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Skill Points for PLEX?
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Scout Vyvorant
Doomheim
#61 - 2014-07-19 05:47:13 UTC
Komi Toran wrote:
Scout Vyvorant wrote:
Now please be mindful before commenting...

Sigh... and I promised to be good.

Re-read the OP. Your post does not speak to the idea at all.


I expressed my feeling about touching the SP in the game, for whatever reason, and indirectly I hinted how it's a bad idea to touch them.

However, half of the people replying to this thread have not read any part of it and they are not contributing in any way to the discussion, just hopping it to have a post +1.
Gel Musana
LOL a Sticky Situation
#62 - 2014-07-19 09:42:03 UTC
It could make sense if only already-accrued-SPs could be sold. This way you would just transfer them from character A to B. It can still be considered pay to win, but it would have lesser impact and it becomes a way to cash in on something you no longer use. In addition you would be able to sell your skills and buy them back to apply them to new skill books! I would subscribe to this.

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Gel Musana
LOL a Sticky Situation
#63 - 2014-07-19 09:44:04 UTC
Mithandra wrote:
The question is what's in it for ccp.

you convert unwanted sp to plex, convert the plex to game time and play effectively for free. The ratio of sp to plex as people have said would have to be such that the system would not be abused, and lets face it, if something can be exploited or abused by eve pilots, it will be. Its our nature.

If the ratio is too high it wont make sense converting the points in the first place, too low and people will train to play for free.

Make it exploit proof and I might, might I say tentatively think its an O.K idea. As it is ? No


CCP gets a subscription every month, is that not good enough???

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Pheusia
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#64 - 2014-07-19 16:42:59 UTC
Bizzaro Stormy MurphDog wrote:
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 sure that CCP will implement your plan to give away hundreds of thousands of dollars first thing monday morning.
Gallowmere Rorschach
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#65 - 2014-07-19 16:47:02 UTC
Pheusia wrote:

I'm sure that CCP will implement your plan to give away hundreds of thousands of dollars first thing monday morning.

Well, it would certainly do wonders to knock down PLEX prices, within a few short hours...oh, right...that's not going help CCP much either.
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#66 - 2014-07-19 18:51:42 UTC
its a dumb idea. And i already said why.

OMG Comet Mining idea!!! Comet Mining!

Eve For life.
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#67 - 2014-07-19 19:03:28 UTC  |  Edited by: James Amril-Kesh
Kyt Thrace wrote:
"PLEX for the Removal of Unwanted Skills"

You DO NOT get reimbursed for skill points or skill books.

If you have the option of plugging them in, then you should have the option of unplugging them.


Why should I have to pay a PLEX for that, though? If this feature is ever implemented it should be free and without restriction.

The only people that have a problem with this are those who for some reason still think medclone costs are good for the game. I'd rather see them removed or replaced with a better system.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)