EVE General Discussion

They post these dev-blogs to inform players about their plans, so they get feedback early, not to have players speculate.
Why would they want the players to speculate when the result can only be a collossally whiney thread as this here?

Sometimes they change what they have planned based on that feedback.
So, if you keep yourself informed by reading devblogs, AND then want to profit from the information you gained, and that's exactly what you wanted to do if you trained CDO just because of the devblog.. Then it's really your own fault for stopping to keep yourself informed.

Edit:
Really, the only people "losing" here are those who are SP-greedy and wanted to profit, acted too fast, and then didn't keep themselves informed.
And even that loss ist just "less gain".

Time is lost for someone who has SDO trained to V and any level of CDO, because then, regardless of what your CDO is at, you receive all 3 new skills at V. The time spent training CDO is lost. Whether or not CCP reimburses is their call, but when anyone can train one skill and receive the exact same new skill set as the person who trained two skills, that second skill training becomes redundant and should be looked at for reimbursement.

In other words, time is gained in the process — in every case more time than you put into it. If you get more out than you put in, it is hardly a loss.

That has never been grounds for reimbursement. Reimbursement happens if you lose something because a change happens that removes that ability or mechanic.

In this change, you lose no abilities — you keep what you had before. You lose no time — you get more SP (=time) than you had before. You loose no mechanics — they are what they've always been.

People are upset because some gain more and some gain less, and that their inattentive speculation yields less of a profit than they had through. Receiving less gain in not even remotely the same thing as a loss, so there is not even remotely any grounds for reimbursement. It's particularly groundless when that lower profit is only ever their own fault for not paying attention.


It would create even more (and actually legitimate) crying, so I'm not on board with it.

As it stands on SISI even if you have CDO and SDO to V you still need to train medium drone operation to V for T2 Mediums which is another 10days

I would be willing to bet a lot of the people "losing" are actually people who trained CDO to V to get the full damage/module upgrade benefit, and are upset those who didnt are getting the exact same benefit rolled into the new skills.

Would simply keeping SDO the same and renaming CDO to Scout Drone Specialization be a simpler, less controversial method?

So you are saying that everything realeased in a Dev Blog that has not been noted with a warning sign has appeared in the patch or expansion it was mooted for without change in all cases, quineg?

I'm getting less gain, for having trained more.
Seriously.

For those of us who don't want to read 11 pages of man children whining at each other, should combat drone op 5 be trained or no?

do you want 5% drone damage/level for the next 2 and a bit weeks?

That doesn't apply to skill training.

And I didn't train CDO 5 because of a dev blog. I trained it so I could use T2 drone link amplifiers.