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Hi CSM,

After last nights suggestion of changes coming to jump drives, I wanted to pitch an idea to you to see if it had already been discussed or to see if it is possible to discuss. When we introduced tiericide with ships (and now with modules!) one of the changes I like was separating the Battlecruiser and Destroyer skills into racial skills and I think the same could be done for Jump Drive Skills.

The basic premises would be to take the current skill, Jump Drive Operation and break it into separate categories. This way you can make (or not make) changes to smaller groups of ships with Jump Drives as compared to trying to implement one change to rule them all. Just as a rough suggestion:

Industrial Jump Drive Operation for Rorquals and Jump Freighters
Covert Jump Drive Operation for Black Ops
Offensive Jump Drive Operation for Carriers/Supers/Dreads

Alternatively, if you wanted to separate further:

Logistic Jump Drive Operation for Jump Freighters
Capital Jump Drive Operation for Carriers and Dreads
Advanced Capital Jump Drive Operation for Supers and Dreads

These don't necessarily have to be separate skills for pilots to train for, but rather as a means to reclassify all capitals based on their roles and how to go about making changes to them. It seems easier with the new release system for the devs to make changes to the jump drive of a rorqual (for example) without having to also make changes to Supers and Titans (and vice versa)

Anyway, just and idea. It'd be nice to get some feedback if possible.

Thanks

This feels like additional complexity, with no gain.

(the racial changes for BC and DDs evened out the ship progression)

-1. Just no.