Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Why not ask for play time rewarding like xp per rat or player ship kill mission accomplished etc?

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Is the OP asking how skillpoints might have accumulated (i.e. he sees points and can't figure out where he got them, in which case SP were given out a few times when the servers went down for an extended period of time), or is he making a proposal? Hard to tell with the bad english.

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NO BECAUSE NO FOR THE REASONS NO NO AND NO, BACKED UP BY SUCH EVIDENCE AS NO, NO, NO AND NO.

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This is the ideas i'm heading too.... generate blank skillpoints and use them when needed!

I don't think that will be the case, if for example it was implemented base don lowest attribute -3 or even just the lowest attribute.
The time it will take to accrue enough SP to make a sell able character would not be as efficient as just spending the money you would have spent on subscription on PLEX and selling it.

Yes some people would be able to afford to pay for a simmed character with PLEX but not everyone has that luxury. You could limit it further and limit passive SP gain to one character per account. This wont stop the problem but it would force people to make new accounts just to passively train up a character.

There is a lot of pros and cons to this idea, but the bottom line is, not everyone has time or circumstances in their favour to religiously keep the skill queue rolling, what if a serviceman goes on tour but would like to keep his/her account active? You expect them to be logging in every 4-20 days from Iraq to update the skill queue?

Just because everyone else can sit at home most of the day playing with the PLEX they bought with the ISK they made does not mean the few that don't have this luxury due to work, commitments or other reasons and drive the game by actually paying real money for the game have to suffer.

Yes I apologise for the rant, but it annoys me when people who effectively play for free because they can sit around making ISK all day seem to throw away every idea that makes it easier for the actual paying customers to stay subscribed and interested.

Moving from General Discussion to Features & Ideas Discussion.

Side effects of allowing untrained skill points to pile up are real and worth looking at. So lets take off the "I WANT" hat and put on the game designer hairpiece.

so what if someone rolls up a blank character with 40 million unspent skill points and sells it? even if unspent points accrue at a really reduced rate, people will inevitably do it. Such a character would be worth more $$ because of the crazy flexibility and because it would cost more to make.

after a few years you would have an influx of "perfect skilled" characters. You can get "perfect skilled" characters today if someone manages the skill queue properly, but they're pregenerated for a specific set, so finding the exact one you want is tougher.

having lots of perfect skillable characters for sale could alter game fun where long skill train times are meant to be the "cost". not just titan pilots, but marauders/pirate ships with dual race requirements etc. folks would be able to get these things instantly.

So why is that bad? I recently finally skilled up into a carrier (a project i've worked on and off on for like a year). I've always been a drone freak and keep trying to relive my homeworld 2 days. Finally getting into a carrier was a pretty big rush and was a nice game payoff. Had I been able to buy my way into one I probably would have, yet I would ironically have denied myself the super cool rush of finally achieving a long term goal. I'd have enjoyed it, but not nearly as much.

The "hard work -> payoff" rush is what a game wants to provide. its HUGE. that's why people get their friends to join. But you cant depend on players to see that when you nerf stuff or make it harder. Everyone remembers the awesome night when they met an evenly matched fleet and the outcome was in doubt, but your crew pulled it out of the fire and trounced the other guys. Yet most people would, if possible, summon the blob instead so they could be assured another easy (and easily forgotten) win.

That's a long way to say "No unlimited sp accrual. Keep hard goals hard, and hard goals worthwhile."

solve the problem another way, either by capping it at a small amount to let help travellers, or (better) give us a way to interact with the game world from anywhere.

Of course you do, you get playing experience when you pvp and pve, this is awesome in such complicated game *sic* and on top you win SKILL POINTS either you're online or not as long as you CHOOSE to fill your SKILLS QUE.

This is absolutely Evetastic !!