Skill Discussions

Just saying, it would be a lot easier if amarr skills were yellow, caldari blue, matar red, and gallente green.

At least for me it would make the skills easier on the eyes than just the bland grey all the books are now.

So what about skills that are cross factions?
Amarr gold, Gallente green = armor tanks greenish?

I think people just need to accept a little work instead of demanding total convenience. In this case READING the skill descriptions is required.
And if that fails, as a friend or corp mate.

Also: screw the colourblind. Amiright?

Eve is too hard. You have to read skill descriptions now. Eve is dying.

Serious Note: what happens to mixed weapon ships? I think all this is going to do in the end is confuse new players even more, because the old players will tell them to do one thing and the color coding will tell them something else.

-Worst case scenario it has the opposite effect.

-Best case scenario it changes nothing. Telling a player what race certain modules are supposed to be used for wont matter if they don't know how to fit a ship anyway. This idea is pointless.

Because reading is hard, right?

Think about it that way: ships have descriptions -> ship descriptions tell you what guns the ship gives bonuses to -> guns have descriptions -> gun description tells you what the gun is (short or long range) and what size it is.

Also, too many skills are omni directional. So marking them with an 8 pointed star to say 'F-all' is useless.

Please stop dumbing down Eve. Be patient, read the description and think if this might be what it means. If you still have questions, ask around.

Did you check out the test server?

You'll like the changes to the Search/Market browser.

And the "required for" tab on skillbooks.

I suppose a lot of the skills are indeed 'omni directional' or abstract in their nature/purpose - but that doesn't mean that the game developers shouldn't at least attempt to clarify their identities and provide a more seamless interface for players. Aesthetics are really important to functionality in any kind of design. It's not dumbing down EvE, rather, it would be improving it in my opinion.

A small, small minority of skills actually relate to specific races. Off the top of my head I can think of lasers (amarr) projectiles (minmatar) and specific ship skills. So that's what, 34 out of several hundred skills? And then you'll get newbies never training, say, hull upgrades and fitting damage controls to minmatar ships because the skill is the wrong color.

First of all, I do not think this is necessary.

But if it were to be implemented anyway I would lock it with certificates. As in you highlight a certain branch, let's say core skills , and then all the core skills would be coloured in your skill tree when you browse. Could spare you some going back and forward between tabs but as I said , do not think it should be priority.

I never said it's for use, I said it's for visuals. Grey is really bland, and adding color would be nice.