Spugg Galdon
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Posted - 2010.06.16 09:41:00 -
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 Originally by: Takashi Halamoto
if learning skills had never been in the game it would have taken all us vets another year or more to get to where we currently are, im sure my learning skills havesaved me months, thats the whole reason why we all trained learning skills early, they paid themselves back in spending a month training them by saving us months in the long run, we have had the benefit, lots of it, and by getting +10 to all stats we dont loose anything,
as an example this is like someone investing money in a company
years later share dividends have paid back that investment many times over and the company is about to go under and you complain that just getting your money back isnt fair you want a proift,
You already had the profit it just didnt announce itself
start a new toon on your main (only temporary) load him into eve mon, set up a network of skill plans to train up to all the skills you have right now but without touching learning skills, see how many years that would take, now look at your main characters age,
you got your profit right there, youve saved time, the one resource thats near priceless
I have to agree with Tak here. I am roughly the same age as most of my corp mates and I have all but the two charisma skills to lvl 5. Which took me ages. All my corp mates in the beginning said that I was a bit stupid to take them all that far. However I have now surpassed most of my corp mates simply because I took the time. This solution that has been presented is almost fair however, it does not account for the accelerated training time I have benefited from in the mean time. How would we calculate that or is it simply STFUAGOWT?
This game is all about investing time. That's what makes it so special. When you lose a ship or a clone its not the ISK you're bothered about. Its how long it took you to accumulate that isk and then, build your ship, get all your implants in etc etc.
Losing learning skills (all together) is IMO a bad idea. Perhaps (new) people could get an option in character creation to apply some sp in the basic learning skills area. I have no problem with giving new players more SP on character creation.
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