EVE General Discussion

Yes, because logging in once a day to update skill queue is really "playing" eve. One of the most significant qualities of eve is the passive experience gain which negates the need to "grind". If anything, extending this queue past 24 hours seems more inline with that concept than remaining stuck in the old ways.

It's interesting to say that nobody needs to defend their reasons for being happy with the way it is currently. Nobody is necessarily dissatisfied, and the current way is much more desirable than no queue at all. The conflict arises when someone argues to keep it that way while offering absolutely nothing to substantiate their argument.. It just seems close minded to me to squander an opportunity to improve some aspect of this game. To make it better than it currently is.

As luck would have it, that's not in any way the reason for keeping the current system.

Instead, the reason for keep the system is the same as it has always been: because 24h is all you need. Hell, it's more than you need. The queue could probably be reduced to 12h with minimal impact on its usefulness.

Look up the notion of onus probandi and its variations. That said, people are defending their reasons, so it's pretty ignorant to say that they don't. One might even suspect that it's an attempt to distract from the fact that they're very difficult reasons to argue against…

If you ask me, it's the

YOU NO AGREE WIF ME, SO U CRY LIKE BABY, HAHAHA, HEE


folks who are the real whiners. Just sayin. The guy just made as simple thread asking some questions.

Why people like you feel the need to text-flex and go around calling people babies simply for having a differing perspective, I have no idea; but it isn't something adults do, thus the irony in you people doing that.

Like many others here, I've been playing for long enough to remember no skill queue, and 24 hours is a blessing.

Sure it could be improved, and things have been mentioned in the past about not having to log in, and have it web based instead, but like so many ideas, that's as far as they got.

The only improvement I'd like to see would be an account skill queue instead of a character skill queue so you could run a couple of short skills on an alt, and that have your main carry on training after they've finished.

On the other hand, I've been in eve long enough to not care if I miss a couple of days training if I'm away.

It 'encourages' folk to log in.

If folk log in, they may even play the game.

lots of hater on this forum but i agree with him, the skill queue is too short, we would need at least 2 weeks of skill queue, because some people take holiday some time and dont play eve 365 day a year.

my 2¢

you do realise you can put a 14 day or longer skill on to the 24hr skill queue, right?

This isnt a F2P game like Runescape, you pay to play;
I pay to train (atm, and another topic you flamers)

Anyway I edited the original post

Says quite clearly in the UI: "Training Queue". It's a 24 hour queue for adjusting training.

As to the OP's question, the game was quite playable back when we didn't have the training queue: sometimes you'd have to switch skills and train something longer than 8 hrs before you went to bed, then switch to the 10-30m skills while having breakfast, then start training another longer-than-8-hrs skill as you left for work. The training queue was introduced with one single purpose: to allow people to switch skill training while they were asleep.

SP acquisition is not life-and-death. When my partner and I went to FanFest 2011, we actually spent 6 weeks (42 days) in Europe with no access to EVE Online. We managed to survive by queueing a long skill (about 35 days) and then accepting the fact that our characters weren't training for 7 whole days. Neither my character nor I have suffered and died because of losing 7 days of training time.

Perhaps OP could learn to accept that sometimes the training queue will be empty?

I don't think I've seen so much speculative, smoke blowing, crap in a single thread.

I'm not going to pretend to know the reason for CCP going with 24H but it would be nice if it was a bit longer.

Someone already mentioned a sp range that made a lot of sense. That is, it doesn't take very long to get within this range (you finish training skills by the hour on average) but then it quickly tappers off. Skills start training for a day and a couple hours. So you are trying to strategically place these medium length training queus at the end of one or two short ones.

Training is long enough without wasting it. Life happens and can mean that you can't log to queu up and planning ahead is not always practical.

What if all the skills you have are no less than a day but no more than a week and you will be gone for longer than a week?
What if something comes up on such short notice that you can swap out skills to something that has a long train time?

One of the positive qualities of this game's training system is that it is forgiving to the casual player.

Extending the time to 3 days would be better but some people just don't like change for the sake of change.