Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Such an idea for plex into skill points would be cutting CCP's own throat.

While I do not have numbers, CCP's recent banning of bots was probably a ripple in what is a hurricane of botting action. There is enough dirty ISK created through botting actions that have been laundered to appear clean upon casual inspection. If forum posts and other outside sources are to be believed, then the combined amounts made over time is staggering. If the ISK is not tied up with RMT, then readily liquid assests in game are masking the ISK. Add another tid-bit I read on the forums about how many plexes have been bought but not cashed yet, a quick means of converting plex into skill points would benefit botters sooner than honest players.

As an example, CCP bans a flagrant botter. The botter buys a new account (using various means to mask their new identity from their old, banned one) with a plex off his (or her) slush fund of botted ISK carefully laundered. Then the botter cashes out some plexes to gain the required skill points to instantly be proficient in whatever ship is required for their botting actions. Then the botter ventures forth into a different area, away from their previous hot zone, and begins again, accummulating ISK to replace their previous spent, and over time, to surpass it. While it seems CCP is slow, but meticulous, with their bannings, the botter should have worry-free time spent botting until the next round when the whole cycle will begin again.

Meanwhile, a honest player might struggle to gather enough ISK with their limited playing time while having to play with patience as they wait to earn their skill points. Add how the real life economy is bad, would a player with a plex want to spend it on a quick influx of skill points or another month of gaming?

Again, while I took the liberty with some assumptions, hopefully the idea came across. Until CCP can get a grip on the botting to make it nearly pointless, the idea of plex for skill points will hurt more than help.

Because EVE needs to be painstakingly slow and agonizing with nobody coming out to play, and when they do, it is to be a blob that you can only counter with +5 implants.

This cat is pushing a watermelon out of a lake. Your argument is invalid.

Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one.

The amount of truth in this sentence is unprecedented. However this only applies to the person selling his/her character.

The person buying could care less if pilot in question was shat out by a squirrel.

Except you already can.

So what your trying to say is. I am allowed to jerk off in front of the whole class, as long as I cover the eyes of the people in the back.

No, you cannot.

I actually like this idea, mainly because i ****** up my remapped and now i have to wait for another year before i can train some **** that i want without losing skillpoints. eh, i play eve online like 10 hours a day literally, sometimes i might even play for 20 hours but its kind of hurts but i want get a remap to remedy my situation. To be all honest and fair, i know a fair amount of people who would love to get another remap. why not give that to us? Is it really bad for the game? I don't think so, getting skillpoints and being able to fly ships in a faster pace does not really affect the economy of the game, except for the plex price. Heck, it might even get more players into eve cause its easier to get into ships. Plus the more plex we buy the more people will buy plex off the market, the more money ccp will get. Good for everyone i guess, wouldn't that encourage ccp to fix the game even more? But seriously i really really want a remap, or at least add an option to rework your remap at least once in 72 hours when you wake up in the morning, look at your character attributes and say " wtf how come my attributes is all ****** up?"