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Aaaand they are at it again.. totally disconnected...

They rather add some micro-transaction crap and delete some possibilities than deliver something that makes the game more interesting and worth playing...

The overall concept is disturbing at a glance, seems more reasonable if you read the fine print, and here's what I understood:

If I had some time and a calculator, how much money would it actually cost to build a brand new character up from 0 SP to around 80 million SP ?

The Aurum fee for a Transneural Extraction Packet is going to be "analogous"? to the currently existing double-PLEX transfer fee. Does that mean it's actually going to cost 2 PLEX ?

At current market value, I believe 1 PLEX is equivalent to $20.00
So, let's assume that this fee is actually $40.00

To skill from 0 to 5 is going to take 10 fees 10x 40= $400.00
To skill from 5 to 50 is going to take 112 fees 112x 40= $4,480.00
To skill from 50 to 80 is going to take 150 fees 150x 40 = $6,000.00

So, some people think that trolls are going to "exploit" this system to create 2 day old bait characters
That would cost anywhere from roughly $3,000 to $10,000, if the aurum fee is truly "analogous".

You know what I'm thinking right? People in EVE Online are literally so insane that they would already have gladly paid $10,000 to do what is described above, even though 3,000 would get you a nice tradehub undock camper toon. It will happen. Probably hundreds, if not thousands of times.

This game mechanic would potentially create millions of dollars for CCP.

The ONLY thing holding this ridiculous Pay2Win feature back, is that the skillpoints have to be currently existing on another character and cannot be purchased directly from aurum store. That creates a market cap on availability that would mean creating 80 million SP 1 day old characters is probably impossible.

If the aurum shop is selling the transneural skill extractor and transneural skill packets at a lower price, for the sake of arguing let's say 7 dollars, it's more available to less committed players, but why would CCP want to now be making only 500k-1 million dollars when they could have been making 5-10 million dollars ?

This is what everyone is thinking about.

Also, slippery slope, this would set a precedent for a pay2win culture in EVE that will ruin everything about EVE Online.

Please tell me my math and assumptions are blatantly wrong, I'm prone to delusions.

This is the first post I have ever felt compelled to make. I am a member of the silent majority that plays the game and not the forum. I am a new character in eve terms and would benefit most from this and I despise everything about this idea.

if I have a vote I VOTE NO! NEVER! CEASE AND DESIST.

If you do this I will feel compelled to terminate my commitment to paying for eve via subscription and cease all involvement in this game. Why? Because in my mind this is CCP cashing out with no holes bared, nothing sacred left and with no regard to the most core game mechanic that kept legions of eve players including myself active... the one mechanic to not be undermined that eve ever had.

This is a tipping point in which it seems CCP for what ever reason feels they can now toy with the golden goose that has kept hundreds of thousands of players committed to financing this game by training their toons with total relentless devotion.

Why did so many players do this including myself up until this proposed change? because time was an ineffable element in eve that you could never get back if you did not use it and there was no way to cheat time on a single character you were training. You could always buy a toon or train alts but if you wanted to experience something real and unique in eve first hand and did not want a shortcut of buying another players toon you had to invest time into doing it through the skill training system. You could train alts but they too must adhere to the principle of time that must be invested to obtain any skill training completions.

CCP has already leaned on this pillar of eve in multitraining on the same account and encouraging character trading and these aspects are violations but they do not bring the house of cards crumbling into dust as the bedrock principle of all characters remained intact in that you could never get more skill on a single toon without paying for that skill with time through the training que.

Time is the fire in which we burn.

If you do this CCP you will have a lot of time to think about why so many players simply stopped paying you and they may not be kind enough to give you any warning post to stop your current plan before you commit to it.

They will simply just stop paying you.

You bittervets really need to get over yourselves.You've been playing since day 1 and want to hold that "elite" status until the server finally shuts down? I say that because it seems bittervets would rather the game day then CCP make any changes that might effect their "elite" status.

Nope.

Eve is about learning his **** and be patient. Ruin it. go on you dumbos.

If you don't consider the character bazaar as buying isk or even a new identity, you're either blind or just in denial.

Except no one on the internet actually performs the research. They proclaim "X is correlated with Y, therefore X causes Y" and are done. What's worse, is that people believe them.

One reason why the Character Bazaar and the SP booster plan are critically different: Intel.

Right now, with the way that skills work, you can generally get a rough idea of what the character might be capable of based on their age and corp history. If they're 5 years old, but their corp history is dotted with NPC corps taking up half the time, and their killboards don't show any activity during those times, you can generally guess that they only have about 2.5 years'-worth of SP despite being five years old. Additionally, you can gauge how well they might be able to fight based on their corp history, as somebody who has been in and out of the game is going to probably be less-skilled than someone with less age, but more "dedication" / "consecutive play."

If you see a char that's a year old and had been sold on the Bazaar, you still see that the char has about a year's-worth of SP and what skills they have (based on the Bazaar listing).

Looking at available information, you can make a reasonable guess at what sort of skills and abilities a pilot has.

With SP packs, that goes out the window.

Before, when you saw a month-old NPC char on the battlefield, you knew that they were a month-old char and could estimate their skills based on that. Now, you'll see that month-old char, and instead of the question being "are they a newbie or a vet laying a trap?" you'll have to add "If it's a vet, how much SP have they boosted?"

The same goes for year-old chars. For five-year-old chars. Even for ten-year-old chars, because you have no way of knowing if they took SP out and got rid of it or used it for other skills.

Where before you had an imperfect way to make an imperfect guess at a character's capabilities (something that takes a bit of skill and sleuthing to do well), you're now left with absolutely nothing. No amount of game knowledge is going to give you an idea about what those pilots are capable of until you actually engage. It removes an element of planning and thought without giving anything back in its place.

Not too bad, an alternative way to trade character.

It is my opinion that this is ****.