EVE General Discussion

With all the new players begging for their 350,000 free skill points, I thought it high time to let them know who the true kings of EVE are.

This topic is for the players that started with approximately 900,000 skill points. You, stalwart champion, have not been spoon fed like this common rabble.

You've endured! Its high time you're recognized for it.

Put the peasants in their place!!

Of the old 800-900k starting SP, more than half of it was in two rank 1 level 5 skills that weren't super relevant to new players (gunnery V and small racial turret V for combat, science and mining/industry V for industry bloodlines iirc). Being 12 hours from t2 small weapons was neat but keep in mind that you had nearly zero support skills and no real way to pay for the weapons in the first place.

Not to mention that the most efficient way of playing the game for the first month was to go afk while you trained learning skills instead of actually playing the game. This also included alarm clocking when your skills were completed so you could start a new one since the queue was not a thing yet, which is a royal pain in the ass for skills that take a couple hours to train. I probably lost quite a few precious days in my first couple months because I forgot to queue up a long skill overnight.

Even more damning than that was that if you wanted the best combat character, you were basically forced to roll Caldari Achura Monks because it had the best starting stats. It got a little better when they introduced the new bloodlines since Khanid were only slightly worse so then you had two good options and 3-4 more mediocre ones.

tldr: Back in my day I had to walk 20 miles in the snow to school uphill both ways, get off my lawn

i think you forgot about the month worth of time it took to train them and then at new players now get accelerated skill training.
-Master Race

peasant detected. you didn't lose any skill time so you deserve nothing. your point is invalid.

And mining V and reprocessing V if you went the route of miner. I know, I still have that mining character I first started with, tried mining and went right back to the character creation process.

This thread needs more dramatic music ...with ferrets, and more ferrets ...and dogs too, yes it does.

Don't forget the tiercide giveaway. It all evens out in the long run. :-)

Would be cool if having the skill at 5 gave a perk, like if the missiles traced your name in space with their smoke trails before hitting the target (instead of flying straight at it).

Whoosh ---Chainsaw-Plankton--- Boom.