EVE General Discussion

I'm really unhappy.. Last night before I went to bed, I had less than 24 hours left to fly the Providence freighter. I woke up this morning and got on EVE and noticed I got the 50,000 skill point compensation from CCP. So obviously, I spent it on the final portion of Amarr industrial 5 and was then going to put the remaining points into the Freighter level 1 skill so I could fly the Providence straight away.

Then, to my UTTER despair.. I see the new skill required. Advanced Spaceship command 5. This has added an additional 24 days to my training time for the Freighter and I can't help but feel like i've been cheated out of my time. My other accounts are the same distance away from the very same ship and I haven't put any time into that ship on those accounts at all. The last month of training has all been wasted.. I find myself unable to fly the ships I previously could and on top of that, the one thing I had been working towards for the last month was taken away from me just hours before getting the skills required.

All that being said, the update is good and I can see alot of work has been put into it. But I just can't get over this feeling of being cheated out of my training time. This isn't fair and i'm really unhappy that i'm one of the unfortunate ones to lose out on skill points. I know there are lots of people out there who worked around this update and basically got literally millions of FREE skill points just because they trained certain skills in certain orders. This is an unfair advantage.

To summarise:

Started training for a freighter 1 month ago.
less than 24 hours to go until all skills completed.
Odyssey is released.
24 days left for freighter all over again.

And note, that's not an additional 24 days on top of the skills i've trained. That's 24 days of different skills altogether, so the previous month of skills were mostly for nothing.

Is this really just meant to be "accepted"?

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Edit: I was expecting this negative feedback. but i'll add this:

For all those saying I had over a year of knowing this would happen, I'm only 5 months old. I shouldn't be expected to go looking around on forums for this kind of thing. Why would I be doing that? Don't you think if I knew something like this was going to happen i'd be more prepared? Like I said, I began my training for the freighter only a month ago. I didn't even know what odyssey WAS until about 2 weeks ago.

I wonder how man threads there will be today of people admitting they can't do planning of any sort, even when told multiple times over the past year it was coming, with pictures no less.

In other news, I think it would be really cool if we could put smilies in thread titles.

Well, why not? It's not like these changes are some kind of surprise. They're extremely old news. You waited to the last minute, didn't get the skill injected in time, and got burned.

It was entirely within your power to avoid this, so why shouldn't you have to accept it?

Today is the day that the 99% of the players who do not read the forums and dev blogs because "Well, why bother" come to regret that decision.

CCP has been pulling out all the stops to let people know about that and other prerequisite changes for months now.



You have the relevant industrial skill at 5. That has its own uses.

What can't you fly now that you could before? Hint: Don't look at the Prerequisites tab in Show Info, just try climbing into the ship.

There was no way for CCP to make these changes that would not be painful, which is why they gave so much notice that they were making the changes. They first started talking about it late last summer.

Just wondering what is better "Iteron" or "Iteron V" since it takes the same time to train for both. I wonder how they gonna rework all industrial ships =/

My major takeaway from this is that, 2 weeks ago, when you learned what Odyssey is, you could have stopped your current training plan and began training the new requirements, and only be ~10 days away from a freighter, now.

But they weren't told, ie CCP didn't come to their house, sit down with their moms and have tea before heading down into the basement (after donning gas mask) to personally alert each and every Eve player of the coming change.

How dare any of you expect people to seek out information about a game they play and pay for. For shame you people, SHAME.

Yes.

The amount of heads-up given on this change was nothing short of monumental.

That changes everything...

Wait, no it doesn't, CCP and posters in multiple forums have been talking about this for a year. Last I looked (being American and I'm bad at Math), 5 months is less than a year. If you only hear dof Odyssey 2 weeks ago, it demonstrates you haven't been paying attention to the goings on of the game you have invested time and money into.

If you are smart you will understand that this is a lesson Learned, if you are...other than smart....you will continue to complain despite the fact that it was your responsibility to keep informed.