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Built in rules for which skills can be extracted. The game would be programmed to not allow pre-reqs that are needed for existing skills to be extracted. CCP would have to do this or this idea really would be totally horrid.

As it is, I'm not sure why these two options are so different:

1) I spend money for PLEX.
I use the PLEX to do a character transfer.
CCP adds renaming and reskinning to characters.
I rename and reskin the character I bought
I now have a character with the skills, name, and skin I want.

2) I spend money on SP transfer items,
I use the skill transfer items to get the SP I want
I create a new character with the name and skil I want.
I get the skills I want

I now have a character with the skills, name, and skin I want.

In both cases I spend real money and end up with a character with the skills, name, and skin I want.

Why is method 1 good and method 2 bad?

Yeah, I don't get how vets don't see this, it will totally happen, and it's been proven those who get ganked counter intuitively don't quit. I am proof of this one.

I thought skills were injected.

CCP, I've been playing your game for 6 years now and my character has 107m skill points. It would have been more except that I took a little break when you guys introduced $70 monocles and a locked door in my station hangar.

I am personally invested in my Character. I have patiently waited 30+ days for my minmatar battleship skills to reach level 5 and I patiently waited another 30+ days for my gallente battleship skills to reach level 5 (etc...)

I'm going to be brutally honest - the only reason I play the game is because I am so personally invested in my character. Also, I have recently realized that my character has reached a plateau as far as character training is concerned. There are very few skills left that unlock content that I'm interested in. In other words, my patience is no longer being rewarded.

Your proposal is essentially devaluing my patience.

Here's another reason that your proposal is so short sighted: You are going to allow new players to come into a game and spend $45 to skill up their characters, they'll play for 6 months or so and then realize the content is crap. They'll chalk up the $45 and sub cost as an investment in another bad game and then walk away. There is no reason for them to stick around to see what Amarr BS 5 unlocks because...its already unlocked. New players will have little attachment to their characters because their characters will have very little history and because they haven't had the time to develop the in game relationships that make EVE what it is.

This thread is closing 50 pages as I write this and the post has only been up a few hours. I strongly suggest you listen to what your customers are telling you because its obvious you weren't listening when CSM told you it was a bad idea.

Haha this is soooo true

So.. join big alliance, get skillpoints, quit

It wouldn't be wrong if it was allowed. My question, although hypothetical, was meant to highlight that there could be consequences that people thought were subjectively undesirable.

CCP already takes its pound of flesh for character transfers. Thinking that they'd remove it in this case is idiotic.

After a recent account consolidation, I ended up with 2 Exhumer pilots on the same account - roughly 2 million wasted skillpoints. After reading this devblog my initial reaction was great - I can transfer some of these SP to another character. On reflection, I agree this is not a good idea. The game is about setting goals and achieving those goals - if you can simply buy the achievements they are essentially worthless.

So they've been worthless since the Bazaar was introduced and this would change nothing?