Wow you guys really are suckers for punishment.

It is of course, a big NO from me. So far, no one has shown any good reasons why this is needed and what it fixes.

Learning implants I view as a barrier to gameplay (mainly because of their cost) and remapping isn't good either since it locks folks into training optimally (which in of itself feels like a punishment, not a reward.) I don't think that the pirate implants or hardwiring needs meddling with.

'My learning implants are keeping me from PvP' and 'I'm not training skill X while I'm mapped suboptimally' are not thoughts I'd want players to be thinking if I was a game designer. I think this issue is compounded by the high standings costs of getting jump clones especially for new players.

I think the solution is to seed BPOs for learning implants +2 to +5 - make them cheap and they aren't an issue (wouldn't be popular with mission runners though unless learning implant rewards are changed for missions.)

For remapping I'd prefer a skill to be added for players to train that remaps according to the skill being trained automatically.

I am flat out against any form of 'pay to skill up' because it makes the main benefit of subscribing rather worthless imo.

I think CCP have identified a problem with implants that keeping things as they are now won't fix, and digging your heels in isn't helping solve that problem. Unfortunately I'm trying to second guess what the actual problem is and I could be totally wrong with my assumption no matter how far back I try to stand to 'get the big picture.' I actually expect attributes and learning implants to be removed altogether (in order to have a headful of combat hardwirings) with boosters for learning instead (giving a buff to null/wh as part of the sov rework.) My proposal above is basically a halfway house, despite what I expect to happen.

As such I'm not sure what your angle is on keeping things the same as they are now though. Keeping low skilled characters in +3s or whatever just because they can't afford better implants just makes the skillpoint gap bigger between themselves and vets; that may only be a player perceived problem but it's a problem nontheless. I can see arguments to keeping slaves and hardwiring as they are, but learning implants - they don't provide enough to be worth the current costs for players of any age imo and due to their high costs can give players an excuse to be risk averse.

@ Syn Shi - Note this thread title - it's where I got the scenario.

Might as well throw out a "Space Barbies" thread so we can knock out the last super-redundant topic here in F&I as well.

As to the topic I have very rarely heard worse ideas in my whole life, and I'm in the freaking Army for goodness sakes.