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Yeah, because utilities never go bankrupt nor face sudden and drasticallychanging markets.

And here is how I read that snippet of that comment. We are hoping the future of the company lies elsewhere than EVE, so we are going to milk EVE while it dies. But hey, I'm a glass half full kinda guy.

They can go **** themselves. They're just as bad as all the miners who whined about barge HP until CCP finally caved and buffed it.

Hi there, I'm a new payer in Eve online, I just got my first 2 millions of Skill Points and I know that getting anywhere in this game will take me years. That, there is NO option to buy skill points is the main reason for me to stay with EvE online for many years to come. Any manipulations with this feature will result in deleting my character and canceling my account (well I'm paid till March but after ... bye, bye).
What you should do in this game is to develop much more personal way of playing (not changing anything in the game) just adding new features, like options to walk on the space ships, visit planets, add special mission (look at "Star Citizen"), I know that's a lot but this game is from 2003 and is getting better and stronger, please DO NOT GO THE BAD WAY. I believe in your team and I hope to stay on a round for many years to come!!!

Lucas Starwalker...

Walking in Stations (WiS) is dead as a doornail, IMO. Planets, let alone your own ship...no. Besides you are in a goop filled pod in your ship anyway.

I speaking for myself.

My view is that SP packets will closely track PLEX prices plus extractor costs over time. So setting up SP alts to PLEX one's account will be feasible by and large.

My problem is that as more and more people start to do this, maybe even expanding the number of their accounts as time goes bye it may require an increasing pressure on new players to provide these PLEX (after all, older players doing this also supplying the PLEX that they will then buy is just stupid). And if that falls apart, then the number of accounts might start to decline maybe even more precipitously than it already is.

Additionally, the negative tone of this thread also leads me to believe that we will see step down in the number of subscriptions as well which may be reflected in the number of players on line.

CCP, when it came to Monocles you kinda did screw up...

This time however, I'd just say **** the whiners and go through with it. From my perspective this is a healthy change to the game that in reality will not affect these whiners in any way, shape or form.

In fact, it would be killing 2 birds with 1 stone. If this goes through then a lot of whiners will hopefully unsub and if lucky maybe even biomass. That means less cancer that is killing EVE. In return there just may be an influx of fresh blood not unlike when Brave did their thing - except now there is an actual feature which could potentially hook them in the game for a longer time.

I am only a newbie so take what I say with a grain of salt. Though being a newbie I can say that I enjoy the game and find the skill point system for the most part refreshing in some ways. I have yet to not have something to do. I find it refreshing that unlike MMOs like WoW most of your game experience isn't over till next week, nor capped with a limited number of tries to get anywhere.

Honestly the only time that I really feel the "SP Wall" is when being preyed on with endless wardecs by a bored weathly corp/ alliance with higher end ships (that are more expensive than I would want to pay anyway), though they are paying way more than I am to maintain their CONCORD bribe.

Alright to the heart of it, as I see it from a new pilot stand point. I find the Skill Point (SP) system well paced. By this I mean that by the time you have trained into said ship or profession hub skill (PI, research, etc) you will actually have the ISK to pay for it as long as you didn't moan too much about losing a ship or two in the process. Honestly the only real time that I lost a ship(s) was when I was pushing the envelope and overextended and I had a blast risking it all on a possible big payoff. My point is simply having more skills in no way insulates you from the cold harsh universe of EVE, nor should it.

I as a new player I love that I am building a character that is for the most part solely built from the ground up by my choices. I can not understand some of fellow new pilots saying that they "wasted" their time with a "worthless" skill. It is not as if you can make a mistake and erase the skill once you learn, actually you don't even lose your progress in the skill if you remove it from your queue (I am looking at you professions of Wow) !

I see if given the choice to erase my "mistakes" either through remapping my skill points or simply selling my character as diluting the game of EVE itself one SP or character at a time. I don't see myself as a victim or the super rich or highly skilled characters/ corps/ alliances out there. To tell you the truth, now like I said I am not a veteran of this game yet, but the mere fact that I can train into a Tech III Destroyer in under a month as amazing (granted I would not have the skills yet to fully take advantage of all it can do) and a huge bone thrown to the just starting player!

TLDR: If I have not been clear, I would like to say my feedback as a just started EVE player, would be a resounding NO! to being able to purchase Skill Points in any way, shape, or form. I personally would see it as losing something that truly makes my Capsuleer unique to me.

what's ~1000 aurum in isk?

Good, so your opinion on that subject doesn't matter. You perform scam, have lots of ISK, buy a toon on market. You can afford it. Not every noob will perform a scam, will have lots of cash and buy toon from market. I'm not speaking for you, I'm speaking for them. You a perfect representant of insta gratification generation. If CCP wants to lean player base on such players I'm outta here. This game will become even easier than now. They may earn money this way at start, but insta gratification crowd has short focus plane, and gets boring fast.