Fixing the Magic 14: a Time Efficient Alternative to Removal

[Mkikaden_Tiragen]

Everything I would say has already been addressed here:

Magic 14 Removal

Proposal: Remove the Magic 14 skills and refund the skill points to pilots that have already trained them. Why?: Less for new players to learn. Quicker access to playing the game at optimal levels. It feels like a requirement to have level 5 in all magic 14 skills. Time consuming. Synopsis: I think the magic 14 are kind of dumb and just make people waste time on training. If everyone is going to train them, then just remove them and act as if everyone already has them trained t…

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@Mkikaden_Tiragen

(The Magic 14) is an arbitrary list of skills that a specific player group put together as suggestions for when players aren’t sure where to go next. They are by no means applicable-to or appropriate-for all characters in all situations. Why redesign these specific skills and not something else? Is the Magic 14 really all that magic? Should it be 14? 12? 16?

The more logical way to approach this is to thoroughly examine the current list of all new player skills, by race, and the various career paths, and see if there are tweaks merited to help new players get started in an at least minimally effective fashion in as many careers as possible. Which I think is already pretty well covered by the 300k-ish SP new players have, plus the opportunities for over 1m bonus SP to inject into a couple skills as players explore starting careers.