Skill Discussions

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It won't help.

I agree, needs more details. With freighters are they going to give us advanced spaceship command V or will we lose the ability to fly a freighter

Sure, I can clarify that. Sort of.

First off, there is currently no racial destroyer skill. So this response will be predicated on the idea that you're talking about racial frigate instead.

That out of the way, [racial] frigate 3 will be required for [racial] destroyer. In turn, [racial] destroyer 3 will be required for [racial] cruiser. Cruiser then is the requirement for battlecruiser is the requirement for battleship is the requirement for cap ships. Cap ships will also see new requirements added.

So yes, technically [racial] [frigate/cruiser] 4 could be considered a waste if you only trained it to open up the next largest ships. Likewise, [racial] battleship 4 and 5 could be considered a waste if all you were going for was capital ships.

These skills will not be reimbursed; they are still useful and their core mechanics haven't changed one bit. They will still provide the same boost to the same ships that they do now.

Sorry... had a brainfart.. yes i was referring to racial frigates and cruisers, also battleships now you mention it...

thanks for the reply and explanation

just to clarify...
if I train all racial frigs to rank 3 and my general destroyer skill to let's say 4 when the update is out instead of 1 destroyer skill I get 4 racial ones instead? right?

Quick question that I've been looking an answer for:

Gallente cruiser V
Caldari Cruiser IV
BC V

Will the racial BC become V for both or does the prior skill (cruiser in this case) affect the level to which the Racial one will be trained to when the change occurs?

racial BC to V both gallente and caldari according to the post, well you need racial cruiser at III only

Someone talk to me like I’m 9. Better yet, talk to me like I’m 4. Been reading about this update and asking around and I get a different answer each time. Listed below is what I have and the questions that I have about this update (Sorry for the noobish questions, only 3 months into this game and I thank you for your patience)

What I have:

All Racial Frigs to level 4

All Racial Cruisers to level 3

Battlecruiser to level 4

Destroyer to level 4


Question is, do I need to train for Battlecruiser 5 and Destroyer 5?


Thank you for the patience and game well all!

tl;dr: No, you don't need to. But you should strongly consider it.

You do not need to train either skill to 5. If you have other training priorities -- and at 3 months in, it's entirely reasonable that you do -- than you might want to work on those things instead.

However, there's a cost to that: if in the future you want to train more than 1 race's destroyer or battlecruiser to 5 it will take longer. In the short- to medium-term you might well benefit more from any support skills you train instead though. In the long-run it's pretty straightforward though: train those skills now. Between the two skills you're looking at the difference between ~1 month of training and ~4 months of training.

So yeah. Tradeoffs. No right answer. I know that for me training BC5 on a relatively fresh combat alt makes sense, but that's because I won't even be undocking her for the next several months (and possibly ever; I think she's headed straight for the character bazaar when the time comes). But on an active main the lines are blurred: those support skills really do make a huge difference in how well a character performs now. And would you rather have a more effective character now or save 3 months of training sometime down the road?