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and this is fine as long as you don't take away from other people...stream lining the system is good. However I say keep BS5 for capitals. There has to be some barrier to entry.

BS4 for caps is like...an Achura level mistake.

Interesting method, this favours cross training HUGELY, which I think ccp are trying to move away from.

I for one am in the camp of specialisation, I think cross training should be made as difficult as possible, in this way, a character becomes introduced to the concepts of each race slowly, instead of getting Battle cruisers and stepping right into a drake as the first thing they've flown outside of amarrian ships.

Each race should have its own learning curve, I for one trained gallente first, and now have the properties of all their ammo types memorised. I cross trained to amarr and fly abaddons in fleets but still have no idea what t1 crystals your supposed to use for certain ranges.

Question:

Why not provide an automated query to every player pertaining to their choice?

For example:

"Dear Player:

You currently possess two skills which are going to be removed from the system. You have one of two options:

1. Exchange your current Skill by all Racial skills at the level you currently have the original skill at. You have Battlecruiser 5, so if you take option 1, you will have: Amarr Battlecruiser 5, Caldari Battlecruiser 5, Gallente Battlecruiser 5 and Minmatar Battlecruiser 5.

2. Exchange your current Skill for skill points. These skill points are identical to all skillpoints currently applied in the following Skill: Battlecruisers 5. You will be given twice the present allocated ammount, to enable you to train either two Racial Battlecruiser skills to 5, or choose somethign else entirely.

Thank you for your attention."

Actually, CCP designed part of the Ferox role to be a flexible platform that was also viable with missiles. This flexibility wasn't an unforseen mutation that "just happens sometimes".

CCP designs many ships to be flexible, in fact it is the guiding philosophy behind a great many ships in EVE. This is by design... a design created by the same people who will be rebalancing for this release as well.

I'm not sure what your reference to the cormorant is relating to, you can use most any ship as a salvager... and all destroyers do rather well in that role.

i wish you the best that this works without showstoppers. They look like fairly risky changes to me.

The OP was good and I love the changes. they make sense, they are ok.
What I didn't like is the lack of information about the way this change migration will occur and the way these changes are going to affect my future training plan.

In the blog I read " would not need to re-train anything to fly Battleships or Cruisers" and that is a good thing but only solves 1 issue, in my opinion people have 1 other import issue with these changes:

- People will login in the next day and find several holes in their skill training tree

My sugestion to cover this "hole":

1 - If a pilot cannot fly a cruiser of any race and have the destoryer skill book injected give him the SP trained and money back.
2 - If a pilot can fly a cruiser of a race, give them that race destroyer skill with sp trained at level 4.
3 - if a pilot can fly a l.interdicter of any race, give give them that race destroyer skill with sp trained at level 5.

4 - If a pilot cannot fly a battleship of any race and have the battlecruiser skill book injected give him the SP trained and money back.
5 - If a pilot can fly a battleship of a race, give then that race battlecruiser skill with sp trained at level 4.
6 - if a pilot can fly a command ship of any race, give give them that race battlecruiser skill with sp trained at level 5.

Now I can see also that people that are currenlty trainning cross race and didn't finished the trainning for those ship types will be pissed. to minimize this I propose that:

1 - CCP offers the new raciall skill books to everone with minimum requirements to have them, for free.
2 - CCP offer free SP that match the current sum of the SP trained in the destroyer and battlecruiser skills that were taken way.
3 - CCP announces the patch date with at least 3 months distance so people can prioritize and train skills and finish their current training runs for interdictors or command ships.


PS:

Give me my level 5 caldari battleship SP back please!

How would removal of the tier system affect the manufacturing cost of T1 ships or their BPO costs?

I always recommend that my nubbins train BC 5 and Dessie 5 because the wealth of ships opened up by those two generic skills keeps them interested for months while they learn about ships, and even longer once they realize they love those ships. I'd rather that not be taken away.

The number of space likes you have... is inversely proportional to how angry you are about the proposed changes

i.e: you have no space likes... You're very angry about the proposed changes

Draft saved the wrong part of the post - wtf CCP.

Yes, flexibility is the point here. Leave the ships to be flexible without specializing them so much that they have only one viable role. Tech 3 ships are wildly popular, because they follow this philosophy.

The cormy was a good salvager for me, because I had that racial frigate at the time and I think it had good fitting for salvage tackle. It's been awhile though.