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For the love of God, no plz..

Edit: Hell I'd do it, I'd buy 50 or so >5 mil SP chars for the bonus sp. But still I beg of you don't do it, because of that reason. Yes there is diminishing returns for higher sp chars. I'd just suck it up and buy more.

And thus it begins. My initial reaction was 'hmm.. really?'

Guys, your players quite literally make fun of people who think this is a good idea. I had to check twice to make sure it is not April Fool's Day.

And now you're actually going to do it? Effectively sell Skill Points for Aurum? Effectively allow character respecs as long as people give you money? Are your company finances that bad?

Please do not do this.

So you allow people now to convert SP to FREE SP for cash, what a cashcow dudes, brilliant!

useful ideas, like put lost SP from T3 losses into the wreck are far away

I am just going to come out and say I do not support this. I have been against this internally and at the summit.

Maybe you as the community will say different but this isn't for me.

ISK for SP, this is what happens when we let people that haven't played EVE for greater than 2 years onto the CSM. How can this even be remotely considered a good idea?

Not once have vets ever seriously thought this was a good idea. This is just bad. Just 100% bad.

unallocated skill points is a terrible idea

we can talk about taking entire skills though. i would gladly sell my mining skills as a package.

I think it's funny that the Devblog talks about the real difficulties of using a purchased character that has an infamous history, or a stupid name. We've been asking for years for a way to pay to rename characters, or respec the way they look (change appearance, gender). So to go from that acknowledgement, EVEN in the Devblog, and then right to this idea of stripping skillpoints to sell, seems completely missing the mark.

I understand the Character Bazaar lets a player pay ISK to "pay to win", but they get the whole package in terms of skills, and it takes up an extra character slot. We've come to accept the constantly reinforced philosophy that skillpoints are never really wasted, because the meta changes, and things become more and less useful as that happens. For example, think those mining skills are a waste? Flying a Bait Procurer can let you make use of them. The other side of this is there is a value to creating focused characters, or starter characters on the Bazaar. This new feature would lessen the value of this, and it's quite a large investment to be messed with.

So this, I am TOTALLY against. For a long time we've accepted AUR and some some of the cosmetic features in NEX Store like SKINS, because they have no real impact in game. This completely breaks that paradigm, since it will be very easy and much more accessible to "pay to win", despite the promise of diminishing returns.

This isn't something new players need. This isn't something veterans want.

Go back and read your own devblog - give us ways to rename our characters and reskin them, and we will pay you to let us do it. But keep away from things that affect gameplay, because we remember, and Greed is Not Good.

I'm with the CSM guys on this that have posted so far, i'll say if you take 500k sp you give 500k sp no matter the skill points a player has.

over all i say scrap this and rethink if you want to change it

really? old players have to pay 10 times the price new players do for skillpoints?
as if it wasn't enought that most new content introduced is focused on new players, no now vets are actively being punished for sticking with the game?