EVE General Discussion

2nd Edit:
Looks like CCP updated the dev blog a couple hours after this thread went up so that's something


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Edit: To address the rage and misunderstandings let me clarity some things

1. I have trained both skills on this character
2. I have several alts training the drone things specifically for this release/changes
3. I have a new player friend who has now wasted 4-5days of training time (remember when this was important to you to?) due to my recommendation

I am frustrated that despite my efforts to stay informed ( I read Eve reddit, mittani every day and the eve forums fairly often, including all eve news articles and dev posts) i am missing important information because CCP did not update the original dev blog or post a new news article (as they often do). I believe that if they make a change that involves something important like skills it needs to be a little more visible then being one or two posts in a 20page thread.

I also think its unreasonable to expect that if a player wants to stay informed they have to read every dev posts on the forums every day. Changes to the game are put in big articles and put in your face on the launcher for a reason.

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So as a good little eve player i always read dev blogs and watch all fanfest videos. When i saw that combat drone operation would be split i immediately started training all my characters to Combat Drone V



Today i read through the patch notes and saw this. Apparently, what i actually should have done was train scout drone operation V so that all my characters would have that in conjunction with getting all the stuff training combat drone operation V was going to give me.



Is there a reason CCP changed this without letting us know? Im looking at my skill training right now and with +5's its going to take 5days 1hr to train scout drone operation V and most of my alts are longer then that and won't make it by patch day. Is CCP going to give everyone scout drone operation V also if they had trained Combat drone?

Just looking for some clarification

We have like ten ******* threads about this, holy ****.

The correction to the text in the devblog was posted not long after the devblog itself. The new situation has been discussed at length in various places for weeks now, so it's not quite the lightning bolt on a clear sky that you think it is.

Also: Are devblogs really set-in-stone guarantees that will never be changed?

I doubt this will be the last such thread over the next few days, so it would have been good if the devblog had actually been changed.

Not everyone reads the forums, so they don't see all of the discussion (and search is clearly broken as no one uses it).

I don't care because all of my toons have both trained to V, so whateverrrrrrrrrrr

They did let us know.

No. You're getting what you trained for. If you thought it was worth it to get CDO to V, then good news: you're getting the value you expected. Oh, and there's no need to try to quickly finish SDO V if you have CDO V already — it won't buy you anything extra if you finish it before the patch.

He was explicitly training to get LDO and MDO, so no, he's not losing anything.
He had all the time in the world to get SDO up, but chose not to — he equally explicitly did not train for drone control range.

There's a wide selection of ointments and suppositories that can help with the massive amounts of assmad that you seem to be experiencing. (Hint: Not everyone trained that skill to get DLA II. Some of us couldn't give less of a **** about them.)

shows ccp should've updated the devblog when they found it had incorrect information

Thanks for the responses

I saw no correction made in the blog post (which CCP often do amend) and did not realize it had been addressed on the forums.

Unfortunately i don't have time to scour the forums every day as i am working 2 jobs and am about to move countries, and i had no reason to go looking for something i didn't know had existed. I read Eve reddit almost every day, read mittani articles and read all dev blogs/posts advertised in the eve client and i often read the eve forums and never once did i see a post about them also adding it to scout drone operation V

Im not raging, i would simply like to be more informed about important things like skill training changes and i feel i do make a good effort to stay informed. If they made a change after the blog post then they should make that knowledge more publicly available through the client news.

Why would i go searching through the forum post for a piece of information i didn't even know existed?