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If you are right this only means you get a free gank alt + excess ISK from this

I tried to copy and paste from a longer blogpost I wrote 'My ramblings on 'Exploring The Character Bazaar & Skill Trading' Dev Blog' but got 'There was an issue with parsing this post's BBCode' error. So I'll just leave this here for those that want to read it and this:

Challenge the perception of "never being able to catch up" and advertise the success of small frigate gangs\rookie ship gangs or New Bros doing awesome things. There are plenty of them out there.

A quick YouTube search revealed plenty of videos of rookies taking on higher weight classes in fights and winning. There's also lots of other videos about "What to do when you start out", PVPing in a Rookie Ship, along with hilarious Haulers killing a Vengeance and Vagabond

Allowing this to pass will open the door to more and more abuse and destruction of what EVE was built on, what attracted players like myself to commit 12 years to a game both in time and in monetary terms as subscriptions.

This quick-fix for the instant gratification of new players that probably won't invest IRL money or time over the period of their subscription would be developed over the coffin of the customer lifetime value (CLTV) who have kept EVE Online going for the past 12 years is wrong on so many levels.

With this proposal is "floating" is not only the destruction of a core fundamental being destroyed but was a foundation stone of the phenomenon that was and hopefully is EVE Online, it made those decisions count, it made you care to research, to learn and to apply what you learned to what you could do. It meant that your actions, be it training, trading, scamming, spying or whatever you did in EVE it had consequences. You picked the wrong skill to train because you were new\didn't research\queued the wrong skills and you can't fly that Interceptor but you can fly Frigates, Rookie Ships, Cruisers or whatever you can still do things in EVE Online.

Big isn't always best, frigates and rookie ships can and have taken down battleships worth 100x what those frigates are worth but those guys that do and did, they remember those days, while they were waiting for that other skill to complete.

And in years to come they'll look back and that feeling will still be with them of the day that they dared to do. The day they, with their lower SP but using game mechanics and cunning took on a 12 year old player and killed his battleship. That check mark on their hull (soon to be released) may entice them to never fly that ship again and it may even remain with them until Tranquility is turned off for the last time.

You say "We want to make sure training decisions are still very important" but they won't be if you offer this service. This goes against the 'choices and consequences' implicit in EVE Online if you can rollback (at a slight cost) the choices you made. Some decisions are based around mistakes, how many pilots selected the wrong skill that took them down a path they never thought of just because they'd trained that skill. How many professions have been opened by these errors and how many are now masters of them. With this change I foresee that people will just "cash out" their mistake with the the "undo" button that CCP are providing in this proposal and inject what they needed rather than seeing what they can do with that skill that they trained to Level 4.

All that aside, the aim of this is provide new players with an accelerated experience to EVE Online. I get that, I really do but you're doing it at the expense of the long term customer and de-valuing those characters and their skillsets.

There are already in-game items to help new players called Cerebral Accelerators albeit with severe character age restrictions. Lift the bar a little more on the age that these will work at and add them a bit more to loots\DEDs\Data and\or Relic sites to make them more available. Hell, I'd even go so far as to say give them it as a starter item but link in how to use it and what it's for. There are far better ways to get new guys into ships faster than this.

While this post touted a Character Bazaar change it did nothing for it. Again, CCP have attempted to fix something that isn't broken while leaving the broken out-of-game thing alone, floundering as it does but with "the 70 or so character transfers that happen every day". Ask yourselves why?

CCP want more people to buy more PLEX and thus increase the companies profits. They're entitled to, that's the nature of business...but a company who launches a new website on the same day as this Dev Blog was published and put EVE: Valkyrie first on the list of products kind of shows contempt\lack of thought behind the design and maybe the writing is on the web with this new site.

CCP cites the following as their values (all over their new website):

We are fearless. We are pioneers. We are bold and innovative.
We pursue excellence. We engage in the relentless pursuit of beauty.
We are CCP. We don't believe in the word "impossible"
We stand united. We are individually diverse, yet banded together in common purpose and resolve.

Why aren't they pursuing excellence by making the Character Bazaar more in-game, more user friendly, part of the UI? Why do they fear challenging that part pf the EVE experience as this was the premise for this latest Dev Blog. Why are they going for something so radical that's resulted in a 114 page threadnaught?

Bottomline is the bottomline: Greed.
To what end or low are CCP prepared to go, who knows but this could be a sign of things to come.

Yeap I talked about t2 but firstly I miss the point of PLEX investment. There is no such thing as a free PLEX. Every PLEX cost something.

For t1 SP injection doesn't help much because learning time of quee is 2 hours which should allow you to deal 200 dps. With "Small Blaster Specialization" you could get 500 dps.

Certainly there will be no profit in creating skill packages. It would be free ISK and everyone would do it. It would increase skill package supply reducing skill package price until no profit can be made anymore.

In fact I guess many people would be willing to create and sell skill packages even if they only get like 60% of the costs. There are many focussed alts or very high sp characters who no longer need more skills. Those characters will train skills for the sole purpose of selling them to reduce their subscription costs.

On the other hand the buyers are probably willing to pay up to 90% of the standard training costs for instant sp. They won’t pay much more because it would be more expensive than just buying a character from the character bazaar. Only a very few characters with more than 50m sp will use this feature because it really doesn’t makes much sense for them.

so, no different to how the character bazzar works now. you know, the thing we'll still also have after this change.

If it's no different than the CB why are they changing it ? More control means more manipulation, your arguments are becoming more obtuse and weak as you singlehandedly try to argue against the entire eve-o forum by yourself, I admire your commitment. :)

I was hoping that it was april fools but we're in october.

I can't believe that you guys are seriously considering doing this. This is so broken I don't even know where to start.

I keep telling new players that skill points aren't everything and that learning the game is much more important. The eveiseasy youtube channels seems to prove that.

Now you want to let new players buy skill points. They already think that the skill points are what is holding them back. Now they'll just buy the SP and then quit the game when they still can't pwn. They call the game broken.

This is such a bad and game breaking idea.

there's an ever increasing number of characters, there may or may not be an ever increasing number of SP depending on the popularity of this new mechanic.

regardless of how much of a cash cow this is - removing something with an ever expanding potential market is hardly sensible.

Hang on here, so in the realms of creating perfect toons now, either new or jacking unwanted skills from an existing toon to perfect it why would there be a need for a bazaar ???

So now ill do a Dave Stark and refer you back to the blog

"Oh, and one last note on the Bazaar, it won't go anywhere for now"

If this new character bastardization come to pass and is far more lucrative than there 2 plex/20 dollar transfer fee, you really think they will keep it.