Demosai
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Posted - 2011.06.28 17:21:00 -
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 Originally by: Backtosh Redclaw
Originally players started with between 890,000 and 912,000 SP based on what they chose for race/etc. Rather than creating a giant screwball with buying skillpoints, provide a bank of discretionary skillpoints that can be applied to get them going, to the tune of around 400,000. Essentially giving them the chance to pick up those all important first skills without having to wait while they train to continue the tutorials, and enough to spare for a few options.
New players used to(i think they still do, haven't made any since Tyrannis) get a double-skill point training period such that it basically does the same thing you stated here, the first 1.4 million+ is double-speed. Giving new players 400k points outright when they don't likely have the isk to buy skills worth investing those points in is rather messed up. Essentially they get 600k+ free points, just spaced out across their first month/45 days or whatever.
I would object to skill points purchasable directly through plex or Aurum, but I am not completely against being able to buy skill points. An idea a buddy of mine and I bounced around before was perhaps having a "skill points injection", kinda like a booster. Make a sort of "skill point booster BPC" that can be a.) purchased with LP from the various factions (something like 10k SP BPC for 100k LP and 20 mil isk.... not cheap at all), or b.) drop (rarely) from regular NPC rats. I guess with having some freely available sources, a plex/aurum form wouldn't be that detrimental, just as long as that's not the only way.
The idea (in a nutshell) being, 10k skill points (approximately 5 hours of training) is not a significant amount of SP such that it would throw out the game, especially if like clone jumping, you limit it to one injection a day (something about the pain of flash-memory learning to keep it in line with lore) and that it would be so overly expensive for skill points that it would not cause people to make supercap pilots by buying SP. After all, there's the character bazaar, pilots can be bought that way.
By doing this, it will get the high sec people that want to move out to 0.0 the SP that most alliances demand just a little bit faster, the 0.0 people can get their little SP bonus, and the old disgruntled veterans (5th year for me) don't get angry at "all the young whippersnappers who didn't have to wait for their battleship V training"
Just whatever it is, keep it small, so that the bonus gained is not so much that it throws things out of balance.
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