Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Well, first you implied that this is something you should be able to do in an unlimited fashion. Then you bargained it down to twice a year. Now you're saying once a year.

I understand that you're just trying to get your foot in the door by mitigating against the "pay to win" counter-argument, but once you get beyond a certain point, the whole thing becomes moot. I mean, one month of training will get you, like just level 5 of Tycoon or a similar-ranked skill.

It seems like you're trapped between it either being clearly ill-advised due to pay-to-win concerns, or so negligible as to not even be worth implementing in the first place. Assuming you stick to one month a year (though you seem to be open to sliding that around in ways that are convenient to your argument), for not a whole lot of player benefit CCP ends up opening a huge can of worms that would certainly lead to massive unrest among a core group of players.

The question I'd pose to you is--setting aside our individual beliefs about whether this is good/bad/neutral for the game--why do you think CCP should do this? What do they gain from it, and how is that gain more beneficial to them than what they'd risk losing?

You can already buy SP, since character selling is legal and there are plenty of high-SP characters available to buy.

I'm wondering if people are so opposed to this because they don't like the idea of CCP getting money for this, or simply the idea itself. Here's a suggestion: let people gift SPs to others. Make the module that does it cost isk, and limit it to characters with >10m sp. CCP doesn't profit from pay to win, extra SP are never generated from nothing, and we get a badly needed isk sink. 10m SP limit prevent people from making accounts just to farm SPs to transfer, since at 10m SP you could just make an "xxx ship pilot" char and sell that instead.

This.

Why is this thread even still running ? SP for PLEX has been suggested 10000 times and the answer's always been no, for very good reasons. People should stop trying to find workarounds and fake good ideas to get this implemented because they can't be bothered to train their skills up like everybody else did. The skill system is one of the pillars of EVE, and if people don't like it they shouldn't be playing. This game is all about patience and long term planning.

If you don't want to lose training time... don't unsub

If you want a break but don't want to lose training time, do what loads of others do and play skill training online and stay subbed.

CCP should make a deal where you like buy 24plex and get one maxlevel WoW Character.

How about learning to search before throwing this up on the forums as it's been discussed countless times.

It's not about the amount of SP you have, it's what you have it in, what you do with it, who you fly with, who you fly for, what you do, who you do it to, who you do that with or for and with and the reaction to your actions...

Requested a lock for duplicate thread. Learn2Search and improve your forum-fu.

This.

Even if it was Skillvl*Multiplier=Plex needed (which would be 15 PLEX to bring a rank 1 skill to lvl5) I would not support this.