EVE General Discussion

Will it even make a big difference?
It is hard to know how many accounts are "Active", but even assuming that 160k then there's not "that" much being added to the system. A lot of players will inject this item as it is something they cant afford so they will just be happy and inject. And as another poster said... How much "Server SP" has been eaten by the losses?
Just the top players on eveboard seem to have eaten about 14 billion SP (losses taken into account!)..
Going by how many has been sold/resold then it looks like probably a good 300 billion SP has been taken out of play, so them giving 25-30 billion back out to players will not make much of a difference at all, on top of that they would have done some maths behind it I am sure... Perhaps the math is more like a drug dealer "First hit free", but It's not going to be enough to destroy the game.

The key thing here is that everyone will get it, so the only people who will be at a disadvantage are those people that do not have active accounts.

My accounts were not active during the recent "Free SP" giveaways that they had due to server issues, that would be nice to have but its not a big deal as my accounts were not active.

My question would be, if your using MCT do you get the gift for all characters in active training, or is it just one gift max per account. They should reward players with MCT too, else it makes MCT look a little useless.

A bit late for this reasoning isn't it? Freely created SP by CCP predates skill injectors. We've received a few unplanned downtime compensations over the years in SP form.

Also, as someone who argued from that side when this came up these feel like 2 different concepts you're conflating. One being the issue of direct sale of SP negating the value of training rather than trade strengthening that value, the other being the ability of CCP to hand out gifts on certain occasions, which while they arguably have a similar effect, the latter does so on a muuuuuuch lower scale and only once per incident of giving.

I doubt confiscated accounts has any bearing here since it's a gift rather than a market adjustment or in game event.

Hey guys, I feel like there's a difference between 500k unallocated and a Skill Injector. One would be a free week of subscription time benefit, which has been done for quite a few years like you have mentioned. Gifting a SKill Injector, however, is different because there's a recent in-game market for those, and one of the guarantees for its stability was that Injectors would only come from subscribing players.

Giving unallocated also requires the consumption of Skill Extractors which would at least maintain the relationship between AUR, PLEX, and Skill Injectors, and preserve the process of having to extract SP.

CCP I hope you agree that directly awarding Injectors trashes an in-game market needlessly.

They'll find none of my characters have Injectors, and I've only used four total to transfer SP between them.

So, if it's not about the market, then what's the big deal? Some folks get isk...some get sp.

Sounds like a win-win.

(or is it a win-win-win?)

No...No...definitely just a win-win.

KB

Injector SP efficiency loss is a drawback to prevent us from freely remapping characters. It's not meant to be a justification for CCP spawning them at will.

Make your own market thread about the impact of SKill Injectors on market, don't hijack mine thanks

They have an effect and that's why instead of Skill Injectors, we should receive Unallocated. Especially if a lot of players will use the item anyway like you suggest.

Exactly how much of an impact dev hacked Skill Injectors will have on the market is a different discussion, and yes you are confused. Just because you go off on a market tangent when I mention the word market doesn't mean this thread needs to be moved to market discussions.

C'mon maaaaaaaaaan.

No one is crying doofus. If you're okay with it, that's cool. I asked the question, hey, are people sure they're okay with Skill Injectors being handed out. But don't try to tell me it's okay because they're not totally efficient.