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Guys we made it ! No more targets on d-scan.

noobs have skills for competing, vets have expirence for outcompeting. So it is beneficial for both sides. Anything else?

Sasha was my first character, first choice. The skill packets would allow me to stay with my choice and get the skills I feel I "need" to move forward. So Sasha would live on, as my first choice for character, with all the consequences attached to her.

Now the character bazaar is exactly what you wish it wasn't, maybe you need to revise your perspective.

Nobody finds this lack of flexibility appealing, and CCP knows that. Thats why they constantly propose changes that hopefully make the game more fun to everyone.

Not every consequence have to be lived with, if you buy a car and its not what you expect, sell it. You are not bound to it for eternity. Even vasectomy can be reversed.

Specially talking about a game, where we are supposed to find entertainment, stress releavement, having means to mend your bad choices is essential for the satisfaction of the players.

CCP have removed the need to upgrade clones out of respect for our SP, they have removed the need to have a registered account from many skills out of respect for new players that wanted to have a full EVE experience on trial, they increased trial from 14 to 30 days, lastly they gave us 400k start SP so we start with enough core skills to actually feel the game, and now they want to offer us means to repair bad training choices.

To me, this is all one single line of thought, and everything they did so far on that line has been widely welcomed by everyone despite the concerns of bigots who fear the unknown.

I'm not the one failing to bring up a good reason. You try to point many ways this could negatively affect EVE, but all I see is irrational fear, people picturing scenarios that are far from realistic, implying this will only benefict veteran players, implying every rich player in EVE will spend all their money to absorb the collective SP of everyone else as if this was a Agar.io match.

Wake the f*ck up. Nobody is going to trade their hard earned SP for crumbs and go back to flying Ventures, new players want SP too, many will use the system only to redistribute their own SP without giving it to anyone else, and the diminishing returns makes the whole deal a bazilian times more interesting to newbros than veterans, not only because they get up to 10 times more SP, but also because 50k SP to veterans don't help with sh*t.

When I first saw the post I had my concerns too, but I gave thought to the subject and consolidated a rational opinion. You should do that too. Take the benefics in consideration, not only what you think that could go wrong. Try to see the whole picture, and stop entertaining scenarios that are clearly fantasious.

This would benefict being online just for the sake of being online, those who can't stay online 24/7 would feel harmed, also, people would feel repelled from doing their normal ingame activities because if their undock the skill they want so bad will stop training fast... no, thats a terrible approach to the problem. Even paying extra to train faster looks better than this.

I hate slow training queues, but if theres one good aspect to it is exactly that what I'm training has zero impact over what I want to do with my time in the game.

Actually, this approach doesn't access the problem at all, since the whole idea here is to give means to redistribute and commercialize SP as asset, and extend the functionality of the character bazaar to something more flexible where people can trade their training time without having to give away an entire character.

Could I suggest that the concept be considered in conjunction with skill sinks (currently T3)?

Stacking SP mechanisms invites development of destacking SP mechanisms.

I mention this as a consideration to take as adding neuro degeneration for certain events may be a desirable game play function once regaining skill point losses immediately is possible.

Just keep that possibility in mind when weighing the pros and cons is all I ask.

Not really seeing too much of a problem with this change. Often times CCP makes changes to the game that massively affect your character. For example, changing the roles or weapons on a ship. If you trained your character for that specific ship and/or role, you now have wasted not only skills but time and money. This is especially more noticed in T2 and larger ships when skill training times start to really hurt.

So according to the ones against this proposal, you would argue that players should suck it up and live with the consequences of training into a ship that may take half a year or so to train into. Ok, lets take that under advisement, I can understand some level of responsibility with making skill training mistakes and it being based on the consequences of your actions. However, on the other hand, said player could not have foreseen a massive change to their favorite ship. So now they must waste more time and skills to train into another ship that supports the role they want to play, why should the player be penalized because the developer chooses to wreck their day by dropping a sweeping changes dev blog?

The other side to this is money, many may think, why should a player buy SPs with real cash? I should remind you that you are already doing that right now as we speak. Yes, subscription cost comes with many perks like playing the game, accessing the forums, and such. However, the real value in the $15/month is in the skill training. How many have left their accounts subbed whilst they took a break from EvE to simply keep skills being trained? SPs already = money, this option is just allowing you to advance it in incremental burst.

Aside from PLEX cost, these Skill Packets are traded through the market, thus players set the value to which they believe their skills are worth. In all honesty it is no different from buying a character off the bazar, you are paying $20 to purchase a character with millions of SPs, some worth it some not, and paying with in game currency as well. How is that ANY different from the proposal? Other than the fact that you are getting useless skills with the character not related to what you want it for, being forced to use a name and history that you have no idea of...in all honesty we are ALREADY buying SPs. I know a guy, I kid you not 4 days into EVE bought a character with 60mil SPs on it. Has no bloody clue how to use it or the stuff it can fly. This proposal is only allowing us to weed out the useless SPs we don't need and trading them to someone who does. Seems amicable to me.

I have been waiting a while for OP capitals and OP stations
Looking forward to these changes. This is really going to shake up the static eve universe.
Make way for some new bros and sisters.

P.S.
CCP, I can only spend 100k USD a year on this game, so please keep the pricing low.