Ithildin
Gallente
The Corporation
Cruel Intentions
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Posted - 2007.01.03 17:53:00 -
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Training times as they are now: Lenient.
We train a skill to highly usable level in less than a month for any and all skills. Even Titan level 4 is trained to level 4 in less than a month. Level 5 is square root of 32 times longer time and meant for those who not only want to be good, but cutting edge.
If you want to discuss accessibility, do it properly and discuss level requirements, as mr Yellow-bar pointed out above there are plans to make certain skills more easily accessible by reducing requirements to level 4 skills rather than level 5 skills.
Here's a few numbers, for the unenlightened:
Skill point gain rate per year is roughly 15 million for a non-specialized character.
While it is difficult to numerically assign illustrative values to a skill point's worth, one can say that it declines by (sqrt(32))^(skill's level). This means that a character can be viewed as being one level higher if he is 5.66 times older.
Translated, EVE still has no "level 5" character.
Regardless of my skill point amount (which is somewhere in the upper 40's) I am infinitely worse at capital ships than, for example, Farjung. Also, when I am flying an Armageddon, I have the skills associated with a 6 month dedicated character - I'm not even using 30 million of my skill points, not even as prerequisites!
It is, at the end of the day, a strict matter of how you spend your time, and thus your skill points. It's not like halving training times is going to solve anything.
Fundamentally, new players might need to be even more fortified than they are now, even after the character creation boost! Skill points in EVE is only a measurement of worth for the ignorant, and decisive for the stupid. Once past a certain threshold, which is entirely dependant on your motive and direction, all skill points will grant you is diversity.
No. We do certainly not need to cut training times down by half. We do not need more people ignorant of what they are doing flying ships far too expensive for them. We do not need cheaper alts floating around as secondary and tertiary characters on accounts.
We don't need to dumb this game down to get masses of people into it
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EVE is sick. |