Player Features and Ideas Discussion

New question! How did I never ever notice that?

Kronos mastery rank IV:
Requires Advanced Target Management IV, Sensor Compensation IV, decent drone skills (IV or V), Armor compensations to IV etc but doesn't require gun spec above I. Large Blaster / Railgun Spec IV would have a much larger effect than most of the aforementioned requirements in practice. The current state also leaves a huge gap between Mastery rank IV and V.

Might i suggest that you require:
Gun spec I at mastery rank III,
Gun spec IV at mastery rank IV
Gun spec V at mastery rank V

This provides less of a huge gap between ranks IV and V and also serves as a better guide for newer pilots. (If you are flying a marauder, a ship with a large SP requirement, you should not be "mostly proficient" at rank III mastery without t2 guns)

Edit:

To be clear, I just don't think mastery rank IV is a good place for "barely able to use main weapon system" of such a difficult to fly ship. This would apply even more to the Paladin, which relies on T2 ammo.

The drone spec could probably be split between ranks III / IV / V too.

also armor reinforcement at lv5 mastery on shield ships is odd... yes more EHP as a result but its a shield ship armour and structure HP isn't very important.... also why is hull HP skill in a armour reinforcement cert it makes no sense ... surely a separate hull cert would make more sense for ships that need it at whatever level to use the hull upgrade mods.. or whatever

I understand the need to simplify the old system, though if these mastery levels need to be a guide to new players I think there needs to be made a distinqtion between core certiicates and support certificates.


I use a SNI for Missioning.

I noticed yesterday I fly it currently at mastery lvl 1, considering i do 1000+ DPS with enough EHP to solo me though every mission with 2 fingers up my nose while talking to the mrs. I considered that rather strange.

with a quick look at the certiicates needed, I found out that although I have Core ship, core shield, Core fitting at 5 and large missiles at 4 I'm still at 1 because I lack a level of electronic drone interfacing.

Although I see the benefits of training the skill and my ego won't be hurt by flying the ship at mastery 1.


Isn't it a bit missleading to newer players, just because electronic drone interacing will do less for your SNI than Cruise missile specialisation for instance.

Ít's a minor critism, because I like most what you guys did with the certificates aside that I'll miss claiming them :)

I don't have mastery in ships I have perfect skills for and have hundreds of kills in because I can't use probes.

Why is anchoring over 3 required for the production>manufacturing cert line?

Also can we get a timer for each level?
It would be nice to know how long it takes for each level.

Sorry CCP but it's a bad skills guide when it is deliberately unfocused for every ship.

No-one wants to excel at "jack of all trades" when they play, and there is no question that if a new player followed this guide, that player's skill process would be significantly damaged.

so besides the phantasm which still hasn't been given scout drones in its mastery certs the ashimmu is also missing scout drones. and so is the dramiel and the maller and the sentinel and the tormentor/magnate/ T1 exploration frigs/cerberus/osprey navy issue/moa unless you're ignoring 10-20 mb range of drones on ships

I happened to notice that there is an Advanced Target Management mastery requirement for the Golem that is beyond the capabilities of the ship to target (Mastery levels IV and V) If the ship is unable to target 11 different things, why is it required for the mastery?

That's understood and worthwhile for a ship that can move, but it's a bit like recommending knuckledusters to a meek and mild ministers wife, if she ever needs them it's unlikely they'll do anything useful for her.