Player Features and Ideas Discussion

For me is the subscription model and the time-based advancement the main selling point of EVE.

I have played games with micro transactions, where it is necessary to pay money or else to fall behind others. This creates a "social micro cosmos" based not so much on the content of a game but on external factors. Friendships are created and destroyed based on how much each player is willing to spend on their game at any given time. In EVE is this not so much the case and makes for a better time.

In fact, the only "rich guys" in EVE are the botters and they are being outright hated by the community, which is pretty outstanding. However, in EVE posses the players multiple accounts, which could be used to describe their real-life wealth, but one can have these with other games, too, and so did this never really establish itself as a measure, but alts are rather kept hidden for secrecy, which is again pretty cool and unusual.

I would not want it any other way.

Yes do this, I just bought one and it works out fairly well.
I wanted a booster not a tengu though sadly.
Just remember that price is very high typically 5 bil for a good toon.
And the more you go past 5 bil the more sp/isk you get.

You can already buy skillpoints, albeit in a limited fashion.

If you can't wait 30 days for that skill V in order to use that Tech 2 Widget, you can normally buy an expensive faction or deadspace module (or ship) that provides the equivalent benefit as the Tech 2 variant. It's not perfect, but it holds in a lot of cases.

Instead of pushing for skills points for isk, petition that every module and ship to have a corresponding faction/deadspace equivalent.

I don't think a lot of people actually read my post, just the thread title. I'm not advocating for a change, I was looking for opinions on cause and effects if such a thing were to ever happen.

But from the sounds of it, the community has drawn a line in the sand and have made it clear that you do not want such a change to happen.

So much hate.

From a game balance perspective there is absolutely no reason why people couldn't just by skill points in unlimited quantities at some arbitrary amount (say 1 month unboosted average SP per PLEX).

On the other hand, there are a lot of players who would get seriously upset at the prospect, to the point where implementing such a thing in actuality would probably result in damage to the game.
Not to mention the pressure from certain highly competitive groups to have all their members in FOTM fits within days of when they are declared instead of weeks. This may be the non-articulated fear behind some of the more emotional responses.

Better not to have it.

The day that happens I will personally make a thread stating that "Eve is dying!".

Biomass yourself for even suggesting that idea.

It's bullsh*t that it pretty much exists in Dust but that game needs MTs to stay afloat, Eve doesn't

Vanity items are fine, anything that gives any advantages is not.

One major problem with those micro-transaction power items is that, even if they start by giving small insignificant bonuses, they will grow exponentially and eventually break game balance:
Today you get an item that gives a constant +1m/s speed boost to ships, soon they release a +10m/s version, then in a year or two it'll be a +500% speed boost item that beats having MWDs. If you look at a lot of those "free" micro-transaction based MMOs out there, you'll see this power-creep trend in cash shop items.

The same could happen to $ for SP:
It starts with being able to buy a limited amount of SP, then the limit is lifted and everyone can spend $$$ to max all skills, then once that market is exhausted they'll offer LV6 skills that can only be bought with $$$.

Imagine one day, finding your deadspace/officer-fit [insert whatever ship you like] having trouble breaking the shields of a 2-day-old newbie's $5k-fit Velator...

The day SP for MT is rolled out, you won't have anyone left to listen to your thread...