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I just wondered if anyone could clarify on this if possible. Anyone have any ideas if this is a mistake or intentional by CCP?

As a few others have pointed out, some of the tree changes don't make sense.

i.e.

Recons - Why cloaking lvl 4 and especially for combat recons which don't even fit a cloak? and why the destroyer skill needed?

Fix:
Force recon - Remove destroyer 3 and replace with cov-op 3. Keep the cloaking skill as this is makes sense for this type of ship.

Combat recon - remove cloaking 4 and replace with something more suitable (why have cloaking 4 on a ship that doesn't even fit the damn thing?!?!)
Remove destroyer 3 and replace with HAC 3 or frigate 4

HACS:

Again with the destroyer req!! Remove and replace with racial Battlecruiser 3

HICS:

and again with the destroyer req!! Remove and replace with HAC 3

Command Ships:

Were you lot sniffing toilet seats on this one???

Link specialist 4 & leadership 5 fine, but why the other 5 warfare skills to 5??
Again, look at the ships & the bonus the warfare link module gets and just make just that one to 5.

i.e. Minny version require Skirmish warfare 5 and not all the others!

REMOVE destroyer 3 and up the Cruiser skill from 3 to 4

The ONLY tree which should really have the destroyer skill in is "Destroyers" (obviously) and then the Interdictor which is the natural T2 progression for the destroyer class.

Stop putting the damn destroyer skill in everything else when it's not even needed or has anything to do with the progression path for the other ships.

Personally, I see the natural progression through the non Indy ships as:

Frig -> Cruiser -> Battlecruiser -> Battleship -> Capitals
and
Destroyer

specialised ships as

Destroyer -> Interdictor
Frig -> Specialised Frigs (cov-op, Inty, AF)
Cruiser -> Battlecruiser -> Specialised Cruiser/BC Ships (HACS, HICS, LOGI's, T3's, CS, etc)
Battleship -> Specialised BS (marauders, B-ops, Pirate Faction BS)

Even like this, you can see destroyers as the odd man out as after interdictors you don't really need that book for anything else.

**edited bit**

Oh, I read somewhere that the next Expansion is due for release at the beginning of June (could be wrong though)

My guess is badly executed april's fool post.

The new skill prerequisites are basically for injecting the skill book, not flying the ship. If you already have the skill trained to fly it then the skill is already in your head, regardless of if you have the new prerequisites or not.

For example; with the changes racial destroyer 3 will be a prerequisite for the racial cruiser skill. currently you only need racial frigate 4 to train the racial cruiser skill. So if when the patch comes you have racial cruiser 4 trained but do not have any destroyer skills trained you will not lose the racial cruiser skill, it is already in your head. The new prerequisite skill is for injecting the skill book not flying the ship. as long as you have the racial cruiser skill trained you will still be able to fly cruisers, even if you do not have the destroyer skill trained.

Like wise with the command ships. with the changes you will all the leadership skills at 5 to inject the command ship skillbook. But if you already have the skillbook injected the new prerequisites do not affect you.

The same with the changes to the carrier skills. If you currently fly a carrier in W-space and do not have any jump drive skills trained beyond the bare minimum, the new prerequisite skills will not affect you if you already have the carrier skill trained. thge new prerequisites only apply to player looking to inject the skill books.

My advice to take advantage of these changes are, if you have a skillbook you want to inject/train where you currently meet the prerequisites but will not meet the new prerequisites after the change, get it injected and trained to at least 1 before the change takes effect.

For the record the summer expansion is Odyssey, scheduled for June 4th. I would think everyone here would know that by now, but it seems some do not.

You got two months left to be ready for it.

Or it could just be that the BC group simply had to many hulls making the skill give proportionally more benefit than they felt it should. Splitting that alone leaves destroyers the odd man out which didn't make sense. Even that aside we're only talking about levels 1-3 which are combined less that frigate 4 alone making advancing in the tree faster. So the hulls you are complaining about having destroyers included in are getting a beneficial trade.

The rest is just you extrapolating things that aren't there using the slippery slope fallacy.

Not related to ships, but related to T2.
Any plans to change T2 turrets from being dependent of lower-sized T2 turrets? This is main issue, why people choosing missiles, rather than guns - faster to train. ALOT faster. And by ALOT, I mean, about a month of difference.

Thanks.. Exactly what I was looking for.
I was hoping the changes would give each faction a bonus to all links as the new training requirements suggest but it seems it is not to be..

Well, since CCP is a real company, and needs real money to survive. Silly things like these are made to make you have longer skill que :)

Switch ships?