Well, you take the specs, and you spec them again and…
There were some screenshots on Scrapheap for a while but for the life of me I can’t find ‘em. Essentially, you can take (I think) either all or all but three of the initial points in each of your attributes and redistribute them wherever you want. I’m not sure how it’ll shake out, you can check it out for yourself though if you want to load up SiSi. I have enough trouble on my ol’ computer without trying to set up the second installation files, so I don’t even bother. But it should be easy enough to check out (although one of my staffers did just inform me that some of the changes were taken down off of SiSi, like the T3 ships and such).
Well, if I don’t misunderstand you, you should be able to respec once Apocrypha goes hot. But you won’t be able to switch your skills back until 365 days pass after that point. If you max charisma, you should probably check out maxing Leadership skills, Fleet Command V plus all the specific warfare skills to V will make you an awesome fleet booster. And once you have that, learning to be an FC isn’t all that far off.
Yeah, right now I am working on astrometrics so that I can be useful in a fleet for W-Space. After that I might look into maxing my leadership skills, which admittedly are already pretty high.
Don’t forget the support skills. Astrometrics V, itself, isn’t worth all that much without Astrometic Pinpointing, Astrometic Triangulation and Signature Acquisition. At least, they used not to be. I haven’t read up yet on how the new probing system works.
Well I mean I am working on the foundation skill so I can master it later on so I’ll be useful in a W-Space gang. I’m only intending on getting Astrometrics to IV in the short term and then trying to get all the support skills to three. I need to get Survey to V so I can get archaeology. I can get Astrometrics to IV and Survey to V by March 10, so I think I’m in a very good position.
As for your advice on training up leadership, I should do that sooner rather than later. I was working on my battle skills first so I wouldn’t be the pussy FC out there on the field, but with as horrible as the FCs I’ve flown with are, it seems like something that needs to be done. So often people think that FC correlates with skill points. I don’t fucking get that at all. If I had the perfect leadership then almost no one would take squad leader from me, and I wouldn’t be annoyed at the FC the whole time. Everyone could be annoyed at me. Maybe I’ll take my alt over to Eve Uni and get the training.
It’s a real hole in the game, the lack of good FCs, and it seems like if you’re a good FC then everyone is going to want to fly with you.
My FC’ing experience is somewhat limited. I tend to talk a bit too much and I don’t like the requirement to juggle all the info, but it’s doable. If you want to be an FC skillpoints really don’t matter. You can FC with a noob alt. What you do have to get used to is how to give orders, how to deal with your scouts and your main fleet at the same time, how to work out vectors and warpins and bubble avoidance. You’ll need to print out maps and/or get a copy of EVE Strategic Maps. You’ll need to know ship names at a moment’s glance and be able to prioritize targets instinctively, know when to primary a ship and when to keep it around.
But all that can be learned by practice and study.
And yeah, good FC’s are virtually impossible to find. A quality FC can mean all the difference between victory and defeat, and a qualify FC can devastate even vastly numerically superior force.
You might want to read some of the stuff we’ve published by one of MC’s FC’s.
P.S. Having flown with TGRAD, I’ll admit that the EVE Uni program is a good course, but from what I’ve seen I think that Agony’s PvP and FC courses are probably superior.
Sorry for the triple post, but it’s been long enough since post 2 so that the Message Board Gods should overlook it.
Anyways: Apocrypha is deploying as I type. I hope everybody set a long-train skill, because if the server is 100% stable after coming back online exactly as scheduled, I believe that Jesus is contractually obligated to reappear and we’ll usher in the messianic age.
Some of the more utilitarian features for Apocrypha include but are not limited to skill queuing (Yes, for the first time in a great many years, having a skill flip while you’re at work is no problem, at all. EVEMon is, to be honest, a good bit less useful), shorter downtime, and the ability to respec your attributes… sorta.
And, of course, my Gravity Capacitor Upgrade rigs will now give a strength bonus rather than reducing scan time. So I think CCP can probably go try to gobble a porcupine.
In other news, Delve is the new home of the Goons, a major engagement was fought in l3- where Pandemic Legion doomsdayed the fuck out of GKC forces, an undetermined number of GKC pilots were able to remove some assets from PR- while the main AKA (Anti-Kenny Alliance) fleets were tied up in various other spots, but the breakout doesn’t appear, from initial reports, to have been major. After E-ON’s coverage of the Tribune a couple of issues back, Zapatero requested that we start a quarterly column on null sec wars, so I’ve submitted the first in that series and can hopefully pawn it off onto one of my staffers… since I’m lazy. Still, for any of you who read E-ON, here’s a heads up that quarterly reports on war in 0.0 are at least planned (for all I know Zapatero will decide he doesn’t like what I’ve written, who knows).
I have two new characters training up so I’m glad to see a skill queue implemented at long last.
