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[Proposal] Unlearning skills. SP refunding...

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Mag's
Azn Empire
#21 - 2012-01-20 22:26:19 UTC
No need to get upset, it's only a game. Big smile

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Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-01-20 22:31:16 UTC
lol...im not upset. It's a proposal for the people. The hardcore will hate it...the vets will hate it. Hell...I hate it...but the new peeps will probably like it.

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Drake Draconis
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2012-01-20 23:05:30 UTC
Vertisce Soritenshi wrote:
lol...DENSE! "I" don't want it at all. I don't frankly give two ***** about refunding SP. But it IS something a LOT of people request for ALL the time. And no...I doubt that would be the majority opinion since again...you and I have no idea how other people are going to react. You might as well face it...SP refund is something CCP is thinking about and the CSM did not completely shoot it down. It may very well end up happening...and when it does you will all ***** and whine about it and how it was implemented. Which is why you should be trying to come up with something that WILL work for everybody with minimal impact to the game as it is before it is too late.



Then why the #### Are you asking for it in the first place?

Are you just that hypocritical? Maybe you should start being apart of the solution and stop making the problem worse.

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Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2012-01-20 23:12:27 UTC
Because...I may not like it but it may be what is best for the game in the long run. A feature like this may retain players that might otherwise quit given the option to do so. It may help draw in more players as well. I try to look at the whole of the issue in what is best for the game, players and CCP and not just what I like or don't like. I have supported many ideas that would be harmful to my current gameplay style and what I like to do because I believe it would benefit others more.

I don't need my SP refunded...I haven't made any choices I can't live with or don't think I will need or use down the line. Hell even my starter skills will eventually be used despite being useless to me right now. However...I think an SP refund option will benefit the game on a whole. Why do we care if vets do this? They have a shitload of SP as it is...nothing will change there. Why do we care if the noobs do this? They have so little SP compared to most that it likely wont make a dent in the overall scheme of things.

I almost don't care either way frankly. If given the option to untrain and move SP I would welcome the challenge. New players that don't know what they want to do yet can finally do what they want by correcting mistakes while again not completely destroying the time = experience paradigm that EvE has set up.

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Drake Draconis
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#25 - 2012-01-21 00:02:21 UTC
Vertisce Soritenshi wrote:
Because...I may not like it but it may be what is best for the game in the long run. A feature like this may retain players that might otherwise quit given the option to do so. It may help draw in more players as well. I try to look at the whole of the issue in what is best for the game, players and CCP and not just what I like or don't like. I have supported many ideas that would be harmful to my current gameplay style and what I like to do because I believe it would benefit others more.

I don't need my SP refunded...I haven't made any choices I can't live with or don't think I will need or use down the line. Hell even my starter skills will eventually be used despite being useless to me right now. However...I think an SP refund option will benefit the game on a whole. Why do we care if vets do this? They have a shitload of SP as it is...nothing will change there. Why do we care if the noobs do this? They have so little SP compared to most that it likely wont make a dent in the overall scheme of things.

I almost don't care either way frankly. If given the option to untrain and move SP I would welcome the challenge. New players that don't know what they want to do yet can finally do what they want by correcting mistakes while again not completely destroying the time = experience paradigm that EvE has set up.



Who asked you what would be best for us as far as this game is concerned? What makes you think this feature is best as it is?

Considering you hypocriitcially push it and claim its the best option when you yourself condem it in saying your not interested nor care for it.

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Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2012-01-21 00:57:06 UTC
Drake Draconis wrote:
Vertisce Soritenshi wrote:
Because...I may not like it but it may be what is best for the game in the long run. A feature like this may retain players that might otherwise quit given the option to do so. It may help draw in more players as well. I try to look at the whole of the issue in what is best for the game, players and CCP and not just what I like or don't like. I have supported many ideas that would be harmful to my current gameplay style and what I like to do because I believe it would benefit others more.

I don't need my SP refunded...I haven't made any choices I can't live with or don't think I will need or use down the line. Hell even my starter skills will eventually be used despite being useless to me right now. However...I think an SP refund option will benefit the game on a whole. Why do we care if vets do this? They have a shitload of SP as it is...nothing will change there. Why do we care if the noobs do this? They have so little SP compared to most that it likely wont make a dent in the overall scheme of things.

I almost don't care either way frankly. If given the option to untrain and move SP I would welcome the challenge. New players that don't know what they want to do yet can finally do what they want by correcting mistakes while again not completely destroying the time = experience paradigm that EvE has set up.



Who asked you what would be best for us as far as this game is concerned? What makes you think this feature is best as it is?

Considering you hypocriitcially push it and claim its the best option when you yourself condem it in saying your not interested nor care for it.

What do you think a "PROPOSAL" is? If you owned a business and had to make a decision would you choose what is best for the company or what is best for you? Why is it that your approval or disapproval is the final say? What makes YOU so important?

Questions go both ways bud.

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Tidurious
Blatant Alt Corp
#27 - 2012-01-21 01:06:48 UTC
No changing skills that you already have, period. Unless you lose the SP because you lost your Tech 3 Cruiser, for example, skills are skills.

BTW - "Unlearning" is called FORGETTING, you dumbass.

No purchasing skillpoints, no purchasing remaps, no purchasing SP "re-allocations" or any of that other bullshit. **** that, it would ruin EVE as we know it. Actions have consequences - get used to it.
Drake Draconis
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#28 - 2012-01-21 01:39:27 UTC
Tidurious wrote:
No changing skills that you already have, period. Unless you lose the SP because you lost your Tech 3 Cruiser, for example, skills are skills.

