Skill Discussions

Recently I've been made aware of that there is a such thing as 'wasted Skill Points'. Well, personally believe that it is all a state of mind. My character is a well rounded character, he can do PvE decently well all the way up to Lvl 4's, a little bit of explo decently well, and do anything indie besides invent and produce the T2 stuff. I even got him trained up in PI (which currently is an ongoing operation, cannot yet do planetology but its on the list of things to train before he's really any decent in PI (although currently he can do 3 planets and has decent yield)). Production so-so and PvP so-so. Do I feel I wasted any of these SP? Well, now that I'm acquiring an alt for PvP, and created another alt for indie, I feel I have, while, before I was using, and still currently (and for now) use, all the skills Aidon has. I feel I may have wasted my time, not SP. Those are two different things, as even though time means SP and SP means time, his skills are still usable, and he already owns a variety of different ships for different purposes.

If I had the income to afford to do this a year ago, I could have train Sibius for pure PvE/incursion piloting and some other stuff that isn't covered by my two new alts, and that primarily being furthering is PvE skills and incursion skills. My new PvP alt can fly a Tengu and has T2 heavies and T2 HAMs. And he's already pretty close to being able to fit covert ops cloaking devices so now it's only a matter of time of training him into a Manticore and training hacking/scanning skills so he'd be decent in PvP and explo, since he's already only a month away from being able to use covert ops, the prefered method for being a good explorer. And he can already use T2 cruisers so once I can use T2 frigs all those skill points in Aidon that I have thrown towards PvP/explo would essentially become 'wasted', but this is only in my mind, as if I tried to sell him he'd be decent for someone looking specifically for a well-rounded character, who doesn't want to have alts, or doesn't want more than 2 alts (like say someone with a pure indie pilot that wants a combat pilot, and that can supplement his indie pilot with additional PI if that's his/her thing, and someone else that can fly barges to be able to mine more and produce more).

In the end, it could perhaps be 'wasted' if I'm trying to sell him off as a focused pilot to someone looking for a focused character, but not wasted for someone looking for a well-rounded character, especially maybe to someone that wants to try each area of operations out before making another alt and wasting time training SP for something he/she may not actually like or end up not wanting to do, or before that new player that doesn't mind buying a few plexes to start out with creates a character from scratch, that has the same thing in mind. What's your opinion on this matter? Do you feel that wasted skill points is something that is factual, and has a definition that could apply to any character? Then again, what's the actual MEANING of wasted skill points?

Some people feel they "wasted skillpoints" when they invested training into a weapon system, ship hull, or ingame activity that they no longer utilize. These players whine loudest when CCP rebalances the game, resulting in shifts in the game's environment.

These players ignore the fact that they can still utilize those skillpoints, and mainly complain because the changes mean they no longer have the most ideal skillset/toolset.

Or Battleship Construction 5.

[For non-manufacturers, neither skill levels are required by any blueprint, nor do the skill levels offer any other advantage.]

Now, that's a waste of money (and time). If I were to use a PLEX to remove SP I'd want the SP back from all those days I spent waiting for the skill to finish. Otherwise I'd just keep the skill. In hopes that I'd find a reason to use it.

Mining skills are wasted skill points.

if i had to guess, i would say that roughly one in ten players would gladly pay a plex to be able to unlearn some skills, even if he will not get the skill points back. people like efficiency and for some reason they seem to hate mining III.

I have a total of 270 skills at 105 mil SP. If I could use a PLEX to remove unwanted/unused skills even if I do not get reimbursed for them, I would do it in a heartbeat.

I have 43 skills I would delete that total about 4 mil SP. I would do this because I do not care for them. Some skills I trained to try something new out, like PI. Those 5 skills I did used for awhile, but got tired of all the clicking. I do not do PI & will never do PI again. I also trained Research agents when I was young & the passive income was worth it. But CCP nerfed that into the ground & it is not worth it anymore. I would remove all of them.

Mining Level 3 enough said.

I am not trying to reduced my SP to get a cheaper clone because at this point 105 mil SP - 4 mil Sp equals 101 mil SP. I am still in the same clone upgrade range.

I am OCD about my skill sheet & how it looks. Charge me a PLEX to allow me to remove these skills. I do not want to get reimbursed, because I did make the decision to plug them in. But I should be allowed to unplug them too. The penalty for this would be for me not to get reimbursed for skill points or skill books.

This PLEX for Removal of Unwanted/Unused Skills would get for more use than the PLEX for Re-Scuplt. I know many pilots in New Eden & never have once have I heard anyone using the PLEX for Re-Sculpt. I would love to see CCP give us an usage number for PLEX for Re-Sculpt.

I've found uses for the mining skill training I did as a newbie.

I can fly a Procurer when a warpin is needed for a gank fleet.

There are no such things as "wasted skillpoints", only skills you're not using right at this moment.

Arguably there's a case to be made for "skillpoints earned in a sub-optimal order", but eh.

My wasted skill points are "High Energy Physics" to 4. CCP said this would be needed for the Bastion module then about a week before the patch they were like oh just kidding you don't need any extra skill for this module....

I'm not sure what bothers me more, 4 days of wasted training or having a useless skill I can't delete.