This and That

Several small topics I want to comment on but not worthy of a whole blog post.

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CCP is giving brand new players 400,000 skill points to start (assigned in skills) instead of the current 50,000. I don't think it goes far enough, personally, as I wrote last year in a post called Unnecessary Limitations:

I encourage CCP to look into getting rid of the support skill grind. Level the playing field for new players by putting those bonuses they provide right into the ships and modules from the start and just remove the skills. Alternatively, start all players with a few million skill points and all the support skills trained to IV or V (preferably the latter). There are a zillion ways veterans have advantages in terms of ISK for faction mods, implants, boosters as well as the sheer experience advantage, so penalizing new players with lower stats adds insult to injury.

Nevertheless, I applaud the first step. 

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Our home system of Fliet has seen a lot of action recently as Cal Mil pushes a few systems. Last night I led a defense/deplex fleet and saw some bouts of action which got us some sweet kills including a Cerberus and a Jackdaw with deadpsace faction mods coming out to about 170 million ISK. Of course, neither deadspace module dropped.

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I love this artwork from CCP of the internals of a Navy Comet.

Takes me back to my days writing the Fighting Spacecraft articles for Project Athena and looking at the models and trying to make real engineering sense out of them. Hope to see more of these.