Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The Problem
1. Real-time skill training.
2. SP are permanent.

MMOs are mainly about persistence. There is no end game so nothing should be permanent and nothing should last forever, except the game. That's why the mechanic of permanent SP doesn't fit. Character progress in an MMO should be relative rather than absolute. From a lore perspective, I find it a bit far fetched that characters can absorb and retain the equivalent of the entire library of congress, even with cybernetic implants. It only makes sense that information should be lost over time if it's not used.

The Solution:
1. Increase training 10x
2. Drain SP from all non-prerequisite skills at a constant rate to simulate the forgetting of information. Something like 5*(skill level*(skill training time multiplier)) per hour.
3. Once a skill reaches 0 SP, it is forgotten, and disappears from the character sheet.
4. Prerequisite skills do not lose SP until all dependent skills are forgotten

The main goal is to increase training time so it doesn't take so long for new players to catch up with older players. It would be great if CCP were willing to introduce a buff and leave it at that. But to balance the equation, every buff must come with a nerf and every nerf must come with a buff.

So I introduce a backslide as SP drain. While the SP drain just plain sucks at first glance, it would have some positive effects on the game. By draining SP from the skills you don't train, and therefore don't use, it keeps your clone cost down. The SP drain doesn't destroy character progression, it just changes it from a long and finite pursuit to a short and indefinite pursuit. The SP drain limits a characters skill set such that the number of skills is limited by the levels to which they are trained. This makes characters either expert in a narrow set of skills or novice in a wide range of skills.

With this system in place, perhaps CCP would consider allowing players to remap their attributes more often, like every 3 months instead of every 12?

A man of few words.

Hell no.

Largely because it doesn't work with the broad/interconnected EVE skill system. It also serves no purpose.

Broad? Yes. Interconnected? What are you talking about?

The purpose is to make the game more fun. Faster skill training is more fun.

Yes, let's fundamentally change how character progression works for no reason.

How about something constructive like, "I think... ". Or is that too much to ask?

OK.

I think you should go biomass yourself so as to make my Eve experience more entertaining. Remember, add value, don't subtract from it.

Ok, here's some more :words:

No. There is absolutely no reason to do these changes, because EVE is plenty of a cockstab as it is, there's no reason to make it a cockstab to keep skills by having to keep grinding skillpoints just to keep them because I haven't used them in $random period$.

So: No.

I really think this would work, but only if it was a skill itself... Dementia to level 5 FTW!

I think, "No."