Velicitia
Open Designs
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Posted - 2011.07.02 23:06:00 -
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Originally by: AJ Falconi
(I can live with PLEX as an alternative to black-market ISK sales. What I can't stand is the idea that buying and selling characters is allowed. How is this not a EULA violation? If I had to start a new character with no skills, so should everyone else.)
It's not so much the toon's skills that are concerning to most people (srsly, you could be given 100m SP, and still lose to a toon who earned their 10m SP), but rather the fact that gold ammo/ships completely eradicate the player market/economy
Originally by: AJ Falconi
As a new player, while I am enjoying the game for now, I do worry about my ability to compete with players who have many more years of skill-points invested, and who may have advantages that I can never get. For example, I hate the idea that there are high-end blueprints that I can never have simply because a limited supply was distributed by lottery long before I started playing. A new character should have every opportunity to succeed that a player who began when EVE first released (8 years ago?).
This is by no means true. You're thinking too much along the "rollercoaster" RPG style of gaming...
On SP -- yes, you might be 30 or 50 or 100 million "short" on another player's overall total, but most of the skill trees have 20ish million SP total. What this means is that you can quickly "catch up" in a particular field.
To illustrate this: I grabbed me a 50k SP newb non-minmatar alt, and set a training plan to get into a rifter. To get into the ship, and have all the certificates was something like 5 or 6 days. to get all of those skills to level 4 was an additional 30 days. so, 30-35 days and you're in the top 80% of rifter pilots (well, toon skills anyway). To get cruisers to the same level was another week or two...
On T2 BPOs -- yes you are correct that you are unable to purchase T2 BPOs from NPCs, but don't let that get you down. With enough ISK, you can buy your own from another player... or with the right skills, you can invent copies. By no means does owning one of these BPOs mean you have an ISK printing machine. =========================
Originally by: CCP Games, 2010 Creation is so precious; and greed, so destructive. Your choices can make a diference
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