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The character bazaar requires you to know something about the game to know what you are looking for, and ultimately as the blog points out means any character you buy can come with a less than favourable background. On top of this it is often used by older eve players buying or selling new boosters, carrier pilots miners etc as opposed to what is primarily a new character or relatively new character proposal by CCP Rise.

You learned nothing from the Jita riots.

You learned nothing from the reasons your servers that used to have 70 to 90 thousand people on them two years ago now have 15 to 20 thousand people on them.

GG CCP.

I will have to say please do not do this CCP:

I understand the need for your firm to create revenue, but this is not the way to go I feel..

I kind of smell a huge potenial for CC scams which in turns will hit CCP's invoice system. and probably new ways to exploit the game for RM-traders, which we do not want..

So please CCP. Look into another way of creating revenue and to attract new ppl to the game :)

CCP has come out with some pretty terrible ideas in their history but this one has got to be the worst.

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Ok, so I will take this suggestion seriously for a second and try and offer some constructive feedback.

First of all you do realise this will flood the market with SP as there are so many people with SP spent on skills that are useless to them.

So basically what this will be is an instant level up to 80mil SP; 80mil of unallocated SP. So your making the same mistake that Blizzard made when it effectively removed a good chunk of the starter experience and progressed everyone straight to level 80.

SP currently has a value which is determined by the amount of time it takes to accumulate, this is valued highly as the method by which it accrues can not be modified by play time or grinding and is relatively unchangeable across all characters, and is only marginally modified by implants. So by allowing SP to be traded on the market you will obviously massively reduce the value of SP.

This has many consequences, there are too many for me to detail here, but to put it simply in one fell swoop will destroy what has been a fundamental part of the game for the last 12 years. You will also ruin all of the hard work and good progress CCP have been putting in over the last couple of years to drive eve to be at the cutting edge of MMORPGs.

Why do you want to ruin the starter experience for new players by allowing them to skip through it anyway? The hard fix is to implement a more enjoyable starting experience which I can see you are struggling with and is a difficult task, but this quick fix solution which you suggest is definitely not the way forward. Unfortunately the only way is to carry on with what you have been doing so excellently in the last few years and put in the hard work to make eve a fundamentally better game.

So in essence this idea is one of the worse I've ever seen grace a devblog. I'd even be more inclined towards allowing people to completely wipe their characters name and history when doing a character transfer (with a good chunk of SP lost in the process). This would more elegantly solve the problems you list in the devblog, and most importantly would not devalue SP.

Batten Down the hatches, Theres a 'hitstorm coming right this way . . . .

Personally P2W is bad, HOWEVER . . . if this was implimented in the same way as remaps ( ie you can remove skills once per year, and implant them, say twice) then it might be a better solution if you are really that keen to roll the dice.

This is a fair point, but it's sort of looking at it the wrong way.

Right now, to affect a transfer of SP to a person, one has to pay 2 PLEX just to do the transfer. This is in addition to whatever deal the two parties struck.

Adding an aurum cost to skill extractors merely maintains this "tax;" it doesn't add a new source of pressure to PLEX. You can expect quite a bit of the pressure to PLEX applied by the Character Bazaar to be relieved as folks move to this more granular, personalizable system.

Of course, the transfer won't be perfect; it could indeed increase total PLEX pressure, or maybe even reduce it overall. It remains to be seen.

Buying skill points is something I have to think about, I think its good for bringing up characters.

Just make a limit in the consumption, so say 1 package a year or something, or make it so that you can buy upgrade slots with PLEX and the higher the SP of the char, the more PLEX to invest to up the char with slots for skillupgrades.

Just a question, will char transfers still be possible? I have moved alt spots between multiple accounts every year, its a great way to get your scan alt to a primary slot on a new account (example). Is that still possible?

Not entirely sure how I feel about this...

On one hand - yes it would be fantastic to re-allocate skill points into something more useful. As others have stated if the blog post stated you pay "x amount" of aurum/plex to unlearn skill points (which by the way should still take time - on a seperate "unlearning skill queue") and then apply those points on the SAME character I don't think you'd be getting quite as much negative knee-jerk reaction.

On the other hand - I absolutely disagree with giving new players the ability to "catch-up" so easily. Granted this already happens in the current form of the character bazaar, but not to this extent. My personal feeling is that the current bazaar is used more by players who need alts to fill some role their main does not currently.

While I'll wait to pass judgement entirely until more details/discussions come of this. Initially it does have that "monocle" money grab type feeling.

The only way this could remotely be a good idea was if you could only transfer SP internally in your account and a character that has received SP can never be transferred off the account.

That will allow people to create specialized alts instead of having all SP on one char/queue.

Another unintended consequence, while this is supposed to help stop ebay sales, etc. I could see where there could be a breif market generated for long dead accounts for skill point liquidation.