Exactly, no any problem here, clear p2w.

0.5m of SP cost much less than well trained character. so buying pure SP's you have much more advantages vs. looking and searching for properly trained toon.

Here's a radical suggestion for CCP if they need more money.

Instead of cash for skills, they could try to attract new players and keep the ones they already have by fixing the bugs and improving the game with new content etc

Sure, but but i thought we are not going to interface thos TiDi cool down... Sigh...

ISK comes from people buying PLEX ultimately (or in this case certainly can) so now you can buy SP for cash.

An ISK or RL rich player can buy SP, irrespective of where it comes from. sure no net SP are added to the game but the rich will be able to accumulate SP faster than the less well off.

This isn't pay to win as there isn't really a win in EvE beyond goals you set yourself, put it is definitely pay-for-advantage and the rich will exploit and control it as best they can at the expense of the less rich.

Since some of the recent arguments seem to like to equate this to the character bazaar I guess you will not mind this new improvement replacing it? As in we shutter the bazaar in the near future?

No, they are not the same. That point was made by Rise in the first post. He disliked getting a character with its own baggage. You know, consequences?

A bit like your blog.....

Can anyone here in this thread refer me to another game like Eve, but without the pay2win disease?

I'm going to miss this game once the lazy, instant gratification kiddies get done ruining it..

I hope there will be a way to tell who buys SP so I can keep them under a constant wardec, hell I'll create another corp just for that purpose alone, thanks for the idea.

You are under the false, and very short-sighted, presumption that the availability of SP, and its estimated values, are set. You also seem to think it will be a renewable resource that can keep up with demand created by the power blocks alone. You are in error.

It is a serious mistake for anyone to equate the birth date of a player will skill points.

Unfortunately, I am a good example of such misguided thinking.

If CCP's willing to float Plex into the game to keep inflation under some sort of control, do you really think they won't float SP injectors in to keep the micro-transaction income in the black ink?

If I wanted to buy FaceBook tokens to fast repair my fleet in Battle Pirates, I'd still be playing frikken Battle Pirates, Not Eve Online.

The theory of a limited amount of SP to buy or sell is false. Who's sandbox are we playing in again?

If the SPs run low, CCP can with a click of a coding, create more out of TQ's thinning air with some alts for sale on the character bazaar to have their brain drain surgery.

Plex getting a little high on the inflation? No biggie, CCP alts can crank out a few dozen contracts at the price they want the market to re-balance to.

They want those Aurum packages to sell, since that is the one thing un-tradable in this whole cash grab scheme. First taste is free, just ask any successful dealer. So I shall pass on sampling the SP injector goods.

I Just Say No.

CCP has decided their outlook on their future as a gaming company (VR for the 1%, rest not worth the effort), their bogus call for 'feedback' on a decision already made and paid for in Aria cloud software, their silence on fulfilling a growing list of promises, and that it's jump on the $5 clicky bandwagon since it's good for us (them).

Someone in that glass tower might wanna scoop this sandbox. The kitty crunchies are piling up and it smells bad.

>Jeven