Skill Discussions

when will ccp make a skill plex to take time off training? gratz on 10 :)

I'm actually a big fan of this and I'll try and explain why and aslo why I feel that a lot of the arguements against are foolish.

Many people, like the above poster, like to say that you can just buy a character off the bazaar that has the skills you want however I and other people I've spoken to are not interested in buying someone elses character. Since there is no way to change the name of a character there is no way to make that character "yours". Some people enjoy mmos for the ability to custom create an avatar that we feel represents ourself or our personality. For instance this character name has been my gaming handle for more than 10 years across many games and dating back to a Tolkien based MUD. Obviously there is some attachment. However it has also bothered me that eve has no system in place that allows newer players to "catch up" with the veterans.

Now I'm not saying that veterans shouldn't have an advantage having been playing for so long however there should be some way for newer players to close the gap; even if it is at a considerable cost to that player. Additonally they could always have a dimishing system where plex will only allow you to advance your character so far perhaps having reduced effect as players approach a certain threshold. No doubt some people will say that skills have to be earned however with the implimentation of the character bazaar puts caput to that.

Something else worth considering is that this would incease the demand for plex which should mean increased revenue for ccp which I'd like to think could be funneled into more developers, faster content development, in general a benefit for cpp and all players.

Why would you bother commenting on something if it's "too long and you didn't read" it? People crack me up!

In that case train your character with the skills you want to have and be patient like everyone else who has ever played EVE. If you really really want more SP right now then you need to pick between that and your current toon's name and appearance.

Like you I am rather attached to my toon's name and I know that there are plenty of other characters out there that I will never catch up to SP wise. But despite my subscription not being active for about 2.5 years of my character's existence I can effectively compete with people who have more SP than I do in a surprising number of ships and situations.

And you can catch up. Its called specialization. There are only so many skills that you can train to make your Thorax, Slasher, Abaddon, or Drake more effective. Once you have them all trained to 5 you are equal to or better than any veteran in that ship.

In the end all time gives you is more versatility. And that is the one and only real advantage that older characters have.

This. If all you have to do is pump actual currency into the game to get everything you want, the game will have already died.

Please explain how paying to increase a character's skills or skill training speed is end of the eve universe game breaking but paying for a preskilled character isn't. You throw around the term pay2win like like it doesn't already exist...I hears they implimented this thing called plex.

As far as having to just wait like everyone else... I get that arguement but just because previous players had to walk uphill both ways in the snow barefoot doesn't mean everyone else should be forced to as well. If properly implimented a system could just as easily benefit older players as well. Of course ccp could just allow name changes and make this easier.

hell no

Easy.
Your goal is to get your char a little boosted as it seems to you expensive.
So let say you would like to get 2 skillboosts 1mln SP each for 2 PLEXes because it is defined by your financial abilities.
You will got a little boosted char saving relatively little time and gaining not so much overall.

Imagine now a character which already has 100mln SP and 100bln ISK he dont know what to do.
He will boost himselfs in no time to 200mln SP just by emptying his wallet.

But that's not end.

Imagine characters with ability to earn equivalent of 1 PLEX per day or even 2 PLEXes per day if they will spend just a bit more time.
Our 200mln SP guy is one of them.
Such a char is gaining 1 or 2 mln SP every day. In a month he makes char boost by 30-60millions. It means he will pay for jumping several years of skilling.

Such boosts will not be single. They will be massive. But wait, you aren't capable of earning 1 PLEX a day, aren't you ?
Same about a lot of others new players or casual players.
They will became food for 500mln SP megachars.

Welcome in Slaveworld Online.
They paid to be your lords.

Wish they made a smart Plex...

And then everyone would just stay logged on AFK 23/7 and nothing would really change at all.