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Plex for Unallocated skill points?
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Adarx
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-01-02 23:37:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Adarx
I was thinking about this last night, and I feel like it is a very very good idea for CCP to consider. I feel like it could be very profitable to have to so players could pay plex and/or real life money in order to get X number of unallocated skill points. The average number I found on the Character Bazaar was around the ratio of 300 isk per 1 skill point so like a 10mill sp character was around 3billion isk, obviously it depends on where the characters skill points were placed, but this is what I decided to be a safe average. I was figuring around 4PLEX for 1mill SP that CCP could charge. This system could be like how they have the capabilities to give PLEX for AUR in the game. This would also directly increase PLEX sales and allow people to become somewhat more efficient for a price. If anyone thinks this is a good idea, please post a comment, if you don't agree with this idea, PLEASE give feedback on how it could be better/improved.

Thank you very much for looking at my post,
~Adarx

EDIT:
I was also thinking while reading some of your comments, maybe they could offer a level 6 type missions that was quite difficult and required multiple people to do, and the reward could be unallocated points? like one mission was 50k-200k of unallocated SP, but that would be the only reward, no money or whatnot
Hannott Thanos
Squadron 15
#2 - 2012-01-02 23:47:47 UTC
I support this.

Then we can kill noobs that fly failfit capitals solo

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Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#3 - 2012-01-02 23:59:34 UTC
This ideas been brought up before, and falls into the category of MT for an in-game benefit. Widely unsupported as you might imagine, if you've read many threads here at all.
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Epofhis
Amped.
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2012-01-03 00:06:43 UTC
What? No.

Earn it the hard way like everyone else.

-1. Not supported.

Before posting in Features and Ideas, please remember that Eve is in no way obligated to change based on your stupidity, ineptitude, or well honed sense of personal butthurt.

tankus2
HeartVenom Inc.
#5 - 2012-01-03 01:51:36 UTC
so 250k sp (the amount needed to get most x1 skills to 5) is a single plex?

even if it was much, much more it should not be the case. Buying your way to the awesome tier is not the answer. Maybe an accelerated in-game minigame-of-sorts that tests a person in the area they are trying to improve, maybe.

but outright buying sp? sorry, no.

Where the science gets done
SandKid
Sunset Logistics Company
#6 - 2012-01-03 02:07:34 UTC
tankus2 wrote:
so 250k sp (the amount needed to get most x1 skills to 5) is a single plex?

even if it was much, much more it should not be the case. Buying your way to the awesome tier is not the answer. Maybe an accelerated in-game minigame-of-sorts that tests a person in the area they are trying to improve, maybe.

but outright buying sp? sorry, no.


Not even a mini-game. New Eden is built upon the sp system and it should not, in any way, be changed to where sp can be purchased. Anything tied PLEX enables real money to influence the game. I personally don't like PLEX as it is because somone with lots of money could 'zerg' an enemy with unlimited best-fitted ships by buying plex, selling it, then using the isk to get his awesome fleet.

However - you still have to be able to use said awesomeness, and the likelihood of this happening is low. Moreover, skill points do not equal skill. I might have near-perfect gunnery, but I still got tore up by a 3-month old character (maybe an alt, maybe not). The day EVE Online isn't skill based is the day I'll quit - you shouldn't be able to buy your way with real money into anything. That applies both in New Eden and life.

Earn your way, or you don't deserve it. New Eden at least equates earning with stealing - pirates do, after all, 'earn' their living.
Droxlyn
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-01-03 02:09:01 UTC
PLEX, currently does buy you skill points. 30 days of skill time, 1 second at a time.

I'd say, let a PLEX turn into 15 days worth of unallocated Skill Points for a 20, 20, 20, 20, 19 character (average min). Basically, you could buy "lost" time at twice the price.
Endeavour Starfleet
#8 - 2012-01-03 02:11:55 UTC
Lets make this very clear.

Other than paying for transfers and game time ANYTHING that affects actually play in EVE revolving around PLEX is absolutely no.


And it would crash the character market. Those take serious time and funds to make right. That is why they cost so much.
Grey Azorria
Federation Industries
#9 - 2012-01-03 02:46:18 UTC
So basically EvE would become pay-to-win...

...no thanks

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Sometimes when I post, I look at my sig and wish that I'd follow my own god damned advice.
Goose99
#10 - 2012-01-03 03:43:48 UTC
Grey Azorria wrote:
So basically EvE would become pay-to-win...

...no thanks


Buying character is already pay to win.Lol
Asuka Solo
I N E X T R E M I S
Tactical Narcotics Team
#11 - 2012-01-03 03:56:39 UTC
No.

I had to play years to get the SP I have today.

You people can too.

Eve is about Capital ships, WiS, Boobs, PI and Isk!
Simi Kusoni
HelloKittyFanclub
#12 - 2012-01-03 04:53:55 UTC
Don't they already have this?

Its called the character bazaar.

[center]"I don't troll, I just give overly blunt responses that annoy people who are wrong but don't want to admit it. It's not my fault that people have sensitive feelings"  -MXZF[/center]
Taint
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#13 - 2012-01-03 13:42:12 UTC
Just no
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#14 - 2012-01-03 13:59:31 UTC
Goose99 wrote:
Grey Azorria wrote:
So basically EvE would become pay-to-win...

...no thanks
Buying character is already pay to win.Lol
Buying a character isn't nearly the same thing, though.

So no. Horrid idea.
TheBlueMonkey
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2012-01-03 14:13:24 UTC
Hell no
Nestara Aldent
Citimatics
#16 - 2012-01-03 18:02:50 UTC
Goose99 wrote:
Grey Azorria wrote:
So basically EvE would become pay-to-win...

...no thanks


Buying character is already pay to win.Lol


Actually he's right. You want 100M SP char, just run anoms/incursions or buy it with PLEX.
Feligast
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2012-01-03 20:21:45 UTC
No buying skill points, ever, for any reason.
Nestara Aldent
Citimatics
#18 - 2012-01-03 20:49:53 UTC
Feligast wrote:
No buying skill points, ever, for any reason.


Then character sale must be forbidden, immediately! Lol
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#19 - 2012-01-03 20:57:21 UTC
Not then. Not now. Not ever.

NO.

How did you Veterans start?
Velicitia
XS Tech
#20 - 2012-01-03 21:03:13 UTC
Nestara Aldent wrote:
Feligast wrote:
No buying skill points, ever, for any reason.


Then character sale must be forbidden, immediately! Lol


Character sale is OK, because people put time into that toon.

PLEX for SP is not, because there's no time involved.

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
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