I will be paying more. If I continue to completion now (if that's even possible - I may not have enough time), I will have paid much much more than what everyone else will be charged. If I stop now, and start again with the new plan, I will be paying much much more than what everyone else is charged. I don't know why this is a hard concept for you to grasp. Most people have an intuitive sense of justice, and what is fair and what isn't. The overwhelming number of people I've ever known would easily say "yes, this doesn't seem fair or right." The people here aren't saying that, they are saying the opposite.

The people here seem to be masochists who enjoy experiencing pain. Fine, I didn't come here looking for a fight, and I didn't come here to argue. If people think it's just peachy keen that they can spend weeks throwing SP out the window, fine. It's your game.

I'm not responding to anything else you said in your post, because quite frankly I understand little of your view on this or what motivates it or where you are coming from.

Someone shoot me, I'm on the same side of an argument as Krixtal Icefluxor.

He's gotten much better as of late. I think the GEWNS cured him or something...

I can think of a mechanism. CCP could simply say that we could convert (or trade) skillpoints used for training these ships into skillpoints for something else. That would be totally fair, and I would accept that.

Someone shoot me, I'm on the same side of an argument as Krixtal Icefluxor.

Unsurprisingly enough I am seeing a noticeable amount of monocles in this thread.

Also, this isn't the first thread where the above has been explained ad nauseaum.

Now, that's what I call a strong reaction.

People who are not affected by it - the majority - do not want you to have a reimbursement. It is the standard trolling.

Technically is nothing wrong with giving you your skill points back and allowing you to reallocate these.

Except that it would open the biggest pandora's box of reimbursement demands the game, or probably any online game has ever seen. You sir, are blinder than an unborn mole, if you cannot see that. From a TECHNICAL standpoint, reimbursing skillpoints, where no skills were removed from the game, would be highly destructive.

If you continue now, you will be paying the exact amount that you thought you would for the ability you wanted.
If (assuming there's more than 17d-overlap left in your training) you stop now and resume after the Summer expansion, you will be paying less than you were willing to and thought you would for the ability you wanted.
If there's less than 17d-overlap left in your training, then you have 2-3 months to complete that 2 weeks of training and end up paying the exact amount that you thought you would for the ability you wanted.

You are either going to be paying the exact amount you were willing to pay, or less than you were willing to pay.

What other people will be paying is entirely irrelevant. Again, does the supermarket send you a check when Milk goes on sale the day after you buy a gallon?


If you confuse "understanding the concept of sunk costs" with "being a masochist," then I guess you've got me pegged.

Whether or not you use the skills you have trained out of your free will doesn't make a cause for reimbursement. It's your own personal choice not to mine even after training for a mining ship.

First, let's put YOUR skin in the game. It isn't me that is affected by this, but YOU.

As to the remainder of what you wrote, I will try once again. Same exact scenario we have now, but let's change some parameters.

2. You didn't just lose a month or two skilling into something. Let's say you lost 2 full years. Yes, two full years because CCP came out with some new ultra-mega titan, and you wanted it. You teched straight to it, foregoing everything else you could have teched (economy, cruisers, battleships, etc). You stayed in frigates so you could tech to this.

3. The skill points which went into this ultra-mega titan can't go into anything else. They are useless outside of the mega-titan.

All I did here was take the same situation and adjust variables (length of time spent teching, etc) to try and find out if this makes any difference to you or not.

What about the itty 5? Bet loads of people spent the weeks required to train that. That too is going to be made redundant by the changes. But, we've got no choice but to just go with CCP. Thats how they roll.