Famble
Minmatar
Republic Military School
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Posted - 2010.06.25 20:30:00 -
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Edited by: Famble on 25/06/2010 20:37:32
 Originally by: ViolenTUK
No I donĘt support this idea.
I have only seen players encouraged by learning skills. I have never once seen a player put off by them.
Perhaps this is because the ones whom are truly put off by this simply stop paying their monthly fee and for all intents and purposes disappear from the game and forums. Thus why you never hear from them. I left once and am now back (almost two full years and $360 that didn't go to CCP) and see most of my learning skills are at 4/3. Getting to 5/4 is on my list and I am NOT looking forward to it.
It's one thing to train something for 6d, 24min, 15sec if I know when I log in on that last day I can fit a new rig, or my tank is slightly better. When doing learning skills and you log back in after 6d, 24min, 15sec you get nothing. Then the player being the glutton for punishment he is simply queues up their next learning skill to do it again, and again, and again.
All the while they're playing or doing something else that isn't Eve (I doubt I'll be logging in while they're training at least). My guess is somewhere between the second and third bout of capping off a learning skill they say to themselves, "why am I paying $15/month for this again?" and leave. However, you never hear about it because at that point, they simply don't care.
Personally I left once and CCP missed out on ~$360 as a result. Now I'm back and well, we'll see this time around. Only been back a week so the novelty has most certainly not worn off yet and I still look forward to playing.
Those learning skills are like a weight on my shoulders that will just get heavier and heavier the longer I put them off...
I don't want a carebear world where I get free epics, I want it be hard because chances are I'm better at this then most of you are, thus do not require handouts. I do have a problem training skills solely so I can better train more skills.
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Famble
Minmatar
Republic Military School
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Posted - 2010.06.25 21:09:00 -
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Edited by: Famble on 25/06/2010 21:09:37
Originally by: ViolenTUK
Originally by: Famble
Perhaps this is because the ones whom are truly put off by this simply stop paying their monthly fee and for all intents and purposes disappear from the game and forums. Thus why you never hear from them. I left once and am now back; I see most of my learning skills are at 4/3. Getting to 5/4 is on my list and I am NOT looking forward to it.
I completely understand what you mean. In fact there may well be people that may fall into this category. However every single new player that has been trained by myself has been trained to learn learning skills and not one, not one of them has been put off by it. They all play today. This is an observation. ItĘs not just that. I have spoken to many players in this game that I personally have not trained and I donĘt recall any of them put off by learning skills.
I truly hope you're right and you can count me as one of those people. I feel I'm walking a fine line here of whining and constructive criticism. I abhor the thought of handouts (both in-game and in RL) but there's just something about skills that take days on end to train just so future skills don't take as many days to train.
It's a boring, uninspiring mechanic that could at the very least, use an overhaul.
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