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I am still not sure whether I like this or not, but I can see some big problems (probably menntioned here earlier):

1. Hacked and compromised accounts. It is easy to follow the stolen items and isk and the char is also easily tracked. But if then someone gets access to a high SP char he can just turn him into SP-packs and sell it for -10% on the market. By the time the investigation is concluded most of these SP will be inside many other pilots heads.


2. Newbieboosting. For one I think this will not really be an optional thing. Everyone starting the game will feel obliged to buy a few million of SP. Because they want to try out more stuff and T2 is better and easier.


3. The other really big problem I am affraid of is how recruiting new players will become impossible.
You will even more than now see the big divide between the rich and the not so. The big and rich groups already have better PR, more help with recruitement and are way more visible. They already take most of the new players while smaller groups are left in the dust. After these changes the rich groups will for sure give out SP-packs for new members. Probably not from the start but after a few months of being with them. And how can anyone tell a newbie in good conscience to pass on something like that because your small group needs more members. When the rich groups can advertise with "stay 3 months and get your char C5 escalationready or in a rattingcarrier."


4. The charakterbazaar is hard work. You have to spend hours on ther searching and updating to get something you like for a reasonable price. And it can take weeks. This heavily affects how many people use it. If I can get unlocated SP in jita everyone and their mothers will do it. Also you are no longer stuck with ****** names.

About 2.5-3.0b just to cover trasnfer fee + small interest

No. Plenty of people have put some arguments and backed them up with expectations/visions based on previous experiences. That is way different from crying. Though i doubt someone involved in politics would understand that ;)

^^this right here is one of the main reason this idea is idiotic.

If you think you're 'doing it for the new players', think again. You'll just **** off 99% of the potential new players, leaving you with the 1% that are happy to throw hundreds of $ at a game - a subscription game, ffs! - that they just started to play.

for some one with 80m SP who wants to buy SP at the same rate you earn it, let me tell you how much that'll cost you;

500,000 SP is required for the extraction. this takes ~7.7 days with +5s and a perfect remap.
at current plex prices, 7.7 days of subscription time is ~400m isk.
that SP packet will give you 50,000 sp. that means you need 10 packets every 7.7 days.
so, that's 4bn isk every 7.7 days. (based on plex @1.2bn each)
with roughly four 7.7 day periods in a 30 day period (the duration of 1 plex) that's 16bn isk.

tl;dr for an 80m sp player to buy 30 days (1 plex) worth of SP, it's going to cost 16bn isk.

this is WITHOUT the cost of the extractor.

Did you even read my post? The creation of a gank alt takes 16min without additional SP. So I can use the whole SP produced with the PLEX which allows me to play with that account and turn them into packs which I can sell on the market.

All the required things will come from the market (PLEX for SP and the item to create packs from the SP). The ISK price for the SP packs will always be above the ISK costs for producing them with PLEX/AUR which means you will get a free alt.

If you still don't get it: I don't need the SP on the gank alts, so I can sell them for gametime + additional ISK.

And I get more additional ISK the more accounts I will use this way.

Not really difficult to understand..

Sorry, but it's a bullsh*t.

Why are you trying to please new players? Why aren't you trying to keep veterans? Are you wanna be a WORLD OF WARCRAFT, where new players coming every day and when old players living after 3 months, after reaching a maximum of possible?

Remove shi*y aurum out of game!!!

Remove all donate and other crap that ppl do not need (but yes, you, CCP need it because of money).

If you want extra profit - as somebody mentioned - add ability to change nickname and/or gender for a PLEX price.

It's not my fault that I'm smarter than 10 years old guy only because my parent decided to 'make' me 20 years ago!

Skillpoint is priceless. Same as time!!!

And what a point for me to extract my skills point from something useless (actually nothing is useless among a skills) to get 10 times less but more useful?
Me, as a pilot with skillpoints more than 80m, can deduct 500 000 sp to convert it into 50 000.
So as a result that means: I had 80m but now I'll have 79.55m!!! (in case If i decide to change something 'useless' for something 'useful')

Is it a program of becoming ********?
OMG... IDEOCARY is coming.

Stop doing sh*t, you have a lot work to do:
FULL INCARNA
VALKYRIE
DUST 514 FOR PC
CITADELS
NORMAL SHIP-SKIN PROGRAM (as you presented during fanfest)

If this goes live, I hope you're right, Mr. E-wiener.

But I can't help thinking that, if you feel you're being cheated, leaving a game is much easier than moving to another country in RL...

If your math is correct than I really have nothing to complain about this change.

One of the most enjoyable weekends I had in Eve was years ago when CCP set Sisi to give all lvl 5 skills to everyone. Then they made all supers available for $100 isk and my whole corp had a blast quite literally ! *yawns, it's interesting how quickly the OMG I'm flying a Titan ! goes away when they are free.
I've always thought the skill system sucked because it's not sandbox. Do away with skills altogether and let people do whatever they want whenever they want to > sandbox / freedom
Actually give them freedom and see what happens. Anarchy ruled by physics.
I predict You will struggle with this yet the newer games coming to challenge don't have this antiquated system at their core and over the next few years it's going to date Eve significantly.
Skills were a good way to make people log on and show active player status. Skills achieved their outcome when they were useful though that time has passed.
The simple way is so often the best. Wormhole space shows You the way to make things really simple and support the freedom sandbox (is supposed to) represent. Too many supers never show up in a WH because of WH mechanics, not because of skills or isk or the committed efforts a corp could throw down. Really simple sandbox.
If You keep adding more ways to make freedom complex and unattainable the only thing I'm going to be looking to trade my character for is a Constellation...