump in and say how they use the nighthawk in place of the vulture for some kind of fleet, or something similar, but outlying cases don't disqualify the larger issue at hand.