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You miss the point here. What I lose is all that training time spent on something I no longer need as a requirement. I would never have trained those skills had they not been required.

So you are saying because your teacher was mean, your children must also deal with a mean teacher to balance the fairness? Rather than using this - in my eyes strange - view on justice, I would prefer to finally give the "Orca people" their deserved skillpoints back. Because, yes the pretext of the skills they trained was changed back then, so they should at some point get the chance to decide, if their character should be able to use orca only or all the other stuff they trained, too. By the way, the Orca requirements change yet again. giving dedicated mining commanders even more skillpoints being wastedly spent.
Again, for characters without specialisation this is no big deal,because they will eventually use the other skills also. This is about the same situation you had to live through with your dedicated character for mining fleet boosts. I believe we all agree that not reimbursing skillpoints was a mistake back then. But making a mistake once, should not be the the reasoning to repeat it over and over again.

CCP is the only MMO-developer to deny respecs/reimburses to their players, if the skilltree is changed. But given their stance on dedicated alt-chars and specialisation, they have more reason than any other company to do just that. EVE is hardcore in many, many ways and one of the few forms to deal with that is to plan ones skilltime ahead - partly for years. In my opinion CCP would win more, if they did not screw players over who dedicate so much planning and enthusiasm to the game they produce.

Actually I believe you can break down skills in EVE to SP/$ or whatever currency, thus giving an edge to loyal customers. That brings me to my believe that it is unfair to give players basicly skillpoints for free (e.g. by giving out free SP for destroyers and bc). I would therefore prefer to to have the same amount of skillpoints before and after the patch.

I personally would prefer to train 6 (or rather like 30, because Jumpfreighter should need racial freighter at 5) additional days to resume flying my Jumpfreighter with my dedicated alt (which now is a usefull skill, thanks to CCP), than have a skill that character will never use and does not need as prereq anymore.

But after the changes the question is, what usefull skillpoints you could have aquired instead of the now redundant skillpoints wasted in requirements that were needed in the past. It is unfair that you are stuck with redundant requirements (even if you can still fly the Orca), while a character skilling an Orca today, will have usefull skills on it's path to the Orca and thus reach the same goal faster than you did. So basicly you are voting for shorter skilltimes after the patch, but without any benefit to yourself. I am not that generous. Sorry.

Are insurance payouts for carriers that high?

Sitting in a Basilisk: Price 130 mil, payout 54 mil, insurance cost 16 mil.

So an insured Basilisk costs 146 mil, I get 54 mil. 146 - 54 = 92

Do you think the salvage is worth 92 mil? Is the payout ratio for carriers so much higher?

Also loot is not insured, so we have a 50% ISK sink there. (Only 50% drops last I heard at least)

There a very colorful pictures in the Devblog to show you the prereqs, I cannot imagine anyone willing to look at all your skills and comparing them to the Devblog and decide what to skill other than you yourself. Sorry man.

All the ship (-classes) with pictures of changed requirements fit what you seek. Those classes that don't have pictures are already cleared by bc, dessi to 5 and all others to 3.

So you already have the list that you asked for. There is no one who can make it any easier for you.

In the Devblog under the subheadline "Skill changes under the microscope" are many pictures comparing requirements before and after the change.

You have to look at all those pictures, since they basicly very much resemble the list you asked for. Just navigate to the point 'Carriers and Supercarriers:' and below are all shipclasses with changed secondary and tertiary requirements.

In my experience, Eve is also the only MMO where there isn't a finite number of skill points. If any skill, ship or item is nerfed, you can still do other things as you'll be getting more SP to spend. It is only important to allow respecs when you have a finite number of SP.

You can also still train the required skills if you think them useful. Speed to sitting in an Orca is irreverent as you're already there.

Reading comprehension ftw.

The character skilling an Orca after the patch will have a distinct disadvantae over Roy's Orca Alt: unless we also implement time travel, he will not be able to train at reduced skill times AND have used an Orca for 2 years.

There is another - hopefully the main - reason for no SP reimbursements: It goes completely contrary to EVE's skill/attribute system, where attributes decide your future skill speed. It's all about making sacrifices for having that skill you need NOW rather than LATER.

Reduced skilltimes were hard earned by requirering skills and thus training time "taking away" from your actual training plan, the reimbursement of those skills was the least CCP could do for taking away the reduced training time. Additionally all characters trained at the same pace before and after the patch within then possible boundaries. Also the usage of the Orca is worth nothing, when comparing training time requirements to get a character into an Orca and usable before and after the patch.