Player Features and Ideas Discussion

CCP,

Seeing as YOUR LORE states that "capsuleers" do not PILOT their ships, but instead COMMAND them, it seems really stupid that you decided "Spaceship piloting" was a good replacement.

YOUR 2 CENTS from your own damn lore.^

I made my voice.

CCP listened.

I love this company so much.

The best thing about this thread is that some renames that won't have a huge impact gets more discussed than a change to medium long range turrets which will totally change the game on cruiser / BC scale.

Time to reiterate that changing the names of the Engineering and Electronics skills is just plain silly.

Look carefully at the prereqs for all the Science T2 skills. Why would they have "CPU Management" and "Power Grid Management" (or whatever) as prereqs?

Leave those two skills alone, please.

Acquisition would be better used in "Signature Analysis" I'd feel. Management implies the management of multiple targets, whereas acquisition implies the act of obtaining them as targets. I feel that in this case "Management" is the superior choice.

Not that I really care all too much if they change or leave "Signature Analysis".

No, it isn't. In the expression "a killing", I suppose you think "killing" is also an adjective, or maybe a verb...? It's not, it's a noun. Likewise, it's perfectly valid to talk about "the targeting (of enemies)", or just "targeting", as a noun describing the act of targeting (verb) those enemies. And that's the context in which "targeting" was used in the original suggestion.

But this is completely off-topic; consult a dictionary if you have any doubts that "targeting" (or "killing", or "opening") can be nouns.

+1

An entire group for Electronic Warfare would have sense and giving them "personality".

I agree that Armor Honeycombing is much more descriptive than Armor Layering. It makes perfect sense already.

I think it'd make sense to move the targeting related skills into the same group as the offensive EWAR skills, and eliminate the separate targeting group all together.

Multiple Targeting -> Targeting
Advanced Multiple Targeting -> Advanced Targeting

The only confusion in the past was that the common usage of multitasking has nothing to do with targets.

+1 to both


Also armor layering does not make sense. If you want a descriptive skillname, call it "Reactive Armor Hardening"

I like the skillnames Target Management and Advanced Target Management. I would prefer if you would change the sheme of all advanced skill from "advanced..." to "... - Advanced"

Now also go ahead and rename Signature Analysis to "Target Aquisition".


These proposals would conviniently group these skill together in the skills list.


Edit:

I also like the idea of bringing all E-war skills to an "Electronics Warfare" skillgroup. This way you can make the "Electronics" skillgroup the Electronic Systems skillgroup and can revert the "CPU management" skill back to "electronics" skill (because it evidently does not only manage your cpu but is also needed for industrial stuff, where the name does not make any sense - of course if you want to change that in the future go ahead with the skillname CPU management, but change the group names anyway).

Additionaly I propose the following:

Have the Ship Modification skillgroup 3 subgroups: Rigs, Subsystems, Reconfigurations

Rigs and Subsystems is pretty obvious and the Tactical Reconfigurations contains the industrial, Tactical Weapon and Tactical Logistics Reconfiguration skills.
One could argue that the Reconfiguration skills do not fit there because it is not a permanent modification, but the word "tactical" makes it very clear, that while being a modification it can be changed on the battlefield. (Why does industrial reconfiguration not contain tactical? If you think about it, one activates and deactivates this module for tactical reasons in this game, even if the ship has almost nothing to do with pvp...)

The reason why I propse this is that scrolling a long ass list and picking an item from it, is more of a pain than an additional mousclick and having the reconfiguration skills in 3 different places is rather strange (and they do not fit in their new proposed groups - or their old for that matter if you ask me). While that would introduce 3 different attribute sets into one skillgroup (like with the subsystems), I think more is gained than lost (and maybe gives us the opportunity to think about an attribute set for what the skills really do: reconfigure!

Also please revert Missiles back to the iconic "Missile Launcher Operation" and instead rename Gunnery to "Gun Turret Operation".

Ytterbium, please update the OP, pretty please! :)