Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There is a rather large difference though. Attributes are -supposed- to represent a person and a person can not remap their intelligence or willpower, and most RPGs force you to pick attributes that you are then stuck with in perpetuity just like a real person gets at birth. Plus those attributes affect more then just how fast you learn specific skills, they also affect how well you perform at certain actions so the OP does have a point.. in part. But Eve is unlike any of the many RPGs i have ever played and in the future, perhaps not only would humans have jump clones, but also the capability to remap their intelligence.
My problem with implants is their size. have you ever noticed that an implant takes up 1 cubic meter? And you can fit 10 of them in your head?? Are we all suffering from some form of extreme gigantism or something??? I would be surprised if a human has 10 cubic CM of free space in their skull let alone 10 cubic Meters...

You should check out Perpetuum then. They've got a system like that, except the amount of SP you can store isn't capped.



Of course you can explain your system in 2 sentences and not the current one, because your system offers a lot less possibilities, making it easier to explain.

I'm personnally strongly against the idea of removing attributes. As people said before, they play a very important role in skill training if you're planning ahead correctly, and they add some variety and choice making for your implants.

However, enhancing their uses could be nice. Attaching (minor) bonuses to each attribute could be interesting, although I'm not sure that would bring anything really new compared to slot1-5 implants (a basic tradeoff between skill training speed and various bonuses).

Here's an idea, don't know if it's a good one : instead of having just 5 attributes, you have more, like 10. While some of them (the original 5, let's say) are used to boost skill training time, the others just provide different passive bonuses, but don't improve any skills. You can then invest your points in any of these 10 attributes, chosing between less skill training time or more passive bonuses. Slot1-5 implants could give you more points to invest rather than simply boost 1 given attribute. This system would offer a slightly deeper level of customization and give a slight edge to players who feel they don't need to train skills fast and prefer focusing on.

It's a cool idea that I have not seen before, so that's a plus. Unfortunately, it has an issue you may not have thought of.

A new player who still needs lots of skills to get on the same skill level as a much older player really has to get the most out of his attributes to get there faster.

An old player who already has all the skills on a char trained that he wants to can instead spec away as many points from learning skills into skills that enhance their ship. This creates a situation where the full potential of a char and ship cannot be fully unlocked until you have stopped training the char to acquire SP and started just using the attributes as a stat boosters.

Malcanis' Law that states "Whenever a mechanics change is proposed on behalf of ‘new players’, that change is always to the overwhelming advantage of richer, older players."

This is one of those situations. Typing any sort of in game ship performance to attributes will primarily benefit older players to the detriment of newer ones. Not a situation we need when new players already feel at a major disadvantage when starting.