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Funny how miners think my sieged Dread can hit 24 AU from within the POS shield where I sit AFK blapping stuff.

Let's dedicate a section to Fozzie only. I actually had fun going through all the skills again

First, thank you for the responses after going through the entire thread.
Second, let me then start with the suggestion of not increasing, but also not diminishing returns. So how about 5% per skill? Because this would be much more in line with the theme of EvE skills.
I say this because, thirdly... no, you don't put in diminishing returns "almost everywhere" in the skills area. Take a look at skills building up on previous skills doing the same or something similar and cross reference these to your claim:

It's not as much DR on skills as believed.

TL;DR = Diminishing returns in statistical benefits are not the majority among the skills in eve online. They are in the very minority. I found a total of 4 (four) skills which I would consider a definite and doubtless diminishing return. An extra 3 (three) if I give them the situational benefit of the doubt. If anything, we can see a trend that players benefit from subsequent skills trained equally or more than from their prerequisites, which stands in complete contrast to what Fozzie said.

Thus I repeat my proposition again with a compromise: If you don't want to increase the percentage of skills as suggested then put them equal.
15km + 25% + 25% + 25% nets a total of 29,29km base range from skills, which is very close to your proposed 29,25km base range from 30% + 25% +20%.

I still hope you give Leadership skill ranks another pass. x8 and x12 just for fleet size is ridiculous, especially if you want to remove their requirement for squads and wings. All other leadership skills cap out at x5, and x6 for the specialist one. You said yourself, you want to lower skill entry barriers, and I'm all with you on that. Just unallocate excess SP if you lower skill ranks when people already have them trained.

This thread is getting ridiculous. Perhaps CCP should just make it so that miners can stay tethered to their citadel and remotely send mining drones to the belts. But even then people would complain because their drones were vulnerable.

Being on grid to do something powerful is not an unreasonable request, people.

I mostly like this new concept of fleet boosting. I like how it might put command ships on grid with proper fits, and that the base number of links fits neatly within the utility highs.

My main question is about faster ships like interceptors. I feel like their gameplay will become awkward when bonuses wear off while they are at far range. Between extending the range of command bursts or giving receiving ships a bonus to effect duration, I think it should be a role bonus on the interceptor hull (for example).

I like seeing prerequisites being busted down some more, and I hope you keep going. I think role bonuses could also be distributed in ship skill levels rather than in lump sums. I get the notion of "identity" for different ships but I think it detracts from the diversity of ships more than it contributes. Abstract adjustments like booster duration make sense as role bonuses, far more than 100% bonuses to damage.

The reduction in baseline links to command ships feels like a doube hit to small gangs. Large fleets can toss in more boosters without changing their fleet composition much. In a gang of 10 or so, however, each additional booster is from 9% to 6% of the fleet. Combined with the limited range of bursts in fast gangs, this need for more boosters is hard.

Command processors. Seeing them go into rigs seems sucky. I would rather see a bolder move like hard-limiting boosting ships to their base number of links, such as one or two. Actually, if T3 boosters and command destroyer bonuses are weaker, I would agree with their link limits becoming 2.

This way small gangs won't be hit as hard for requiring several command destroyers. You also won't see bastard fits for ships trying to cram four or five links. Go that extra bit to ensure command burst ships get more representative use, and function as proper ships with unique utility highs.

Yup. Definitely the Bad Idea oneliners.

The number of times that I've flown out in sub 10% structure, that extra few EHP is all that is needed to be the difference between being popped in 1 shot or 2.

Do we know if the new mining BC booster will be able to mine also? I really hope so cuz sticking a character that usually mines into a boosting ship just to sit there and give boosts is very boring gameplay.

The combat boosters get guns also to help wth dps or other stuff, please give the mining booster the ability to mine also!

