So I will start by saying I am new player about a month old and the game is pretty good.
The only flaw is this skill system that's in place don't bother saying "it's worked this long just fine" or "if you don't like it go play something else" I've seen that on every post about this subject that I can find.

But the fact of the matter is the game is so far along that it creates an imbalance to the game for new players vs. old players in terms of no matter what we do (as a new player) we will never catch up in skill points sure we will catch up in player skill in time but since equips are based on time lots and lots of time the older player will always have the ability to fit his ship better. Now I do not mind putting time into games I've played MomÆs since 1998
And have put in no less than 5 years to each game that I've really gotten into.
Everything from care bear games like WOW to UO staying on the pvp side of the world for 9 years and being in lineage 2 and eq 1 on pvp servers and many others.

Now whatÆs unfair about it is to players like my self that have the play time to put in
I should have the ability to catch up to a player who has been playing from 1-5 years and only log in maybe 10 hours a week and yes I've also heard "well if you play more you get more isk"
and "you'll have more time to gain your actual player skill" that's all fine and dandy and things I should be able to get as someone who logs more hours then anyone (so far) that I know in game. But as a player who logs this many hours I should be able to gain some ground on the vet player in skill points, and I'm not looking to do it in a month or six months or even a year but if I play this game for say 2 years and log 40+ hours a week I do not think its unreasonable to be caught up in skill points to a 4 year player who has logged 15 hours a week since he started. That would mean that I have logged 4160 hours of game time to his 3120
that is over a thousand hours more of play time so yes I think it would be perfectly fair for that to happen.

Now I expect the "It's not our fault we don't have that much time to play why should you be rewarded for playing more" follow by a list of 12 year old insults of "you got no life" or "you live in you're moms basement"
And to that I say It's not my fault first that we (the new players) didn't start the game 5 years ago and two you don't have the financial stability and have to work a full time job there for you don't have as much time to play. And if you do not have the time to put into a MMO don't play one.

Now my subject line is new vs. old players the reason I said this is one of two things are going to happen one they keep the current system in place and will in turn lose a lot of the new hard core players (some will stay) or two they revamp it in some way to allow players like my self to at least catch up a little to vet players in SP so I can use the better ships and tech 2 equips and in turn will have a few of the vet players rage quit the game and again some will stay.

Now I am not saying the game won't stay stable for awhile the way it is but it would grow a lot faster IMO and have more fresh players if they implemented something into game that would give us a SP bonus. I am not looking for them to stop the SP gains while off line that's pretty cool but implement a bonus to active players and I mean really active not people just floating in high sec space or docked in station but I am sure they could implement something that would both be effective and prevent people from just logging in and sitting around.
I have also seen a lot of people talking about people making Macros to stay active and again this is something that can be prevented crack down and perma ban macro users 100% of the time and I will be willing to bet you will not see them doing it very much.