EVE General Discussion

A strange topic title and I've rapidly changed my opinions on these things over the past few years, but i'll explain where i'm coming from.

I have a good friend who loves the idea of Eve, has played it and is intelligent enough to grasp the concepts of it and work within the structures it has in place. He see's Fleet fights on Youtube and reports of massive scams and schemes and he loves it. He's not alone, I have multiple friends who are like this. The one i am talking about in particular has Subbed a few times and every time after a month or 2 has come back with the same feedback: It takes too long to get into properly fitted ships.

I used to ignore this, but it's becoming unavoidable - The new player-> veteran gulf is big and boosts for new players only goes so far. So my question is this:

Should people be able to accelerate skill training as a micro transaction?

Without going into too much detail, it seems like it might be worth seriously considering. Becoming GOOD at eve takes time, but that is also relative. If you play every day for 10 hours you WILL get better... only to be hindered by the arbitrary number that is 'Skill points'.

I've been playing since 2006'ish and I want to see a new influx of players or a way for newer players to accelerate themselfs to keep interest in the game. I've spent years training skills and it doesn't feel like an accomplishment. All i had to do was auto renew a subscription. What i've DONE in Eve feels like an accomplishment.

Perhaps offering 1 months subscription cost for 1 months worth of skillpoints (based on char stats) into your unassigned pool would be a possible way to ensure that old players got the same number of SP for every penny/cent they spent as a new player does. None of this makes new players better at the game or more financially sound... just gives them access to more ships/bonuses/market-opportunities.

I stopped reading there, mainly because your friend is a moron.

A 1 week old character can fly a properly fitted ship for what is he wants to do.

Even if you could dump over 5k dollar into the game and buy a blinged out Navy Raven, you will still be ganked. Because you can not buy knowledge and actual skills (not skillpoints).

Also, your friend *Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal. can already dump his money in game and buy a character with good skillpoints, if he does, let me know what the name is so I can await the big loss because your friend doesn't know HOW to use the skillpoints.


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*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal.

While I'm not totally against the idea to pay to "catch up" with characters created at launch:
You can kinda already do that by buying an old character on the bazaar.

And you do overestimate the amount of gain skill points bring. You can get enough skill points in 3 months of focussed training to decently pilot any specific sub-capital ship. While you might get a bit more performance with a couple more lvl 5 skills, that's usually not that important, unless you are fighting someone in the same ship. But in a fight between different ships, the ship strengths are more important than skill points.

what's particularly poignant about that story is the scam afterwards was much worse than the gank, and infinitely easier to avoid.
tell you what john, ill trade you this, this and ill raise you this

EVE is not for everyone, too bad OP still thinks it's for him and makes posts like this.

I stopped reading there, mainly because your friend is a moron.

A 1 week old character can fly a properly fitted ship for what is he wants to do.

Even if you could dump over 5k dollar into the game and buy a blinged out Navy Raven, you will still be ganked. Because you can not buy knowledge and actual skills (not skillpoints).

Also, your friend *Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal. can already dump his money in game and buy a character with good skillpoints, if he does, let me know what the name is so I can await the big loss because your friend doesn't know HOW to use the skillpoints.


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*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal.


That

OP needs his assets removed by his CEO, awoxed, kicked from his corp, have all his alts outed, have his JC destroyed and camped into a station without a medical till he's down to 900k SP.

We as a community need to make this happen, for the betterment of the game.

Although I usually like to give new players some slack and hope they improve...sometimes people need to learn the hard way.

Errr pay to win in eve...

Buy plex
Sell plex for isk
buy character on bazaar

Is this not basically p2w?

Meh same difference really. Buy SP boosts or buy a premade char. Always gonna end in stupid losses.