Player Features and Ideas Discussion

First wrong forum and second no

I agree...and disagree. Older players have better skilsl, because they play this game for a long time. The newest guy in my corp had less SP than i have in gunnery when he first gets in. He was flying a rifter in our pvp ops and he was quite usefull. DPS isn't everything. Now, he fly T2 ans soon a loki. That's what make eve so special <3

It's called the Character Bazaar

We'd sell the skillpoints of alts that we don't use anymore to our mains. There are so many ways we'd abuse this. The current system isn't flawed, it's just very misunderstood. You can still be very useful on day 1 & anyone that tells you otherwise is bad at this game (and has probably never left highsec).

Instead of pointing out the hundreds of reasons why this is a terrible idea, I will simply say ;

"You should be ashamed of yourself".

You misread me, I am not saying that we should be able to sell our character's skill points, but that we should be able to buy skill point boosters from CCP. Thus your exploit is nonexistant.

This thread is a shining example of how terrible the EVE community is. My best suggestion is to stop using the forums entirely as they are utterly useless.

Jita local is more helpful than the answers you will receive here.

Buying SP... No.

You don't need to catch up with Veterans in EVE because when you pick a class or progression of ships you can hit the ceiling quicker giving the Vet more options but you a specialized career where you match them. What is more you after a time match them in entire subsets like combat or a type of Industry.

One of the things that makes EVE great is that with the open field strategy you can insert may low SP roles into a Battlefleet adding to the whole. While 5% here and 10% there are nice a proper ECM Ship or Tackler or Logi or Dmg Dealer can mean a hell of a lot.

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On that I am in favor of lowering the newbie general grind in certain area's. For instance Drones.

Drones (Launch 1 Drone per Lvl)
Drone Interfacing (+20% Dmg) Trainable at Drone V

A more newbie friendly system for instance.

Drones (20% Dmg Per Lvl)
Drone Interfacing (+10% Dmg) Trainable at Drone IV

Adjusting the base stats of the Drones so they equal the same amount of Damage as now this grind is less harsh allowing more Drone Damage but requiring the same time to max out.

Another thing is Ammo, Guns are often balanced around T2 Ammo like Scorch. There should be better T1 opportunities to use the same tactics to a slightly lesser effectiveness, they should look into an Ammo overhaul for guns so T1 Ammo can use said tactics instead of a ship being useless until a T2 gun can be attained.

Certain skills can do with a shortening and others can be combined as well to shorten the base train.
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Basically an upside down Pyramid of specialization that shortens the time fore core skills while keeping the time for specialization long. I think it could stand to be a bit thinner at the bottom.

I agree completely, this is a hornets nest.

And Jim Era, you are clearly a veteran who likes the current system. But, if you are capable, try to see this from the perspective of the tens of thousands who are in my shoes.
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Alara, I agree with you for the most part, and although, from what I have read, it takes in the order of 6 months to max out a specialty, that is a long time for a game and computers in general.

The time investment encourages veterans to keep playing, but it also drives away innumerable able players. I hope that by having another form of investment, whether real money or gametime will have the same effect with less drawbacks.
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BTW, for those who missed this:

To make myself clear, I like that the system allows you to advance without having to put large amounts of time into the game, but I simply wish to alleviate the problem of not being able to advance significantly faster and thus having to wait to play well.

If you think my idea is bad, then propose a better one. If you like the system as it is, then say so. The floor is yours.

Thank you for making a CONSTRUCTIVE comment. I actually agree with you, although I still wish there was a way to speed training that wasn't lost if you get podded.