BTW - "Unlearning" is called FORGETTING, you dumbass.

No purchasing skillpoints, no purchasing remaps, no purchasing SP "re-allocations" or any of that other bullshit. **** that, it would ruin EVE as we know it. Actions have consequences - get used to it.


This.


And my point is obvious.

Your aragoance and ignorance of the matter is the point...I could no more stop your incesist whining and posting over your hypocritical stance than anyone else can...nor can you stop me.

Your adding gas to a fire that can be best ignored...becasue you feel obligated by some sick sense of duty to make a proposal that you yourself admit to not beleiving or supporting.

That is the worst kind of thing you can do to this game....I'm saying...if you have nothing constructive to add that you yourself can get behind..then kindly please walk away.

I will not let people prance around thinking they can just push there ideas when they fail to pass various tests of mettle and mechanics.

Like the fine gent before me said...this is stupid beyond reason.

People are ignoring this topic because its literally just that bad.

I'm done here as far as that is concerned...your a lost cause.

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Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2012-01-21 03:46:04 UTC
You win the internet.

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Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#30 - 2012-01-21 09:40:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Akrasjel Lanate
NO

Also you have this " EvE is about the SANDBOX! " in your sig, and you propose such change... omg

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Citizen of Solitude

Triana
Aliastra
#31 - 2012-01-21 11:00:48 UTC
Thryson wrote:
Um creative but did you think about what you said before you said it, if you have to spend time unlearning skills at the same rate you learned them why waste your time just leave the skill maybe far in the future you can use it and just train the skill want to begin with.


What he says.

No respec, EVER.
Smiling Menace
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#32 - 2012-01-21 11:19:42 UTC
No skill is useless in EVE (except Defender missiles! I WANT MY SP BACK!!!! Big smile) so I have no idea why anyone would choose to waste time forgetting skills they've already learned.

Just because you don't use it today does not mean you will not use it in future.

Also, as other's have pointed out, your actions in EVE have consequences so I would rather not upset the game balance by removing this. I have never heard any other MMO allowing you to change your skills once learned.

No support from me for this.

Jade Mitch
A Problem with Authority
#33 - 2012-01-21 16:36:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Jade Mitch
I totally like this idea and I would use it all the time.

SP are what I'm paying for with my subscription. It's not a gameplay or balancing issue so, it's totally unnecessary to make unlearning SP take additional time and money.

We can only train one character at a time so, all three characters per account share the same SP pool and we should be able to distribute our unlearned SP to any of them.

Eve ought to be about *natural* consequences, not imaginary consequences.
Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#34 - 2012-01-21 17:53:53 UTC
Akrasjel Lanate wrote:
NO

Also you have this " EvE is about the SANDBOX! " in your sig, and you propose such change... omg

Sandbox is about no restrictions...you want to restrict people from respeccing SP if they choose too...in other words...your post makes no sense.

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Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2012-01-21 17:54:39 UTC
Whoops...double post...

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Jade Mitch
A Problem with Authority
#36 - 2012-01-24 04:14:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Jade Mitch
Smiling Menace wrote:
No skill is useless in EVE (except Defender missiles! I WANT MY SP BACK!!!! Big smile) so I have no idea why anyone would choose to waste time forgetting skills they've already learned.

The point is to save you SP, which is what you've paid for with your time and money.

Smiling Menace wrote:

Just because you don't use it today does not mean you will not use it in future.

Just because you might use it in the future doesn't mean you should be stuck with it today.

Smiling Menace wrote:

Also, as other's have pointed out, your actions in EVE have consequences so I would rather not upset the game balance by removing this. I have never heard any other MMO allowing you to change your skills once learned.

No support from me for this.

Eve has distinguished itself from other MMOs with unusual game mechanics.

Your actions would still have consequences so, I don't understand how it would upset the game balance.
Hathrul
NED-Clan
Goonswarm Federation
#37 - 2012-01-24 12:04:40 UTC
if unlearning takes the same amount of time as learning, you might as well accept you made a mistake and learn a new skill directly. it takes just as much time as unlearning something and then using that sp to get it. i dont see why anyone would ever use this under any circumstance
Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#38 - 2012-01-24 13:52:40 UTC
I thought this thread was dead with all the trolling going on in it...oh well...

@Hathrul. An amendment to the idea was later made in the thread to cut the unlearning time in half. That way you aren't wasting ALL of your time and could technically gain time by removing a skill you never use and putting the points into something you want.

Lets say you have skill A that took you 6 days to learn and skill B which is entirely unlearned but will also take you 6 days. You no longer need or want A so you unlearn it in 3 days and put all the SP into skill B thus learning skill B in 3 days instead of 6 by sacrificing skill A which you already spent 6 days to learn. When all is said and done it took you a total of 9 days to learn skill B but 6 of it may have been 5 years ago.

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Drake Draconis
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#39 - 2012-01-24 15:50:19 UTC
Jade Mitch wrote:
I totally like this idea and I would use it all the time.

SP are what I'm paying for with my subscription. It's not a gameplay or balancing issue so, it's totally unnecessary to make unlearning SP take additional time and money.

We can only train one character at a time so, all three characters per account share the same SP pool and we should be able to distribute our unlearned SP to any of them.

Eve ought to be about *natural* consequences, not imaginary consequences.


I would expect this from someone who bought his toon.

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Santiago Fahahrri
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2012-01-24 16:15:35 UTC
No.