Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was thinking of stuff to make this game a little more diverse, so I came up with ideas that make the education/school you choose affect your gameplay.

My idea is, when you choose your school/education at the character creation; the school you choose gives you benefits over choosing another one. This would allow people to specialize in what they want to and it would allow for an actual purpose for the schools.

It doesn't go away if you leave an NPC corp, it stays with you like a degree.

Each school would offer 25% reduction in training time for a certain thing. For example:

Imperial War Academy - 25% reduction in training time for Gunnery.
Hedion University - 25% reduction in training time for Social.
Royal Amarr Institute - 25% reduction in training time for Industry.

State War Academy - 25% reduction in training time for Missiles.
School of Applied Knowledge - 25% reduction in training time for Social.
Science and Trade Institute - 25% reduction in training time for Science.

Etc, etc...

Didn't you bother to actually read my post?

This benefits you all throughout EVE kind of like a degree in real life, it helps you no matter what corp you are in...

I missed that part, but regardless its a silly suggestion. There's already variety, and people already specialize with attribute assignment. This suggestion is really nothing more than "make my skills train faster".

Are you insane?

25% reduction in skill training time?

I'd support 2-5%, active only when in a player corp with more than 15 people in it.

Only being the important word here.

5 days is not "only." 5 days is quite a lot, and to give something to EVERY player for a group of skills would be absolutely terrible.

agreed

You're literally retar*ded. 5 days off a 20 day skill is huge.

Now, what would 25% of 50 days be? About 12 days off. So 50 day skill becomes a 38 day skill.

Thats stupid as hell.

-1

Not optional. (Only useful if has balanced penalities).

Puts people into prescribed roles.

25% is a ridiculous beneift.

Unequal skill numbers, training multipliers and associated attributes and costs may give an unequal distirbution of desired skill areas. (E.g. Social skills have few skills whereas Science has lots.)

No mention of how this will affect existing character's choices. Or re-imbursements/redistribution of focus of existing characters skill vlaues.

No penalties in other areas due to specialisation (implies focussing).

Racial focus of skill preferences will confer greater racial bias.

Limited choice per racial path.

+1 , just not this ridiculous 25%, max 5%, but if this were done everyone currently now would need to be able to rechoose their school or like Endovior said above it would be nice having a bigger start skillpool like in the old days, you don't really do anything in eve the first week except maybe explore and a few missions.

I see a lot of bandwagoners tears, as it would be a relative nerf to FOTM chasing.

Supported. +1

As for shortening training time, it takes 30 years to train everything in Eve so far. A 25% increase in, say, missile skills, or roughly 5% of total SP in game, less if you exclude citadel cruise/torp, won't make a dent.