EVE General Discussion

meh .. they announced the changes and then after forum discussion and comments realized it would not work the way they thought and amended it, nothing to see there.

That said ... I can see how if you had paid real cash for PLEX to MCT train a batch of alts in CDO, only to find out they only needed SDO which they already had it would be annoying.

Someone should put up the argument that people who had max damage from T2s before the changes should automatically get racial spec V so they retain their max damage with T2s after the change

What uf all my drone.skills iutside of fighter abd bombers are maxed? Do I get a free 2 million SP?

I do not care if some newbie without such basic skills trained receives an extra pittance of skillpoints that I don't get.

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…but you get something: the light and medium drone skills. Your SP is not wasted because, not only did you get a whole bunch of bonuses before, you get to keep those bonuses and get a new skill for free, even though it means CCP is handing out skill levels you haven't spent any time training.

It's illogical because the drone skill dependencies were illogical and a large part of those dependencies are being removed. The transition they're providing is really the only one that makes sense.

Imagine if training small hybrids did not let you use small hybrids — it only gave you bonuses to them — and that if you actually wanted to use the guns, you'd have to train sharpshooting instead. That's pretty much how the drone skills currently work. They are changing it so that the skills that unlock the equipment also is the skill that gives bonuses to that piece of equipment: i.e. light drones are unlocked and bonused by the light drone skill; medium drones are unlocked and bonused by the medium drone skill; drone control range is bonused by drone avionics, which also unlocks the drone control range mods.

Since SDO is being replaced by a skill that unlocks completely different equipment, you can't simply just transition it as is. It is entirely logical that you get to keep using the equipment you've unlocked — if that means handing out anywhere between one and three ranks worth of new skills, then so be it. No matter what you current position, you only ever gain from the switch-ove, with the one exception being if you have trained no drone skills at all, in which case you remain exactly where you were and gain nothing.

Yes. It is a rank 2 skill. It will take less than 2 weeks to get to 5. It will give me a 25% increase to drone damage. Not to mention the below can be interpreted as meaning SDO will give you X amount of levels in LDO, and CDO will give you X amount of rank in MDO. Just because you interpret that the below indicates training one skill will give you both skills, does not make it so. To be safe I would train both.

I just finished a rank 14 at level 5 on my alt and a rank 9 at level 5 on this character. I'm training a rank 8 to 5 now and probably eventually two more rank 12 skills to 5.

Yep. I have skill que OCD and like my skills nice and tidy. My main toon and grid booster toon are both mapped for for charisma right now. Both are about a week from completing FC5, which will wrap up the maxing out of everything in leadership at last.

Was just poking around a little while ago to see if theres anything that requires charisma that a pvp or booster toon would need. I dont think so, but I'll look again before killing that awful charisma heavy map.

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