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YES! THE TRUTH!

The old makers of EVE are gone. The old devs are gone. The one who really care for the game healthier. The current Directors / Devs only think in money making. I understand that cash is important, but kill the game in the process to get money is not good.

It was never explained why CCP Devs chars was changed from Jove ones to common ordinary ones. In addition, most of the player base will never understand the importance of that. Most people do not even understand my indignation with that change. Why? Read the quote.

Here was the true eve: http://imgur.com/kk44y40 . Among others MIA.

Depends on your answers to the following questions: How much ISK do you have in your wallet? How many PLEX, ships and shinies do you already have stockpiled? What else do you need to spend ISK on?

Most high SP players know that SP actually equates with "game time", not "win". So, given an overloaded wallet and nothing else to buy, you will most likely buy SP - to inject in your main, just to tweak up a few final skills a bit faster (like those weapon specialization skills to V) or to skill up yet-another-alt faster. Buying game time is always a good investment (see PLEX).

The big difference between this and the character bazaar is that this has no cap and can be used by a high-SP deep-pocketed player to just continue to accelerate their dominance.

If there was a SP cap on this so it could only be used by players under ~30m SP then it might benefit new players, but only if they're willing to drop down more $$ early on (making any new players *not* willing to put down the cash left behind, discouraging new players).

The screenshot in the blog showed the Resource Reprocessing skills as an example of skillpoint trading. All the individual ore Reprocessing skills were trained up to Level 5, while the Reprocessing skill itself (which is one of the pre-requisites for gaining all those skills) was locked.

In other words, if you have skills trained that require a pre-requisite level of another skill, you cannot remove skill points from said skill. I'm not sure how that will affect things, since a player normally cannot inject a certain skill at all until they reach its pre-requisite level. So being able to take skillpoints from skills that are pre-requisite to another one would have to require a re-fund of the skillbook.

But assuming no skillbook refunds are possible, any skillpoints removed have to be shaved off from the top of the tree, from the looks of things. Unless skill-book refunds are made possible by skill trading, no one will actually be in danger of inadvertently crippling their capabilities if they use the Skill injector on too many skills.

On the other hand, it also means you cannot completely transfer a set of skills you don't use anymore; you'll always have the branches of skills directly related to and pre-requisite to the one you take skills from.

NOTE: Battleship level 3 is pre-requisite for a Carrier. So assuming that you haven't bought Covert Ops or Marauder skills and injected them, you could conceivably take skills from Caldari Battleship down to level 3, at which point it would lock because you have a branch of skills that require that specific level as a pre-requisite.

I didn't really agree with this at first, and the lower the discussion went on the more I thought it wasn't a good idea. From the get-go this blog was BS. The negativity wasn't normal EVE loathing. Across the board it was deemed pretty unfavorable. There is a purpose and reason to the skills and the wait. If someone screws up, they screwed up. In a game where you are told everything you do has repercussion somewhere, somehow, so should skills. The long wait is to make sure you have the actual game skills to advance to high game play. Letting every John and Mary buy some skills off dead alts from people just increases how many u ready people will be doing stupid things. Plus there is always potential for abuse from EVE rich and RL rich people.

This is a bad assumption.

Yeah im really gonna take my gobs of isk and buy injectors to max out drone and gun specs V to further my dominance over the newbro

Guys I have 140m sp theres nothing worth spending isk on for training. I toss oddball and specs V into the Q just so it doesnt sit dormant. Bad arguements are bad.

No this is different because it is new.

THIS ! can I buy enough skills that I can fly a TITAN please ....with absaloutly no experience of actually flying the damned thing ! and the pain and mental hardship of actualy training for it !

when i first read the announcement, i was thinking: yay! i can now make up on the time i was unsubbed! then i started reading the forum, and that changed my mind a lot. now i agree with those thinking it's pay to win, and i also think it'll diminish the feeling of accomplishment when i reach a skill training goal.
however, i'm enough of a realist to see that this is coming, no matter what i like. i would like to make a request, though, that maybe would help migitate the damage i think this feature will cause in the long term:

please add 2 new stats to a character sheet (similar to medals optionally public with default to being so):
# sp injected
# sp extracted

imo, that'd allow ppl to judge what level of threat a character is passing through the system, similar to the the age. if the #sp stats are hidden, they have taken steps to do so, so they are not a noob and therefore default to being a threat.
it'd also allow puricans to show off their sp worthiness, as they never injected skills. also, it'd allow corps to judge if someone has skill or a credit card when they apply for the corporation - and it'd allow ppl to "undo the damage" by extracting the same amount of sp as they injected, getting back on the regular training track. they'd only have borrowed the skills, and paid a hefty isk fee for that.