Valea Silpha
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.01.13 18:25:00 -
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The way they are changing things today, there isn't the same kind of problems with skillpoints becoming irrelevant. If anything there is a drive towards make ships that take relatively little training into good competitive PvP ships. T3s anyone ? How about battlecruisers being almost the only other competitive ship ?
The thing that people always forget is that there are almost no such things as dead skills in eve. Things are swings and roundabouts. Everytime they tweak the balance, an old ship becomes suddenly more viable again.
Almost everyone only flies a handful of ships frequently. And yet they have skills for very many more ships. But sometime in the future those ships they fly now won't be as effective, and something else from their back catalogue will move into the rotation.
The only reward of having been around longer is that you can do more stuff. In a straight fight, total skill points don't matter and applied skill points (ie those that effect this exact ship) matter; a much younger character can have more SP than me in a single ship. That specialisation can let them beat me in one fight. But I can adapt and get a ship that beats them. They can't. Buuuuut my being a veteran doesn't mean that I should be able to do EVERYTHING. Just some things, most things even, but not everything.
Looking into a wider sense, a much much younger character can be a far FAR better builder or trader or researcher than my character is. If I want to get into that, I literally have to start from scratch. If they got into it straight away and have a 6 months lead, why should I be able to decide I want to do that (i've heard you can make money that way) and then inside 24 hours have perfect skills that means him taking 6 months of training actually doesn't matter. I'm just better.
If you give anyone the chance to have every skill without actually having those skillpoints (remember total vs applied... you only need SP in what you are doing now), then you are turning eve from a long term game of hard lessons and patience into a game where its all in the short term. I mean why not let people trade in PLEX to get a million SP while we are at it ? Why not?
Why Eve is a good game is because there is no way to just force your way into being awesome. You have to, over the course of many months and years chose your skills with some degree of common sense and with a goal in mind. This idea destroys that. It makes eve a game about classes and pre-set skill sets to respec into. That's not eve. That wow. |