Tippia wrote:Angelique Duchemin wrote:Except nowhere was it suggested that CCP sell some sort of "100 million SP bundle" Just an increase to the rate you gain it. A rate that equals the amount of SP added to Eve with the consumption of a plex anyway.
GǪso spend that PLEX on a second character and accumulate the SP. Increasing the rate you learn GÇö i.e. skipping over the regular game mechanics and altering the rate at which SP is accumulated GÇö is a very bad idea.
Quote:SP comes from plexes.
No. SP come from training skills at a rate determined by your attributes. PLEX is not a factor (for good reason).
This thread is funny and a huge part of the reason I fell for eve right away. It really is a microcosm of society. Plex is most definitely SP. Time in cost resource. You don't gain SP anyway other than time.
There are 2 basic arguments that is absolutely underneath all the propaganda and fancy arguments everyone tries to sugar coat. Eve is a caste system. There is absolute class domination. I can never have more SP than someone who plays longer than me.
The two arguments: I want to protect my position of dominance I gained from discovering the game first vs. I want a chance to catch up or surpass someone.
I think most of us are in 1st world nations and although it may not be true, a majority of us believe that mobility is a right and when or where a person is born should not put them below any one else. For eve read when you heard about the game and started shouldn't force you to always be below someone else. It's a sense of fairness that is cross cultural.
The idea of paying for more SP also violates this sense of fairness though, bc we don't like money alone getting people advantages.
The real time leveling system is one of eves most attractive features bc of it's uniqueness, and a slick business decision since you can't do a 40hr run and get to lvl 70 in a month and quit from getting everything already. I like the leveling system, but do not fool yourself this business decision is the only reason it exists, not out of some game integrity.
The problem with the system, is as said above it creates a caste system. You can not out work some one in this game. And as far as SPs go, merit means nothing. The solution should be a merit system to gain more SP. No one is paying even more to win, since don't fool yourselves Eve already is a p2w, and it breaks the caste system.
The merit system:
You gain more SP while actively logged in
When you pod someone and they lose SPs you should gain those lost points (interesting all the complaints about SP just being injected into the game out of no where, but SP can be taken out of the game, that affects the balance sheet so why isn't that game breaking?)
Lastly, as not to put a premium on PVP vs other professions, mining, exploration, and industry should have chances of hitting discoveries that award SP on average equal to PVP SP gains.
Think it over then go back to your poorly veiled arguments that protect only your interests.