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As someone who's reaction to this was negative, can anyone clearly express logically not emotionally why this is a bad idea please?

Anything that can currently be bought for ISK can be bought by extension for RL cash via PLEX.
e.g. in a previous post, almost any ship can be bought for ISK, if you have enough ISK, so aren't ship already for sale for real life money?
As long as CCP doesn't make new special edition ships out of thin air and sell them for RL cash, what's the difference?

This would put skill points in the same bucket, and most importantly they would be player created skill points on the player to player market, not CCP out of thin air skill points.

Then plug your ears and block my posts. I do not see CCP being capable of working on multiple things at once without compromising all they work on with lots of detrimental effects. They were not capable of developing Dust besides of EVE, they were not capable of developing Sov properly while working on what? Gunjack? And went on vacation directly after the release. They left the industry part unfinished because they needed to work on sov. The list goes on and on and on.

But yes, CCP's dev time is not fungible and they themselves time and again stress that things are expensive in terms of dev time. Yet, CCP wastes their dev time on SKINs, wastes their dev time on this garbage, wasts it on what not mobile while the main game they have needs so many fixes, they'd be busy for another decade just to fix the bugs and broken things before introducing new content. And they waste their not fungible dev time on things that do not improve the game itself, but only introduce more ways to grab money. You may not want to hear that anymore, but if you are fed up of it, then do something against it.

A very bad idea.

Bad news bears

ok my initial reaction was terrible idea

if you are going to bring out something like this then i recommend changing it a bit

restrict it to only the character using the item removed any ability to sell skill points on the market

example would be i have some skills i don't want i can use one of these to remove the skill and points and make them un-allocated but only to that character with no way to trade it so i can trade 500k of my current skill points for 50k un-allocated skill points but never trade it to another character.

i would also build in a hard cap per month of skill points you can swap over

-double post-

This is horrifically bad. It won't kill EVE outright, but it'll maim it badly. I generally don't drama post about game changes (in fact I am usually willing to give them a shot), but this is just awful.

All of the "problems" mentioned with regard to the Character Bazaar are, in my opinion, actually interesting and positive gameplay elements. A character's name, appearance, history, sec status, faction standings, skill point allocation, remap status, implant set, jump clones, etc. all provide interesting gameplay and market choices. Making a good decision to purchase or sell a toon requires research and talking to other players - this is what EVE should be all about. It's completely open-ended, and very much in the spirit of the sandbox.

Now you're deprecating all of that with some really artificial skillpoint reallocation system that favors super-rich players despite the drawbacks you've put in place. To paraphrase your opening, you state that swapping mains in the current system is awkward. Well, guess what! You shouldn't be supporting that choice in the first place! Starting with a fresh toon and sticking with it through its normal progression is a critical EVE experience. Even if you purchase alts to supplement your main, I don't think there needs to be a mechanism to fast-track skill training on your main.

I have been playing this game very actively for two and a half years. I have never once felt limited by my SP in any regard. There's plenty to do and learn at each step along the way. If you do feel limited and are also wealthy, the character bazaar, MCT, and alt accounts are perfectly fine means to quickly acquire additional toons. By introducing "ISK-for-SP", you're inviting the sort of unfun "XP grinding" that most of us loathe from other MMOs. Please, don't bring this cancer to EVE.

two very dangerous things:

1. this allows experienced people who have done something "terrible" a fresh start WITH SP and WITHOUT having to use the bazarr

2. this excludes anyone that uses this feature from high level gameplay. applications from people who no longer hold their first character are already automatically denied from pretty much any corporation that's worth applying to. just because it allows the "bad" guys a fresh start

oh dear god. pls dont

Hey, it was a (perhaps naïve) hope that it would convince someone to stop framing their argument around a patently untrue concept.

All you do when you scream "WHY DIDN'T YOU WORK ON XYZ INSTEAD????" is prove your own short-sightedness. It dilutes your entire argument and makes you look like a fool, for an easily-preventable reason.