EVE General Discussion

I think 12 months is fine.

Rushing to train for FOTM skills is bad, M'Kay.

I want remap for plex..

The amount of difference it makes to training is that great that I did not notice I was mapped full charisma for 2 years, while training industry and some ships.

But then, I never notice whether or not I have implants.

I am probably just a terrible player and should biomass immediately :/

i, for one, think it would be a good idea.

i agree that eve, being a game where specialization counts, a 12month based skill plan and remap make sense.

however, for the past 2 years, CCP is shaking the game pretty hard, sometime defeating the whole 12 month plan you put together, because they made activity X not worth it anymore, or ship Y not able to fullfill your goal.

so as long as things keep changing, a shorter time between remaps would make sense, because getting screwed 4 month in your skill plan because CCP decided to change feature / ship / skills / whatever, is frustrating because there is NOTHING you can do about it.

and you can't adapt, since you remapped for 12 month, meaning you are tied to either skill something you will not use, or skill something you will use given the new parameters, but at a slow pace.

why 6 month you would ask? well it's pretty simple, because every 6 month we have a new update changing stuff!

tldr: tie the remaps to eve updates

An indirect alternative would be implementing an AUR purchasable Re-map.

Expensive, but if someone really wants to squeeze a few days off a long train or finds themselves bottlenecked for a year if/when they change their career plans, I would be ok with this.

I personally wouldn't mind this... but... gamers... we can be an irrational bunch when it comes to stuff you can pay for...

i.e. pay to win

I see where you are coming from, and from a certain perspective it does make sense.

On the face of it, you pay real life money to end up with more skill points than somebody who does not pay real life money over the same time frame. Now...in total...that is not actually the case. Provided you remap once in a year to something and stick to it, you'll accrue SP at the same rate as somebody who is remapping every week (and similarly sticking to skills that fit that remap).

However, multiple remaps would allow somebody to focus on a narrower set of skills at will without penalty - effectively allowing somebody to aggressively train ships/modules for competitve advantage against somebody who was not able to remap frequently.

Over the long run, it would arguably not provide a benefit. Over the short run, it would let (some wealthy) people take advantage of specific situations using real world cash - something that would not be open to others?

Not to challenge Tippia's high-flown, irrefutable expert tone.....a year is ridiculous. Six months is a tad more REASONABLE.

Remapping isn't for correcting mistakes. It IS useful for attacking particular areas of study for a time...but to be hamstrung for so long when the schoolin's done? Bleah. A year is totally arbitrary, so my arbitrary six months is just as valid.

Twelve months does seem a bit arbitrary given we have an expansion every six months. Before anyone starts frothing at the mouth I have plenty of 120m+ sp characters which still have 3 bonus remaps.

I don't really agree on allowing remaps for ISK or Aurum, it would just allow certain people to effectively pay for extra SP/perceived advancement. Perhaps the most useful thing would be to increase remaps specifically for newer characters - even the 2 bonus remaps you get now can be used up early on just getting core skills done. Random example, new characters could have 2 bonus remaps every 6 months for the first 18 or 24, then decrease the number or frequency. It will make new accounts train faster, but that imbalance has been there since new bloodlines with improved base attributes were added (Achura ftw). Having said that additional remaps could be awarded for other things so older players don't entirely miss out, like the loyalty scheme that hasn't materialised.

Tbh I think CCP planned on selling remaps for Aurum before Incarna, and like Nex store additions, it's just been shelved for the time being. Although there was one hilarious portion of the CSM meetings (last summer maybe?) where they suggested SP for Aurum or ISK and the CSM had to very patiently explain that the playerbase would go berserk. Maybe that section was added for a laugh, but the bemused dev response seemed plausible.