Originally by: Lutz Major

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http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=3963&tid=1

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In gratitude for your patience, we will give an extra pool of skillpoints to all accounts (paying and trial) that were active at the beginning of this downtime, on one character per account. This skillpoint pool will be appropriately sized for the downtime time frame, universal across all accounts regardless of character attributes/implants and may be applied as each player wants.

This will be done through a new system in the development pipeline, currently scheduled for deployment next TuesdayÆs patching opportunity* during regularly scheduled downtime. Since it has been ôhot droppedö into the development plans, we will be providing step-by-step instructions for how to use it as soon as possible.

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Although I appreciate the gift, I hope that does not mean you can pay for skill points in the future :(

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Originally by: Blane Xero

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Originally by: Captain Muscles

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If you read CCPs announcement, they say this feature has been "hot dropped" into the dev plans. Although some part of this addition *could* be used to sell skillpoint in the future, I believe CCPs post is quite clear that they are adding the code in response to the extended downtime out of the goodness of their hearts.

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You're an optimist i see.

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Originally by: Joe Starbreaker

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The post is also quite clear that they already had something in the pipeline that allows them to distribute blocks of skillpoints. That's why people are worried.

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Originally by: Lhun

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I speculate that this is CCP's way of using my idea for eliminating the learning skills from the game.
skillbook tokens.

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