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Says game is broken other places than anywhere CCP fixes things.
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Does not say what exactly they think are broken



A certain hat comes to mind

Yes, your polling data surely backs up your claim that "most of the EVE community" agrees with you. And, of course this question should be determined by majority vote anyway whether true or not.

Also, got no problem reading, budd, so you can shove that argument back where it came.

edit- oh and the just shut up and fall in line with the powers that be argument is a gem

Those words, I don't think they mean what you think they mean (more specifically the idea that more focused training and more relevant ship choices is somehow "dumbing down" anything).

Racial destroyer and racial BC is not the most objectionable part of the blog. That increases training reqs per ship. Fine.

Reducing the reqs for command ships by removing (AF 4 + HAC 4, or Logistics 4) and frig 5 + cruiser 5 , and removing BS 5 from flying Carrier or Dread, these are major dumbing down of the game and exacerbate the supercaptital proliferation problem. That is poor game design, at least as far as what EVE has been. So many changes have been dumbing down the game (removal of learning skills, etc) and these two changes would add to it.

No.

It smartens the game up by giving you more options, more choices, more ways to optimise and (consequently) more ways of making bad choices that give you less bang for the buck. By removing those prereqs, you are no longer given a single path that everyone has to follow, but rather let people mix and match to suit their perceived needs… and then it's up to them to figure out what those needs actually are. It smartens the game up by allowing for far more concentration and specialisation, and thus further removing the meaning (and interpretation) of character age and the perennially meaningless SP count.

More choices = smarter.
Fewer choices and more railroading = dumber.

This change creates the former by removing the latter (and that's without even going into how it's making the game conceptually smarter by removing illogical and inconsistent prereqs that serve absolutely no purpose for, and have zero relation to the skills and ships they open up).

Tell you what, you come up with a few threads devoted to "For gods sake, we don't want any new ships", and I'll take a few seconds to come up with dozens of threads asking for new ships and capabilities.

I didn't say you had a problem with reading, I am saying you seem to be having trouble understanding the logic underlying what you have read.

You might consider that a good idea, whether it comes from the "powers that be" or from the man on the street, is still a good idea.

The new skill system would make it much quicker, meaningful, and streamlined to specialize in a particular type of ship (including T2 varients)... while making it slightly more time consuming (in some cases) to cross train.

It also acts to enable sensible expansions to existing hull classes, and dove tails nicely with the rebalancing of existing hulls.

I don't really see much to argue about there, but to each his own.

As I read this thread further, this is my prediction on what shall happen.

CCP will refund the skill points for the Battlecruiser and / or Destroyer skill(s) or allow a player to convert them into specific racial type. They may grant you one or more of the racial varients in skill books too while leaving the basic version of the skill "locked" in your character. The players will have a grace period to learn the other racial varient skill books (if desired) before CCP alters the requirements for the various ships. Afterwards, the players will be allowed to train (or trade in skill points) to change the basic version into a racial type.

As myself as an example, I have both skills at level 5 while remaining basically a "pure" Minmatar pilot. If CCP decides to grant me level 5 in all racial varieties, suddenly I do not have the lower ships skills to actually utilize these new skills (frigate or cruiser). Should I be punished for not training the other three races? Should I lose out on ~free~ skill points because another pilot could use the skills across multiple races and gets them granted while I will not? Or everyone gets an even number but has the option to place them anywhere? So the multiple raced pilot has to spend them on four types while I can spend mine on but one type and now ~free~ skills to spend elsewhere?

So yes, the blog does state that nobody will be hurt by this change. But I have a feeling this stance will be altered to allow time to pass for training purposes so those that want one or two or three or four types will have the time while others can train elsewhere. In the end, everyone still has the same number of skill points.

Just my thoughts at the moment.

Unless something changed from CCP Ytterbium's post on the matter, linked in the op, why would you believe it to be different from what was stated there? As far as missing out, if what is granted is based on ones current capabilities and choices, it wouldn't be through any fault of CCP if you missed out. That aside, the static number of skill points should really be irrelevant to the discussion IMHO.

Should the skill destroyers (for example) be devolved into 4 racial destroyer skills, and those that have the skill already then get all 4 racials at the same level, which seems to be the only appropriate way to handle this, have they considered that they will also likely be increasing clone costs for those characters?
Especially if they are going to do this for:

destroyers, battlecruisers, interdictors, heavy interdictors, assault ships, heavy assault ships, marauders and black ops
(did i miss any generic ship skills?)

as would only be proper in creating a new intuitive ship skill set under the terms they set forth in dev blog.

Now cut all skill training times by 50% and it will be perfect.