It’s sad to see BoB fall to metagaming (a sentiment I doubt is shared by many…) but I guess it was always going to end that way. Even despite that I expected them to put up a better fight with less mistakes. We’ll see how things shake out, nothing is ever final in EVE Online…
EVE Online tends to polarise people. I fought against Red Alliance long before the Goons started EVE. Things were nicely balanced until the Goons joined RA. Fair enough, it was probably our turn to take a battering.
Sadly all Goon progress seemed to be made via metagaming, starting with intentionally crashing nodes to bypass gate defences. That’s a cheap way to end a war. They tried the same thing on BoB shortly after my alliance died, BoB adapted by keeping the fights at least 4 jumps from their station systems and keeping a capital fleet on standby. That’s why it’s sad (for me) to see them make so many mistakes this time.
I’m no fan of BoB but in a war between them and the Goons… Yeah, there’s only one winner I want (wanted?) to see (not just because they kicked our ass, promise).
Well Molle would be on Shrike 6 if a node hadn’t happened to crash and save him. That’s not even the worst of their abuses. T20, devs on MSN, POS bowling, aggro abuse then killing logged off titans, DD inside shield, hell their ASCN leaks got so bad that CCP made a rule banning further forum leaks on CAOD.
If your hate of metagaming has you rooting for Band on Developers. Let’s just say I have a hard time seeing things from that perspective.
Try waking up at 4am for days in a row, weeks on end, just to sit in safespots or stare at stargates, only to have all that undone by a forced node crash. Then you might . There is a reason I didn’t play for 2 years after that happened, heh.
I’m taking things a lot more easy this time. I’m content to sit in carebearland for now, raising ISK. I don’t think I’ll join a large alliance again.
That’s precisely what I did. Going waaay back I was a Director in a 0.0 alliance and a very big one at that. It burned me out eventually and burned out my CEO and a few others. In my view it is even worse now then it was back then.
No thanks. I took a year off EVE as did my CEO. As it happened she and I both chose to return to EVE within a week of each other (purely by chance…we did not stay in contact during that year). We hooked-up and decided hi-sec hugging carebearing with a small, closely knit corp was the thing for us and I do not regret it at all.
I have never been in BoB or Goons and I frankly have a strong distaste for both. The whole metagaming thing, regardless of who is doing it, just sucks. Sovereignty needs a serious overhaul and, while it should not be easy to tackle an established Alliance, the current ability to turtle up and make it essentially impossible to oust an Alliance short of metagaming just sucks.
Of course to each their own. Some may thrill to how stuff works out there now.
Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I’ve been in touch with the editors at E-ON and scored a little scoop for the Tribune.
For those who remember (or know), two issues ago in E-ON they ran a contest to suggest a new ship type to CCP, and the winning entry would get a Megathron model. CCP dropped the ball and didn’t get in touch with E-ON for E-ON’s last issue, so they didn’t run anything about the contest. As it is, the new issue of E-ON will be coming out soon, but it won’t have anything more than a passing mention.
The Tribune, on the other hand, has just received the raw text of all of the entries, along with the winning entry and CCP’s commentary on it. We’ll be publishing about it for our next issue and readers should be able to get a chance to get a first look at what is, most likely, going to be the next ship to be introduced to EVE.
Yeah every crash in Eve was orchestrated by the goons, yeah right. This is typical of the delusion and post hoc rationalisation that alliances go through when they fail. The swarm has never advocated any illegal out of game activity (ask TheAdj about his mobile phone or Kugutsmann about the goonswarm forums and his contract with bob to hack them) or leveraged illicit contact with developers (ask BoB about T20 or the delve NPC space deal). The fact that one node crashed for you when it did isn’t what caused your alliance to fail.
There’s a reason half the 0.0 world is here in delve to pound nails into Bob’s coffin along with us goons. Don’t paint them as somehow the better of two choices, Goonswarm never published an article claiming to want to take over everyone elses play experience.
Maybe it is just me but I expect Goons to be every bit as awful as BoB was. Once they “own” Delve they’ll be the same creeps just with a different name.
In fact once the Goons arch nemesis is gone I wonder what they will turn to next in their boredom?
OTOH, didn’t Goonswarm make it a habit of wandering through Empire blowing up peoples Hulks, just because? Neither side is precisely angelic, in motivation or action.
Jihadswarm used in game mechanics and in game ships to do in game things. There’s nothing wrong with disliking goonswarm for that. But it’s a different beast to the cheating and out of game harrassment bob was engaged in. Goonswarm knows we’re playing a game and it’s the people who read too much into the game that we like blowing up the most.
Who knows, but would you rather have an evil monolithic overlord pretending like they own everything and are better than everyone else or a bunch of crazy guys in clown cars who might blow something valuable up but won’t pretend we’re better than you while we do it?
