Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Torn on this but overall I say no to the OP's idea.

One of the big attractions to every single person I know that plays EVE is the balance the skills training system brings to all players/characters. A casual player that spends 4 or 5 hours a week in EVE will be at the same place skill points wise after 1 year as a player that spends 3-4 hours a day.

The game obviously wasn't for them, who cares about retaining people that don't enjoy the core values of the game?

1 more thing...
Training times are ridiculously small once you've already trained your first of that type. If you've got gunnery supports at iV, to change from an eagle doctrine to a zealot doctrine is simply a matter of Amarr Cruiser V which is like a month and medium energy weapon specialization, which is a few weeks, You also unlock every other t2 caldari cruiser in the process (assuming you have the specialization prereq trained).
I suppose there are also armor skills, but you should have their support (mechanics, hull upgrades) trained anyway and compensation and repair systems IV is a quick train.
Also, you probably won't be hopping between corps/alliances that much, so you shouldn't need to retrain doctrines every month, which is what you make it sound like.

If you need more SP... feel free to contact me on the Char Bazaar.

You can buy a char on the bazaar and everbody will be happy...

CCP, which you bought the PLEX from
the trader on char bazaar, who can keep his training queue running
yourself, cause you can fly any ship you want
and even the Jita trader, who is selling you "purple fitting"

When provided with good advice they don't need to be able to afford it.

We don't have 'toons' in Eve, we have characters or if you wish chars.

The beauty of EvE is that you can do it all with just one character. It simply takes time.

But I've been thinking if this is such a great thing for EvE in it's current state. The idea of being able to do it all with just one character works well if the intent is one character per player. Something which I think CCP had intended on all those years ago. Unfortunately, if all the players only paid for one account, CCP would go broke. The game pushes players to run multiple accounts. Either by subbing, PLEXing, or supporting the RL purchase of PLEX by buying it in game with isk. It's all geared towards this because CCP depends on it.

With the game supporting the use of multiple characters across multiple accounts and with the ability to train multiple characters on a single account by using PLEX, does the 'one character can do it all' still apply?

Other games allow players to level their characters in very short time spans. I believe it to be too short. Yet I find that with EvE it can drag on too long. I could understand this under the 'one character can do it all' setup. Players prioritize their training, not because of a limit in SP but because of the time it takes.

So what if there was a limit cap and one character could not do it all? CCP could then afford to speed up the training. It should still take a decent amount of time. Days, weeks, months to train up to the next level but it should only take 2 or 3 years tops to reach SP cap. The skills would have to be categorized. Starting with the core skills that is used by everything, then you would have your skills used for combat, trading, corp management, mining, manufacturing, exploration, etc. etc.

A character that specializes would get enough SP to complete the core skills to V, and two of the "profession" skill sets.

Now players will prioritize their training, not because of time, but because training up one thing means you can't train up something else.

Is just as shudder-worthy tbh, please don't.

Eve is dying post 2,635,547,873,465.

If anything would kill off Eve, it's your idea. Just over 3 years for maxed skills is a game killer, without a doubt.
Plus it's simply not required and the system works great as it stands.

buy plex from ccp.
sell plex on the market.
buy character with 30m sp.

et voila.