Another thing really not needed but used to correct your gaming style,which is not approved by CCP,cause they didnt make a mining game,they made it to blow up ships,no one really cares where the ships are 'grown' at.....is it time for Tom to be avaiable for purchase,cause whats 2 hours......at this point , really i loved playing EVE, i gave ten years just to get back what. ok yes getting a venture was the best thing since sliced bread... i can give you a few more months just in case you got a bright idea,however ,given your track record (CCP) thats doubtful ,everyone wants you to actually create something useful,you have made updates and that is good to most players.
Personally,i would take these last four months of the year and strip everything ,take local away and start brand new and see what they gripe about.your bringing in all this stuff and really like for me ,it all is useless,its like handing ppl broken crutches and telling them to play football and if your by yourself,what are boosts for again....i dont play this game to make friends ,the ones i do have came about the hard and enjoyable way of getting blown up and laughing about it in local.when i started playing the thought of an alt was something those 'fancy' people did so they could sit in station and talk smack all day in local.I took what i could with a grain of salt and drove on,I learned to mine,to build a ship,to shoot legal bad guys for fun as mining got stale on the second rotation,mission for standings so i can get me a JumpClone in high sec.high sec wars were really high lite of high sec.Low sec has always had issues and null sec is where to go to get lost .The game is not the same as it was,improvements are to be expected ,All this new "Content" will do what ? Well ,its not been for the new player experience,which really ends hours later maybe when you found out your suppose to be training a skill all the time but shooting those newbi npc rats was suppose to be doing you some good but really you should have doing those tutorial things which are showing you how to play the game.you start picking up that there people everywhere so lets goooo,umm yeah you decide to look at the stargate a bit,soak up its awesomeness,now you thought you were getting content looking at that gate,no,larry curly and moe,pull up to you lock you up,and your screen goes white and there your corpse is in space with a message saying your got a kill right you can "Act" on and here is 5,000 isk .Time to undock and find another ship. maybe we will try a few more of those tutorials .Rinse repeat,this process should,could,would lead to these great and beautiful things you speak of, other than giving new players somewhat better starting skills than what a number of us have had , these things your bringing to table seem to not let you do as much as a 'group' so what is the drive to get these things , the venture we use to solo mine wouldnt have boosts, are you like reducing range of modules so instead of a normal 10km (roughly) it would be reduced to 5km unless you was in a fleet? these new stuff your bringing ,sorry, revamping, or is it nerfing, really isnt practical to use,to that solo player your just jacking up everyone else's game,making them sweeter for the kill. As for fleets,removing the heirarchy's importance just doesnt seem logical,you want people to understand the importance of a fleet,of a squad commander,and etc to include that of a booster almost sounds like knowing what your fleets about, instead your giving them a Lets be Ignorant Card to understanding the game .Your talking in a good direction just walking the other way. Command bursts,as if you havent used Command enough, uses a type of ammo,script,or light switch or button on our HUD to provide boosts we click this and a sphere of influence provides this boost for a limited time,i think thats the general idea, based around the ship boosting,cause we really want to get out of our ship to switch to a mining ship to be active for the duration of the boosts.I mean why do this ,you want to steal our ships?or you going to add pod locks as well,lol,ok i dont have the common sense to understand that as a good idea. You give us the rope we will hang ourselves right. I thought the introduction of this new stuff would bring tactices into play ,some claimed it did but i got confused ,dragging people off groups to expose them isnt even possible in high sec ,wait for the "bump" unless the person is going after you and you scram and web them down ,now low sec and null different story,kidnap ,scram,and web them down,general tactics wont change,we all can now look at the pretty rays beaming from the ship and figure something other than "Target is in a Ship,Type,looks like the rainbow is loving on him" Im glad you got all these high def graphics,this was as bad as the icon change up recently.The sounds alone are enough to put someone to sleep really,the beat or pitch or something just makes me yawn.....reminds me of the adults in the peanut cartoons. Devs,Why not just announce you want everybody in an orca or this rouqal thingie that is suppose to be helpful and mining in belts cause "you" dont have enough content. dont be changing something because you cant find something to blow up or cant find someone to blow up because now we have to mine MORE to meet quotas for ships ,etc. Fix stuff,stop breaking it,stop trading stuff in for more Broke stuff.If your going to do stuff like this,just clean slate everyone to 0 sp at least we wont worry of wasting skills of this stuff .

IIRC In most cases it would cover all Belts around a single Planet, but not much more than that.

plenty of good points,its good to see people voicing their opinions. how is cloaking broken....SImple purpose to avoid detection, you cant see them? Clearly this skill is one that works.,are they in your system and you cant what....see them? Cloaking isnt broken you just dont like how it was used against you. whats the use of stealth bombers without cloak? just another special ship.so lets take away cloak,now you made more ships become useless. oh wait there is another skill your making useless. Look it was bad when people were griping about interceptors using entosis link,people just got tired of messages saying they might want to check out their systems,which is just lazy but CCP listened (well they got tired of getting these notifications for themselves),looked at what was happening and said well that size ship is just too much of a threat to have a entosis ,since they are fast and small,and even those with that homefield server tick had a time just trying to kill one and since they were having a time just getting a lock ,it was something that had to be fixed...that also implies there was a state to where it was Fixed.can we get there first without breaking anything else...Beegee i think your on track about the skill injectors,i think of it as just a waste when there really so much more to be done with Eve.