Skill Discussions

If the base price for the Extractor is = to 1 plex, NO ONE WILL, as it will cost several trillion isk to buy enough sp to max out a single character.

The only people who will benefit from This is CCP in increased Plex / Aurum sales from those deluded enough to think they can gain an advantage by buying SP.

It was suggested in the previous Dev Blog that the extractor would be analogous to the plex service fee in the character bazarr.
And in a lot of the feedback to that Dev Blog.

Regardless, for someone >80 mil SP it will require 7 extractors / injectors per 1m SP, so taking myself as an example. I would need a further 250 million Sp = 1,750 extractors / injectors which will likely not be cheaper than 1 bil isk each.

Thinking about it, there are probably 100's of players with more money than sense who will gladly max out their characters, be it Aurum, Plex, ISK or real life money.

As soon as that happens, sites like Eve Board will be meaningless.

Either way, I'm done.

Yes, meaningful.

It is every bit as meaningful as
Evemon
Kill boards
Skill planners
Character profiles
Ship skins
etc.
etc.

The only place where global rankings are tracked at this time.
The best place to compare your characters progress against other players.
For people who incorporate the site as part of their gaming time, super meaningful.

Maybe I don't know what the word 'analogous' means after all, because I read that and got nothing near the interpretation "extractors will cost 1 PLEX."

The price for extractor will be either (in AUR equivalent)

2 PLEX - Unlikely
1 PLEX - Unlikely
0.75 PLEX Possible but I hope it wont be that price
0.5 PLEX - The most probable outcome
0.25 PLEX - Possible but CCP would make a poor financial decision doing so
0.20 PLEX - Unlikely

The price of SP will be an added 1/4 of a PLEX so 0.25 PLEX

So the price of injectors will be between 0.75 and 1 plex

if you already have 80 mil SP, you need 2467 Injector ot get the rest, so between 1850 and 2467 PLEX, which is a lot but not really impossible

Not necessarily... for somewhere in the neighborhood of, what, $30,000?, I could simply buy the rest of the skillpoints. I'd also have to negotiate a reasonable price to purchase the Black Market Trade skill, to ensure that no one with said skill topped me with the same investment. So don't count me out yet!

I wouldn't put it past someone like Markee Dragon.

[Boy, he's come a long way since rares trading in Ultima Online.]

Both.

Skill Injector: ISK (market traded item)
Skill Extractor: AUR (NES item)

https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/skill-trading-in-new-eden/

I too find this concept fascinating, having only learned of it today (been on a hiatus) and read up for an hour or so in the gloriously indignant threads that have sprung into being.

The fixed fee in Aurum to buy an Extractor makes sense, however much that may be; CCP want to boost activity on the NES I'm sure. But also, a new drilled-down market on a previously untapped resource needs a solid financial base. Finding Extractors in Data Sites would break a few things, I'd imagine..

After that, all is market-driven, and in keeping with CCP's philosophy of Let Them Fling Sand. As we no doubt will. And, as with every other newly-introduced resource, the Haves and Have Nots will profit & loss greatly for a few weeks then gradually find an equilibrium.

From a personal perspective, I have me and two other characters with "80m+" skill points and I might investigate streamlining them. But given the fact that any Injector - whatever the cost - will only be worth 2.3 days' training time (at 2700/hour), I doubt I'll be bothering. Null players not using Skill implants though.. I could imagine a hefty market there!

My original comment was made, of course, tongue-in-cheek, but the estimate ended up being high. The actual cost would be closer to $10,000 based on actual Skill Extractor pricing.

In reality, I have the means to get there with current in-game assets, but I'd have a hell of a lot of liquidating of various investments to get it done. The real question is: is it really worth that much ISK?