Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ok here is the deal:

Imagine if you could somehow get Skill Points to relocate from your own Skills.

Lets say i have a skill I trained in the past and I think it was a waste of time because i currently dont use it for anything.

For Example:
Tolocan Technology Skill to Level 5 (wich is 1,280,000 Skill Points if Im not mistaken)

I Click the Option: Reverse Skill Points to Lvl 4

Now i have Tolocan Technology Lvl 4 and 1,053,725 Skill Points to relocate in any other skill i think is of more importance.

(Note: You can only do this Process once every 24 hours.)

Also you can not unlearn the skill completely, Lvl 1 of the skill you are downgrading will always remain.

-1.

Not being able to reallocate skillpoints makes you think more about your choices, gives you a greater sense of achievement when you finish training something and makes you regret your bad decisions. It also makes it harder for a group of pilots to shift their specialization from one type of fleet to another.

I would hate to see such a thing implemented into the game. Everybody with enough SP would become able to do pretty much anything if they decide to reallocate their SP. It's no fun. And no amount of ISK fee or time limitation will change that imo.

And it will be keep on coming up in the future because it is a verry good Idea.

i like the idea tho it isn't new. there are a view problems to make it workable.

1. you should not get the exact amount to relocate but something like 50% maybe 60% definitely not 100% because people can then bypass it to train every skill with perfect remaps as in remap for Perception/Willpower and train a skill they don't want train it to 5 then down it back to 1 and use the points to train something with Intelligence/Memory
2. you can now also remove skills that are needed as a prerequisite to inject a book but lower it afterwards, this is hard to fix as the changes in carriers make it possible that people don't meet the prerequisite to train carriers but have the skill trained because CCP changed prerequisite

If this would perhaps get implemented which I do not think will happen, atleast give it some sort of penalty.
Let's say it costs 50 % of the amount of SP you want to relocate.

Example, if you relocate 500k SP it'll cost you 250k SP of that entire pool. This way it cannot be exploited at all and there is some sort of 'risk' involved.

Instead of every 24 hours, give the ability to completely refund a skill by expending a remap. If you want the skill at a lower level, just buy it back, for those skills like Reactive Armor Hardening that actually do you harm at higher levels.

Thus you dont get to train forever on a perfect remap, and you have to choose to either remap or refund a single skill.

So 50% of the consequence of your choice to train certain skills. This would be like me trading in 50% of my knowledge in Chemistry (where my degree is) to gain extra knowledge in my IT skills that I currently use in my job. It doesn't make sense to me.

Exactly my point, re-training to a new skill should be from scratch, not with free SP from a discarded skill.

Sounds like something they implemented in WOW, and you want Eve to go the same way? No thanks.

I dont know i have never played WoW before.