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Posted - 2015.06.08 06:51:03 -
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Please read the ENTIRE post before hating. ;)
What I haven't seen much of in this thread is new players weighing in. I'm about 40 days old, with approx 1.45 m sp on this toon as well as having put in about 700k towards a miner I bought on char bazaar. My thoughts on this matter are..... mixed.
Bad Idea
Let's start with what I think is a BAD idea. Giving huge attribute or sp/hour bonuses to new accs/chars is not, imo, workable. Nor is a pool of unallocated SP. Here's why: If I'm a new player, and I get +6 implants or 2m sp, for example, do you know what I'll probably do? I'm going to train a racial battleship to 1. Then I'm going to become very sad when I lose that bs, because I don't realize I can't actually use the heavy guns on it. Clearly, if some kind of bonus should be given to new players, it needs to be given in a way that encourages responsibility.
Good Idea
That in mind, here's my suggestion: allow 1 character on new accounts to choose a "skill path". Then, for a limited period of time, allow 2-5x skill training time to that char on that skill path. For example, say I chose amarr light vessels. I would then, for, say, 1 month, be able to train armor tanking, amarr dessie/frig, and small projectile turret and gunnery support skills (light drones?) at an accelerated rate. Alternatively, you could choose medium hulls for a certain race, giving medium turret/missile bonus, racial cruiser, weapon type support, etc.
In addition, there would be the option to choose a 2 month accelerated training plan for non-combat paths. For example, mining, training towards barges, exhumers, and mining turret/strip miner/gas/ice/deep core at that 2-5x rate. Or, industry, with reprocessing skills and science skills. Other options might be trade, pi, etc.
Restrictions
Naturally, there need to be some restrictions to this. One should be a cap on sp/hour, so people don't stack implants on remaps on bonuses. Then, there are account restrictions. I propose the following: 1. In order to use this feature, an account must have a paid sub. 2. In order to use this feature, an account must not have been active for more than a year. 3. In order to use this feature, an account must have no character with more than 10m sp. 4. In order to use this feature, an account can never have participated in a char transfer. 5. The char that uses this feature can not be transferred for 1 year of active sub time since the feature was started.
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