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Why would I spend trillions of isk barely improving the same character? I can already fly all T1 subcaps and nearly every T2 subcap, and I only have 100m SP. I also have alts to fly all the capital ships I'm interested in flying.

If you're arguing that a rich person who also has the mental defect where he thinks that the total amount of SP he has matters can gorge himself on meaningless SP for ships he never flies and game the eveboard top SP leaderboard, then I say "more power to him." Means the profit of my bastard farm goes up. It literally has no consequence to anyone possessing even a modicum of rationality in their think pan.

No, it's not. I want to create a Mothership alt. Training one would take what? a year - no idea.

Training 5 characters and transferring the SP would take 3 Months, and I don't even have to worry about market availability.

I did not realise that the SP packages would sell for 0 ISK.

There is only 1 way that I'd be willing to support this: Using a Skill Extractor consumes a Neural Remap.

This would seriously curtail the abuses that would otherwise be rampant with the proposed system. Young characters could make mistakes or change their minds by using up those bonus remaps to get rid of skills they don't want while older characters would have to make meaningful decisions about whether they want to make a skill packet to sell/transfer to an alt or remap for faster training in the coming year of their planned training queue.

This would also help stem the flood of Skill Packets on the market since each character could only make 1 per year (not counting bonus remaps). I'm unsure of how I'd feel about an option to extract more than 500,000SP at a time, but if you're only allowed to do it once per year I think being able to extract more than 500,000SP to create multiple skill packets at once would need to be considered. Most people earn about 23-24mil SP/year and I think maybe being able to extract up to 25mil SP/year in exchange for your yearly remap would be acceptable, but it would need to be done all at once with all the accompanying AUR fees paid in one lump sum (ie: if you want to extract 25mil SP then you're going to lose your yearly remap and be forced to consume 50 Skill Extractors at once to generate the 50 Skill Packets you'd be creating). Or maybe instead of consuming your yearly remap each Skill Extractor used would instead increase your Remap timer by an amount of time, say 15 days. There by limiting a character to creating 2 Skill Packets per month, or 24 per year.

I don't know. It's a tough issue and it definitely needs more consideration and a lot of community involvement. This idea of Skill Extractors and Skill Packets being sold in game on the market isn't an entirely bad idea. But the system as described certainly isn't a positive change for most players because it stinks of a pay to win style of gameplay where anyone with enough money to throw at the game can instantly compete with veterans that have been playing for a decade or more. I agree that the Character Bazaar could definitely use some love, but I don't believe this is the best way to address it.

Who cares about leader boards? He will buy it because there is nothing else he does not already have and he can perfect his character and win EVE.

Agreed.

Also the Bazaar isn't a perfect market - if I wanted to buy 50 archon pilots for my alliance members it would take me time and effort to do so.

With this system the alliance can buy any SP from the market and create perfect pilots within a very short period of time.

This dramatically reduces any lag in getting younger players to retrain in to the latest meta.

so would a titian and theres tons of that cancer around

Why does the ISK cost of the filled extractor matter?

no wonder Mittens and Elise thinks this is a great idea

Don't forget people on the forums are actually a small percentage of the whole player base, so whether we approve or disapprove this idea, we do not speak for all of them. We are expressing our little, humble opinion. I don't think CSM can speak for us too. Sure they are our voice in CCP, but they are not our mind. The fact that I voted for someone doesn't mean that he/she always expresses my opinion.

If CCP has doubts about this after reading the thread, I suggest a poll to all players, maybe shown in the launcher or something. If not, they could "polish" this idea based on feedback and then release it.