I've heard this claim a lot lately. The "skill wall" is a convenient excuse, but I'd wager if they'd have been shown some of the things they could do just fine with low SP, they might have been more inclined to stick around. It's a perception problem more than anything else... someone gets told they need to play for over a year before they can do anything, and of course it would put them off. Problem is, that's not actually true except for a few "end game" things like capitals.

Wow this is such a new and novel ideal.

I have heard of this issue in the past, except instead of "skill wall", it was known as "learning skills"...

Ive been pondering for a few months now why CCP has not introduced some sort of PLEX for SP trading.

I hate waiting for LVL 5 skills that take 30+ days and wish their was a way I could cut that time in half buy spending some hard earned cash!

Now some will already say well this is pay-2-win, not in my eyes! SP ok gives you some advantages in what you can fly and kit you can use, but its pilot skills and the fittings you use on your ships that is a deciding factor.

Being that you can buy PLEX for ISK to buy faction/officer mods/ships anyways that is pay-2-win in my eyes!

Hate fighting against 2003 players who have a marked advantage on what they can fly against me and use just because they have been playing the game 5 years longer than I have, why should I be punished for that and their should be some way to level out the playing field.

With all due respect, please review the various threads that so much as suggest that the SP system be changed. The "SP Game Breaking" thread is a prime example. While there may be plenty of pros and cons to changing the SP system from a gameplay mechanics standpoint the overwhelming view of the playerbase is that we like it the way it is.

By and large, we like the fact that a character with 100M SP was deliberately cultivated for several years by one or more players who actively managed the character's training rather than just generated in an instant by a few credit card transactions (Note also the 100M SP club thread). Also, keep in mind that part of CCPs business model with EVE isn't just enticing new players to join but also encouraging old players to buy additional accounts.

You'll rarely find a topic in EVE that carebears, pvpers, solo, and group-players alike will stand side-by-side to ardently defend. We've all run into situations where we wish we had more SP than we do, but I feel safe in saying that most of us wouldn't have it work any other way.

we should trade in skill points for plex instead

BUYING PLEX FOR SKILL POINTS

pay to win is already out there, buy plex to buy new character- pay to win. buy plex to buy faction mods/ships - pay to win

i just want to buy plex to add some skill points so i don't have to wait 30 god damn days!

If all that is out of the question how about some mission system that offers more "experience" skill points instead of financial gain. That way you could grind your skill points up however slowly missions allow you to. That way the choice remains with the player whether he should focus on financial gain or progress his toon faster. Honestly I would have no problem whatsoever with such a system.

There should be a catch up feature being a new player here is so boring its:-

Level 1 missions and High sec mining. For how long

That said a just strait up SP for plex is two simple and un EVE like.

I would extend the availability of +3 to all attributes for new pilots [Cerebral Accelerator] to be bought for plex each {what would be fair some where from 30-90 days} up to the end of the first year.

Cause really if your actual new not a player playing an alt well what do want to do? Train mostly into Mining to help out your first corp but actual you want to fly battlecruiser's 6months in to join the alliance on a roam around well guess what soldier that's now a long long way away.

Also add a buddy trainer ability where a more experienced player can tutor you in a skill he already has a higher version of [you would still need the book] so it trains twice as fast {instead of training a skill her/him self} you would still have to train rank 5 on your own. And then its up to the people with years invested if they want to stop for a sec and help out or just plow on up and over 200mil SP's

I think like that people could and would bring there friends in easier +3 and fast training the odd rank 3 or 4 would make skill training a team effort and a faster but not game brakingly so.

Bringing experience players a new market training others. It also gives corps much more interest in what there noobs are actual training which can only be a good thing spreading the points around losses noobs as much time as anything else.

Easy. Update your clone. Consequences are also a rather critical part of the game.

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And I would do that but, I happen to like Millsy4606 own identity his kill board ratings the character name etc, I don't really want to change all of that personal identity, for a character that although fits my SP needs for someone that's named ilike2spooge and is a female with big ****!