Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hi i am a new player on eve.

i have 2 months of playing and one of those were "spent" on vacation... ...i lost almost 20 days of training becouse of it and is very frustrating to see how many tech 2 modules i should be using right now that i will have to wait another month for it.

So i propose a vacation mode for eve, you should get it like you get neural remaps, once a year and when you activate it you should be able to queue skills up to 30 days.

This i think will solve the problem for people like me that like to go very far away from any computer when get vacation from work :)

Maybe for an old player there are,for new people there are not, the initial skills all train faster, i had at the time tittle lvl 4 skills, the max i could get was an 8 days skill (frigate 5), so i got 9 days training and lost the other 20.


And the fact that things were worse does not mean they should not get any better. :)

If you are refering to the "increase the skill queue" threads, i really don't see how a function that can be activated ONCE a year can be related to it, and i didin't found any threads trying to resolve a problem that people that work and have real life can have.

Anyways is a sugestion that tries to solve a problem that i had, and that new players can have, as it was alread said that old players can simply queue a 20 or more days training skill...

this is why you PLAN. You spend the week before getting say, cruiser IV, then let cruiser V train while you're away.

OP says that they went on vacation from work, and decided to do something that took them "very far" from their PC. Sounds like it was planned with a fair bit of "advanced warning".

Very well said Buzzy, Danika are assuming that new players know many things they don't... and that they are willing to do all that planning.

2 weeks before my vacation i was planning to repair my mortorcicle, who i wold pay to take care of my dogs, what clothes i would take to a month motorcicle trip, what streets to get, vacine for yellow fever, passports, etc, etc, etc none of it related to EVE.

After all this is a game, this is suposed to be a fun thing, and in the only month i have of vacation from work i want just to click a switch, and go live my Life.

This is a sugestion that i think will be good for many people like me, that play it for fun, does not commit so many time of their life on it , it is not unbalancing or game changing feature. it is just a facilitator for the casual player that wants to go on vacation.

First off, this is a GAME. The skill queue works fine for nearly everyone. Yes, **** happens! I'm around 1.5 years old, and I've probably lost a month of training time due to forgetting about the game, being gone, etc. Not important!

You should do what other suggested here: if you know you're going to be gone, then use EVEmon to skill up for something that'll take a LONG time. I know that this summer, I'll be gone for a while when I get married. I'm planning on training something like Industrial Command Ships V (30-ish days), Advanced Spaceship Command V (20+ days), or something along those lines. However, if I mess up and don't get to? So what? After all, it's a GAME.

Stuff happens. Remember to not take it too seriously and move on. The training queue works perfectly for those that are playing the game. When you're on vacation, you're having WAY more fun than you would be playing EVE (unless your vacations SUCK) so why are you complaining about losing game time? Calm down, take a deep breath, and relax.

Did I mention that this is just a game?

Then why do people take suggesting changing the way the skill queue works in ways that would make the game more fair like someone excreted in their breakfast cereal?

Certainly somebody is taking the game too seriously.

Ah, you like unfair systems when you have the advantage.

I get it.

You said what i was thinking, i had not seen a valid argument why not, just aswers like "you should have planned ahead", that's is a little easier when you know the game, what you want for you char, what skills enables what to make a long term plan... anyway how hard or not to make a plan is not the point here. The point is that a vacation mode is a easy and quick to implement solution for a problem i belive is not only mine.

The evegate solution is good too, i like it, and is much better the "plan ahead" to someone who does not know the game yet... but the ideia of vacation is not to be worry about when you need to go to a cyber cafe to change your skill. Anyway i think the 2 solutions are complementary.