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This seems like something blizzard would scheme up.

count me a -1 for this idea.

This feels a lot like the golden ammo we were promised wasn't going to happen when the AUR store was released.

Death to the sacred cows imo. As a high SP character (with a few high SP alts) I'm ok with this. Newbies who didn't know what they were doing get a chance to respec before they're too old and old timers like me who want to min/max will get a chance to do so but will get a bad ROI for the privilege.

I would love to see how someone can apply Malcanis' law to this? (Not saying that can't; just that I'd be interested).

They are pretty much forced to do this, honestly.

Otherwise, everyone in eve would generate bastard farms whose only purpose is funneling SP to their main character.

Old players are invariably super rich with nothing much to spend isk on. I doubt any would care about the minimal return on investment.
It's still a terribad idea though.

I am torn on this.

On the one hand, I would love to be able to reallocate skillpoints that I have 'wasted' but at the same time, I feel that the decisions that players make should be something we have to live with. Being able to pay to fix the issues seems like an easy out.

The other issue I have is that the scaling of effectiveness will seriously unbalance the market with these items. The people who can afford to buy large numbers of skill packets (80+m SP) get the least out of them, but they can afford to buy them ten at a time to get the same effectiveness as a new player, which will in turn make it essentially impossible for new players (who will get the most out of them) to ever afford one.

With these being an AURUM item, the cost to buy one will need to be balanced with the profits that can be made off of them. PLEX is already absurdly expensive, so placing an item with good profits will only further make PLEX an unaffordable item. This would therefore force the costs of every other AURUM item up, and (while I don't use them) I know a lot of people are madly in love with ship SKINS.

Honestly, I'm pretty surprised to the negative reaction here.

People posting about this (both here and from without) are quick to call this "ISK for SP;" did you all deliberately ignore the part where you have to liquidate an existing pilot's skill points to fuel the skill packets?

-NO-

Wow. I guess this is the end, CCP. So long and thanks for all the fish, but even the thought of "floating this idea for comment" makes me no longer want to support your game.

This is, literally, Pay2Win.

Sure someone has to train those skillpoints and extract them. But that doesn't change the fact that any player, any character, can now spend real life money for skillpoints, the one bastion of sanity remaining. In a world where you could already amass ISK easier by RMTing it... oops, sorry, buying PLEX and then selling those PLEX for ISK, totally not RMT... skill points remained one of the defining factors. You can fund as many expensive ships as you wanted, but you still had to put in the time and planning to be good at it, both in terms of character skills and player skill.

Thanks for all the memories, EVE. 4 accounts spanning almost 10 years will be hard to let go of, but it's time.

No, you can't have my stuff.

My gut reaction to this is that it's a bad idea.

If you want to discuss pulling out complete skills for sale that would be more reasonable.

Example: when I was a newbie I trained Mining V and I don't want it anymore. Instead of removing SP that is injected as unallocated I instead consume some item and can pull out (and then sell on the market) the skillbook+sp for Mining V as a complete item. Any other player that doesn't have Mining V trained can then consume that item after buying it from me and enjoy their new mining skill.