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An exploitable issue with Alpha's and Skill Extraction

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Winter Archipelago
Autumn Industrial Enterprises
#1 - 2016-10-31 15:37:25 UTC
I apologize if this has been brought up before, but there have been a lot of threads and discussions on the subject and I can't find anything related to this in the threads that I know.

Anyway, while mucking about with skills, extraction, and Alphas on SISI, I noticed that Omegas still have the ability to extract the Alpha-only skills.

This is going to create a very exploitable situation where a player can train an Alpha char for free, upgrade to an Omega for 3-4 months to train 5-6 mil SP in Omega skills, then extract all of their Alpha SP, drop back down to Alpha, and retrain the Alpha skills.

At that point, they can sub for a single month, extract the Alpha skills plus anything else they're able to train, and drop back down to Alpha again to retrain the Alpha skills, essentially getting 5-6 mil SP extracted for a single month's subscription while training that initial 5 mil SP back for free each time.

There needs to be a limit on even Omega clones from extracting the base Alpha skills once trained, or else it's a guarantee that this is going to be abused to a heinous degree.
Old Pervert
Perkone
Caldari State
#2 - 2016-10-31 15:49:07 UTC
Shh. When the injector market craters, I'll be able to inject myself till kingdom come.
Solgamus
SOLGAM Enterprises
#3 - 2016-11-14 14:56:23 UTC
Locking out alpha list skills out of skill extractors would solve this issue.
You would be able to get alpha skills to get extra 4.5mil SP to extract from previously gained SP (if they were completely different from alpha list) but that would be one time only.
Petrified
Old and Petrified Syndication
#4 - 2016-11-14 17:59:23 UTC
Solgamus wrote:
Locking out alpha list skills out of skill extractors would solve this issue.


This would be the ideal solution. If the Skill was freely trained it cannot be extracted from any clone state.

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