Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hey, this might have been suggested before, maybe not.

I had a thought, in a world where skills are mapped directly into the human brain, and where the technology exists to remap character's attributes to whatever you desire, why then does the ability not exist to remap skills.

By remapping skills I mean, all but the base character generation skills are removed, and the skill points are placed in a skill point pool that can be used to instantly purchases ranks of any skill you desire. This would of course require you to repurchase any skill books for skills you wanted to learn.

I can't see where this is a difficult task to add into the game, they have already done such years ago when they removed the learning skills from the game, and gave players a skill point pool equivalent to the amount of skill points invested in the learning skills, which was able to be used to purchase skill ranks instantly.

Obviously this should not be a widely available tool, as it could be abused, such as constantly remapping different skills for PvE and PvP, and Mining, etc... If this was a paid service, controls could be put in place, such as a cool down on the use of the service, or another option would be to follow the current Neural Remap system of one free remap every year, and 2 bonus remaps given during character generation.

Obviously the older the pilot becomes, the less this will be an issue as they will have the skill points to specialise in multiple areas and be good at all. This service would primarily assist, newer characters, this is because Eve has so many career choices you can make when you start out, and sometimes it is difficult to know what to choose.

For example with my first character I spent the first 6 weeks of her life, changing from scouting/exploration, mining, research and production, salvage, and industrial ships for transporting goods, before finally choosing to become a combat pilot. I have spent the next 3 months on her trying to correct the character from the mistakes I made in the first six weeks of training, and as such have a four and a half month old character, that has mediocre combat skills, can not run anything above level 2 missions without major difficulties, let alone run things like incursions that other characters my age are starting to do. My character can not even fly battleships yet, what I wouldn't give to be able to go into a memory chamber, and reset my learned skills and this time focus heavily on combat skills.

Obviously given another 6 months or more training I will have very good combat skills, and will be able to do PvP and Incursions and all the good stuff, plus of course, I would also be able to salvage missions well, scan down sites, and lots of other cool stuff. Personally though I would like to be able to do combat now, and learn those other skills later when I have more time to devote to non-necessary skills.

Anyways, this post is fast becoming a wall of text, so I will bring my post to an end now. I do hope this does not become a flame-fest as I don't want to see unrestricted re-skilling as I believe that would be a game breaker, but I can see that with tight controls it could be useful, in particular to new players.

Thank you for taking the time to read my suggestion, and I welcome any constructive comments on my post.

Game destroying, interesting, as I stated, this has actually been done in the past.

My main account was active, and I had a character way back, when the learning skills were still in the game, and he was given a skill pool of almost 4 million skill points to place in other skills when the learning skills were removed.

I personally don't see how this is any more game breaking then allowing neural remapping of attributes, or are you against that too?

Personally I much preferred the old system back when race, and bloodline effected what attributes you started with, and school and philosophy effected what skills you started out with, and of course back then attributes could not be changed at all beyond character generation screen without the need to learn skills to improve them. Back then character generation was meaningful, now its down to a matter of aesthetic appearance.

PS: I posted this on a 7 day alt because a friend of mine recommended not posting using my main character, why, I don't know, just following their advice.

Not then, not now, not ever.

Remaps are not game breaking due to once you are out of remaps you are stuck with your attributes for a year.
If it takes you a month to two months to figure out you don't like mining you may have problems, mining is one of those things that you either love or hate, few people stop and think "Ya know I was going to go on a PvP roam today but screw it I would rather mine instead."

Because in 4-5 months you would reach your 6mill SP cap and would not be able to use them

In that short on an amount of time what is the point? Getting rid on the sp you put into industry? Skills train fairly fast so people can get a feel for what they are going to be doing in that area before they specialize in it, train the skill to level 1 or 2 and check it out, if you don't like it it was only around 2 hours if you do like it keep going. To specialize in something then try it is nobody's fault but your own.

How? You are asking to wipe clean all skills up to 6mill and then place them where ever you want, a remap can be a great benefit or a big mistake, most who remap have a skill plan that lasts for at least one year, so when it is done they can map back to neutral or begin a second remap.

This would also completely remove the need for different races. There are almost already pointless this would remove all need. Reason being you train for 6 months in caldari only to figure out they are not the best for pvp minmatar is, so you just skill remap for minmatar equipment. They would be better off giving new players a few hundred thousand free skill points to try out a few things before they invested too much time into any one area.

Other than the fact that you would have a 6 months worth of skill points that you would not have as a new caldari pilot.
From what I can gather you dumped a bunch of time and sill points into in industry and now you want them back because you don't like mining. I can say from personal experience that mining is a good supplemental source of income. When you have nothing better to do jump into a retriever and afk mine. Other than that biomass your self and start new if you only have 3-6 months of skill points you won't be to heart broken for too long, if you play the game for more than 6 more months that is

I realized I was getting too tired too late, I'm out of this until I get some rest, in another 4 hours.......