EVE General Discussion

I'll use a rather peculiar example to illustrate this point further.

Imagine for a moment that they made the following changes:
- Marauders and Black Ops only require Racial Battleship IV.
- Battleship skill no longer affects ships; bonuses are rolled directly into the ship itself.
- Battleship V is required to construct T2 battleships

How many of you would, who trained Battleship V would readily accept that? You trained the skill for a certain purpose. That purpose is now entirely achievable without the Level V skill. The Level V skill still provides benefits, but not for anything your combat character will ever use.

Explain to me how that is at all different... it's not, it's the exact same in fact. And yet you'd all be freaking out about that because :pvp:

Anchoring V:

The skill requirements for Starbase Defence Management is being reduced to IV with the update today.
This means the only skills that require Anchoring V are now Outpost Construction and Large Mobile Warp Disrupter II

Many of us have corp management alts that have been trained for the specific purpose of managing corporations and starbases. Since the Anchoring skill itself has no benefits, and Outpost Construction / Large Mobile Warp Disruptor will never be used by a corp management alt, this is now effectively wasted SP.

Please refund the SP for Anchoring V upon request, much like has been done in the recent past with other skill changes. Thanks.


Jury Rigging IV:

Fitting rigs will no longer require any actual skills with the update today. The skills will simply affect the level of drawbacks you receive. Engineering rigs however do not have any drawbacks - I could be mistaken but I believe that's correct. As such, Jury Rigging IV is now effectively wasted SP. It does not unlock any new skills, new modules, nor does it provide any benefits.

Please refund the SP for Jury Rigging IV. Thanks.

And now I have the urge to play Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. Thanks for nothing.