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Also - if you can interfere more and more with rl money - how can you call this a sandbox anymore if you are able to change the rules? maybe we should redefine it as rl-money-sandbox then !?

I'm newbie that will use it without any money involved and I don't mind if another one will pay for SP. So please don't speak from us all.

Plex has nothing to do with this topic, but a plex as it is now cannot accelerate skillpoint manipulation, and when plex was first introduced we didnt have aurum as yet another way to extort rl cash for useless cosmetic nonsense

First of all, there is actually only one "IRL" money fee. The AUR for the initial Transneural Skill Extractor.

The following Transneural Skill Packet can only be sold for ISK or traded. Whether people will finance this isk with a Plex has nothing to do with it.

Whether this is easily exploitable is still to be seen, since we don't have the final numbers. However, I still feel many of the exploits already exist in the game.

- SP farming alts for ISK. Can already be done with the bazaar. In addition to, we don't have the final numbers so we don't know how profitable that even will be.

- SP farming to inject SP into main. As argued many many times before, the total SP pool on your character is not that important.

- SP farming to inject SP into other alts and spawn a horde of Titan alts everywhere. Can already be done, by just buying character of the bazaar.

Have you stopped to consider that for a great many people this feature may actually be positive? Not everyone chooses to view this in the same negative light as you do.

Personally I think this feature diminishes some of the romanticism I have for eve as an old-timer, but I'm able to see past my own narrow bitter-vet viewpoint and see that it may be beneficial for the larger game beyond just me. EvE's got to keep evolving.

Please elaborate in detail, how you are somehow able to change the rules based on this feature?

And the rules are still there, but people will be given the option to boost themselves past some skills they needs, instead of just keeping the game subbed and not play for a month.

What is better? Giving people the option to get faster into (for example, Frigate PvP) resulting in more combat in FW? Or a system, where you are maybe a month away from what you want to do skill-wise. So instead of playing the game for a month, you just keep it subbed and offline train.

The rules are still the same for all players. People are just given an option to skip some of the mundane skill training, in favor of more activity in space.

don´t think in good or bad - boosting as you call it is a modification of a mechanic / rule / effect / state / whatever from one form to another - a change ... just understand the word in it´s meaning without projecting emotions into it.

Thanks :)

And I will tell you again. Plex has the same mechanic. You should equally be against that, given your arguments on this issue.

CCP is a company and a company needs revenue in order to keep running. Obviously, CCP will try to monetize their game, since currently they only have 2 possible revenue streams (EvE and Dust). As an EvE player, you should only have an interest in CCPs effort to make money. Mainly because, if CCP goes bankrupt EvE will shut down.

That being said, whether or not this is a money grab is not really relevant. What is important, is the feature itself. As it currently stands, gameplay-wise it is not that different from a Plex.

I joined as a player coming up to two years ago. What gripped me then and still does now is that Eve is a game that you’re born into, grow into and quickly establish a rapport with you character/s and the players/characters around you as you progress through the game.

My thoughts on the character bazaar are that it is very useful in allowing new/current/past players the ability to buy an established character and play and think we should keep it as it is with one important change. That change has been voiced already and I think it would be an excellent way forward. Allow characters to be purchased in the normal way, buy a name change package from the New Eden Store for Aurum. This package would not only change your character name but would produce a history tab for the previous character name.

This proposed idea of packaging up part of your characters life in skill points and selling them, well it just feels so wrong and goes against the ethos of the game. There currently are a few areas of the game open to abuse but this idea would be the daddy. It would open a can of worms and cause confusion that could eventually cause irreparable damage to our wonderful game.

To appreciate a skill takes time, during that time you learn your trade be it PvP, trading, industry, etc. All the pitfalls, the disappointments and the joy, to my mind this idea takes away the fundamental gameplay that makes Eve so different. Time should not be circumvented like this; a characters date of birth would be meaningless and the game will seem skewed.

If you must allow ways for real life people to jump into advanced characters then why not create character packages for the various races in Eve. You could create a PvP, mining, an industry package, etc. Not to powerful but with enough skills to make a good start at the game. Maybe this could help with player retention, I don’t know. Me, I think things should remain as they are and new players should start at the beginning.

If player retention is driving this then what about bringing in skill caps on each level of ship, this has been suggested and explained elsewhere. There must be a better way than progressing with this skill point idea.

So as you will have guessed, I am in the no camp as I don’t see this idea benefiting the game in the long term, never mind the short.

Nothing is being modified to the rules. You get the option to more rapidly gain SP, but the rules of the game are the same. Instead of just subbing for a month and stay docked, I get an option to just buy an item and not afk train that queue.

I don't understand why you say I project emotion. I simply told you the rules are not modified. If someone could buy a permit to not get concorded in HS for real money, that would be changing the rules with a P2W mechanic. But not this.