Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Let's face it: the ability to instantly inject a new char into a high-income ship or any other FOTM activity is likely one of the big reasons why carrier / supercarrrier ratting and other forms of high-income activities (including Rorqual mining) have exploded into the nerfs we're seeing today.

To counter this, I'd like to suggest that Skill Injectors change from being an instant injection of SP and instead provide their SP at a rate of 1 SP per second over time. These would still provide the 1 SP / sec on characters not training but with skills in their queue, and in an event where there's no skill in the queue, the injector's SP injection is paused.

A person keeping a character injected 24 / 7 would still provide a little over 31.5 mil additional SP per year, but it would take a more reasonable amount of time in order to bring a character up to the high-SP levels that can be immediately injected into now.

These would be separate from Accelerators, which would only affect the normal SP gain from regular training. Additionally, Accelerators would have no influence on the rate of injection from Skill Injectors.

Given that the extractors need to be purchased from the NES using PLEX or real world cash, I doubt CCP considers this a problem - either way they get to book revenue!

Injectors are also expensive consumables and the game needs more things like that to help soak up excess ISK.

For the people who injected their way to Rorquals or Carriers and are crying - I feel little pity, they knew CCP would eventually restore balance. The only question was when.

I disagree you can buy PLEX with REAL MONEY on the EVE website - then buy as many Skill Injector's as you like. This could be part of the problem but I don't see CCP stopping selling PLEX for CASH anytime soon!

I inject on my alts to save time. Saving less time by having it trickle in makes them of less value.

"Oh we're flying XYZ tonight? Let me inject that and I'm gtg".

All PLEX int he game started from a real money transaction with CCP. If you do not understand that, like it seem by reading this comment, you really need to learn about it before commenting.

As for injector "balance", there is nothing imbalanced about the injectors themselves. Their only impact on balance is making anything CCP messed up and made OP more accessible by letting more people jump on the bandwagon fast. It will somehow force CCP to balance faster. Take Ishtars for example. Once people figured out the re balance made them so good, a lot of people wanted to use them but you had to train for it. It was racial cruiser V + some support skills to V + decent drone skills + HAC. While some people were already trained for it, not everybody was and a lot had to do what they were missing the "long" way. Now, if they make a ship OP, inside of a single day, the userbase could double if it's seen as good enough to be worth the investment. OP things become much larger problem once they have a wide userbase and that might force CCP to react faster now than they did before.