Just want to start by saying i didn't think a lot about this, and its just an option so please Nomad or hate replies about how I'm dumb because your idea is better. thanks

I didn't read a lot of this thread because most of it seems to be a lot of back and forth between the same two people, but an idea would be during the mass tests give everyone max skills or even possibly 0 - Max Million SP where they can pick and choose where they want to inject it, so they can fly and test what they want. This will be an even bigger incentive to log into SISI during mass events. After a few days when the SP from participation is given lower every ones skills back down to original levels but with the addition of the 2m normal SP addition that we get for participating already.

I doubt this will be easy since they would have to log every ones current SP before the mass test on SISI to lower it back down after all is said and done and may be too much work to be a realistic option but

This would give those who want to fly everything or " Test " a few days to get into the ships they would like to test barring what isn't seeded like Titans and supers IMO those should be earned and would prevent the Mass test from becoming Titan blob.. It also allows the industry and logistics side of the community to test new features such as the crius expansion for few days at a time if they don't have the skills to test it normally and then reverting everything back to the normal SISI environment where if you want to test it, you have to have skilled it yourself, but you will get an idea of what is the necessary skills to train once you figure out which skills are the most important for the activity you are interested in since you have had a chance to see them in action maxed out.

A disadvantage to the everyone gets maxed skills is that not everyone is going to want to test with max skills since in a lot of cases some skills are not worth skilling to 5 on TQ and any testing would not give a realistic view of what you will be doing on TQ, so maybe even an option to OPT out of the max SP at any time when its given but preferably just give X amount of SP that will give most players a lot of testing options that they can inject themselves leaving the Tester to pick and choose how he wants to participate for the few days.