No, the set limitation in EVE is Time. Buying a character means someone else did it, but time was still spent.

...instant gratification leades to faster boredom.

You do realise there are people selling characters trained specifically and perfectly for a role. They have never undocked. Its just an obfuscated way of CCP offering fully trained chars through 3rd parties.

You don't circumvent training, you trade ISK for someone else's time in doing the training and spending their time and money.

Also you didn't answer the question, how so? How has this been breaking the game since 2004?

You don't circumvent training, you trade ISK for someone else's time in doing the training and spending their time and money.

Also you didn't answer the question, how so? How has this been breaking the game since 2004?

Have you ever thought where your food comes from? It doesnt magically appear when you pay money, it takes time and effort produce raw material, process it and transport to nearest shop so it would be convenient for you to go and buy. Same with characters in EvE: time and effort were spent, you just purchase the end product.

Someone elses time is irrelevant. A noob with RL cash can be flying a titan in less than 24 hours. A noob with none has to wait a long long time. The first noobs gets blown up he can be back in a titan in a few hours. The second a long long time. The second noob is restricted by EvEs limitations. The first ignores them entirely. Thus the game is pointless in regards to competition.

Let's say a Titan plus char and fittings is somewhere in the low region of 150 Billion. If someone wants to fork out -ú4177 to fly a Titan and lose it, then let them. If they lose it (which they will) and then spend another -ú3338 to get another then they are not 'winning' at Eve, they are merely being stupid with their cash and lot's of other people get play time.

But how does this break the game? Both the char, Titan and fittings, were all existing within the game already. The time and normal game mechanic to create those items were already played out. He merely circumvented the time aspect of the game.
Someone else's time is completely relevant in this regard. If they hadn't spent the time training, buying, building, mining, trading and ratting for those items, they wouldn't exist.

So how has this been breaking Eve since 2004?

It makes competition pointless. A game where competing is pointless is a broken game.

It makes competition pointless. A game where competing is pointless is a broken game.

How does it? Do they suddenly have skillz with the stuff they get? Does being a noob and owning a Titan make you uber and able to compete in Eve? I think not.

Your stance is also saying those without RL money, can go screw themselves if they wish to play. Nice.

So how has it been breaking Eve since 2004?

I have answered your question multiple times. You appear incapable or unwilling to understand how buying your way with RL money in a competitive game breaks that game. I don't think further discussion will help.

I have answered your question multiple times. You appear incapable or unwilling to understand how buying your way with RL money in a competitive game breaks that game. I don't think further discussion will help.

Examples:

Corp A has 5 players
Corp B has 5 players

Corp A wardecs corp B. 24hours later, the battles begin.

Corp A realizes they screwed up, but they have a guy with cash and a good computer that's willing to buy a character off the market that is skilled for being a full fledged T3 Booster pilot. He also buys a boosting ship and the links, and they put him in their POS or other safe locations (we'll pretend this war is in high-sec).

At this point, Corp A has an advantage over Corp B due to a RL cash transaction. Leaving OGB issues out of it, as it is just an example, how is this *not* a problem?

A lot of the other examples in the thread that are in support of such things use the idea of a newbie going out and buying a Titan.
What I see as problems are experienced players with cash being able to go and buy advantages for their corp or alliance, vs. those who can't.

Oh please.

this sort of makes sense.ccp is expecting players to pay for the second character a plex just to train it.why would the entire game be free,and pay plex for training?

Meh, specialise...but then, everyone is impatient and wants to fly all the ships at once, when unless you are going for supercaps etc, 20m SP or so will get you most of what you want

Depending on what you want, it's closer to 30mil+ SP for a decently trained PvP character that can field T2 cruisers (LV IV), has BC V, and BS and/or Recon V (should you need either), SB and/or interceptor skills, with the rest of the SPs spent on some cross-training and/or a T3, leadership or whatnot. 40m is closer to the mark if your corp/alliance has broader doctrines you wish to take part in or you simply want more flexibility in subcaps.

As for the OP -- my vote is No. More of a bad thing, (e.g. buying characters --which at least provides players with the Isk) doesn't make a bad thing better.

That does nothing to make competition pointless. Once on the battlefield SP has little to do with a pilots ability to use there ship.

Examples:

Corp A has 5 players
Corp B has 5 players

Corp A wardecs corp B. 24hours later, the battles begin.

Corp A realizes they screwed up, but they have a guy with cash and a good computer that's willing to buy a character off the market that is skilled for being a full fledged T3 Booster pilot. He also buys a boosting ship and the links, and they put him in their POS or other safe locations (we'll pretend this war is in high-sec).

At this point, Corp A has an advantage over Corp B due to a RL cash transaction. Leaving OGB issues out of it, as it is just an example, how is this *not* a problem?

A lot of the other examples in the thread that are in support of such things use the idea of a newbie going out and buying a Titan.
What I see as problems are experienced players with cash being able to go and buy advantages for their corp or alliance, vs. those who can't.

Remember most people in eve are against ideas like this because they have a vested interest in characters, some people earn isk by creating characters to be sold on the bazaar, when considering peoples opinions remember that bias.

Now I believe EvE should be free to play, and isk can be purchased via plex, directly from ccp. I think they would increase the playerbase, and revenue would also increase from isk sales, 3rd party websites are already trading isk at half the cost of plex with a simple google search, and CCP is losing money, I think CCP could initialize some type of isk buy back program to give veterans a means of earning an income from playing EvE, I know of players who sell wow gold to the Chinese at half or less value than retail just to get rid of it.

yea i know maybe its a bit drastic, but it needs to be said this way, there could be an option to be able to buy skill-time only 3 month per year or something like that... for an new player the training time just seems to be too much, there must be a way at least to spezialize a character in one area faster

the older the game gets the more it will be needed as many high trained characters make your life as a newb not easy, I was able to trade up enough money so i could fly bigger ships fast, but do not have the skill to do it, I feel that restriction needs some adjustment

it was implemented to keep early players longer in the game, but it seems to be a big burden for new players now

gotta love it when 2 month old players start making these huge game changing suggestions.

Also funny how often its, 'waaa I want more Skill Points, people who've been playing for 5 years have more than me!'