EVE New Citizens Q&A

I've done it once. It was thrilling! All the knowledge of an "old timer" with the "worthlessness" of a newbie. I literally threw myself into the most dangerous activities possible despite lacking skills just to see if I could do it.

Plus it's nice not having the baggage of a veteran character with history and hilarious to listen to newbies chatter away over stuff they don't understand (especially when they are facing down your main character).

Sounds like something I wouldn't do. It's taking way too long to build up this character. The last thing I wanna think about is building up the other 2 character slots on this account.

However, I will probably use one of them to run the NPE - New Player Experience - to give CCP feedback about the starter missions. Other than that, those characters will remain inactive on this account.

Besides that, one of my other characters on this account has already committed Identity Theft on me. Somehow DeMont Cruiser was able to gain credit as a contributor for most of my work history done in Evelopedia.



Bug Report filed, Support Tickets submitted. Almost a year has passed and this issue is still under investigation.



DMC

I think it would be cool to be able to "reset" a toon and then have the skill points un allocated. Like a once a year deal.
I am a new player and was lucky to end up on singularity pretty soon after joining. And there my skill points, all two million, were un allocated. I had a good time focussing my toon differently. Looking at a massive amount of SP that would be great to retool your toon. Super toon 8).
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Starting over is pointless - just start an alt. Mothball your main if you so choose.

Sorry, this would be a bad idea, as it would negate the entire idea of "actions have consequences".

People then no longer have to deal with the consequences of their actions (aka which skills they train), as they know that in 1 year they can just respec them again.

I wouldn't call myself an old timer at only 4 years, but half the fun for me is creating new avatars and the character to go with each of them, followed by a skill training plan. So I regularly "start over" and I imagine many of the true "vets" would be the same - making new alts from time to time.

Problem I have is that with this many accounts, and very few free slots, I don't think I can afford to start over too much more

Sry... Didn't think that through... You're right. It would corrupt the original idea of a "path". It would take the "character" out of the character....
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I will give you this: Every two years or so, I "start over" by running the tutorials with a character. All of them. In all 4 empires. Then I do the SOE arc. Upgrading from rookieship to t1 frig to destroyer feels like an accomplishment. Makes no sense at all ofcourse. Sue me.

No way ill be starting over tho. I've just reached the point I no longer have to ask myself: "Can I fly that?" . With flying I mean more than just undocking and less than being dangerous in it (still working on that).

As a matter of fact, I became frustrated the other day because my cynoalts cant fly interceptors.

I also dont understand how I could start over in the first place. If I make a new character and join brave newbies for example. I will still have my current knowledge. You'd think someone would notice this new n00b (me) learning things really really fast. Too fast with too little questions actually.

Besides, I'm still learning now. Every day. At the moment my new learning requires characters with more than the basic skillpoints.

Al things being said and done: If you think you will enjoy completely starting over skillpointswise; go for it.

I have that thought now and again.

Then I remember skills like Heavy Combat Drones LVL 5 which instantly makes that thought go away.

I actually don't mind having all of the sp that my characters have, as I am still always planning and there is still things I want my characters to do. Take Lord here, I am training him into marauders, another character I have training into fleet command skills, and a third is training triage modules. I could start a new character if I wanted to easily, but I find it just as fun to keep working on my older characters too.