Today marked the second part of the staged deployment of EVE Online: Incursion
Incursion 1.0.1 includes changes to the neural remap window, but more importantly it included two holiday treats for players: The Demise of Learning Skills and the Echelon ship.
The learning skills change comes at the end of an age-old debate about the necessity of learning skills. Learning skills were essentially good long-term investments, as training them at the beginning of a character's life would assure quicker skill training throughout their career for all other skills. In essence this was learning to get better at learning. However, it was a serious investment of months of time to max them out.
As CCP Zulu, eve isk 's Senior Producer, explains: "the time to change them is now, allowing new players an easier path into the game and giving veterans a nice holiday gift in being able to reallocate their skill points spent on learning skills elsewhere and having their attributes adjusted to compensate for the 'lost' time benefit of learning skills."
The Echelon ship, complete with a unique hacking module, has been awarded to each paying account and may be of use later on in Incursion. It's available for redemption between today and January 3.
