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It's primarily all the players that did not have the luxury all the young ones get to have.

Remember all the salties not wanting to let go of the learning skills :)

CCP please do this I want to make 5 more mining alts with names I made. Looking forward to this thank you.

This is about as wrong a way to handle this as possible. I can not emphasize that strongly enough

1) There should NEVER be the ability to buy SP. Period full stop. SP should have to be trained. A trained character should not be able to be dissected and sold off for parts. The prestige of having SP is the work and effort put into developing the character, warts and all.

2) Adding a more streamlined method for FULL character sales would be welcome.

3) Adding the ability to rename a bought character is a regular request but a hard one. I would say that if the owner of the new account is different from the previous one that a rename is allowed and that toon could not be sold back to the original owner after a rename. IE do not allow a player to scrub the reputation off their toons.

All that being said, PLEASE do not implement this as proposed.

Get out of this game you idiot. You do realize that you can buy a character from the bazar right.

How is that different from:

Step 1: Pump a ton of Aurum into CCP to buy 84 PLEX.
Step 2: Sell 25 PLEX in Jita to get some isk.
Step 3: Buy a character on the bazaar. dumping my useless char and buying a char for incursion-running.
Step 4: Sell 59 PLEX on the market, making it more or less unnecessary for me to actually run incursions for a while since 59 of these are going to be worth a ton of ISK.

Like the only argument that stands will be the assessment of age = sp which could lead to silly situations yeah, but 99% of the time people look at shiptype anyway.

PS: as an FYI i did not do math science majicks on the conversions Aurum/Plex to sp ratio thingy mabob. My point is just that if someone wants to buy a 200mil sp char right now that option already exists via the " $ to PLEX to Character Bazaar" formulae.

My opinion: NO.

What CCP will say when they search this thread: Look 5% say they like the idea. Hooray. Let's do it .

As some people have already pointed out slightly let me explain why it is bad for people, at present, there are 4 pretty solid ways of making isk in the game, Incursions, Wormhole sites, Carrier Ratting, Null Mining, and yes I am sure there are plenty of other ways to make isk, but these are the strongest I have seen recently.

Now each of these carries risk, Sansha kills some incursioners quite regularly, and requires a fair bit of isk investment for a decent ship. Wormholes, Sleepers are rather dangerous, you have no local and can be killed without penalty, Null Mining, usually with a fleet this presents a nice target for bombers, black ops and capitals. and well carrier ratting... huge ship with slow align probably afk and relies on others to escape (cyno) all have risk to make isk.


With this proposal from ccp. I could make 5 accounts that I wouldn't need multiple monitors or input broadcasting for, each with 3 characters (if restrictions were put in place on how often you can skill extract) with a small investment of +5 implants in two attributes and completely remapping towards those skills., and only having one character on each account training at a time, (switching as each gets to its limit) I could farm **** tonne of SP in a short space of time and sell it on with ZERO risk too myself, yes thats right zero isk, even station traders have risk, if markets go south, this method would be risk free, never undocking and SP would maintain a certain level of worth because of the cost involved of keeping characters training, extracting the sp, selling the sp, and making a profit.

I hope that is what happens since we can already buy focused pilots off the bazaar.

Don't do it.
This is simply trading SP for AUR.

My only interaction with vets as a new player was listening to them complain about every little thing ever and tell me I didn't have enough sp. So, one of us is full of crap.