Player Features and Ideas Discussion

lol took you 2 whole pages to finally realize that?

Enjoy WoW. :)

The graphics will always suck. No matter what they do, it's still a 2004 game that never had a real graphics update.

Try Star Trek Online. Or the single player game X3 Terran Conflict/Albion Prelude.

egh.....
You really don't get the point.
New players are welcome.
Eve is a sandbox.
You (and everyone else) can do what ever you want.
If you want to auto-pilot a freighter full of morphite from deep 0.0 to Jita, you can but it's entirely your fault if it explodes.

Skill training, the way it is in eve, is different to most other MMOs and it surves a purpose.

You just need to accept that eve, unlike most other games out there, isn't a time sink that holds your hand a leads you slowly from A through Z and is basically a film with quick time events.

Eve has choice and consiquence and you have to live with the consiquences of your actions.

If eve's not for you, then great, go play something else, if it is for you then even better, grow some balls and get stuck in

Well personally I don't even like the idea of character trading and I think there shouldn't be such system, but people would still do it through third party means, which would open a whole new can of worms (hacked accounts, CCP would need more recources to babysit illegal sales etc.), so it's lesser of two evils for CCP and players. While I don't like it, I still see it's necessary. Also with character trading you can't buy max SP, like you could with buying SP, since there are no characters with SP maxed.

The 2 last points because the older players with more SP and knowledge of the game would benefit more than newer players, since they know what they are doing and they usually have more isk. Hypothetically, if players were able to use PLEX to buy SP, older players wouldn't have to buy as many PLEX to max their SP and many of them would have the isk for it.

As for catching up, with more and more players with more and more SP, the competition in every aspect of the game would get harder, which in my mind would make me feel that "I have to" buy SP to keep myself competitive, which would mean I would "have to" get more PLEX, so "I have to" grind more isk to buy the PLEX. Hence introduce the "catching up" as a concept.

I'll give you a serious answer since you seem so serious.

The differences between Wow and Eve are many, most of them are asthetic, but a few are fundimental.

-Specialization: Eve allows extreme specialization making it so that a young character can perform just as well as a 8 year old character in that specific aspect

-Tactics: When I played WoW I remember that no matter how many level 10 characters were attacking a level 30 character they would never have a chance. In Eve this is not the case, a single small ship can and has destroyed ships much larger than it. Fleets of frigates have completely destroyed capital ships in minutes. Only 2-3 competent frigate pilots can ambush and destroy well tanked battleships before backup can arrive. Basically what I'm saying is that instead of more SP you need more competent friends to help you learn how the game works, tactics over skills.

I am really only refering to PVP as there is a conceptual cap on industry if you don't get to involved with production. Orca/Frieghter with good trade skills is all you really need. While PVP environments a person can spend years upon years training and still find something to train in. The base industrial cap is easily reached inside of a year, and if you cut off some of the fat, you become a solid miner inside 4 months.

Allowing SP to be bought outright would only increase the botting issues that the game already faces. People would need to gain more and more isk to instantly increase there SP, bots can easily pull in billions a day in revenue so the proliferation of high SP toons in shiny ships will skyrocket, making the game even more non new player friendly as the base for entry requires a botting account with base skills and setup as well as several hundred dollar investment just to attain the base skill required to bot so you can farm more sp.

This would break the spirit of the game, hyperinflate the value of ISK, and turn Eve into a grinding fest of unplayability. I hope that this helps. In closing I would like to suggest improving your understanding of game mechanics involving PVP, even basic knowledge of these as an industrialist will increase your survivability rate a lot.

If you do this and still feel the same way then I invite you to play any of the other games that are on the market that may appeal to you better. Thank you for your consideration and good day.

I'm hoping most everyone is with me, but have not read everything. just saying no to the OP.
-1 buying sp goes against what i play EVE for. that would just let every rich guy out there own 4 to 5 characters with maxed skills. ccp may make some temporary money off this, but would lose money in the long run for destroying the balance of character development...