Player Features and Ideas Discussion

he doesn't, go and buy a character with more sp than bob.

This is incorrect. Because SP doesn't progress as a direct result of gameplay, the player with a longer subscription does not have necessarily interacted more with the game environment, or necessarily provided more input.

The amount of SP you have is directly tied to the amount of money you have paid CCP and nothing else.

And thus you have supported CCP and the game buy paying them one way or another. If by cash then it directly supports development, if it is buy PLEX then you have interacted with the game environment and therefore affected everyone else in game to some degree.

Allowing PLEX to be used to buy SP would also cause huge inflation in PLEX price thus damaging the ability of those who can't afford RL money and are time rich to plex their accounts. The time poor but cash rich players would still be fine to pay of course but there would overall be less pilots in space and that can never be good.

I think SP boosts could come with limits. I favor a system where they let players use a PLEX to give a character 30 days of 50% faster skill learning, and accounts are only allowed to have one boost active at any time, as it would keep rich players from gaining an overly huge advantage while also allowing most players access to an SP boost. It would also be very similar to the service we already have where we can activate the skill queue on alts using a PLEX.

There have also been other similar ideas in the thread, such as a limited number of boosts per character, or a limited number of boosts each year. I think we can all agree that SP boosts shouldn't be used to the extreme.

Sure they could achieve it. They simply buy and use a PLEX to get the boost.

Simple answer.

Make isk. Buy character. Quit whining.

Pay to Win nearly destroyed this game not so long ago. Anything like Pay to SP WILL destroy it.

Why should i buy another char? I want to stay with one i have created with such a big love and when time has passed and plans been changed i want to re-focus to something new, and SP's remap is the right tool for that.

double post

you should buy it if you want more sp, or sp allocated in a different way to currently.

not sure why you needed such an obvious thing explaining to you, but there you go.


no, sp remaps are not the right tool for that, correct planning of your skill queue is the right tool for that.

If attribute remaps are retained in their current form, do not make them available for some period of time (90 days? 6 months) .

Rationale:
The current mechanic rewards newly created alts of veteran players at the expense of penalizing new players

Attribute remaps force genuinely new players to choose between an "optimal" SP/Hour training plan, which trains skills in such an order that the character takes a long time to become enjoyable to play., or training skills in the order which gets the player access to content quickly, at the expense of training much more slowly.

With access to remaps delayed, this choice between a poor new player experience vs a less optimized training plan would be moot, alts of bittervets would train at the same effective rate as new players (for at least long enough that those new players can begin to get an understanding of how to optimize.

Replace the 3 bonus remaps at character creation with a system under which a remap is awarded periodically, and up to 3 remaps can be saved up

Rationale:
Greater flexibility in aligning training plans with remaps, and less incentive to "hoard" the bonus remaps since they would be replaced over time.

Guided Training System

In addition to the current "skill queue" mechanics, implement a guided skill planning system that beverages ship masteries, certificates, and the concept of "career paths" to automatically maintain a sensible training plan.

Training goals could be a ship, module, mastery, or certificate. Having a training goal set would cause the skills to reach that goal to be automatically trained after any skills manually placed into the skill queue. Goals would be queued just as skills are queued in the training queue now.

A career path would allow the player to choose a racial focus (defaulting to the character's race), and a career - generalist, combat, mining, exploration, etc. A predefined training plan would exist for each combination, allowing skills suitable to that plan to be automatically chosen any time that both the skill queue and the goals are empty. and a career path would be set from the very beginning of character creation.

The next few skills from the player's goals Goals and Career Path would be shown at the end of the player's skill queue, and the player would be able to drag stills from there into their "manual" queue.

I think this would be easier to understand for new players , and it would reduce the dependence on third party tools.