Instant skill training: strip-mining your strip-mining skills for fun and profit
Endie:
CCP have released a new devblog explaining how the new system for stripping skills from a character and injecting them into another is to work: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/skill-trading-in-new-eden/
Tl;dr strip 500k skill points from a character, sell the injector for isk or aurum, diminishing returns for higher-skillpoint characters.
The response from those with younger and medium-age characters has been broadly positive, while that from a handful of bittervets has been sulky, with ocassional hyper-retards like jesters trek coming up with fanciful scenarios that ignore the fact that the same end can be achieved with the character bazaar.
ajax34i:
Yeah, I've been reading the various forums, looking for entertainment.
I'm guessing that those who want to buy SP are excited, but I'm not sure how many of the veterans would actually take SP out of their heads, seeing how:
- veterans don't really need ISK
- even if they did, it's more effective to buy PLEX and sell it for ISK
- CCP always reimburses SPs for major ship overhauls, so I'm not seeing any group of players being left with "suddenly useless" skills trained
I enjoy watching CCP be CCP, though.
Maybe it's a coincidence, but to me it looks like someone mentioned the idea in passing, and they saw it and liked it, cause 3 weeks later, boom devblog, and now (3 months later) devblog again, pretty much unchanged. This despite the fact that they had a thread open in Features and Ideas that had only one purpose: to let people bash the idea of buying skillpoints with ISK or PLEX in a single thread, rather than all over General Discussion (and bash they did).
So I think this is being implemented no matter what anyone replies. I'm expecting prices that are completely out-of-reach for newbies, and otherwise a high-demand no-supply market.
Endie:
I fully intend to tidy up my main characters by stripping the embarrassing and useless trains (defender missiles, mining etc) and injecting them into my low skill-point alt "Endie" which I finally got hold of last year.
Sir T:
Yeah I can see Vets using it to zoink up their alts to acceptable standard, but I cant see it doing much for new characters without the benefit of mommys credit card.
Endie:
Quote from: Sir T on January 19, 2016, 04:00:43 AM
Yeah I can see Vets using it to zoink up their alts to acceptable standard, but I cant see it doing much for new characters without the benefit of mommys credit card.
The demographic of eve players is older than that for CoD etc so I imagine that they will do quite well out of people boosting new players, whether as alts or just to get into the game sooner. Also, some alliances will probably hand out skill boosts to newer members, although the economics suggest it won't be as widespread as mittens initially suggested for karmafleet, at least according to the maths I did on the fly yesterday.
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