Skill Discussions

I would give this post 1000 likes if it were possible, instead you will have to settle for 3...

Wow...You have no idea. Spent the first few years like that. Those midnight to 4am skills finishing were the worst.....but worth it...

To those who complain, you have it soooo easy in Eve now from skill training to..well..everything. It is spoon fed to you and ccp cleans your mouth with the bib after each mouthful. Grow up.

We didn't have tutorials, we threw mods on ships and went "hmm, lets see what this does" commonly known as famous last words in pvp, right next to "well..that didn't work" and "Real men HULL TANK". If you can not have the forward thinking of knowing that you will be away for more than a day and changing your skill training to a longer skill, I am sorry. It happens. Since 03, it pisses me off if I ever have downtime not training. It has been a year or so since the last slip up, but I know for a fact that I probably have added a total of 10 full days in those years where I could have been training something..........it keeps me up at night man....

And through the use of a Alt on another character, I do run a corp devoted to helping newer players in the harsh universe of Eve. Thank You! I don't accept everyone, but take the time and effort to find them on my own and determine which ones would actually benefit from my assistance.

You take the responses way to critical. Perhaps with other older players you may run into ego's, I look at EvE as something in my spare time to just get away from working two jobs seven days a week and chill out and talk to the guys in my corps and just have a good time.

Calm down, its just internetz spaceship pixels!!

As for ccp. We have to assume that regardless of the good and bad and scams, whether they be internal or external issues, that in the end they will maintain their focus of what they want EvE to be.

Yes it's a game, with a mechanic which enables you to train small skills as well as long ones.
If you cannot organize yourself to set skills every now and then, whenever your skill sheet reaches that last 24 hours, then that is your issue not the games.

Perpetuum's character progression is based on SP accumulation over time and then you can purchase whatever rank you want in whatever desired skills, much like what the OP wants for EVE.

If this change were to be applied in EVE, the generally accepted standard would shift in favor of unassigned points rather than well trained characters and make a mockery of the thought and skill that goes into planning a proper character.

By making this change you would effectively be devaluing the entire existing character base who have any skill points that are not focused on whatever someone specifically wanted.

It's somehow comforting to know that I'm not alone with these anxieties.

Yes, so don't let something as inconsequential as SP take over your life.

If you can't make use of the time you're paying for, maybe you should… you know… not pay for it.

So don't. You'll be gone for over a month — don't pay for that month, and you'll come back with a couple of half-done skill queues.

Sure, if you're on quarterly or longer payment periods, it might not be that flexible, but still: if you can't play for a month, perhaps you should consider not paying for it. Simple.

I never did that - I just put in some long skill when I knew the one I was training for would finish at an inconvenient time.

On a side note, I think Perpetuum does what the OP suggests - looks convenient at first but makes alt training way to easy - buy an account for a year, log in a year later and spend the SP according to the current FOTM. No thanks.

Still saying it has a flaw.

Plenty of responses, most of them to "prove" the intellect of the posters. Few addressing the reason for the OP.

In addition to what I said: the learning skills were removed because they contributed nothing to the game play. Why not remove this headache from the game as well? Increasing the length of the queue would have a similar effect.

Having the chance of a cessation of skill training adds nothing to the game, or am I missing something?