EVE General Discussion

Over here I've argued that we should get rid of mods better than T1 and that ships which are better than T1 should justify their higher cost by fulfilling more roles at once instead of being fundamentally stronger than what new players fly: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=433318&find=unread

This begs a related question, why does EVE have a skill points system in the first place? As far as I can tell, it only serves three purposes:

1. Letting more established players lord it over newer players, which is a detriment to the game.
2. Emotionally blackmailing players into not quitting because of their "investment" which is increasingly not working on an aging player base.
3. Delaying people's ability to engage in certain activities, an aspect that players almost universally don't like.

If we had no skill points at all and instead everyone could do everything once they are part of the proper network, perhaps limited by "talent trees" or some similar system that cost ISK to change, I see only benefits for the game and no losses.

While I still think that EVE should level the playing field when it comes to items, a good starting point would be to get rid of skill points entirely. My character is years old now and it would take me over 76 days of training to be able to fly a marauder. Is that supposed to entice me? Are older players supposed to treat the game as a job and a long-term investment?

Yet another exceptional thread for exceptional trollings. Going places...
*grabs some popcorns*

edit: and when I say "exceptional thread" I mean ****
OP is obviously experimenting with forum search to find the redundant past thread topics with the most amount of flames attached.

The point of the skillpoint system is to entice people to continue their subscriptions, and give them an artificial sense of achievement. Until they reach around 100mil SP, at which point they have typically figured out what they like about the game, trained for it, and SP has become meaningless.

If you aren't confident in the game play of your game, add "dings", basically. It's an old trick. People still eat it up.

Why not just boost drops? Like in mario kart??

Rerolling every day np.

yeah minus the consequence for being an asshat in the game. OP prolly also got caught being a spy and wants to wipe his identity w/o the consequences. Maybe less fail next time.