Ban Doga
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Posted - 2009.10.29 07:51:00 -
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 Originally by: Merin Ryskin
Edited by: Merin Ryskin on 29/10/2009 01:17:28
I can understand the arguments for not having an unlimited skill queue, but why not increase it to 72 hours? Or 96? IOW, enough to cover a weekend away from the internet (yes, there is such a thing). Currently, let's say you have a skill finishing over a weekend when you'll be out of town and unable to log in. Friday morning you log on, check your skill queue, and find that you have 25 hours left on it. Now you have two unappealing options:
1) Cancel the current skill and train something else that will maximize training time. It's annoying at best, and it really sucks if you need that skill as a prerequisite.
2) Allow it to finish, but waste all the time between when it finishes and when you return on sunday night.
On the other hand, with a 72 hour queue, you can easily cover the time that you will be away from your computer, and ensure maximum efficiency. It's a pretty fair compromise that covers most short periods away from EVE (and most people will bring laptops on longer vacations if they're lucky enough to have them). However, it's short enough that you're still logging on frequently (why CCP considers it a good thing that I log on for 30 seconds, press the "add to queue button" and immediately log off, I have no clue) and not just loading a 6-month skill plan and forgetting about EVE.
Alternatively, allow a 24 hour queue, plus one (and only one) skill which may begin outside it. That way you can keep the 25 hours that remain in the queue when you leave, and then set Caldari Titan V training once it finishes.
While this sounds reasonable, this is really the recipe for an unlimited skill queue.
Because if the "I am away for the weekend - I must be able to progress like I was here to invest time" argument is valid then so is the "I am away for the whole week - I must ..." and then the "I am away for the next 3 weeks - I must ...".
The point is: you are investing less time! Why do you think you should get the same results?
And you can always suspend training a skill and resume later. You won't lose a single SP.
All you really lose is training the skills in your preferred order.
And if that "optimal" skill training order is so important to you you will find a way to be online - it really isn't that hard.
Originally by: Catherine Frasier
The queue is in place to handle skill changes, not skill training. Before the queue skill training would often end during downtime, or while you were at work, or sleeping. The queue lets you avoid that issue.
All it does and all it's intended to do is let you switch skills that end at an inconvenient time of day. Since 24hrs covers the complete spectrum of times of day that's all you "need" and all you're ever gonna get. (In fact, we don't even need a queue at all. We got along just fine without it.)
QFT.
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