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Could it be? Are you starting to get it?
"Know thy enemy" has flown out the window.

Less free intel because the character could be something entirely different than he was before. That's bad for the game?

That's actually good for the game.

People keep talking about risk, but they try to avoid it by knowing what their target has. Now they will have to take a chance.

#1 Eff who ever is responsible for SP trading at CCP for they are also responsible for making me aggree with Jenshae Chiroptera.

#2. SP trading is far worse than the character bazaar for more than just history, time, and public information. There is also finality.

I've sold 4 characters in my time in EVE. I was fine with 3 of them but I grew to regret one of them. I had something of an attachment to that character but I sold it because it was worth alot and I already had 4 other characters that could do the same things, and I wanted the isk to speed up some lvl 5 mission experiments I was conducting.

When i sold it, it was gone. NOW no such thing has to happen. You can drain a character of it's SP, and if you come to regret doing that, all you need to do is retrain it. All it cost you was a bit of time.
CCP took something that was almost irreversible (I say almost because theoretically you could by the character back, but the owner would have to be willing to sell which might not be the case) and turned it into a renewable resource. Already, the alts I drained are training new SP for me to sell.

In a way, they have replicated their Cosmic Anomaly mistake of 2009. For Dominion CCP took cosmic anomalies (which were minor easy to find encounters that could escalate to complexes) and made them the center of the system upgrade scheme. Instantly they proved to be bad for the economy leading to a series of nerfs then buffs then nerfs that have left them in their current state. It was a mistake, anoms were never built for that, so now we have this 20 trillion isk per month afkable nightmare situation that totally Fs up the EVE economy in several ways.

My old characters are in Doomheim, it seems a bad move now as I could of used the isk and extracted the sp for this one. But I don't really regret it as for me at the time I decided it was the right thing to do.

You sold a character and you regretted it, what's that got to do with your present character?

Are your characters like employees and you are playing at being their manager? And regret letting a good employee go?

You're talking about how you feel outside of the game, those kind of concequences don't matter in-game.

Most of the players hide at the end of Null Sec pockets / pipes or in High Sec because they are risk adverse.
By the nature of people; yes, it is bad for the game.

If he never undocks...who cares?

So he has a maxed trade alt...who doesn't?

Even if he does undock. He can fly any ship. Big deal. If you buy alts from the bazaar, you as a player can also do the exact same thing. The number of SP a single ship can use is limited anyway and require nowhere near the actual cap. Meanwhile, if you did it with multiple character, you can undock 2 ships at the same time while he can't because he's a single capsuler.