Upcoming Feature and Change Feedback Center

Hey folks. Just got a small change today about which I want to start gathering feedback.

We're planning on reducing the prereqs for training a few skills:

• Reducing the requirements for training Advanced Weapon Upgrades skill from it's current level of Weapon Upgrades 5, to require Weapon Upgrades 4 instead.
• Reducing the requirements for training the second tier factional ewar strength skills (Signal Dispersion, Signal Suppression, Signature Focusing and Weapon Destabilization) from CPU Management level 5 to 4
• Reducing the requirements for training Nanite Operation and Nanite Interfacing from Mechanics level 5 to 4
• Reducing the requirements for training Guided Missile Precision from Missile Launcher Operation level 5 to 4

We are also considering potential name changes for Weapon Upgrades and Advanced Weapon Upgrades to clarify their role, but that is only at the discussion phase at the moment.

If we go forward with it, this change would likely come in our 118.6 release at the end of June.

I have a feeling that the feedback here will be mostly positive, but I'm definitely interested in hearing what you think either way.
Thanks!

I like it. In my experience PG is a limiting factor more often than CPU, so this should help many people.

do it.

it's already pretty absurd we have to make players waste weeks of training just so they can get enough cpu/pg to fill all the slots on their ship, anything that will cut down on this time is a good idea - however removing fitting skills entirely would be a better idea; they add nothing to the game other than a mandatory time sink, they're essentially the learning skills of flying ships.

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fitting skills add nothing to the game apart from frustration

This will also reduce the time required to get into a useable Dreadnought, Titan, or Marauder.

This is a joke ?

Just when I finished training Weapon Upgrades 5... But yes, easier access for newbies is good.

But please consider:


Because easier understanding is good, too

Can you reduce the prerequisites for Guided Missile Precision from Missile Launcher Operation 5 to level 4 too while you're here. All the gunnery support skills are unlocked from Gunnery 5, and only Gunnery 5 is required for Battleship guns, which is true for Battleship missile types too with MLO 5 but it currently is a huge road block for new missile characters as it's the most important application skill and it's walled away.

while you are right it's not a direct upgrade, it's a key skill that should be trained to 5, without requiring it to be trained to 5 i sense less and less new players will train it to 5 which in turn becomes a royal pain in the butt for major newer player alliances that pre-fit doctrine ships expecting people to have the skill trained to 5 because it's been required for the last 7-8 years and now all of a sudden isn't becomes a headache.


i feel this is a pointless change that only hurts newer players instead of helping them given that it's a core skill that every player should have trained to 5. the vast majority of newer players only train skills as far as their required to get to the next skill, core skills should always be required to go to 5 so the rest of us aren't having to answer the same questions 10k times about why a standard T1 frigate fit doesn't work for them.

+1. I also favor renaming "Omnidirectional Tracking Link / Enhancer" to "Drone tracking Link / Enhancer." (They can't change names as quickly as tweaking a number in the database, because word changes have to go through a translation process for all supported languages.)