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tl;dr: Making newer players over-dependant on specialization is bad.

CCP on the whole has been doing rather well as of late, however, one of the biggest issues I have is the repeated statements regarding specialising in a particular ship, and the new set of ship specializations feed into this.

However, I think this is the wrong way to go for the starter elements of the game such as battlecruisers.

My concern is that as a new player, I most certainly did not know what I wanted to do in game, I trained mining, missiles, some guns, eventually found learning skills. My skill queue was all over the place and I was not terribly effective at anything, but I could do a little bit of everything and I did so because I wanted to explore multiple parts of the game.

I fear that by pidgeon-holing new players by forcing them down specialization routes to do anything at all, that we would be short changing them of a lot of the variation that is to be had.

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To compare it to a typical education; the first things a person is taught are general fundamental skills, reading writing, numeracy. When a child first enters school it is not decided that they will be, for example, a classical novelist, and as such will not be taught numeracy and would have 30 hours a week of reading and writing instead.

It would obviously be very silly to do so, the person has no idea what they're going to do in life, and those that do want to be astronauts or ballerinas which is unrealistic. The specialization comes later, much much later, after the person has had chance to learn what they want to do.

Therefore, I propose that the CSM resists over-specialization of ships and training paths and ensures that it's possible to enjoy the game *without* being a one trick pony.

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As a side note, I personally love the idea of having a few more generic skills such as "battlecruisers" and "destroyers". They provide you with a tool kit which lets you be adaptive, and when you're playing for fun, surely that's much more important than having to sit out because your particular specialization isn't in need.

Pointless thread is pointless.

As this isnt an actual proposal, as nothing is being directly proposed, can we have this closed to reduce the spam?