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The stories I could tell you about married people . . . but I won't.

In any case, the local chat in the trade hubs always seems to find a new disgusting (and entertaining) low every time I'm doing my shopping.

Here is another post bitching about how you've wasted my training time, and how I'll probably be bitter about it for months on end if you don't fix your error.

Remove Combat Drone V from the equation all together and refund us the SP.

I have a question for the CCP Devs concerning the skill split, as I'm currently advising our young Newbees on training before the Summer Expansion.

Combat Drone Operation requires Drones III trained, while Scout Drone Operation requires Drones II trained. You've already said that, during the split, you'll give the person the same levels in Light Drone Operation and Medium Drone Operation as their highest level. But will it check for pre-reqs? If the person in question has Drones II trained, but has Scout Drone Operation trained to V, might the skill split fail to give them Medium Drone Operation at Level V due to a missing pre-req (assuming Medium Drone Operation will inherit the Drones III pre-req from Combat Drone Operation)?

Or will the skill split even take pre-reqs into account at all?

Thanks!

(I'm just currently advising them to train Drones to III, but I just want to make sure on the offchance that I get some random Newbee confused about this)

Fighter Bombers will need Drone Interfacing 5 and two Tech Two Drone Damage Amplifiers to slightly surpass their current damage rates

Doesnt it mean a huge nerf for armor supercarriers, which will have to take a big impact on their tank to fit Drone Damage amps to reach the DPS they have atm?

Well as I currently have max skills for the drones I use (Sentries) and the way I use them - YES
Why should I lose Dps and face 80 days additional training because CCP wants to change the skill requirements, just to get back to what i have now.

I trained for Sentry drones and I can use t2 sentries.

I have not trained Amarr and Caldari Spec because they are mostly useless and I don't need them for sentries.

What happened to: "If you can use it then, you can use it now."

I don't care how long or short it will take to train to use them again.

If I trained to be able to use them now I should damn well be able to use them when the patch comes.

What you're doing is not going to fix the drone balance problem, you have two races of drones the Gallente and Minmatar which are specialized drones for Damage and Speed.

Amarr and Caldari drones are never used because they are just painly garbage. They have no real strengths to compensate for the weaknesses.

Trying to make them in-between jack-of-trades-master-of-none will not not encourage players to use them.

Drones are the only weapon system in the game that can be permanently destroyed until you get replacements, you can't do that to any other weapon system in the game. Of course they better have some real advantage over regular weapon system to compensate for the fact that they can be destroyed or lost.

Drones have to use million and million of SP to be great, but what do we have to show for it? A weapon system that is really only considered secondary and less than gunnery and missile system that take less sp and investment.

as a gallente pilot i would be more interrested in a mid slot damage amplifier then a low slot omni tracking enhancer, to be honest. low slot are always filled (sticking to t2 maximum).

Hmm, so players who have trained up combat drone operation and scout drone operation will now be equal to someone who has only scout combat drone operation to V. As someone with both skills at V this sucks. Perhaps reimburse the SP in the one which is not used in the conversion as suggested in the post above.

Even worse, someone with combat drone operation at V, and scout drone operation at IV will be worse off than another player who spent less time training scout drone operation to V and combat drone operation to III.

Also someone who had trained combat drone operation to V to unlock the drone link augmentor will now no longer be able to use it seeing as it will be tied to a different skill.

To be honest the first set of changes were much clearer and made more sense Fozzie.

More than one month since the last dev post in this thread. No answers on the questions that have arisen since then. On top of that this thread has gone unstickied.

The release date of the expansion is getting closer, too. Soon there won't be enough time to train the skills needed.

Will it be enough to have
-Scout Drone Operation 5
-Combat Drone Operation not injected
to receive the new skills?

Tippia, you keep on making the point in line with "it was worth your time while you had it"... Are you suggesting that skills in the game have a time period associated with their worth and they might or might not become wothless after a certain time which CCP will choose ? So consider any skill as being worth training until it's removed in any random subsequent patch with no refunds. In that case it would be nice to either let people know when a skill could be removed and since that's not practically possible to see into future, it's best to refund the points.

To convey what I said above in terms of the example being quoted, if the manager tells this guy that everyone will be given a payraise regardless of their skill level after a certain time T, then this information would have influenced this person's decision wether to spend all these evenings or not.