EVE General Discussion

This idea was born out of another thread where someone was complaining about the isk rewards of Incursions. Someone said it was too quick/ easy to make good isk that way. I believe the comment made was: you can have a decent logi 5 pilot with only 7m SP. So i did the math and 7m SP at the current best rate, which is like 2340 per hour, is still 2,991 hours= 124 days.

Now if I'm trying to get my friend to try Eve, and lets say he typically plays a healer/ priest in other games. I'm trying to get him to play Eve with me, so I tell him he can roll a logi pilot and heal the fleet He agrees to give it a shot, but the only thing is- he probably won't get into any fleet for 124 days while his skills train. He asks me: "What the hell am I supposed to do while these skills train?" An image of mining in a Navitas flashes through my mind.

There's dozens of generic answers for that question: "What should new players do while their skills train for over 100 days until they can do the fun stuff?" None of them are any fun. Until now...

Amongst the ghostly remains of an ancient Jovian wreck a new technology is discovered: SKILL DEBT
One time only, for new accounts only, and only for the first character created on that account- players may be granted an intermediate level of "spendable" SP (4-8 mil) to help them get into the game quicker. Once this is done they cannot train anything new until the granted SP is paid back. They could even have generic pilot packages like "intermediate logi pilot" or "intermediate combat pilot" or "intermediate miner/ industrialist."

PROS

Makes it easier for new players to do fun stuff

Bitter Vets© can rest assured that noobs are paying their dues through the debt system

Makes it easier to "sell" your friends on the game and get them to try it

CONS

Throwaway suicide alts (are you really gonna start a new account for this?)

Truthfully, I can't really think of any other cons. Can you?

Have you started a new character lately? I started a new alt on a fresh account, and was doing some distribution missions for standings, of course they gotta throw a kill mission in there. I have an optimized remap and plan through Evemon, hence I am training Cybernetics 5 currently. (10 more days ) I couldn't even kill an NPC in a level 1 Distribution mission. Do you remember how weak new characters with no skills are?

HOLY SUPER DOUBLE POST BATMAN

Dumbest idea ever. Yes I would make accounts to insta train and **** people in HS, then throw them away, make new account... insta...

I mean.... all you are gona do is now... they will need to sit 4 months... and train something BUT how are you going to deal with SP/H?

Will you make them train those skills all over again somehow (seems like alot of coding) just do a average sp/H and lock skill training for that long?

If they could not wait 4 months, how long will they really sit in a logi for reping people? Sounds like someone who will play eve for a month and quit...

Now for 4 months... the person is going to be stuck unable to change what they are doing... so run into the same... cant wait issue.

You don't need to wait 4 months to fly a barely survivable Augoror / Exequror / Osprey ... you can do it before your plain vanilla 14-day trial period is over.