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Wow, it just feels like everything ccp announces as of late makes me want to leave. I haven't heard one good idea besides the titan nerf. Quit dumbing down eve. If I want a simple super easy pve game, then I'd just go play SWTOR not this. Inferno may be the end of eve for the hardcore player.

It's the release of some but not all information that has everyone so confused. I imagine thousands of people have adjusted their entire queue plan for this, but we have really no idea whether we actually should. Holy lemming-rush.

Easy way, how to implement this:

1.
Seed the 4 new battlecruiser books.
Write in the descriptions of old book, new books, skills and battlecruiser ships, that there will be switch in 2 months. Also state the change will be comming in the launcher and on the community site. This way everyone will know whats comming and can easily prepare for it.

2. 2 months later:
Remove all the old battlecruiser books and skill from the game, reimbust the isk and skill points.
Switch all the battlecruiser to use the new skills.
Remove the mentionning of the change from the descriptions, launcher and site.

Same with destroyers but maybe not in the same time. Also I think that destroyers don't need 2 months between 1. and 2.

Some notes:

• Yes you can't learn all 4 new BC to 5 in 2 months but its better than waiting too long or switching too fast. People who needs BC 5 because of Command ships could train 2 new BC to 5 in that 2 months and invest the pts from old BC to third BC skill. I think this should be OK for them. CCP could definitely tweak the time between 1. and 2. but should not go below 2 months.
• You can't remove the old books in 1. since that way no new player could fly BCs in that 2 months.
• I know, that a lot of players will train BC in that 2 months just to have skill points to redistribute, but this is the only problem with this solution I can think of.
• Also reimbustment of the SP is the only way how to do this because of people who will have partially learned BC skill levels in the time of switch.

I think this would be easy to implement and fair to everypony.

P.S. If you (CCP) will use this idea, give me credit and a lot of PLEXes. Just kidding :-). If I can help my belowed game, I will do so for free any time I can.

If it opens up a new hull, it'll be factional. If it's just modified hulls, it'll be generic.

The T2 skills don't open up new hulls, therefore, generic.

This is to fix the confusion in having to train something like Minmatar Cruiser 3 to fly a Hurricane which is a battle cruiser.

There should be less confusion that flying a Cruiser Tech 2 Hull is going to require that factions Cruiser Skill to 5 as all Tech 2 ships work that way. Though, It does mean that you'll only need Minmatar BC skill to 5 to fly a command ship, instead of BC 5 and Minmatar Cruiser 5 which is potentially confusing and makes it take significantly longer to get into these vessels than a Tech 3 hull.

This also makes it possible to add Pirate Faction Destroyers, and Pirate Faction BC's to the game, and I'm looking forward to that as it means more Gurista's stuff (Missile/Drone boats) A destroyer that could field 10 light drones would be epic (just saying)!

Hopefully it means more Destroyer hulls as well as training to level 5 destroyers and only getting one hull the entire time is very "meh"

_WAter_

Can i suggest a new tree (just the ship skills dont have the secondary or anything added.) for the ORE ships?

This tree shows also an idea for getting slowly into the mining profession by adding a ORE Frigate, ORE Cuiser, a Battlecruiser sized one. (Noctis/Primea hull with another role?). And then an (in my eyes.) better way to skill for certain sides.

So here is the link to my little schematic;

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1204/oreindustrialchart.png

I'd like to start by saying well done with most of the changes and improvements over the last year, but this is an absolute joke!!!!

I have dedicated my character to flying the different races.........so dedicated it has taken me 4 years to get there, including paying for the account to remain active when I have not been able to play to rack up the skills I needed and now you want to introduce this, how many more years of training is it going to take me to get back to where I am now?

it's going to make most of my skill points useless and I'm not willing to start again from the bottom.

I'm all up for changes that make EVE more accessible to newer players, after all more players is a good thing imo.
Don't overlook the old/loyal players tho, if I log in one day and can't use half my ships it'll be the last time I log in and I'm sure a lot of others share my opinion, of course there's always going to be the odd forum troll who can only fly one race who thinks this is great and it's to these people I extend my favourite finger.

Bring on the hate mail.............

have you even read what the changes will be? what is wrong with people

Oi... there are reasons to be upset about these proposals, but they have committed to making sure you won't be locked out of any ships you can already fly.

As they've said ad infinitum now.[/quote]

and what about the ones I was due to fly soon....?

mhm

Make racial BC skill 1x then and reimburse the original... problem solved...

I.