EVE General Discussion

I had Combat Drone Operation to level V (five) prior to the skill change.

I had Scout Drone Operation to level 0 (zero) prior to the skill change.

I now have Light Drones V, Medium Drones V, and Drone Avionics 0, working as intended.



The information with the change that was updated in the dev blog (too late to take advantage of it, mind you), indicated that if you had Scout Drone Operation V, you would also get Light/Medium V. It was never explicitly given as a reason, but the access of T2 Light/Med from the skill is likely the reason.

My issue is this, I was able to use Drone Link Augmentor II prior to the patch, by vitrue of Combat Drone Operation V. It was quite useful for repair/ecm drone range. Sadly now I am unable to.

All this could have been avoided had the original devblog been updated in a timely manner after the post was made, sadly it was not. I feel a double standard has been applied, with some players gaining an unfair advantage over others.

As much as I would love to demand Drone Avionics V to be able to use Drone Link Augmentor II's, I realize it wont happen (especially since Combat Drone Operation is gone, it is something that would have had to go through with the skill conversion). But I would like to have an open discussion with other players regarding their thoughts on the issue, or how it might have personally affected them.

Yep. Exact same situation here; 6 accounts, each trained CDO 5 specifically due to the blog. The blog they never updated with the new changes, over 2 months later.

I have actually re-unsubscribed my accounts over it. Really tired of the awful communication and social skills of CCP being ignored yet again. Not that I was paying RL $ anyways, but I'm sure the subscription numbers were nice. I had initially unsubscribed for other reasons but resubscribed to help buff their subscription numbers. No more.

My loss became their loss. Now that is fair CCP.

Given that they always say "if you can use it before, you can use it after" this sounds like an oversight to me.

You should post this in the Kronos issues thread. Not the complaint about the dev blog not being updated, just the comment that you could use DLAIIs before and can't now.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=349362&find=unread

Chris Winter: thank you, I have added a post in the thread you linked.

Barbara Nichole: I think you are the first person in this thread to use the word 'balance', so I'm not quite sure how it is relevant to the thread.

We didn't actually lose any skill points. Skills did not disappear -- they were renamed and reassigned. Some of you are getting upset over the fact you didn't get to take more advantage of the change, because you trained-up CDO, which turned out be unnecessary for the new skills reassignment/grant. The actual, final formula for the reassignment was published well ahead of the Kronos release, so it's not like we were blindsided, as some here are making it sound like.
Okay, so some people got more of a gift than others. Is that worth rage-quitting over?

As much as I usually dismiss posts like this, I admit that yes that does go against CCP's long standing "I f you can use it now, you can use it after the patch" policy.

He has a valid point.

And no I wasn't effected by this change, but still feel that its a valid argument.

This may seem like a silly question, but it would match the approach taken by CCP in the past:

Have you physically tried to fit a DLA I or DLA II to a ship since the patch?

This seems like a double standard indeed