EVE General Discussion

Hello, I am an obvious alt here to raise a serious discussion about skill implants in the game, and maybe hopefullysee some DEV input.

I believe skill implants are hurting the new player experience, PVP and how new players are getting into PVP or not ofcourse. Eve should be a difficult game this is why EVE is the only game I play but the mindset new players are getting into as soon as they join the game "fit +4s and learn skills as fast as you can at ALL costs" is having too much of a negative effect in my opinion .

People are fitting plus 4s then doing highsec safe activities like missions until they get to a point where they are happy about thier own skills to PVP or until they get a jump clone. New players are addicted to the skill learning boost implants give Getting young players to risk thier implants in group activities like wormholes and PVP The fun part of EVE seems very difficult right now.

One solution I have seen is an implant contract where your choosen skill implants would be covered for a month probably at a higher cost, another solution removing skill implants from the game all together. I like the game difficult, I like that item prices have been rising and veterans have high SP, I like the long term aspects of the game. So please dont flame about dumbing the game down. I would like to see a serious discussion. Thank You.

use jump clones or grow some nuts. Both are viable ways of pvping with implants.

*sigh* another one of these misguided fools that think that skillpoints are so important that you can't do meaningful PvP without using +4 learning implants .



Because jumpclones take away a lot of the risk of having a head full of very expensive implants, and easily allow players to min-max their sets without handicapping their versatility, I can't wait until CCP nerfs jumpclones HARD.

Player convenience is breaking both the rules of risk vs. reward and efficiency vs. versatility.

It is not that one cannot do pvp without a set of +4 implants.

It is that one is less inclined to do so because of the financial cost of losing them.

Also, there is the loss of 'accelerated' training speed, which for some players may seem quite important.

I took my 5 bil clone to null, and then a wh the other day

Pussies gonna puss

This bears repeating (excuse the pun).

While I understand CCP's reasoning behind it, I do think the 30-day booster, easily lost implant for newbies is poorly implemented for the reason of exactly stimulating such sentiments among newbies.

Not to sound too much bittervet, but in the old days new players spend the first two weeks sitting on their ass, training learning skills. A month even if they were serious about being a long-term player. Facing that, I might have agreed that learning implants were mandatory to some degree. But these days? Pfeh!

Well i dont know much about the "30-day booster, easily lost implant for newbies", as I am what you might call a bitter-vet. Maybe not quite as grey-haired as some, but I've been around for a while.

Yes, I went through the pain of skilling up learning skills, but you know how i did it.... I mixed them up with my other skills, so I could play the game as I skilled. I then began earning money to work up through the implants etc.

If a noob thinks that he needs to butn a few PLEX to get a set of +4 as soon as he starts playing then that his problem. Its not the fault of the implants.

Let the newbies worry about themselves.

I detect only tears here. Bizarre tears. Odd tears. 'Look at Me naow" Tears.

Agreed.

You pays your money you plays your game.