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It's not removing. Change just adding additional option to boost SP by in-game activity.

So explain to us then why you "can't wait to set up an SP farm" as you stated? I'm sure you have a perfectly credible and obvious reason for that :)

how many times do i have to point out that i'm not participating in the market as i don't see any profit from it, and that i'll be setting up a farm that i will then leave to expire because with the power of 2 deal it will be free? 5? 10? 30?

i've already stated this, and answered your questions many times over. repeatedly asking me won't make me change it to fit your narrative.

is there a reason why you've asked me the same question a few times in a row despite being given the answer every time?

Isn't that always the case? CCP implements something that might work...if not for the 12 years of entrenched wealth that makes their efforts futile.


Even with out "old money" It's so easy to make isk now (going to be made even worse by this CONCORD tribute system idea), that any thought of something being balanced by cost is ridiculous.

maybe, but allowing one 1 day char to fly a titan isn't that good, really;
you say eve training system is very bad, while i say, some time ago, it was the best training system around: no need to grind daily to lvl up; no need to login daily so you keep up with your buddies; you had some rl stuff? you set a long skill and go do your rl life, come back to eve when you had time;
now? now it has to evolve, and this new thing is a bit better that the old one. is eve ready for a total removing of skills, or will this be a good thing for the game?
don't think so
so between those options, "old system"," new system" and some hypothetical "removing of skill system", i chose what's on the table for now, since i consider that today, this new system will be better that the old one;

While i agree with the "problems" of the character bazaar.

Better if people could change names, remove employment history, even reset all standing......

There has always been the thing about, you can do what you want in Eve but there is CONSEQUENCES.

This to me goes against this. Consequences don't exist in a world of REDOs. this is not a one player game, this is a PERSISTENT world, there is no save and load, when you do something it is part of the history Eve, no matter how small.


Above being said this is still a game and not real live. No redos in real live, but there are second chances.

Allowing people to change name, restart employment history, and even reset standings can all be lored away as bribery or neural behavior correction (Clockwork Orange style).


So to fix the issues in the Dev Blog said i say No to SP for Aurum regardless of the source, even at a bad exchange rate. To me just benefits ISK rich vets, allowing them to respec to the any new meta for the cost of a X number of isk. This is making the mistake Titans were before the changes that they are so expensive that that is barrier to entry. ISK cost is never a barrier to entry, as a vet myself i basically don't grind isk anymore. Why don't i grind isk, because i have ENOUGH. If i suddenly have a reason to have lots more isk i will just grind that isk, at a much better isk/hr rate than a newer player.


Back to a proposed solution of change names, remove employment history, faction standing i really don't think matter (especially since the scrapping of standing for high sec anchoring 0 which i agreed with). So you could have a Neural correction entry then everything below that is in a folder that opens up if people really want to dig down, but it shows that PLEX/Aurum was paid to change this. Even security status hardly matter now you can buy it for Tags.


KIA

This post in a paragraph sums up where this will end up going just get rid of skill points all together so everyone can do everything get in that ship lets buy our level 90 wizards. Seems that everytime there is a unique game which has some success the developer wants to grow it (obviously)and in trying to attract that new player base loses sight of what made the game have its success in the first place.

What people enjoyed about playing the game is changed overtime chasing the carrot of new players and expansion and eventually turning it into something so far removed from the original concept that the people who actually played and stuck with the game are pushed out. This seems to happen with every MMO I have ever played.

For me the worry isnt really about this change (though I really dont like it and dont understand why its needed) but the direction its taking us in terms of development and setting precedent for future changes. It seems that this whole concept is that eve is no fun to play if you dont have all the skills you want when you want... so where does the progression of this way of thinking take us?

I quite enjoy the RPG aspect of a supposid MMORPG

did you even read my post?
i have news for you:
right now, my friend, you can buy isk(gold)+SP(SP or caracter lvls)in this MMORPG called EVE ONLINE; you've been playing a how you call it "pay to win" game all this time
ever heard of plex and caracter bazar? that's right, is that place where you go with money and buy ISK(GOLD) and wx or caracter lvls, like ALLOT of caracter lvls oh and CCP was/is charging for it
to be honest this is not pay to win, it's more pay to catch up; and i have no problem with new players catching up at all; the fact that with this new system more ppl will be able to do it is a GOOD thing;


exactlly : playing a game not waiting 35 days till your skill lvs up;

you ignoring the fact that when most of us started, cruiser/bc/bs/whaterver lvl 5 was not a requirement to join a basic alliance op; yes the game evolved, and we evolved with it; while we spent those months training all those ships, it was done in years, and we had fun doing so;
when i started i was joining in a t1 fitted tempest and no one was telling me to just dock up; the fact is that, back in the day you could join main fleets allot faster, and there where 2-3 main doctrines; now? oh you need to train 3 months to get that tengu lvl 5; 3 months later-OH CRAP CCP just nerfed tengus, you need to train to proteus, so good luck with training 3 more months and so on;
this is just one ex, i know you can have fun in some smaller ships, but there is a point where flying a t1 frig all the time waiting to skiil up just isn't fun anymore

I agree with what you are saying about doctrines and the bar being raised over the years, I just don't get how buying SPs is supposed to help newbros who can't afford to buy them, if they spend their time grinding isk to buy the skills, will they have enough time to grind the isk for the ships ? Will this just herd them all into large nullsec entities with SRPs ?

It seems that a lot of people get left out with this idea.