EVE General Discussion

I misread someone else's thread, and actually thought it was a good idea that I've never seen come up.

Skill points for PLEX.

Not "buy a PLEX and convert it to skill points" but "Convert skillpoints you wish you didn't have into PLEX"

Feeling bad about all those industry/mining skills you trained but never use? Convert them into a PLEX!

Annoyed that CCP is completely removing skills from the game (Material Efficiency V anyone?) and playing the semantics game by "changing" the skill to a completely different one? Just delete those useless skill points and apply them towards a PLEX!

Obviously, the ratio of skill points to PLEX would have to be pretty high - far higher than the amount of skill points you can generate during a billing cycle - but I'm sure CCP (or the forums) could math out a good ratio.

Bonus is that a lot of very old/high SP characters who are heavily into being "bittervets" would have an easy way to grab some PLEX and shed so many SP that they could once again get that "newbie" feel (gee, I can't wait until I can fly interceptors *again*!).

I see no downside to this and plenty of upside. It's only a matter of time.

I'm all in favour of quicker training times.

But the problem is it will be P2W

Presently you can get isk via PLEX so it's kind of limited P2W as you are limited by your learnt skills. SP for PLEX would remove that limitation.

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Didn't read yours properly, was being lazy scan reading.

The whole point of choosing skills is that you have to make a decision of which skills to learn, if you could just undo those decisions then there wouldn't really be much point in the skill system. This is an old discussion btw.

Back up guys.. ima gonna roll my ISD dice to see whos gonna lock it..



Came up Barstorlode.

I am not even sure what to say about this. It's utterly ridiculous on it's face, but other that helping to bust the bubble on the PLEX market (which is already happening on it's own), I don't see much of a downside so long as the numbers were properly tweeked.

Well, other than the fact that it would cost CCP some twentybux, which means that it will probably never happen. ;)

Still on the front page:
Time for Skillpoints for plex ? [locked]

I wouldn't see a problem with a skillpoint redistribution for PLEX, 1 PLEX per 10 mil sp should be more than fair... as long as it was also on an annual cooldown or even a one time deal. You would also have to PLEX your entire sp pool, not just the sp you wanted to remap. So you want to remove your Caldari Dreadnought V in favor of Minmatar Dreadnought V? You still have to pay to remap your other 100 million sp.

You're not the only one, edited my post after rereading the op this time more carefully.

This idea is bad on several levels, a few of which are just annoyances.

1) as said already, eve is a game of choices and consequences. You chose your path, you can change it later, but that's your choice. In other mmo's they limit your ability based on race and class. In eve the only limitation is time.

2) In real life once you learn something, you can't really unlearn it. I personally have not worked for burger king in close to 20 years now, but I can still make a whopper and wrap the damn sandwich faster then people working at other fast food places. I can't unlearn any of the skills I gained while working there, it was 3 year of my life that is now technically wasted, but it was a choice I made. The same goes with eve, I have skills in eve that I have not used in years, some I wished I never had. But they were my choices and my history. So this is a bad idea form logic.

3) I honestly wish CCP would stop removing skills. But that's just me, its created this class of 'omg this is changing gimme back my sps!' The same thing happened when exodus was launched, ccp credited the players 2 free days, and for about 5 years ever patch players asked for free days... sigh.

No this idea is dumb from a pure balance aspect. As I said the only limiting factor in eve is time. You made your choice, deal with he consequences.

No, I actually read the op as well, which my first post can attest to. I am still not exactly sure what to make of the idea though.

You are wrong! It will surely be Ezwal!