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My initial reaction is hell no, until further details emerge I will go with that.

SEND ME YOUR SKILLPOINTS AND I DOUBLE THEM !

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Proven skillpoints doubling since 2015!

Yes but when that new character loses his t3 with perfect skills to a bored veteran, he'll know it wasn't a skill point issue but instead a lack of his own personal ability.

This will mean he cannot blame his loss on his needing another year's worth of training and then right there deciding it's not worth the time just to check and see if maybe he can be good enough. He'll get to immediately begin working on how to make sure his issue does not happen again, taking part in an active learning process rather than a "well I guess I'll just have to wait and see."

If this change brings more ppl into the game its a small price to pay. However, as stated in the op eve is a game of choices, and choosing which skills to prioritize in your toons training plan is the epitome of the hard choices that make eve great. Burning unused mining skills so a new toon can fly a command ship isn't a hard choice. Devs please consider the following connected ideas:

1) Reward older players! Instead of reducing the amount of unallocated points granted to older players that inject the magic sauce, have lower skill point toons pay a penalty in skill points when they create a transneural skill packet. With out a change such as this, skill packets will kill the deliberate training of toons that are designed from day one to be sold for a specific purpose. There is s risk/reward to this "profession", perhaps the meta shifts and Guardians are ****, or archons get re-skinned in pink etc... Instead, If you have skill packets as outlined in the op, ppl will likely create "Skill farming" toons that spawn a packet everytime they hit 5.5m skill points, there is much less risk/reward to this.

2) Mitigate the high likely hood that easy respeccing will "further condense the meta" and play more logically into the idea that a toon can sell part of itself by having the transneural skill packet only grant skill points in the same skill cataegory that was used to create it.

That's how I felt when I realized people bought their titan characters for cheaper than the plex I spent on training mine.

Even moreso when you see what happened to the prices of these characters. Hulls too, perhaps (but Imperium prices don't go far above build-related costs)

Part 2

In the end, allowing people to buy Skillpoints its the same like selling level-90-tickets in world-of-warcraft.
You can basicly skip content. Why bother doing level 1-3 missions if you can jus take place in a Battleship at the very first day and look for people you can fly with for standing? No need to do level 1-3 missions ever again. I might be the only person who ever read the missions description at least once for almost every mission, but it would just complety hollow out the whole idea of process at a certain degree.

What that basicly means people can achieve their goals in eve faster if they invest real money and at the same time they can burn out of eve faster as well. People want stuff they can achieve, and there are several people who want to do certain things.


If you got two chars who start eve at the very same date, there will be always differences between them. One might start as caldari, the other one might be an amarr. And while they are usually never on the same "reallifeskilllevel" these two at the moment can certanly compete on a certain level. But as soon as you introduce skillboosts (and nothing else is all of this) the two players can be divided very fast.

I guess most people do aggree with me if I say, that Gold-Ammo in World of Tanks is/was pay-to-win. You did get better results with the same skills due to higher ingamefficency.
If you take this in comparison in eve and take two players of the same experiencelevel, you cant tell me that 2million SP dont make a huge difference in a lot of situations. People who will pay with real money will advance faster than people who will not pay real money, they will be able to get more out of their ships in a shorter ammount of time than comparable entities. And while you can argue, that this was always the case due to the charbasar: come on! The majority of the basarusers use it for alts. The fewest for their mainchar, because they usually do name their chars the way they do for a reason and want to keep this nickname.

Until now you usually could throw a shitload of money into eve, but besides the bazar which most people did not use anyway it was no way to get around the long route of skilling.
This would completly cut the journey. Why waiting, if you can pay 5€ to speed up your skillspeed?
Get now 10% more damage out of your pvpfrig if you pay 5€ for Skillpoints!

You did get more damage out of the goldshells in world of tanks.
You will get more damage in comparison to other new players if you pay for skillpoints.


And do you want to argue, that there is already this differance to the older players? And that its unfair for newer players to be hindered? As these older players also got experience the newer players dont have? That is something no money can achieve. But if you introduce Skillpoints for money you will deny newer players the experiences and the feelings of achieving something of imporance and greatness, which led the veterans to the love towards eve all of us unifies.

Most comments here sounds like, 'I have suffered for long to train this l33t pvp toon, and now noobz can immediately get where I am without paying their dues... Waahhhh'.. Please eve has always been P2W, look at character bazaar, pirate implants and OGB. What CCP is doing is just making it easier for newer players to P2W.

I support the proposed changes. The only downside is intel based on players age may be less accurate. Before, we know that a 6mo toon in BC is an easy gank for my T1 frigate; after this change, a 6mo toon in Drake may be able to do real damage as its missile and supports skills enable him to apply damage to my frigate.

Nearly every single person against this change seems to be totally ignoring the fact I can already just keep making money and trading up to better skilled characters via the character bazaar as long as I don't mind not choosing my name.

What is the big deal here apart from that it's just making something that used to be possible but only really known to old players more visible to new players?

Personally I think they should get rid of the bazaar and permaban anyone selling their account, but they think that legitimising sales is a better way to handle it as you'll never stop it. If that sounds familiar it's because it's the same argument for legalising drugs.

So if you're able to already trade in IRL cash and buy a titan pilot tomorrow, what difference does this system make?

Glad to see we're processing this in a calm, rational manner and not fabricating all manner of imaginary BS to be upset about.

This gives new players an actual reason, an actual object to strive for to further their progression.

They can subscribe, then go farm isk for the purpose of using it to buy skill points to level their characters faster.

Instead of subscribe and wait for a year, they can subscribe and play a ****-ton of EvE being out in the game actively playing, using their activity to acquire an actual benefit. Using the actual desirable reward of leveling their character as incentive to want to spend more time actively pursuing it.

Sure, just as it's possible to purchase a subscription with dollars, it's also possible to purchase a subscription with isk.
This adds another benefit to the new player, something he wants.