Quantum Rise of Solace November 12, 2008
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, EVE Online.Tags: certificates
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The Quantum Rise update for EVE Online is out with just shy of a billion new things in it and a bright red splash screen. The servers are up and seem to be stable, so CCP seems to have gotten that routine down at least.
One of the new things in the game is certificates.
Certificates appear to be somewhere between WoW achievements and EVEMon in usefulness. They are supposed to be a somewhat more quantifiable reflection of what all your millions of skillpoints really mean. Having just passed the 27 million skillpoint mark, I was keen to see what certificates I would get.
I logged in, went to my character sheet, clicking on the new certificates tab, and saw… nothing.
Bupkiss.
Now I knew that COULDN’T be right.
So I went further, into the Certificate Planner, and found, at the bottom of the window, a button labeled, “Claim All Certificates.”
So I did! And I was rewarded with 49 certificates!
Of course, now I have a pile of certificates to go through to see what I have. They appear to come in four flavors, which are:
- Basic
- Standard
- Improved
- Elite
I have no elite certificates, but improved versions of Active Shield Tanking, Passive Shield Tanking, and Business Mogel.
You appear to need a lot of skills at level V to get to Improved, as I thought I would be a shoe-in for Missiles, but I am three level V skills shy.
Interesting stuff, but I’m still annoyed that they took the +2 warp strength off of my Crane and put it on the Bustard.
*grumble* *grumble* *grumble*
As a very new player, I like these. It helps me focus my training and figure out what skills to train to accomplish certain things.
I’m still trying to figure out if the missile nerf is all hype, or if I need to re-spec gunnery.
Hate to break it to ya UFTimmy, but the certs are totally off the mark(I might even say, Load of Bullshit™).
You’d do yourself a much better service if you forgot they existed and train the way we all used to train: By fooling around with EveMon, and talking to your mates about whats effective and what’s not.
Ah but they gave you a cov-ops cloak so your buzzard can warp cloaked
Interesting, you’d rather have the +2 stabs than the ability to warp cloaked?
I was chuffed to bits when they did that, means that re-supplying myself (hauling ships and mods to a lowsec systems where my carrier is, then jumping it out to 0.0) just got a whole lot easier!
I noticed though that the recloak time is 30 seconds, so if you jump into a camp, you must remember to hold the jump cloak, especially if you were cloaked on the warp to the gate you just jumped through
At a little under 9 million XP, I mostly have basics. I like the system though.
“Interesting, you’d rather have the +2 stabs than the ability to warp cloaked?”
So far, the stabs have saved my butt twice while the cloak I fitted has mostly been an interesting toy. The reason I bought the ship was the stabs, while I only started playing with the cloak after seeing how people outfitted them in the forums.
So they made the Crane less agile and removed the key selling point from my perspective. On the other hand, I never go to and from 0.0, only into low sec systems for pickups, so something like a gate camp with a bubble is almost never an issue.
I like the certs. It gives some ideas for goals and gives guides for a career change in an otherwise self motivated environment.
I am in favor of the certs; they’ve helped me notice some key skills I was missing from my plan…
Wilhelm,
Just use your bustard, you can now carry a lot more with your +2 stabs in that ship instead.
If you’ve never been gate camped with bubbles in low sec, you just got lucky. It might not be a common occurance, but it happens. I got stuck once running a mission into low sec (having never been camped yet either at that time), and getting popped right out of my ship and my pod.
@Ombey,
I think you should check again, I think jumping through a gate negates the timer. In my helios I can warp cloaked, jump, warp&quick cloak as I decloak from jumping. No delay and i doubt anyone even has a chance to notice the blip on the overview. I could be wrong, or my timing just worked out, but I don’t believe I had an issue with it.
The point was that I own a Crane and now if I want the +2 stabs I need to go buy a Bustard.