EVE General Discussion

It makes sense because Drone Avionics is the skill that control drone control range. It therefore also unlocks modules that control drone control range. Compare Drone Navigation → DNC and Drone Sharpshooting → Omnilink.

If I don't need that skill for Tech II light and medium drones at V I don't understand why somebody should get it automatically at V via the update from the Scout Drone skill? Anyway I started training Scout Drones to V on my toon now ... sounds like I could not go wrong with that. I'm still unsure what to do on my main (and I'm not alone with that) regarding canceling Combat Drones skill.

Because it's the skill you've trained to V.

If you have trained SDO V, you have unlocked:
• T2 light drones.
• T2 medium drones.
• A 25km drone control range.

They don't want you to lose any of those, so you're being given:
• The ability to use T2 light drones (LDO V).
• The ability to use T2 medium drones (MDO V).
• A 25km drone control range (DAv V).

If you have trained CDO V, you have unlocked:
• +25% damage to light drones.
• +25% damage to medium drones.

They don't want you to lose those bonuses either, so you're being given:
• +25% damage to light drones (LDO V).
• +25% damage to medium drones (MDO V).


Basically, the entire change is to fix the entirely illogical cross-skill bonusing and unlocking that the current drone skills offer. Right now, the drone skills are such that, if the turret skills worked the same, you would have to train Long-range Targeting V in order to use T2 light blaster — the two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. All of that silliness is being removed: bonusing skills and unlocking skills become one and the same.

To be fair though, thats not really ok. Sure, it is probably the best and most sensible way to shake things out, I'm not denying that, but it does violate the whole ethos of how every other skill change has been made (and in fact, why the who "get the highest of either skill" is being done with the drone skills).

As I say, I'm sure the CCP guys have looked at things, and this is the the way things will work out the best, but it does seem a massive omission causing people to lose use of DLA2's, especially when you consider that it is governed by the more expensive of the two current skills, so if anything, having the higher level in that one shouldn't screw you compared to having the higher level in the cheaper one. Of course, anyone with any sense will be maxing SDO on every character to maximise the benefits anyway, but it does leave a crack in the system that someone is bound to fall through.

I'm guessing that anyone who wants maximum range will have gone for the (far cheaper and universally more useful) SDO V than the single-purpose and limited-use DLA II, so the amount of people falling through that crack should be vanishingly small.

There is actually another crack as well: people will lose their sentries unless they have drone specs trained — there are a few special-purpose AFK alts that will fall into that one. But again, it's such a minute case that it's not worth bothering with.

why would CCP reimburse SP if you didn't lose any and infact gain more?

So those who play the system lose out and those of us who either have the skills we need or are still skilling dont?

Dont see the problem there

Aaaand Im lost again

Ah well nm

Ill find out if anything has changed when/if this actually happens

Ah, no.
That is a lie.

I will need Amarr Drone spec to use Curators, and I don't now.

So you either have ether badly misread what the devs said, or you are propagating the lies CCP has stated.

My question is: What's up with those of us who have long had Both skills? Because it seems like people are getting free SP who only had the one skill trained, but those of us who had both are getting left out in the cold.