Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Starship Administration or even Starship Operation, while not as dominating as "Starship Command", might work.

Haven't read through it but off the top of my head I can mention that electronic warfare drone interfacing should be split into two skills, one for increasing control range that does not require electronic warfare skill but instead drones level 5. And another skill for controlling electronic warfare drones, that require drones level 5 and electronic warfare level 4.

And many skills, fex target painting, is rather backwards. Target painting skill should improve target painter effectiveness, and another skill should decrease its cap use ("Efficient target painting" lets say, and variations on that name for the rest of the equipment). The target painting skill would then be in electronics and efficient target painting would be in engineering along with the rest of the efficient cap use skills. Similar skills should be for afterburners, microwarpdrives, microjumpdrives respectivlely. Spin-up time improves in MJD skill, cap use in its engineering skill, speed increases in AB skill, cap use in its engineering skill, microwarpdrive can have a signature radius decrease while MWD is active as a skill that requires L5 MWD skill, and the MWD skill increases speed, its engineering skill decreases cap use, or perhaps just it just reduces cap size penalty, or both, or two skills, one for each. Each skill should be more singular in purpose and effect, but without being just stacked mile high in sequential skill requirements. Because the whole point of Eve is that we can't train Everything, and have to specialize in what we train. But we can't specialize enough because skills have too many effects per skill (the more effects they have the longer it takes to train them, and that limits specialization. Its like if every biologist had to take three engineering PhD's before becoming a biologist because the curriculum happens to have 3 times more engineering than biology).

Just my five kroners on the subject.

EWAR Drone Interfacing IS a pre-req for EWAR drones (which happens to add control range as a side effect).

I don't really like the idea of renaming the core skills like Navigation, Mechanics, Engineering, Electronics etc. to refer to their specific effects. The reason is that those skills play a role much larger than just directly increasing abilities. They are the gateway to skills in their groups -- you generally have to train them first to start unlocking other skills. The way they are named now, it's obvious that they're the "core" skills (they are even called such by players) and you should start there in order to be able to branch out. If they're labeled more specifically then it doesn't make sense that you have to train then first.

The opposite problem is true for EWAR Drone Interfacing; yes, that is a terrible name for what it does and it should be changed. But once the name is changed there will make even less sense for it to have a prerequisite of EWAR IV. I think if the name is changed, the prerequisite should be changed too.

Electronics/Engineering was fine. As was Spaceship Command.

Nothing is broken here.

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I guess CCP is working with the reptilians.

CCP Ytterbium,

with respect to skill names particularly the lower ranked "core" skills I think you should choose names that are both descriptive and exciting. This may keep newer players interested and immersed in the game.

there is nothing exciting about training "Navigation" skill but what about "engine overcharge" or "engine tuning"

"Electronincs" boring "CPU overclock" a bit more exciting etc. etc.


So the new guys in the corp are talking about their skills, now when asked what they are doing they might reply "I'm over charging my engines, I want a bit more velocity".

thanks for reading

P.s. if you can't keep "spaceship command" would you consider "starship command" or "starship piloting"? "Spaceship piloting" sounds a bit drab.

You should also unify the way the names are. For example you have groups Armor and Shields. Why shields is plural here?

Also Electronic System but Missiles. Why missiles is plural?

"Multiple Targeting"? You actually mean multitargetting?

CPU management and Power grid management groups will be far away from each other now... They used to both start with an E.

Why "CPU management”" but "Neurotoxin Control"? Should unify capitalization.

"Scoial" -> Social

"Skill Harviring" you guess this one?

Still, an abbreviation as part of the name feels odd.