Djeli
Tribal Liberation Force Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.04.04 22:26:00 -
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Derath Ellecon wrote:Bad idea so no.
First. You have failed to show that this is enough of a problem that it warrants such a huge change to the game (and yes this would be a huge paradigm shift to the game).
For example, given your current character, how much SP did you actually "waste" as a noob. My guess (as I did the same) is that if you honestly look, the amount of SP "wasted" is not that high. In looking at my worst toon (for which i went way down a road that ultimately I changed my mind about) it is still only about 2.5 million SP. Even at the default rate this is only a couple months of wasted training. In the long term of playing a game like eve it is essentially nothing.
Second, nobody has even talked about how this can be manipulated/abused, which it can be.
I have had several characters with this problem. The biggest one was from 2003. I sold him in 2007 or 08. I forget which. Out of the roughly 90M SP he had at the time, about 30-35M SP would have considered wasted among science skills which I no longer used once they stopped doing the T2 lottery (if anyone remembers that), mining skills were wasted since I no longer needed to mine to make money like nearly everyone had to 2003, and production which was also no longer necessary since I stopped building things years prior after some further changes, and not to mention the ships that I stopped flying and weapons I stopped using once I learned how they worked and/or changes that were made that made me like them less. Unfortunately I sold him because my clone costs were outrageous and 2 months after I sold him, they lowered clone costs. Although the wasted SP would definitely be bothering me today as would clone costs. I no longer fly battleships or capital ships and stick to frigates or battlecruisers. My clone would still cost as much as a BC by now if I still had him even with the now reduced costs.
I have another example. This year I returned to the game by buying another character. He had about 23M SP out of 78M wasted that I wouldn't use. I sold him later partly because of that once I got reaquainted with what ships I like (it hasn't changed since I was a full time player really) and because I slowly grew to dislike the name which CCP doesn't let you change.
The same is also true of this character but not to the same level. The SP that CCP gave in the free battlecruiser and destroyer skills fairly recently is wasted SP for this character because I don't have the associated weaponry for them nor will I be training them because I don't like them. All the free skills did is drive up my clone cost. And no, you can't petition to have them removed. I would have liked to have had the option to not get those skills.
Sometimes SP are wasted thanks to changes CCP itself makes. This has been true since the game started.
It would be easy to control now. Do it like the remaps where it is only available a couple times in a year or only once per year. That way you don't have people doing it on a whim. |