Player Features and Ideas Discussion

2 thing I'd like to see in the game. First and mostly, shared wallet and Inventory on characters on the same account, you can make it a feature you can turn on or off, it would save so much time from doing contracts between characters and logging in and out again, very annoying.

2nd thing is and I can see reasons why you wouldn't want to do this, purchasing skill points or making skill points some kind of tradable drop, very annoying wanting to peruse a skill and having to wait a month. and yea I know, but it can be done right where it wouldn't hurt the game

Would it be nice? Yes.
Would it be immersion breaking? Yes.
Would it make logistics and trading insanely easy (have one character in a trade hub and the other at your HQ or another trade hub)? Yes, again.

Characters are kept "separate" for good reasons.


You will receive a bounty from me when I log in tonight.

This idea encourages grinding and farming. I... HATE... grinding and farming with a fiery passion of a thousand burning suns. It takes away from the game by effectively introducing a "you need to catch up" mentality and forcing people to grind and farm unless they are willing to "fall behind."


Also... you don't need max skill to do anything. Having level 4 in a skill gives you about 80% of the effectiveness for 17% of the total time cost... and having all the skills in a specialty up to level 4 makes you, again, about 80 to 90% as effective as someone who has that specialty's skills to level 5... which is nothing an Ewar module or counter-tactic can't fix.

Yes of course, how silly of me, I forgot this game has more game snobs than any other mmo out there, I'm surprised they just don't delete this section of the board, I'm sure when they introduce a player reward you go into hysterics, LOL. you cannot possibly believe that sharing wallet and Inventory would ruin the game? loosen up your world will not end. heaven forbid we save players 5 min of useleess switching between accounts

thats stupid why should I have to setup a dummy corp to do this? this is like talking to a bunch of old ladies, just shout them down and not listen to anything. LMAO

Obviously you don't understand how powerful the ability to move billions in assets across the entire map nearly instantaneously is.

I wouldn't need to use Freighters anymore. Or haulers of any kind. I could simply use an alt to buy stuff at a market hub, share it with my main character out in the backwoods of 0.0, switch characters, and then use those items without ever having put in any effort or risk.
It also allows traders to move between and trade between different hubs with ridiculous ease.

What does all this mean?
- logistics and hauling professions become obsolete (because it's easier and safer to use an alt and "share" stuff with it)...
- prices in different places will become homogenized (because it's equally easy to go to shop at a trade hub as it is to shop in your current station)...
- it effectively ends the profession of supplying "small" or "niche" markets in the far corners of the game.
- it promotes more centralized market hubs (why buy anywhere else when the alt doesn't need to leave the station and can just transfer assets?)

It isn't about "having my panties in a bunch" (though they usually are). It's about respecting overall "balance" and understanding that some inconvenience is actually good for long term gameplay (and can even open up new professions for those players willing to do it).

edit:

What loophole? It'll cost you more in ships to get the bounty off of your alt (remember, the "killer" only gets ~20% of the value of the ship each time it blows up).