Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Knock yourself out.

All those miners are supplying sp to another character, I figured youd pick up on that as thats what the post was about. not an alt on the same account of any of the others.
~the point is if its about financing, sp transfer doesn't give ccp anything, as they get cash for however many accounts you have. and training those accounts takes time, manufacturing alts with artificially higher rates of sp gain does nothing for them in a time based skill setup.
~there is a restriction on that sort of mechanic. its simply not allowed. any type of restriction to make exploitation impossible will simply ruin any gain you were attempting to have and render it nonviable anyway. any quicker training of alts is exploitative no matter how honest your intentions are.
~The best thing a vet can do for a new player, and i cant stress this enough, is to buy skill books for them, walk them through reasons why they should not carry them in cargo, explain medical clones, and tell them to go mess around in lowsec before their clones get expensive.

It is the very weird expectation that Hisec will prepare you (the new player) for anything that i take fault with, It lulls people into the false expectations that people are going to be inherently law abiding. giving people access to faster more expensive things, that they aren't knowledgeable enough about the game to replace isn't going to keep people playing. it tends to do the opposite.

no
dont think its good.
uber characters in no time? Buy 5 toons, merge SP, distribute in perfect fashion.

Very very bad idea.

Yay, yet another SP bad idea.

No.

@Gizzyboy I thought my reply made it evident that I wasn't taking your suggestion all that seriously.

@fab24 One of the BEST features of this idea, is that CCP doesn't force you to do it.

@Neoimus I take it you're not a Fleet Commander.

@Dodge You couldn't do that with the restrictions I've recommended. With a loss ration 3-to-1 (or higher), and a transfer differential limitation (you can only transfer to those with less than 25% your current SP), you could NEVER transfer all your SP into an alt. Now if somebody WANTS to transfer as many SP as they can (given the loss ration and differential limit) into an Alt, to have a much less skilled original character and a much further along Alt (but still nowhere near the original), then big deal! I don't see the problem in this.

@Kasum It doesn't matter who the miners are (alts, other accounts, or other players). If they want to boost another player with SP then I still don't consider that to be a bad thing. Obviously I have no problem with a low level toon getting an SP boost (at the sacrifice of another willing player), hence the original post. These miners could not continue to do this for too long with the SP point differential as the character being boosted would eventually have SP that exceeded the 25% limit between the giver and receiver.

As to the CCP financing argument. The point I was making if someone wants to feed SP from alts, and purposely purchases and subscribes accounts to do this, then that only helps CCP's bottom line. But again I think given the restrictions on how this can be used it would not even be viable let alone cost effective

Frankly this is a much less egregious practice than is a totally new and ignorant player buying 10 million SP account to play with. AND in fact provides lots of opportunities for veteran players to help out those who are coming up the ranks, and incentives for new players who may be daunted by coming in late to the game.