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Are you saying no one would use info links with an armor fleet?

Also if we expand this beyond just looking at the Eos, as we should, what is wrong with my siege warfare boosting claymore/sleipnir in my shield nano gang?

Can't you train a skill without the prereq if you already have it injected ?

I explain : you need BS5 to learn carrier skill, though, when carrier is injected, do you still need BS5 to only train it ?

@Fozzie
While I think it is good to bring the BCs to the same general level of usefulness, I also think that each ship should somehow retain some of the characteristics it has previously been known for. In general the re-balanced BCs should be about the same overall level but with different capabilities. None of the ships should be nerfed totally into the ground.

In case of the drake I think it is important not to take a previously excellent ship and nerf it into a less than mediocre ship of its class. I like the drake even though I do not fly it often anymore. And although I think that many PVP will find this irrelevant I think the ship remains important for new players in PVE as a way to get a good start in EVE to earn isk through missions.

I think that the drake should retain its shield resists since the tank has already been indirectly nerfed via the heavy missile nerf (requiring to sacrifice some slots for additional range and damage modules to boost damage application). Since the drake is a rather slow ship it is difficult for it to run away (and it is relatively easy to catch up with). Therefore, I think it needs be durable and able to take some punishment (also relevant for PVE) and if the resist bonus is removed a substantial part of its tank is removed.

If you want to remove a slot, I think it should be a high-slot, unless you think of adding an 8th launcher to the ship. Anything else will negatively impact on tank and/or damage application.

I think that if the tank ability of the ship is removed the ship does not have much going for it anymore – the dps is not that good, the tank will be rather low, the ship is quite slow, and the range has been significantly reduced, i.e. I do not think there will be much reason to fly it – which I think is contrary to your re-balancing efforts to provide a reason to fly all of the ships.
However, without knowing the details of the changes to the drake, it is difficult to make an evaluation of the re-balancing of the ship.

Of course, I totally agree that players should always do what is necessary in terms of cross-training, fittings etc. to keep their options open to be able to cope with the re-balancing, I just think that IF players choose to fly the drake they should have the choice in fittings to either field a strong (passive) tank/low damage or make some tradeoff in the fitting – let the players make the choice. In the end it should remain a good viable ship in line with other BCs for both PVP and PVE.

Anyway, this is just my opinion, not that it matters much, and I am sure that there are plenty of players who disagree with me – which they are fully entitled to :) . The drake should not be overpowered, but neither should it be underpowered just because it may have been overpowered for a long time.

Yes, please do, and preferably from an official, moderated source: “If your pod is lost and you don’t have a clone that covers all your skill points, the first points you’ll lose will be from the skill your points are highest in.”

IOW, you will lose SP from BS V (2M SP) long before you lose it from Carrier IV (600k SP) simply because you have more SP in the battleship skill, and when you lose those battleship SP, absolutely nothing happens to your ability to fly a carrier. The rank only matters in so far as it means that at the same skill level, you will have more SP in a higher-ranked skill than in the lower-ranked one, so of the two, the higher-ranked skill will lose SP first. What actually matters for the skill selection is the amount of SP, not the rank.

The primary skill is Capital Ships I, the secondary skill is Caldari Carrier I, and the tertiary skill is Jump Drive Operation I. The wiki somewhat obscures this fact by not nesting the skills properly, but it's readily apparent in-game, as is it on a proper DB browser. Note how only three skills — the primary, secondary, and tertiary — are at the outmost layer. Only those three are the prerequisites for the ship — only one skill can be primary; only one can be secondary; only one can be tertiary.

Caldari Battleship V is a prerequisite to the Caldari Carrier skill, but not to the Chimera. You can have 0 SP in Caldari Battleship and still fly the Chimera as much as you'd want.

You should be able to train it just fine once you've injected it, even if you lose the prerequisite. At most, it might stop you from triaining lvl I if you've left it injected but untrained, but since people rarely do that, it's academical anyway. The prereq for training a skill to lvl II is to have it at lvl I, so already there, the need for any other prereq skills is gone.

Maybe i'm missing something but when I check the BC skillbook it makes no mention of additional bonuses per level.

Check the actual battlecruisers.

You should post it again, maybe they didn't read it the first time you posted it....or the second time

He's pretty much bluntly stated in the most direct way I've ever seen CCP state that you should do it "now". In 6 years playing this game I've never had a dev come so imcredibly clean about what you SHOULD do so I'd take that exactly as its meant, if you care, alter your skill plan NOW.

Holy crap, I had no idea. I learn daily in EVE thanks :)

I still remember undocking in Jita with a Raven. I had only been playing for 14 days. The amount of local smack was amusing.