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No heavy vitriol, just adding to the chorus of no.

There are better ways to soften the various problems in the skill system.

I do see how it seems an attempt was made to address some perceived need, but when an idea needs such a long narrative directing lead at the beginning of the blog post, maybe it should be considered that the writer is trying to convince themselves as much as their audience.

Please don't do this.

The devblog seems to suggest it has all to do with character bazaar, but instead it revolves into money based skillpoint trading...
How the hell you came from "character bazaar revamp" to this terrible idea, within same devblog article?

EDIT: And as expected, CFC ratters come here to rejoice their "political view" ;)

as a player returning from my extended break i do every few years .. you just made me want to perma quit. this is an awful idea making this game pay to win.

It's bullsh!t like this that makes everyone learn to never trust CCP.

If I give you (CCP) enough money, can I have all the skill points available in the game please.

The proposed idea is so bad, it is funny, even funnier than the 'loot spew' idea a couple of years ago, but with much worse consequences for the game.

CCP should just get the begging bowl out, it would go down better with the players.

Lordy...

Well, EVE was fun while it lasted.

I'll up the anty:

If this isn't scrapped by Monday morning next week I'm giving away everything I have and biomassing my characters.

I do not like the idea of Un-allocated. Points as it may end up promoting the flavor of the month turn around very quickly, instead of striving for the goal.

This also effect the learning implants and skill mapping - This feels like a power creep over the old system.

I would at a 100 million skill points cap this system. By this time the player has several option to play and is beginning to specialize into something major.

On of the things that make eve attractive and long lived is the gradual growth of the character, the fight to get there and fight to keep us were we are.

I do like the limited use of this for new players who will want to shell in the cash to get a head start but this should not be a tool for veterans.

I have to ask, how do you come up with such STUPID ideas I mean really.

Apart from the obvious massive Plex price increase from yet another item being added that plex/aurum of which I told you that plex would increase when you first released the Aurum market and since when you continually add stuff onto it (most of which is crap btw) [Yes people I am wearing Guristas stuff, brought with the free Aurum we got when it first started]

But aside from that, I mean if that wasn't enough (because higher plex prices WILL push people away from the game) but as you mention Skill training is a fundamental part of the eve universe, it's basically eve's version of experience. When the learning skills were removed, yes new players had a much better experience, better than most of us older players, but we had to learn what to do with what SP we had, where to train into etc, coupled with the fact we didn't even have skill queues let alone 50 skills and however many days training.

What I'm trying to get at, is this idea seems very much aimed at newer players, who should be spending time on learning how to play the game, not selling plex and getting boat loads of sp, further more. you will be taking away another aspect of being able to gain intel in eve, when you look at a characters age, you know roughly what they can do, even if they are specialised but with this, a week old character could spend tonnes of real money on plex sell them buy the skill packs and hey presto instant HACs or Capitals....

So basically this is opening the door to the Pay to win that so many games these days are, but unlike them, eve has been around TWELVE YEARS do you really need to copy their game models?

In the blog you raise several valid points about the current character bazaar, but this "idea" doesn't change anything in that regard. and i find it perplexing that you would even consider something like this when you have fought against the renaming of characters (even just for those sold) and then you come up with this. It doesn't even seem viable either scientifically or lore wise to implement something like this where as a character name change you could easily turn around and have it related to the black market of the criminals of eve like the Guristas.

literally I cannot find one good thing from this idea you have pulled out of your ass, (and that is as polite as it gets from me at present) I find it insulting as an older eve player (my first toon was 07) and there are those even older, who will see near no benefit from this other than selling what minimal cross profession skills we got when we started the game. so it must be primarily aimed yet again at new players instead of trying to retain the old ones. I am just furious you would even consider this and frankly you have been wasting your time, and our money to come up with this when there is far more important things in eve that need to be addressed, let alone new content instead of this abomination. This truly is the worst idea I have ever heard since CCP announced dust wasn't coming to PC when it was being developed and that is saying something.

You go ahead with this idea, and you may as well close your doors and shut down your severs, because that alone is a game ender right there, let alone where it will lead to.

CCP isn't motivated by your decision to hold your account hostage.