EVE General Discussion

Reimbursements are for people who lose things.
Did they lose anything ?

No.


(damn, i've implemented Tippia-logic, but Tippia beat me to it. -.-)

They are supposed to specialize. You know, pick one tank, one weapon system, one or two hull sizes and get the skill points and player experience to fly it well. Then they can start diverging into more hulls of the same race, or cross training to other weapons and races.

Not expect to fly Command Ships with all skills to 5. While training shields and armor, Missiles, Hybrids, Lasers, Projectiles, Drones up to and including Heavies/Sentries. That's a couple of years down the line.

Just like when you start playing WoW, you can't possibly expect to be on a top tier arena team with the best PvP gear, while also main tanking the final boss of the newest raid on hard mode a couple of months after signing up.

actually it's sensible people telling you, quite rightly, that this thread is bad.

why? because as much as GD is full of bad posts, we don't really need more.

Actually, it's a lot of good posts from veterans telling you why you're wrong. And that if you're two months old and want all 4 Battlecruiser skills to 5, you're doing it wrong.

Lets say you started out Caldari. You are training for a Drake. That means shields and heavy missiles, very minimal drone skills. Please tell me why in the world would you care about Gallente Battlecruisers? Or Amarr Battlecruisers? You maybe care about the Cyclone. So you can take Min cruiser to 3 before the changes and you will get Cal and Min BC 4 after if you have BC4. That's in the magnitude of days. You also won't pay millions more for your clone every time you get poded. If you have spare time to start training to 5, you have the option to and all that SP will be allocated to both Min and Cal Battlecruiser skill. But you probably have other skills more important to your enjoyment of the game that take precedence in the first year of game play.

Hell, as a two month old you're probably not even decided yet if you will stick with the game. Why are you torturing yourself right now, while trying to make your character slightly more optimal three years down the road?

Can only feel sorry for u

Compensation for what?
If you're not losing anything then there's no need for compensation is there?

To clarify; the 6 million SP you're talking about is the value of skills required to fly existing ships after the change from generic to racial skills minus the value of their current skills. If you are a Myrmidon pilot (and only a Myrmidon pilot) then you lose nothing by having the skill switch from generic to Gallente - if, on the other hand, you fly both the Ferox and the Myrm it doesn't make sense that you should suddenly be unable to do so after the patch. Morover it makes even less sense for someone who flew the Myrm when they were starting out and hasn't touched it since they discovered PvP in a Hurricane to lose the ability to fly their most frequently flown ship.

Therefore, to counter this loss, the current plan has been conceived.

If you don't fly destroyers or battlecruisers then you're losing nothing and therefore there is no need to concern yourself with the change. You aren't losing anything.
You may suggest that you're missing out on free SP - but the SP in question has been significantly degraded (it's worth less than 25% of its previous value) and it does not add anything to a character.
You may suggest that, as it was your intention to train all of the racial skills to [5] anyway, you're losing time and that's a slightly more viable arguement - although if you have such ambitions and haven't had time to make adjustments then you're probably looking far too far ahead... EVE changes and changes regularly.

You know what I would like?
I'd like clone costs to be addressed like they SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DO.

No bad bad NOOBIE!!

You really haven't learnt anything from what people are trying to tell you in this thread have you.

I exactly got what they are to tell me:" Omg. **** u didn't train all skills on time? Haha fail! We planned all ahead and u didn't. NOOB!"

That's what most posts address.