I hate to keep bitching, but this is really getting to me. I have 5 characters affected by this "fix" They were all within a day off completing long skills and are all now 5-11 days away. This has got to honestly be the worst experience I have ever had with a MMO. I had two miners that should have Astro 5, I had a character that was completing Frigates 5 and would be flying a Covert Ops ship tomorrow morning. The other two were working through Gunnery 4 and Frigate 5. The part that really pisses me off is that the time I was training before the patch, when the characters where below 1.6 and thus should have 2x training has been altered by the patch. They have gone back in time and made those 6 days training Astro half as effective. How the fuck can I plan for that? The new system actually makes it harder to gt over the 1.6 hump because any skill that will put you over by even 1 point will train at 1x. To continue to get your bonus until 1.6 you can only train skills that won't go over. This is the worst thing you could do to a new player.

Ugg. Even if I take the approach that this sucks, and nothing will be done about it, I'm still about a week out from the skills I needed to play this characters again.

Anyway, thanks for letting me vent. I'm having a really hard week and this is only the icing on the cake.

- Souca -