A couple months ago we introduced the idea of Skill Trading which resulted in lots of valuable feedback. After going through a lot of feedback while refining the design, we would like to be add Skill Trading to New Eden and it is currently scheduled for our February release.

Please read the latest blog from CCP Rise and Team Size Matters Skill trading in New Eden for all the details.

We welcome all your feedback, thank you!

The Character Bizarre was already pay to win. At least this way RMT becomes more difficult

So I approve!

Okay, I've read enough salt-encrusted posts by entitled whiners.

This is my main. There are many like it. But this one is mine. I would never consider selling it. But I would consider selling off some misplaced SP because I had no one to tell me what was good to train or even for what learning skills were used back in 2009. I have completely wasted SP in mining and industry on this toon. I want to sell them.

I really don't care what my SP total is, other than as some sort of vague e-peen wagging. Sure it feels good to look at it and occasionally take it out and blow my load all over someone. But it is not what makes Soldarius Soldarius. It is, like everything else on the character sheet, a part of the character. Even if I do not choose to use any of the various character modification options that CCP has given us, I am glad to know they are there. So if I want to modify my clothes, my portrait, my ships, or soon my SP allocations, I can.

If there is one thing I have learned about Eve, it is that your irl wallet size is not directly proportional to your skill in game. TMC, EN24, and others are packed full of articles showcasing potatoes that think eve is p2w. They pull out dad's credit card and plex their way to that all purple marauder and think they are invincible.

I don't care how many SP you have or how many purples you have. If you don't know how to play the game and whip out your wallet on day 1, you will still get #HAZED mercilessly until you either HTFU or gb2wow.

On the other hand, if this gives a noob some incentive to farm up for a bit and accelerate himself into some of those low-SP doctrine ships like Svipuls, Caracals, T1 logi, or a Celestis for FU fleet, I'm okay with that. I don't doubt for a minute the most wealthy entities will throw injectors onto the market at cost in their local trade hub. Or maybe even give them away as an incentive to join. Jita injectors will get manipulated. New stuff always does.

As far as SP-farming, if it is profitable, I will do it. For me, that would be if I can make enough to pay for the extractors for one month of training + 1 PLEX per account. I might even pay PLEX to do multi-character training if there is enough profit in it. My goal would be to net 1 PLEX per month per character.

One of the few posts that made any sense or showed any redeeming qualities was the suggestion of having SP packs that focus on specific skills. I think that's a capital idea.

Having younger players given the option to get into ships faster is good for retention, which in turn helps all of us as more players remain engaged with the game, and there is nothing worng with CCP making money of such option to continue make our game better.

your turn now, tell me why you think it is not good for everyone?

You sound like a goon alt.

No one sees all the fun stuff that will be happening. Soon we will have newbies flying around in redicoulous fitted ships, since they dont know what they are doing. I, for one, are looking forward to all that shiny loot.

Funny how the devs already abandoned the thread. One would think they at least address some of the voiced concerns which where already raised in the last thread and tell us why it is not a problem.

And yet, you still overlook the Character Bazaar....you know....that place you have been able to buy SP's in the form of characters for years now.

both of us are examples of new players =)

+1

well. personally I just find that funny. But just as much as it is damning, there's the character bazaar, which is an existing corollary to SP extractors.

lol character bazaar, am I right?

They have done nothing but fix bugs since Incarna. Only recently have they started introducing new content again. Seriously, review the patch notes for the last few years and count how many times you read the word 'fixed'.

It is time for new things.

This isn't cash for skills. We already have that in the form of a sub. It's isk for someone else' skills. Not this proposals fault no one decided to question the wisdom of cash for isk all those years ago while claiming to bemoan P2W in any form.

I honestly wonder, because PLEX was here before I was, did no one realize back then that anything CCP decided to allow in game trade of would be parroted as "cash for 'x'" as a result of PLEX, or was it just genuinely thought back then that isk wasn't any sort of advantage despite being the primary medium of trade?

Whilest a small part of the community are doomsayers. Most of us really want this, and are looking forward to the changes that are comming. This will allow you to keep up with the changes that are happening in eve, or have happend along time ago.

I'm ambivalent about whether there should be a public account of purchased SP. I wouldn't mind personally. But I do like that it introduces more intel uncertainty. Perfect intel is bad IMHO.

Ignore dis post

When are you going to tell us then?

CCP I'd like to say on behalf of the whole game. Thank you for F*****g garbage price you put on the extractors. It will only cost $100 to get a new toon to 15 million skillpoints bahahahahaha. LONG LIVE CCP.

2 things:
1) The goal of reducing illegal character trades succeeded, but at the cost of making legal character trades ok and resultingly more common. The idea of hating character trades but accepting the "necessity" of a system which makes them more common just seems like accepting failure of principle when convenient.
2) I find it hard to believe that a 2 PLEX fee was a "byproduct." Or is a money grab just a term we use as another selective principle?

I just used skill injectors on a nice hew pair of PI whores, but I failed to realize beforehand that by doing so I'd win the game.

Now that I've won the game, I have nothing else left to do..these injectors should come with a warning label..