Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I wholeheartedly support and affirm this concept.

Most importantly, I believe CCP could get a huge profit boost from it, and in return we wouldn't have an openended situation where people could just throw cash at skill points.

I don't really care either way if this is implemented. My only concern is that it must be bought w/ cold hard real world cash. Plex prices are high enough already, the last thing we need is even higher demand for the stuff.

If I could like this more than once, I would.

No to buying SP in any form or fashion.

In response to this I can think of a couple of things.

One being that you restrict the age of characters being able to use it.
Problem with that is as you said 'waiting'.

Other idea is that there's a Skill training speed penalty if you use the SP backdating to acquire the missing Skill points.
Such as;

If you bought your 'missing' SP back you take a hit to the SP speed dropping it to something like normal Skill speed if you're using +4 implants. As then people would only do such a thing if they deem it 'vital or necessary '.

Just to clarify this point. I mean a permanent SP speed hit from then onwards for say the duration of the amount of time you 'reclaimed' from being inactive or even permanent indefinitely

The issue isn't whether or not people would do things like pay for one month trials and hold them for 2 years and then reactivate and sell them... The question is would it break the game ?

It would generate additional revenue for CCP, it would definitely affect the market for PLEX if you could buy 30 days of backdated skill training for old accounts with a PLEX.

Obviously it would have to be done based on current Attribute Mapping, and probably without current implants. As getting them after the fact would be ...

The argument could be made that a clone was sitting in station for that time, with a skill training queue that had been sitting and got pulled out after the fact.

What about 2 PLEX for per 30 day boost to an old character?

On the market argument, the higher PLEX prices go, the more demand there is for people to purchase PLEX at the going rate in real world currencies, which will bring it back down.

Now the downside is that as people get more skills they can turn around and generate more ISK/hour in game. So... hmmmph.

It would unbalance the game for new players in a way. But hasn't that always been true? Every day that goes by and you don't have an account training SP, you're falling behind the guy who has an active account.

Not sure this changes that aspect dramatically. New accounts will always have that hurdle.

You should quit playing EvE then since your subscription essentially buys you time to gain SP and therefor you are buying SP in a form.

I still don't think this is a good idea though. That means that account I made back in 2004 that has been dormant since then could be reactivated and I could pay a thousand bucks to get all the SP and assign it how I want. I don't think that would be very good...

Suddenly all my 2005 alts with 200k SP can fly titans.

Except for buying skills that are on a character?

quiet peasant, people with jobs who support this game you probably paid your whole eve life with plex which doesn't help ccp advance its software or hardware are thinking, shoosh.

support the buying of back-logged sp

The subscription buys me access to the server. While I had that access, I was able to use my character sheet and train/change skills over that time.

Fake edit: You made me laugh though, because I know you were serious.

Characters bought and sold have had the time spent on them and are the result of choices made over time. The whole point of skill levels, is so you have to decided is it worth train that skill to level 5, or should I train other stuff to level 4?

No matter what excuse is used to justify buying SP, it all boils down to the same thing. The removal of those decisions and consequences.

Buying a char comes with them, buying SP does not.