Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Don't post ideas in GD, all you get is 4 pages of "I like the way it is", sometimes more..

This.

No implant has ever stopped me playing the game. If you find it stops you, then don't use them.

In fact my +5 set happens to be the cheapest clone I have and when I had time to play last, would often fly in them. Not due to the price, but simply because I couldn't be bothered to change clones.

If learning implants were removed, you would simply moan about something else stopping you playing. Plus, it is rather difficult to lose a pod in low and high sec.

Sadly, dumping implants is not going to get rid of SP obsession.

The moment the implants go, they will start their **** about remapping.

And when remapping is gone, and everyone has the MAX_SKILLS_DURR_HURR from all those bonuses being rolled into the baseline character (because rarely do these people just want the advantage to go away, they usually want to keep/gain the bonus for free) they will start pushing even harder for SP boosters.

SP boosters that will still give the space rich and vets a decided advantage over the misguided plebes that wanted all this in the first place.

you only need 2 +4 implants never a full set, skills need only 2 attributes. And that's cheap

On a one year training plan, spent sitting in those implants, yes.

When you bounce in and out of them on a regular basis, they start to lose their luster quickly.

I make one year skill plans. So that I know what I will be training this year. My current one year plan was begun on January 3rd. At that point, it was set to end on December 30th at around midnight local time. Due to time already spent in blank clones for roaming nullsec and other JC activity, it is now set to end on January 6th, 2015 at midday. I have all ideas that it will ultimately end somewhere around the 3rd week of January 2015.

These over runs are not wasted time. The reasons for the overruns (getting out of one clone and into another to partake of some sort of game play) is the only valuable time, because it was entertaining time spent playing. I don't play EVE with the skillqueue open, pawing myself with glee as the timer counts down, because that timer is so ******* awesome.

Learning Skills

That's nice. Do you have a point you would like to make using complete sentences?

This assumes that everyone should be engaging in PvP on a regular basis. There is no intrinsic authority for that position. Not everyone wants to engage in null/lowsec PvP regularly. Those people should be allowed to play as they wish, with the added risk that being podded will result in a huge ISK loss.

This is exactly correct. I know it's hard for some people to understand they aren't automatically entitled to the best of everything, but it's true.

…not to mention that, if you're really that nutty about you skill training time, you'll be running year-long +10/+4 remaps anyway so you only ever need to have two learning implants at risk (and as others have pointed out, that pair can easily be the cheapest part of your implant setup).

So……this. That's all of 40M — probably less than the cost of the ship + fittings — and over a year you lose a whopping 788,400 SP compared to +5s.