Magic 14 Nonsense

[Gerard_Amatin]

@Altara_Zemara

I have never seen Magic 14 presented as a panacea for everything.

I have, by various people. Example below, a forum regular who once said that the magic 14 are required at level 5 to competently fit ships:

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Magic 14 Skills, which is a Uniwiki term, are actually the Core Fitting Skills which need to be trained at max level to competently fit ships. Without those skills trained up, a basic fit can barely be achieved. Just training up the Core Fitting Skills uses up most of the 5 mil Alpha SP’s, doesn’t leave much for anything else. Same as what CCP did with Agent access and quality level’s, they can max the Core Fitting skill stats and automatically install them in Character Creation.

Of course he kind of forgot that only 2 of the magic 14 are fitting skills and that most of the fitting skills aren’t actually part of the magic 14, but that doesn’t stop him from attributing magical fitting power to these 14 skills.

People are bad at reading. They don’t really know what’s inside the list of magic 14, they just know that it is a list of skills that is recommended by other people, so they too recommend it to other people without knowing the context in which it makes sense to recommend this list.