Skill Discussions

I've been playing another mmo very closely based off eve called Perpetuum. Now its quite clear the 11 or so devs for that game were inspired by eve as nearly the entire game is like this only on the ground. One improvement i've seen though in that game is the skill system. You accrue 1 point every minute just for having an active account and can spend those points whenever you want on your skills.

The skill system in eve is nice but i'd like a longer term skill queu for times when I'm away from town for more than 24 hours. I deploy at times for up to 5 months and obviously cant log in down range and put up my next skill so i'm basically going to lose out on 5 months of skills. In the game I mentioned above that problem wouldnt exist as I would have 5 months of skills accrued when i get back to spend.

I'm not suggesting you change your system, just add longer queu times. Like up to a month at a time would be awesome.

I wish we could set our queue via Evemon or something, which I can get to while at work.

It would be easy to do using the new CREST interface if only CCP enabled it.

Maybe keep the same functionality as now (24hours) but then add (if its above 24hours) it lets you append a single skill?



This is true, Judging by my login information i've logged in to one of my accounts 5 times this year...

Because people logged in is what creates the content of the game.

Also, the skill queue is there to make sure you don't have to get up at 3am to change skills or to say on constantly to switch between umpty-eleven 5-minute skills. It's not there to make you not log in for months on end. Unless the Earth changes to have a 36h rotational cycle, there's very little reason to change the queue.

I support this, I agree with CCP not allowing people to unsub and train skills at the same time but if you pay for it... what is the point? need to interact with the game? I am, I would hardly call changing skills to be the big part of eve gameplay.

What is this crazy talk? I want the game to play itself. I shouldn't have to actually log on to the game. In fact I think every new player should start with all skills at level 5. That way I won't have to set up all this training.

It is when the player logs in, sees an op or a roam starting, and decides to join in on it.

In all seriousness the way it's set up now is fine. By making the skill queue longer or allowing skills to be set without logging on is a bad idea. If you're going on vacation there are skills that last from two weeks to over a month so this is not an issue. As for deployments I feel that pain because I deploy. Just have someone you trust set your training. Other than that if you don't want to log in once in a while for five minutes to set training why would you pay for Eve when you're not even playing the game. The one group that I would see this being popular with is groups that create multiple accounts to sell characters. I'm not talking about the guy who has five pilots, decides it's too much to handle then sells one for ISK. I mean people who sell accounts for real money.

Maybe set it to where you can add as many skills as you want to up to 24 hours (eg: adding industry processing skills to train up to level 2), and once the skill queue passes that 24 hour mark, you can add a set amount of skills, maybe like 2 or 3 skills after the 24 hour mark. On my alt, I did just that with the industry skills, and then had about 30 minutes at the end of the queue and added Hemorphite Processing level 4. After that I could add, say, 2 more skills to total up to 2 months of training time. You could only add 2 skills, even if they last a total of 3 weeks between them, or if they total 2 months. That might alleviate some problems for people like Tippia.

TL/DR: Keep current system, give ability to add set number of skills past 24 mark, totaling up to 2 months training time.