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Posted - 2011.06.22 22:21:00 -
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 Originally by: Asherr Sindar
But to be sustainable as a game over time, you have to be able to attract new people, without ruining the game like blizzard did. I think my solution is reasonable, although not perfect. What do you think?
/shrug I don't pretend to have the slightest clue as to what goes on in the CCP meeting room, but from the looks of incarana and dust they do want the company proper to branch out and attract a wider audience. While that says little about EVE itself, indirectly i'd take from it they would like a few thousand more players each quarter. Note that I said "players," and not "accounts," because I think they've nearly saturated the current player base for alts. All the vets i'm aware of, myself included, are getting rid of sustained training alt accounts rather than getting more of them.
Do I think some modified rate of training would be good for attracting new players? Sure, that is a perfectly logical assumption I guess.
Do I think it's 100% necessary for the sustainability of the game into the future? That depends on CCP's view of the game at this point. If they are not critically concnered with doubling the player base in the next few years then I really don't think they have to do anything with skill training. There is and probably always will be at least a small trickle of new players entering the game and most that i've met have no qualms about purchasing characters in the bazaar or otherwise getting ahead without spending as much time as we old folk did in the game.
In the end this argument always just gets messy as hell. Neither side has any idea what CCPs real take on the matter is and CCP is not saying anything about it. Without that key piece of information you simply have two competitive views of how EVE will/should evolve into the future. Either a rough continuity of the current pace of things or not. No answer is "right," unless CCP themselves (and their opinions are known to change) validates it and even then you have the population more than willing to protest and change their mind.
TL;DR: I retain it is, in theory, an idea that might help EVE gain broader appeal, but that precludes a lot of things about EVE nobody agrees on here. Needless to say, I wouldn't be holding my breath for anymore sp reforms in the near future at least.
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