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Abolish Skill Books?
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ACESsiggy
Deaths Consortium
#1 - 2011-12-04 23:55:17 UTC
Valid option, yes?Bear

“The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.”
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#2 - 2011-12-05 00:02:04 UTC
Why?

Ever consider that high end books are a great ISK sink?
ACESsiggy
Deaths Consortium
#3 - 2011-12-05 01:33:49 UTC  |  Edited by: ACESsiggy
Main obstacle bringing friends to play the game is skill books.

“The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.”
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2011-12-05 01:46:21 UTC
That will need some clarification. I don't see the connection.
ACESsiggy
Deaths Consortium
#5 - 2011-12-05 01:48:13 UTC  |  Edited by: ACESsiggy
Derath Ellecon wrote:
That will need some clarification. I don't see the connection.



Must not talk much with mmo players in other cirlces.

“The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.”
Skippermonkey
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#6 - 2011-12-05 02:10:19 UTC
skill books for new players are dirt cheap

buy them for your friends you cheapskate

COME AT ME BRO

I'LL JUST BE DOCKED IN THIS STATION
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#7 - 2011-12-05 02:48:23 UTC
ACESsiggy wrote:
Main obstacle bringing friends to play the game is skill books.
How?
Quote:
Valid option, yes?
No.
Jenn Makanen
Doomheim
#8 - 2011-12-05 03:22:54 UTC
Never run into a skillbook I couldn't afford, which was of use to me.

Sure, there are really expensive ones. But if you need a skillbook for equipment, the equipment will probably set you back more.
Fedimart
Doomheim
#9 - 2011-12-05 03:24:52 UTC
ACESsiggy wrote:
Valid option, yes?Bear


Umm how about we just say we did and don't.
Klask Atriund
Kindred Rising
#10 - 2011-12-05 03:35:02 UTC
The price of the skill books are affecting your friends choice or the way the skill system works?

Because the books are relatively easy to buy as you progress through the game
CausticS0da
Shrubbery Acquisitions
Blohm and Voss Shipyards Alliance
#11 - 2011-12-05 07:43:26 UTC
Get out
Lord Calus
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2011-12-05 14:13:35 UTC
I could see removing the books, and having to be at a certain medical station to "install" the knowledge into your brain. Would make it a little less frustrating than navigating the market interface we have to deal with now. But like the saing goes, "If it ain't broke someone will try to fix it".
Lady Spank
Get Out Nasty Face
#13 - 2011-12-05 18:19:29 UTC
I don't check out the skills subforum very much but I see it's full of the same idiots we have elsewhere. Might check back again in 2013.

(ಠ_ృ) ~ It Takes a Million Years to Become Diamonds So Lets Just Burn Like Coal Until the Sky's Black ~ (ಠ_ృ)
Kesshisan
#14 - 2011-12-05 18:21:34 UTC
Lord Calus wrote:
I could see removing the books, and having to be at a certain medical station to "install" the knowledge into your brain. Would make it a little less frustrating than navigating the market interface we have to deal with now. But like the saing goes, "If it ain't broke someone will try to fix it".


I'd rather have portable skill books which I can take with me into wormholes, null sec, and non-contiguous high sec islands. Not everybody lives in contiguous high sec.
Shivus Tao
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2011-12-05 21:57:27 UTC
Kesshisan wrote:
Lord Calus wrote:
I could see removing the books, and having to be at a certain medical station to "install" the knowledge into your brain. Would make it a little less frustrating than navigating the market interface we have to deal with now. But like the saing goes, "If it ain't broke someone will try to fix it".


I'd rather have portable skill books which I can take with me into wormholes, null sec, and non-contiguous high sec islands. Not everybody lives in contiguous high sec.


And this is a game feature. If everywhere was as accessable as high sec, everywhere would be highsec.

People who live in wormholes do so knowing they're mostly cut off from civilization.

People who live in high sec islands do so knowing they have to man up and trek through empty lowsec to get back to market hubs.

People who live in nulsec do so knowing they live on the frontier, but they have alliance mates to help in forging an existance on that frontier.
Lord Calus
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2011-12-05 22:04:34 UTC
Don't think I ever once mentioned having to be in High Sec .... there are still medical stations in 0.0 you can update a clone in right? I mean .... leaving HS is scary. /sarcasm.

I don't care either way if they stay or go. Having an addition to the medical interface directly paying to shove the skill in would be less tedious than searching the markets for books is all I am saying. Keep the books and give us a new way if you want. At current the system isn't broken, but I am sure someone will try and find a way to complicate or break it.
Not A Vampire
Doomheim
#17 - 2011-12-05 22:07:28 UTC
The only significantly expensive skills are entirely irrelevant to newbs without isk.

IDGI
ACESsiggy
Deaths Consortium
#18 - 2011-12-06 02:57:12 UTC
haha some funny comments but I wasn't referring to skill books and the costs associated with it -- but rather just training for things which is an endless ...... ........... ............. .. . . . .. . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . < fill free to fill in the blank :)

Why should a player that has played for a year NOT be able to fly every ship?


+training in eve vs leveling and having a sense of game balance.

“The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.”
ACESsiggy
Deaths Consortium
#19 - 2011-12-06 03:00:54 UTC  |  Edited by: ACESsiggy
Tippia wrote:
ACESsiggy wrote:
Main obstacle bringing friends to play the game is skill books.
How?
Quote:
Valid option, yes?
No.



Do you have trouble reading what people have typed and then formulating a response to it rather than breaking down each sentence? I've noticed on the forums you do that quite often .... A.D.D maybe?

“The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.”
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#20 - 2011-12-06 04:47:47 UTC
ACESsiggy wrote:
Do you have trouble reading what people have typed and then formulating a response to it rather than breaking down each sentence?
No.

Do you have trouble answering simple questions?
Such as: how are skill books an obstacle (much less the main obstacle) to bringing friends to play the game?
Quote:
Why should a player that has played for a year NOT be able to fly every ship?
To keep people playing for longer. To force people to choose between the many options available. To create variety. To create some amount of reliance on others. etc. etc. etc.
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