I have two triple-digit characters active right now, but clone costs don't affect me because I don't lose pods doing what I do. Doesn't mean I'll stop fighting for what makes sense, though.

But it's okay, continue attacking the player instead of the argument. I'm sure that will do wonders for your own.

... A player shouldn't be punished for ...

For making a choice?

The argument has already happened "kid". https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=200343&p=3

From a game balance point clone prices should go up. Mudflation and power creep are both limited by very expensive clone costs. Those factors are far more important to the long term health of the game than entitlement issues of people playing for the win but terrified of the challenge.

People being less afraid of PVP will mean that people die more which will mean that more ships and implants are sold which will mean more market taxes which will be even more than clones!!!!!! Or something like that.

-Liang

By NPCs, no.

A player choose to skill up a single toon to 200M points. No one forces them to.

Whats the best way to win a fight vs a kiter that you can't catch Liang?

Mudflation and power creep are both limited by very expensive clone costs.

By that logic, no one forces CCP to implement a game mechanic that logarithmically increases clone costs in relation to trained skill points.

By that logic, no one forces CCP to implement a game mechanic that logarithmically increases clone costs in relation to trained skill points.

CCP doesn't have to make clone costs rise exponentially; they choose to.

Edit: Okay look, what I'm trying to say is that you're telling is how something should be, without justifying the reasons for it being so. Yes, we choose to train skill points. But how does that have any influence on what clone costs should be?

Why should I be punished for having trained my character?
Fundamentally, what part of that makes any sense?

You do know CCP isn't a player?

Why choose to put a 200M skill point toon into a Frigate? Why are players using such toons in combat... they want the advantage.

Risk vs. Reward doesn't scale well

A 200m skillpoint character is not any safer than a 20m skillpoint character and yet has 10x the risk.

Then don't use it.

If you have trained up a 200M skill point character and then want to use them in a frigate... you have made a poor choice.

Then don't use it.

If you have trained up a 200M skill point character and then want to use them in a frigate... you have made a poor choice.

Because some people have that many skill points, and even though flying the frigate at maximum ability might at best use a tenth of that, they only have one character, and shouldn't be forced to roll an alt for every single ship type.

Proof we will all eventually fly titans, amirite?

You have three toons for each account. I understand player want all of the advantages that come with a 200M skill point toon, but that is a choice.

There are consequecies to that choice.in EvE

Why choose to put a 200M skill point toon into a Frigate? Why are players using such toons in combat... they want the advantage.

Can you really not make the association that a player training a character might want to use multiple things with that character?

The advantage of what? The vast majority of that SP that they're unable to use?
Furthermore you didn't answer my question.

A. Eve punishes player for making poor choices.
B. Then don't use that toon.

Okay, well if those consequences were set by a divine power, I would accept your argument. As things are, they're set by this game's developers, and you've still provided no proof of why they should continue to be so severe.