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I hate to break it to you, but this is not only already happening, but has happened for years. I, myself, have two of my accounts sustaining themselves, long-term, by training alts specifically for sale on the Character Bazaar. One of the most reliable money makers in Eve was doing this with Power of Two accounts. Skill extractors change nothing about this process except how quickly you can realize a profit.

Oh I know it's been going on for years. Hence my comment about the Bazaar. It's the other things I commented on that I'm worried about.

Also, rather than remapping for an optimal skill plan, just optimize 2 attributes. then you're at max SP gain. Extract skills, and profit. I don't disagree that the profit potential is high. My concern (as you so astutely pointed out) is the rate of profit and it's effects on an already borked economy.

Interesting that the 80m SP+ bracket is getting a much greater return than originally proposed.

Still eagerly awaiting AUR cost estimation at the least to complete the picture.

Theres a few other things that are bad about this besides the pay to win feature.

Lots of players will lose a lot of expirience. We all had to claw our way into better ships, dying and learning along the way. When we get into capitals, unless you are laser focused, it comes from years of dedication to this game. Its a major achievement to move up a ship class, even going from frig to dessie was ecxiting as hell as a newbro, if this becomes a reality, that sense of achievement will be seriously mitigated. It is not nearly as effective to buy your way into a ship as it is to have to wait for it, and to work for it, and to sit on the edge of your seat as the skill queue ticks down the last few minutes. This is one of the best parts of eve, finally earning the right to use new things. With this gone moving up a class or using something new has no more sense of achievement, it is simply something you bought.

How about a counter-thought. Make it so that each character has a set number of skill injectors they can use. You can still extract as much as you want and sell it for isk, but you can only use a certain amount of injectors per character. Say 10 for this scenario, though that would likely not be the actual number. This way, people can buy sp, but not enough to make them skip the beginning of the game as new players, nor would older players be able to inject enough to buy a more elite character. Even if the numbers stay the same as now, with minimum of 150k sp per character, and use 10 max injectors as a baseline number, thats stil 1.5 million sp that you didnt have to wait for. Thats roughly 20 days of no-implant training right there, which is a significant amount of time in Eve, but not enough to break the game and not enough to skyrocket High SP players even higher, and you could even increase the numbers somewhat without it being too bad,

This would mitigate, if not eliminate, almost every concern voiced by outraged players. It would still allow selling SP for isk, and it would still allow instant training, just it would eliminate most of the abusiveness of it. It could even be lore friendly, something along the lines of the brain can only handle so much stress before being permanently damaged.

Please consider it, or something similar, this can be implemented without being a bad thing, it just needs to be done right, and unlimited free sp for rich players is a very bad thing

QFT. This would also help reduce some of the market abuse that I'm concerned about. Adoption would be slower since the demand could be so potentially curbed. This would allow a much smoother transition that would affect PLEX much less severely.

I had my first capital capable pilot and ship before I was more than a year old in the game. The Character Bazaar exists.

Now someone tell me with a straight face that EVE is doing well financially.

Maybe because raising the cost for everyone might have a greater consequence than raising the cost to play for those farming SP to sell, is one reason I can think of. The proposition has no effect on my cost as a subbed player or potential TSP buyer.

Best inkling we have with all things in mind suggests that eve itself IS doing well financially. CCP had some losses to take from WOD, dust is doings something and the other projects are just getting off the ground so there is that, but Eve seems fine.

Uh, what?

The only way I can think of how this makes sense is if you're a career character trader who's angry about his business taking a hit.