Tradesmans
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Posted - 2010.02.14 11:43:00 -
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Last night I sat down and read this thread from page 1. Yes, I was that sad.
A couple things jumped out at me; firstly, you skip over the posts that invalidate your arguments and cling to posts you feel you can provide an argument against; secondly, you are quite clever with your manipulation of the english language although it does appear to me that there are 2 different people posting on the same name, one who is articulate and one who is not.
You say you should get rewarded for putting in the amount of hours that you play compared to other higher SP characters. This has been refuted time after time yet you conveniently ignore those posts. You are getting rewarded for putting in the long hours in terms of playing skill and generating isk. You even gave us a nice little story regarding your skills at evading the war decs against your corp. Right there, you disproved your own OP theory that you are at a disadvantage because you don't have even SP, your skills helped there, your skills that you gained because you have been able to put more Eve time in than a lot of other people.
You then complain that you can't break the T2 tank unless you have T2 weapons. Your extra Eve time lets you generate isk quicker than someone who only logs in 5 hours a week, you can then use that isk to buy meta 4 modules. Guess what, you've closed the gap to those T2 equipped players even further as most meta 4 modules are almost the equivalent of T2 without needing the skill investment. In fact you'll quite often find players using meta 4 instead of T2 for other reasons.
Later on, you say that 4.5m isk for a skill book is still quite a chunk of your personal isk. So what sort of a chunk would it be for the player who can't put in your amount of play time? That's if they can afford it at all. There, once again, you can see the reward of your extra in game hours.
Plex selling is a difficult one. If it feels to you that it's cheating then don't do it. If it makes you feel at a disadvantage, well, the amount of hours you play should negate that. Personally, I would prefer to see a legal route of paying cash for isk than be stuck with buying it from a third party. I have a friend who is unable to put the time into Eve that he used to, whereas before he could go spend a couple of hours shooting rats, mining or whatever, now he uses real cash to buy and sell plexes. It covers his ship losses through PvP and enables him to keep playing a game he loves without the risk of his account being banned through third party isk buying.
The skill process in Eve is different from the MMO's you have played in the past and to an extent does give the casual player a helping hand but as many, many people have said, skill and knowledge is what gives you an advantage at Eve not skillpoints.
The reason people are not seeing your argument is because by far the majority of players are happy with how the system works. They're used to it and experience has shown them that it doesn't really make much of a difference. For me, I love it, I love having a goal to work towards, the fun getting there and the final feeling of satisfaction once I step into my new shiny T3 and go for a test fly is worth the wait. Remove that and you remove half the fun in my opinion.
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