Skill Discussions

So I have been playing on and off (financial reasons) since 2008. I have just over 10mil SP however because I was for the most part on my own when I was playing and did not know much of things like EveMon or Battle Clinic I kind of just trained a little bit of everything. As a result I can not really fly anything very well except a Hulk.

What I would like to see would be an option in the game to remap my SP just like I can remap my base stats. Now I am not saying I should be able to do this often because that would allow corps to have / require everyone to switch to one set of skills to do a stretch of mining then switch to pvp and doing so back and forth. No I am more talking on a one or two time a year remap that may or may not cost X PLEX.

It would not hurt any one rather it would allow players that made bad choices early in their characters life to undo those choices for skills they never use. Yes in real life if you go learn something and never use it you cant matrix it into something else but this is a game after all and you should be able to do what you want. You already put in the training time for the SP so why not.

This has been done on a small scale already when learning skills were taken out because it was slowing down training rather than speeding it up. So with a revisit on the system they used to do that I predict a remap system could be done in under 100 man hours.

Yes I agree it should be in F&I haven't used the forums much and was in the skills section. Will move it there but first:

I don't see how this would break the game. Say I put 3 years of nonstop training into the game. I still spent the time that some one that went down that path to start with did. If I choose to lose my ability to mine at all so I can fly lets say a Rokh with T2 fits and I have the time it takes to get there played why cant I lose one option for another? It works the other way too. Say I can fly a Thanotose but not I find myself in a high sec mining corp cus I found out my IRL friend played but thats what he did. So I switch to mining so I can do stuff with my friend, but now I cant fly that Thanotose any more. That doesn't break the game.

Short answer : No

Long answer : This is a terrible idea, so no

TL;DR: no

And even then, that skill should be purposely broken, so no.

Standard copypasta for this horrible idea:

It removes the point of having skills to begin with.
It removes the point of having attributes.
It removes attribute implants from the game.
It removes variety and instead encourages FOTM and cookie-cutter setups.
It removes the uniqueness, history and "character" of your character.
It removes planning and choice and consequences.
It removes goal-setting, progression and any achievement in those areas.
It kills character trading.
It massively boosts older characters over new ones.
It introduces "catching up" as a concept in EVE and instantly makes it impossible to do.


…all of that for something that doesn't solve any kind of problem.

Why do they need to “correct” it?

EVE has no cap and no limit to what you can train. If you want to do something else, you train something else. If you want to try something, you can do so with a very small SP investment (caps being the only real exception, but that's probably for the good — you shouldn't get into those without a well thought-out plan anyway).

Tip for you!

Save money, sell your char(or keep it or whatever). Buy new char!

No it isn't. In fact it's encouraged, sanctioned activity. Well, for ISK. Not so much for fiat currency.

If they limited something like to an obscene amount of time (like once every two years), i don't see how it would break the game.

It would reasonably give you one chance to choose your skills more wisely.

Not obscene enough. It would have to be limited to once every 8 years or so — to the point where it no longer matters or makes any difference — for it not to cause a whole slew of issues.

…and even then, it's still a potentially game-breaking solution to a problem that doesn't exist to begin with so there's still no reason to implement it and plenty of reason not to.