Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was listening to some Podcasts today. People were talking of, "Player Disfigurement" as a penalty for using SP Injectors. My opinion, that is a bad idea. Not the penalty part, just the disfigurement part. Simply based on vanity reasons, I admit. Maybe a bad idea for other game reasons, player opinions, etc...

However, the idea of giving a player "punishment" for using a SP Injector gave me the idea of "Increasing Returns" for those players who do not use SP Injectors. Just a meager example;

+1 Learning boost on all "Pure" pilots?

Again, this is just a very rudimentary, super simple, start of an idea. A boost to training may not be feasible at all. But I do like the idea of rewarding a pilot for not "SP Boosting"

Does anyone think this would be a good idea? Or too early/late to introduce such a idea?

Opinions?

To me having to boost forever because you have once simply sounds like an excellent consequence for using these things.

Having stated that, I do agree that this idea is not a very good one at this point simply because I wonder if CCP has tracked ALL of the characters that have injected SP using these. If not then those who have used them prior to the implementation of this idea would essentially be given a free pass on the consequences of having used them and that would be unfair to the rest.

Why do so many people think these things need a consequence?

Because players feel that they should have some kind of reward for playing faithfully for years too, not just some new guy with a lot of money to spend on upgrades.

I feel that too. Before a player could look at their SP and know that their SP was what set them apart from the players that came and went. I was one of the comers and goers. So I've become annoyed every time I return to eve and realize I should have kept my account active.

Ty all for the opinions. Good answers. I also agree, too late to introduce this, let alone anything, at least for a while. This idea and thread have me thinking and I very much appreciate the opinions

But I do not understand this part. Why would you have to boost forever or periodically?

Of course, you would also need to introduce a consequence for extraction as well: slower learning speed until the extracted amount of SP has been replaced.
To time gate the injectors you would have a similar consequence: until the SP injected was 'earned' time wise, the learning speed is reduced.

Overall, while I do not like the entire injector/extractor situation (it detracts a certain quality about the characters in EVE) why penalize people for doing that?

The cosmetic aspect of using injectors might be entertaining - give them glowing eyes or something. ;)