Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Which makes attributes pointless. Well done.

Nah, but what really would be the goodestestest for the knoobhhs would be to give them all purple mods and all ships for free and all skillpoints at once so they don't have to wait for 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds to press FONE.
And of course a little money to get them started.

A tiny token amount of 200.000 trillion per hour so all you need to do it press autopilot and the client will just do everything for you.



And coming soon the motorcycle license for your newborn with a brand new motorcycle and a baby seat - nothing get you quicker to the mall.

This isn't gonna really gonna help you catch up. Skill injectors do that better.

Skill injectors kind of make this whole idea moot.

CCP has a paid attribute remap system for China Serenity server. At this stage I see no issue in copying that system.

https://pay.tiancity.com/eve/Service/ResetAttribute.aspx

Specced into perception/willpower you get 2250 SP/hr on a perception/willpower skill.

Specced into something else, you get 1530 SP/hr.

Since the prospective price has been referenced at 1 plex, that means 2 injectors would give you probably between 800k-1m SP (as most of the players who use this will fall in that group).

With a difference of 720 SP/hr that means that over the course of a half year (the typical neural remap schedule divided by 2, since you're buying a re-map) you are looking at:

365 days / 2 remap periods = 162.5 days per period
162.5 days * 24 hours = 4380 hours
7380 hours * 720SP = 3,153,600

Or, for reference, 6-8 injectors.


Which in turn means that a remap would need to cost closer to 4 plex.

If you want to spend 4.5 billion on a remap, give'er.

Ah, but 2-3 plex would buy 4-6 injectors. For someone needing drone skills that would almost certainly be 2-3 million skill points.

Going from a blank toon to having good drone skills (specifically, skipping heavy drones 5 and drone interfacing 5) costs a mere 2.2 million SP. Even if you round it all the way up to 3 million to account for anything I might have missed, you're still getting it "now" (and time is of course at a premium in Eve).

Think about it. You can buy the 3 million skill points, and then spend the remainder of your 12 months training other things. Or you can buy the remap to train faster, over a significantly longer period of time, on a limited subset of skills. The injectors will offer a better return 99 times out of 100, for a newer player.

The only time I could ever see it being valuable is to the people with significant SP already, who are getting dramatically reduced SP from injectors. And for most of those people, 4 plex is trivial, even if it means they go for a month without subbing 4 of their cyno alts.

But also for most of those people, it's pretty easy to queue up 12 months of skills.

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