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First update is a great one, i love it.
But what about skill requirements for t2 rigs? That stuff is fully useless now? (I mean only fitting requirements by 4lvl skill, not drawback reduction).

The difference with fitting modules on a ship [when you don't have the skills to use the mods] and fitting rigs on a ship [when you don't have the skills to "use" the rigs] is that the modules WONT WORK when you undock. THE RIGS WILL. I have had a friend put T2 rigs on a ship for me and it was VERY helpful, BUT to give every player the ability to EASILY put on T2 rigs AND GET THE BONUSES of T2 rigs seems like something that was not intended.

Having a friend or a service put on rigs for you is one thing, doing it yourself [without the "necessary" skills] is something very different.

Sweet Jesus, I wanna just stab ppl who whine because they spent a lil bit of time training a skill to profit off of others and when that goes away they cry. Some ppl just can't accept a nice gift and move on. I am not sitting here screaming for a refund for my scrap metal skill, nor am I gonna cry cause I have a toon that trained almost every rig skill to 4 so I could rig my own boats, or my friends.

All of this whining is absolutely childish, and unless there are game balance issues, there should be none of it going on. As for noobs in T2, there was a comment about needing the skill at lev 1 to fit a rig. Also for those of you upset about said noob using T2, just think about the juice KMs that ship will bring cause he fit T2 rigs to fit his crap ship and ended up having a costly ship that still can't match a proper T2 fit.

As for uping the drawbacks, that is just dumb, that penalizes everyone in the game who never skilled rigs cause their m8 added them all for the corp for the last 4 yrs, but now cause anyone can fit them, everyone gets screwed. This makes no sense, and falls back on ppl just complaining for the shear need to be heard.

Sorry if this seems rude or such, but tired of all the ppl who can't leave good alone and have to make it mediocre cause they can't enjoy it.

Ah sweet. Very useful. Thank you.

Regarding rig fitting, the skill requirement has never made a whole lot of sense there as it can so easily be bypassed by simply having another character fitting the ship for you. So we want these new changes to apply to rigs as well. The long term plan for having the skills be more meaningful is to increase the drawback, but increase the effectiveness of the skills in reducing the drawback, similar to some of you have been suggesting. This change would also involve giving drawback to rigs that don't currently have any drawback (like the Ancillary Current Routers). The Jury Rigging skill can probably remain as is, as it is requirement for other skills and used in production. This change will not happen in Crius, but sometimes in the following releases.

That's disappointing to hear, because the interaction between players of being able to fit rigs and swap ships about was a very unique thing and I think it did add to the game in some minor way. There's no point in removing that - bypassing the skill requirement through having friends and teamwork isn't the same thing as not having it at all, and I'm frankly shocked that CCP is looking at it that way. I thought this game was all about player-player interaction.

The change in the drawbacks is something, though it's not an idea that sits well with me. Jury Rigging is going to need to be changed, for sure, since it doesn't actually have any kind of drawback reduction, so if you're adding drawbacks to the engineering rigs then you'll need to change the skill to match, and you don't seem to have acknowledged that fact.

It's going to create a lot of balancing questions, like what do you add as drawbacks, as well as breaking a number of fits in order to make a change that doesn't really need to be made. Where will the break even point be that will result in the same drawback as there is currently? Level IV? Level III?

I will also say that making the skills not required now and saying you'll fix it later really smacks of a few other iffy decisions in the past, like the period between the skill changes for T1 industrials and when the industrials were actually rebalanced, when every hauler that wasn't the Iteron V was made worthless for a period of time. Changes like this should be thought through and brought in together, not done in bits and pieces.

Not a particular fan of the change and doesn't feel like a "Little Thing" if it is going to possibly end up breaking fits. With that said, it isn't a game-breaker, but I have an alternate suggestion.

If it were possible, I think a far more interesting approach would be for rigging to become a specialty service, something akin to reprocessing (probably not a perfect corollary since reprocessing skills are inexplicably required to use mining crystals, but I think it makes sense to a degree). Generally, indy corps are going to have one or two folks with really good reprocessing skills and standings to maximize their reprocessing capability. I think it would be interesting if they had a Corp Rigger who "tuned" the corp fleet and was far more capable at it than line members.

As it currently stands, the skills required to produce, fit, and fly a rigged ship effectively are interchangeable: Jury Rigging and the X Rigging skills. Because they are all intertwined, there isn't really a space for a specialist to operate. I think if you wanted to make more meaningful interchange between players, you could tie the drawback penalty to the rigger rather than the pilot. I don't really understand the mechanics of the underlying code, so I have no clue if a ship can gain a flag of some sort based on being fit with a rig by a certain skill-leveled individual. But if it could, pilots wouldn't need to train the skills to benefit from rigs and it would incentivize riggers to train their skills to max capability so they can offer their "lowest drawback" services to pilots.

Just my thoughts and only applicable if we're talking about making more than a "Little Thing" change to Rigging.

You didn't really ask for unrelated suggestions in the OP but given its a "little things" thread I'd still like to make one.

Can we please have the option of viewing and displaying tracking speed of modules in angular velocity rather than radial velocity? Angular speed is already there in the overview why is it not on my guns? Deg/sec is a nicer unit than Rad/sec in certain cases. This being one of those cases.

This summarizes my thoughts very well on Soniclover's post. It brings a strong feeling of 'we're okay with breaking this, even though we acknowledge that it is a bad decision, because we will fix it down the road'. Or, you could just leave it as is, in a way that actually works well.