Player Features and Ideas Discussion

had this thaught cross my mind when looking through my glorious skill tree.

allow specialization in a given field at the expense of another.. skill training wise it would potentialy work as follows:

- 2 skills linked in this manner

skill A - benafits tracking
skill B - benafits optimal
both skills can be trained to level 3
skill A - advances to level 4
skill B - capped in benafit at level 2
skill A - advances to level 5
skill B - capped in benafit at level 1

had this thought when looking at my scanning skills

active signal triangulation % to combat probe signals
passive signal triangulation % to standard probe signals

could even potentially be split down to specific SIG types.

structures,
ships,
drones,
combat sites
profession sites
WH

this could also work with weapon augmentation skills ( tracking over range)
Ewar skills. (awesome at jamming gallente hulls)
drone support skills (damage over range)
jump skills (range over fatuige)

given proper thought this could revolutionise how EVE is played and mastered by the individual.
i would like to note that this would be available in some way to ALL players.

This could be fun.
But I suggest don't touch the existing skills.

Add like new skill books
Like blaster blaster specialization specialization
With a max of 1% add damage on level 5
And not capable training the rail counterpart or many max to 1.

Bei make it max 1% it won't be game braking.
But get you the extra tick that might decide the closest fights

Na you should be able to train them all the way.
If you train a 1 up
B drops 1

Also the downside would be waste of skilling time swishing all the time.
And also until training is complete your may not be on top of the edge on your specializing

People wit isk will always be on top.
They buy shiny ships
Can buy preskilled toons
Change implants as they like
And so on.

But you're able to achieve this without isk only by time.
This is how eve works.

It just adds a nother layer to the gameplay.
Plus a reason to gain ist. Wich will increase content.

Plus buying skill injectors ccp profit of islandic krona in there pocets.
Skilling correlate to game time

The point is you could destroy game time (see plex for example)
Destroyed game time profits go too ccp.

I don't see how balance is a problem.

If your dmg is +1% your enemy might traind armor rep amount +1%
So it would null each other

It would only compliment the balance we already have.

not to mention the added effect of essentially locking players into one role in order to get the max out of their skills.


one of the great things about eve is i can go from flying a small shield DPS frigate to flying a capital logistics ship in an hour on the same character not having to bounce around to and train up 7 different archetypes to get all of what the game has to offer

i can see there have been plenty of reply's to this :) in was looking from a
standpoint of those who WANT to hyper specialize, not a change to current skilling system.

and ideally this would affect tertiary skill lines anyway. not primary TANK, Damage skill sets.
might work well racial hull SPECS. rewarding players for skilling a specific race.
giving a single bonus to racial hulls of a specific size per skill.

want more agility for your thorax?? take gallente cruiser spec and get 5% agility with skill at 5
or maby you are a pirate flying a worm. train some skill levels in guristas hull spec and get some more native drone control range.

there are plenty of ways, yes, that this could drastically break eve. however given careful thought and implementation this "Might" have some mall Merritt

The problem with this idea is that is penalizes people who want to have a certain racial character (for cosmetic reasons or something else) but the current ship and tactical meta does not favor their ships.

In effect, you encourage more min/maxing... not less.

And min/maxing is bad because it forces people to fly what they do not want to fly, stifles experimentations, and generally sucks "fun" out of the game.



"... there are plenty of ways... this could... break EVE."
"...this *might* have some small merit"


Seriously?

the suggestion would not limit SPECS to chosen character race. more for what that player liked to fly.
if you fly mostly amarr frigs and gallente BSs then that would be 2 separate skills not locking in a racial spec across all hulls

you taken second quote out of context also. the caviate in that quote is in the time and effort that is put in to designing a skill line to suite this type of change

This is essentially having an sp limit with 're-rolling'. But With over 25 years worth of skills in game you are already being selective about what abilities your character has.

Implants and boosters do this already with limited slots as well.