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As a new player, I really like this "idea". After making a mess of the training of my original "main" because I was clueless, I trained some other characters with really focused training plans. The problem is I have joined a corp whose doctrines don't match my brilliant focused training plan. I can fly drone battleships decently, but have 0 missile skills. Well the corp I joined just decided to introduce a missile doctrine. I would love to be able to take some the the proceeds from my industry alt and make this character effective at missiles. I don't necessarily want to buy a character. I like my characters. I see this as an option that let's me keep my sculpted character, yet make myself useful faster. I have the money to buy a character but I didn't like the the thought of using a character I didn't create. It's a bit crazy since it's all pretend, but it just felt strange and not me in some odd way. With this option I can remain my virtual self and be helpful immediately to my new corp. It won't make me a better pilot or give me knowledge about how to fly missile boats, so if I foolishly buy and fly something out of my depth it will just be a donation to a more skilled pilots efficiency rating. I think this proposal is a more flexible variation of buying a character. I could understand better the anger if the option to buy a character did not already exist. All the skill points that are bought in this manner were earned in the same manner as those earned by characters for sell in the character bazaar. This is just more options on how to sell and make use of that investment imo.

It's on topic insofar as it is evidence against your point.

Eve has been "P2W" for a very long time. It's fundamental to its existence, really. Goodness knows I wouldn't have stuck around Eve for as long as I have if there wasn't a ready supply of people willing to pay my subscription in exchange for my space shekels.

"engage brain please" where does plex come from, it comes from real money purchase, when that item is destroyed rather than used which hundreds have been, the money is effectively destroyed (players get little to no return on the purchase), the only one benefiting is CCP, which will be the case here too.[/quote]

It is no longer money when it is a PLEX.

A price proportional to its use, IE say a plex gains you 1m sp in a month, then the item if it was 500k would be worth half a plex (rough numbers nothing confirmed or worked out)

Hi

All the things that you said are bad like the current Bazaar or inability to change some attributes of the character are indeed need some work on. But aren't there others way to do it? Like, more in line with the actual game?

If you want to clear your background and change your name f.e. - either pay PLEX/Auru or do a very specific mission arc, which will get the player to work to make it happen (you do remember that we need a much better version of mission system, right? Good starting project over here).

If you want to allow characters (especially younger) to somewhat fasten their skill progression - create a mission arc that will award some "inhibitor", that will be usable by the character itself. And in these "inhibitors" have the diminishing return as you described, so older players won't get that much benefit.

But for the love of god, stop even thinking about selling SPs for cash.


P.S. I wonder, how did guys in CCP chose whose name will be under the DEV Blog? Did Rise do something very wrong?

Incorrect, but nice try.

you're welcome

Reallocating skill points at ~0.8 ratio would be great , but being able to sell them is an absolute pay2win feature and should never appear in EVE.

It would be awesome to be able to pay something like 500m ISK (or a 50% plex price variable ) and 500m SP to get 400M SP back as long as its an instant gain of unallocated skill points which you cant trade by any reason. We don't really need a thousand of "100m sp in first day of gameplay" rich kids.

This change is bad, it will be abused and exploited by the vets and ignored or even drive away newbies. It will have some use to people that are really starting to get in to eve say a year or so in, and it will be great to get rid of things on your characters you don't want cluttering it up. But the bad FAR outweighs the good here.

Listen to your customers, add a rename option that leaves a list of aliases, kinda like our current career history. Give us a way to get rid of skills on our characters, we don't even need to get anything in return but if we where to get some unassigned skill points for it, it would need to be VERY slow, like 1-2 mill a year.



This isn't the argument you think it is, at all. He says that this takes no virtually devtime, so the idea that he is complaining about wasted dev time is ridiculous. He is saying that the fix for CCP's cash woes is devtime on content, not bandaids on game mechanics.

Read what was said next time, and not what you wanted to hear.

Edit: My bad, While I still hold that I was correct in what was said, Rivr does start babbling about dev time in his next post. I will chalk it up to you having some kind of history with his posting. But why am I even bothering addressing anything at you at all, after a few more of your posts, I just hid them.

So you will sell time (the most valuable resource in EVE) for money.
******** idea...

You know I just had a thought.

So a new player is gonna be like I can just buy SP and then he is going to get into some ship and do all the things he can do with it in about a week. Then because he isn't the type to wait and work towards something long term will then be like well eve sucks and then move on to something else telling his buddies meh eve sucks I beat it in two weeks lol.