Originally by: Soldarius

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In the time it took me to read through this threadnaught, 2 more pages of posts came up. :lol:

To all time/SP lost cryers, quit yer whinin'. All time/SP spent are being reimbursed. You didn't spend time in and of itself, you spent time gaining SP in learning skills. Those SP are going to be fully reimbursed.

"Oh, but I won't be training as fast as before!"

You do realize you are getting all those SP back, right? And that those SP can now be spent to instantly (read 0 time spent) advance your uber-planned training schedule, right? You are about to get a training time of 0. How can you possibly complain about that?

Can't understand why anyone would complain about making the game more friendly towards new players. This is called growth. Stagnation kills. I personally have not recommended this game to certain friends of mine because I know for a fact they will not play it due to the necessity of training learning skills. The learning skills were a great big road block in the way of gaining more players. It has also been a block to the bottom line of CCP. More money = more staff = more game improvements, and so on.

The vast majority of players will benefit from this change, myself included. I did not train my learning skills all to 5 simply because imo it wasn't worth the time spent now to gain some small advantage a year or two down the road. Now I can see I was right. Gonna get all those attribute points for free, and get my SP back.

Learning skills were never an effective means of differentiating characters. Nobody could tell if your learning skills were all at 5. Nobody gave a rat's ass if you had max learning skills. It was entirely in the head of the character owner.

There are plenty of ways to differentiate characters. Perhaps you have heard the terms carebear, pirate, indy, and cyno alt? If learning skills are what differentiate your toon from the others, you have failed as a player. Go to the character select screen and start clicking recycle. But before you do...

Can I haz your stuffz?

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