Skill Discussions

From my knowledge you should focus on getting;
Command IV
Frigate IV
Cruiser III
Dessy and BC to the lvl you want to have the racial ones after the split (probably that would mean V)

Plan for late April. You have time to train. BC 5 should run ~25-30 days. Destroyers 5 is more like a week to 10 days.

For reference, Iceland is in the northern hemisphere.

Let me make sure I understand this...I'll need to train ALL racial frigates to 4, and then ALL racial cruisers to 3, and I'll get all 4 racial destroyers and racial battlecruisers at whatever level my generic destroyer and BC skills are when the change happens?

As a new player (15 days old), should I even worry about this, or would I be wasting too much time training skills I won't use for a long time? I'm still training many of my core skills to 4.

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Depends on what you plan on flying. Seems worth it you plan on using two or more different races BC / Destroyer. Plus free SP.

Devs have said the skill change will not happen until the battleships get their teiricide pass.

The BC teiricide pass is currently scheduled as part of the update on Feb 12th according to what I have read.

The next big expansion (summer expansion) is currently scheduled for mid May

The current teiricide will most likely be complete before that summer expansion is released, although I seem to recall some thing being said about the battleship teiricide being part of that expansion.

As we get closer to the summer expansion the developers will be working hard on those new features, meaning the stuff they were working on before i.e. T1 teiricide should be done.

The way I see the absolute latest we can expect to see the skill change is in may, Although I personally expect the battleship teiricide patch to come in March. I also expect to see the BC skill change come as part of the battleship teiricide pass.

The Developers have not given us any guarantee's that the skill change will not happen as part of the BC's teiricde pass.

So although starting to train BC5 any time before mid February should get it done in time, there is a chance it is already to late.

I trained destroyer 5 and BC5 on both my combat toons back in oct/nov to make sure I did not miss out. Was it a waste to do it at that time? HELL NO! It is done and out of the way. I am guaranteed to get the benefit from it. With it being so long from the time they told us this was coming, I have even trained BC5 and Dessy5 on my non combat miner/hauler characters, just in case I ever put them in a BC.

If they change happens, and you miss out, you will have nobody to blame but yourself. If you fly BC's, and will actually need the new racial BC skills, there is no reason why you have not already trained it other than you being an OCD idiot.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2442879#post2442879

"[...]So I now have permission to let you all know that the skill change is scheduled for our Summer expansion 2013 (which most of you know tends to fall in the late spring).[...]"

Considering how consciencious CCP has been about giving people a chance to plan for this, I would be extremely surprised if they make this change any earlier than they have committed to.

So i guess that makes EVE the only game where players will rage about the developers delivering things ahead of schedule. We were told about the skill change 3 months ago, it is not scheduled for another 34 months, If they move it up a month we will still have had 6 months notice to train a skill that takes about 1 month to train. Anyone who would rage about that is not someone I would care about if they rage quit. Do you really have nothing better to complain about a game developer exceeding expectations? Delivering promises ahead of schedule is a good thing.

Delivering ahead of schedule is only a good thing if you don't mess up people's plans by implementing half baked AI 'upgrades'.
If i didn't have to adapt to that crap i'd have no problem skilling BC V in time.

Now it's cutting things close IF it doesn't come before mid May.