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Then he can sanction you in accordance to forum rules.

yep, some one just pointed me to it.

All this can be also done with time playing the game. There is nothing a playing can buy that someone cannot get playing the game normaly.

Pay to win is when someone can get an unavailable advantage without paying for it.

Player skill > character skill, that cannot be bought. I have seen player beat T2 ship with combat bonuses ship using a T1 ship with no combat bonuses, 1v1.

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.

Right now my skillpoints are priceless and putting a price on them cheapens my loyalty to the game and the time I spent getting those skill points.

Right now time in game equals skill points and after this is in, money will equal skill points. It's that simple and I will have none of it.

tl;dr of this dev blog:

You'll be able to trade ISK for SP.

i got through 1 of the 3 pages then you went off on a tangent about something completely unrelated to the topic so yeah, i read that first page then replied, then you replied, and we've actually finished talking about your text based self pleasuring about 20 or so pages ago.

I'll define pay 2 win. Pay 2 win is having the resources at your disposal to beat any other player at any task regardless of their ability. If CCP were selling a invulnerable titan with instant recharge doomsdays that could oneshot anything in game and go to hisec, thats an example of pay 2 win.

As for the newbs are useless argument, that's the learning curve not the sp limit. I have a new character, i was running level 4's and clocked 200m in an afternoon with less than 1.2m sp because i've done those missions so many times and know how to fit with eft, triggers and so on. I could have 5m sp injected but go wading into AE bonus room in a armor tanked golem with light missiles and lose my ship. i could lose a faction fit tengu vs a t1 neut boat...this won't do a thing to help newbros because having max sp doesnt give them any knowledge of how to fit ships, how to tank properly, or any of the other game mechanics that take months and sometimes years to learn.

The irony of the newbro argument is the nosp newbros in karmafleet, horde and brave have probably done more pvp and understand eve combat mechanics better than countless 80m vets who've never left hisec. So the assumption that if you don't have the latest t2 doctrine you can't enjoy pvp is clearly disproven by the nulsec newbros. And like motor racing, nobody puts a learner in a f1 car because they'll break it, its better for players to learn to pvp in throaway frigs and cruisers so they have the skills to use the shiny kit when they get it.

I think the success of this entirely depends on how it's sold. CCP could sell this as a way for new characters to catch up even if its not realistic. While this is a unique aspect of EVE, that doesn't mean that it's to its benefit. I've been around for awhile and I keep seeing the same argument against this. SP doesn't make you good, player skill does. Well I think we've always known that wasn't quite 100% true. SP has an impact on play and it's something that a new pilot can never catch up on regardless of how much they play or how well they do.

That's to EVE's detriment.

If I go an tell any new player of a sport that there is something that they can never be as good at as someone else because they arrived later, then I'm telling a lot of them to not bother. In a competitive game like this, the idea that I can be the best of the best at everything is an enticement to play and get better even for people that will likely never be competitive at that level.

Frankly this was the last hurdle for EVE breaking out of its niche. It should be possible for anyone to start a new account and become the greatest pilot in every measurable way given sufficient effort.

Right now, a pilot can become the richest person in EVE. They can become the most influential. They can amass the most territory, but they cannot get the most SP. It's the last thing and it needs to go.

What's strange for me is that I started on the other side of this. I thought it was a bad idea. Though I still think it needs tweaking so that older characters like myself get even less or no benefit which should help with the demand side of things as well. But looking back on all the arguments of real or imagined advantages of older players, I keep seeing people being discouraged from playing at all. Be it tech 2 BPOs, SP or others. And as much as I wish it weren't so, perception is reality. And that perception has been hurting EVE for a long time.

The current plan is to not allow skillpoints to be extracted from skills that are requirements of other skills. So in your example you would have to remove the Command Ships skill before you could remove any prerequisite skills like Armored Warfare.
We also plan on having this be something you can only do in stations, so you wouldn't be stuck in in space in a ship you can no longer fly.

There is. They cannot overtake top players. Already mentioned numerous time. And you cannot increase sp on one char, you can just change the char. But since you are in Dave`s club, with totally same posting attitude, I am not surprised you say it :)