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So I read an article on the internet and it said something along the lines of, anyone who is against this change is really just projecting their emotional insecurities and are letting their irrationalities manifest themselves because they as people have zero self-control.

But it's OK, because we, the deciders, understand you're incapable of logical thought so we know to just ignore the things you say and write your name down on The List.

Great change CCP, way to take the initiative in saving EvE.

go to 50,499,999.

once you extract 500,000 you drop below 50m, and get the lower penalty rate when you inject it back in.

I'm posting as someone who is fairly new to EVE (2 months, 3.5M SP).

In EVE, interesting content is walled off by skill points barriers, and hence by character time. A big problem is that the new content is not becoming available roughly linear with time. Rather, there are chunks of new game content that become available as you cross some threshold or the other, and then long wait times until you can manage to cross the next threshold.

For example, I'm currently training cov ops and related stuff with the aim to get a reasonably fit explorer frigate to go through wormhole and null/low sec stealthily without getting blown up by every random player who spots me. That takes a month or so. Frankly, I've been playing less while waiting for the skill queue to complete. I don't actually want to mine or rat more asteroid belts, and high sec exploring is getting stale. I can't really run cooler missions than I have been, because I would have to train up skills for my cruiser. But I'm already training the stealth stuff.

What would happen if skill packets were available?

1. I would but a PLEX, convert it into ISK and buy enough skill packets to complete my stealth skills.
2. I would fly my cov ops frigate into worm holes and null/low sec to explore.
3. Because I have stealth, I would probably not get blown up instantly.
4. Because I am unexperienced, I would eventually make some newbie mistake, and get blown up anyway.
5. Rinse and repeat, with me getting better by experience at using stealth and dying less and less.

And this hurts everybody else and in particular experienced players how exactly? Best I can tell, they get

1. Extra PLEX in the market, driving the PLEX price down.
2. Somebody to sell "unwanted" SP to for a lot of ISK.
3. An extra target running around outside of high sec.
4. An extra target that is more of a challenge than a random newbie in a Heron, but still quite killable.
5. A player who is actually still paying CCP subscription money not getting bored into quitting.

Can I abuse all this to boost me all the way to flying a Titan? Well, theoretically. But given how I get rapidly less "bang for the buck" as the SP in my character increases, this would mean major investments of real money.

I expect a skill packet will cost roughly what it costs to train that 500k SP. Let's say you can generate a bit more than 2,000 SP per hour, then you need 10 days to generate one skill packet. Consequently, I expect the market price of a skill packet to be around a third of a PLEX, perhaps a bit less. Let's say it's about 350M ISK.

To boost a character from 0 to 5M SP would hence cost about 3.5B ISK. To boost the character further to 50M SP would cost another 31.5B ISK. To get to 80M SP would require 52.5B ISK, you see there how the reduced skill points gained per packet start to bite. And finally, to get to 100M SP would require another 140B ISK. So in total, from zero to 100M SP would require 227.5B ISK.

Now, maybe you have that kind of money in game, or maybe you have that kind of money in real life to spend on a game. I sure don't. Most people playing EVE I suspect do not have that either. For most people this will be a good way to get their character over a skill speed bump - to be used occasionally.

I think it is a good idea. It will make more newbies do more things faster. It will drive PLEX prices down. And the only people who will full-finance characters to top skills will be the super-rich of EVE. Most skill shopping will be only up to "useful basics" levels of perhaps 10-20M SP, which are somewhat affordable.

Great analysis, as always! Got me thinking: if CCP keeps the extractor PLEX-equivalent price (in AUR) lower than the expected PLEX-equivalent price of the 500,000 SP, this whole thing will probably INCREASE PLEX supply, which is pretty cool!

So I read an article on the internet and it said something along the lines of, anyone who is against this change is really just projecting their emotional insecurities and are letting their irrationalities manifest themselves because they as people have zero self-control.

But it's OK, because we, the deciders, understand you're incapable of logical thought so we know to just ignore the things you say and write your name down on The List.

Great change CCP, way to take the initiative in saving EvE.

What an arrogant pile of horseshit, of course anyone who doesn't subscribe to your POV must have something wrong with them.

actually, if you don't agree with them it makes you a CCP employee ;)

LMFAO you cannot possibly predict this, unless you can search your crystal ball and tell us how many people will pay for SPs with cash and how many will pay with isk.

you HAVE to use a plex to create TSPs, you don't have to use a plex to purchase them.

actually, if you don't agree with them it makes you a CCP employee ;)