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Conversely there will also be a group of players who will play out their pre-paid time and then not resub leading to drops in numbers 3, 6, 9, and 12 months down the line when people won't even remember why.

That's a bit disappointing if true. The devblog linked here as the comments and I don't even have an account in Reddit. If they were going to do that then why not just link straight to Reddit in future instead. Hopefully a Dev will stick in a "we're still reading this" post so we can stop worrying and go back to beating up on the idea^H^H^H^H^H providing constructive feedback.

I would love to see no penalty If using on a single account. I would love to recover that training that I mistakenly ran when I wasn't sure what to train or recover the SP on my Alts that I never use.

Tell me about it, subscribed till early 2018.

Anyway I do not take this game very seriously because I simply cannot compete in it... People with 10 accounts make 10 times the money, in PvP they have their own scouts and off-grid fleet boosts or a logi at hand, they do not have to care for loses cos they can have fun and easily cover their loses with alts at the same time. Basically the very fact that you can be online with more than 1 character at once means I cannot take this MMO seriously.

But at least I had fun developing my own character, seeing how he was developing and how he will yet develop in a year or two or three and what he will be able to try and fly efficiently. Eh, no, not anymore. Just buy SP. Max out character. Set the charges and end it.

Buy more accounts, buy ISKs, buy Aurum or whatever and now finally buy SPs (heh, all we miss in this discussion are the guys with the "SPs do not matter" rhetoric)...

If I would have spent a small amount of Euro from what I have spent on this game in Guild Wars 2 (just an example), I would have my characters in legendary gear set for life. And I thought that game was greedy (stupid free to play (pay to win) model).

I don´t know what more to say. I always used to say in-game that ISKs do not matter (you can buy them with Euro) and now SPs will not matter. What will actually matter... Why not remove SPs at all? Well because removing them would not generate money.

Enough of my rambling, let´s end this with "this change is baaaad and I mean baaaaad."

Now if thats true - the guy using Reddit in CCP over this forum should be sacked immidietly for not using the right communication channel. THAT IS ******* STUPID!




OR by all sense get rid of eve forums all together and just use reddit. God that is dumb.

Maybe they did actually answer but ISD removed it for trolling...

Well, I stand corrected!

But I still like the fact I get to trade skill points.

For starters, CCP can in the future include Skill Injectors in their newbie starter packs (Colonist, Explorer, etc.) and make the skill books included in them seem less redundant. Future events could include them in their loot tables, increasing the incentives for running the event sites.

And SiSI will be a lot more fun since you can virtually inject infinite skill points in the event they seed the market with Skill Injectors.

Possibilities: Endless

After thinking this over for a long time I finally decided that this change is good. Not for the game necessarily - but for me personally. I am playing this game for some time on four accounts that are all on paid subscription. I am far from being space rich but if I consolidate my assets that are not necessary for my current gameplay, I can buy app. 100 PLEX. As I do not really enjoy multiboxing, I do need only 2 accounts - the other 2 are maintained because it is cheaper compared to multiple character training, I need app. 15 mln skillpoints in total to have all alt where they should be.

My adaption plan:

So I will buy SP for the alts, consolidate my accounts into 2 and play on Plex until the lights go out or I lose interest. Even if my accounts go inactive over some time, its not a huge issue, as I can buy lost SP for virtual money if I feel I need to (at a premium ofc - but Its still virtual). So in my case, CCP will keep a loyal customer and I will save 720 EUR per year. Classical win/win, isn't it?

Having a lot of SP is not winning - look at it as getting into a position of advantage quicker by using a Credit Card.

If you don't spend your real life money then you spend a few months training alts up to gas harvest and another to be mining booster, then a few more months to learn T3 production - I'll be doing it tomorrow

Then the same alts need to be trained up in Pi - that's a month each, more if you don't remap - If you don't use your CC fine - I'll be harvesting Pi tomorrow .

As for fighting, I like force recons and they will need a booster - you can wait 140 days/ 160 days - I will be in recons + booster tomorrow.

EDIT:
Before you could never catch up someone who joined the game at an earlier time than you, though the higher level skills have diminishing returns which means the gap could be closed a fair amount. Now you can pay to catch up or even pass skill wise.

If for example I pay to skill up my toon to do pi or industry and you wait you will never be able to recover the lost income unless you pay as well.

Can I use this while hours to plex'ed?