Skill Discussions

You did that for a game?!?

I have read about players being given 100k SP when PI was launched

Well I did need the exercise

The only way that they could use the OP's idea to do this would be to put a cap on the amount on skill points that a person could get. Now after they put that feautre in people will just complain about that amount being to low... etc. etc.

If i can get unlimited skill points from features like this then as its been said people who train alts to sell will just let them train with no skills in que then when they are ready to sell pick whichever FOTM profession makes the most so they get large amounts from the character market. At the same time, getting skillpoints that you can choose to put wherever you want defeats the purpose of the eve skill training model. You train skills and make your character unique, if you can just get free SP again that can be abused.

When you pay for eve, you pay for the game, not the skill points. So if your skill que is empty and you choose to pay for the game it is your loss, and ccp views it as such. If you would like to purchase skillpoints check out the character bazaar.

As for this, if i can train 3 characters on one account then i can train pilots and sell them and that very much makes the price of any character go down.

The training que is perfectly acceptable the way it is now and if you have real life commitments and cant make it to the game honestly, its your loss. If it upsets you, stop paying for the game.

Sometimes being able to log-in and play the game just isn't an option.
There was a considerable amount of time during the year where I am unable to log-in to the game, simply because Work and Real-Life take presidence... if this isn't the case for you then fair enough, but for many people it is.

There are two things about EVE that have pissed me off for years.
• Lost Skill Points because of inactive Training Queues.
• Only being able to Train 1 Character on an Account at a Time.

Maybe you're different and have some form of OCD to constantly check you're training something, but I've found that the more time it takes to train skills; the less I actually bother checking to see when they'll be completed. Problem here is while sure, when I log-in after it is done something will pop-up saying "Skill Training Complete" ... the time between when it completed and when I logged in, is just lost SP

I think the OP solution is a fantastic one, as it will still be much quicker to train something within your queue; but those lost hours or sometimes days depending on circumstances in real-life would mean that you will be able to simply allocate these at a later date when you can log-in.

Also just don't understand the reason behind not being able to train more than 1 character on your account at a time.
If you use the excuse "Oh well people just wouldn't get additional accounts" only works when talking about things such-as Neutral Industrial Hauling alts... as you can only log-in with one character on a single account, the number of people will alts; which most I've seen have been for multiple miners, alt-boosting / RR or spying while playing your main - changing that won't stop them having multiple accounts.

Simply seems ******** why they give us 3 character slots to begin with, then basically tell us unless we purchase additional accounts we can only really have 1 useful at a time without the other characters suffering.

Saying "Oh these systems could be abused"... well how exactly could they be abused that you can't do already without logging in once a day?



I've been around long before the Skill Queue; as well as one character that saw the number of changes the skill system had from the original implimentation, which I guarentee that anyone who dealt with it is glad they brought about the passive skill training.

Change is good, regardless of if you believe it is or not.
I can tell you that there are multiple instances working in the industry I am in (which ironically is Video Games) where being able to get home can be difficult for extended periods... there is also a simple case that when you work 18 hours in a day at a computer, the last damn thing you want to do when you get in is use a computer simply to log-in and update a character.

Could I do it from work? Probably, but it would be a ****** reason to get fired over now wouldn't it? Can also tell you than most breaks we have, generally speaking you're still often working ... or eating lunch discussing what to do afterwards.

I'm damn sure I'm not the only person who feels like that as well. If you have a normal 9-5, with little in the way of responsibilities around the house to remember to log-in to maintain a VIDEO GAME CHARACTER; then more power to you, but that isn't the case for everyone.

SP is an integral, vital, part of the game and, therefore, losing them because of a game mechanic can't be good for gameplay.

I can't find where I said CCP are losing money, never mind stating it repeatedly. I'd be grateful if you'd point out those posts.

It would also reduce the number of fed up newbies which, again, can only be good for player retention.