Captain StringfellowHawk
Forsaken Reavers
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2016.02.17 02:15:31 -
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I was 50/50 on the Extractors (had some bad math that using reading skills fixed) but I would be wrong to say that the ironbank stunt soured my opinion of them. The skill injectors was supposed to be an alternative to the Character Bazaar, but at no point could you purchase a max trained char there. While many do go with the "SP isnt skills" arguement. I make a simple argument.
Take two players subbing to EVE, one is a veteran coming back to the game. Both made new accounts, one comes with a above average income, while the other one is finally able to afford a sub again. The above averaged income player Blings the account with Injectors, while the other player is skilling normally. The richer player undocks in a faction/officer fit RL Orthrus with a fit he shifted from a friend, no longer limited by SP and Plexed the isk, this made it possible. The other undocks in a rifter as he is limited by SP progression. They wind up engaged solo vs each other. In the "SP doesn't matter Skill does" scenario, that new account in a Rifter will demolish the Orthrus, the Vet will have a shiny Kill mail. The argument of "The vet would know not to engage" is not valid here. It's SP vs Skill scenario. No chance is that Rifter winning.
Yes, all of us older players had dealt with the SP time gate, no one will argue it sucks. But eve is also not WoW or any MOBA. Eve was always pushed as the long term game where your decisions matter. Each skill you train, each choice you made had its reward or its risk. While Time locked by SP did not get us in the shiniest of ships instantly, it did teach us how to fly the smaller ships and migrate with SP into the larger ones with also the knowledge that we had the piloting for the most part behind us for it. If the system behind eve that made it what it is, is changing in such drastic ways with how injectors are. Why not just remove SP all together. Player milestones are no longer celebrated. Much of what made eve the environment of what it was, is vanishing, most of it with great changes. But Injectors are not helping new players. They are further dividing them and hurting the new player Experience.
It was not to long ago that many alliances and corporations had SP requirements in order to apply and join. The big push on the New Player Experience reduced this a lot, seeing the big blocs openly bringing new players in and showing them they can make a difference opened a large world to newly subbed players. The SP Injectors are going to bring a nasty side of EVE's past back. The New Player Experience will be replaced with the New Player SP requirements. You have a risk of alliances and corporations going back to the old mentality of X-SP to join. With Skill Injectors no reason expect player wealth limits newbros from meeting said requirements. I know players who dropped a few hundred boosting characters up to 17-18M SP only a few months into EVE.
How well will the New Player Experience turn out if suddenly recruitment for new players turns into a minimum SP to join, now that the new mechanics make this possible? "we'd love to accept you, we are very well known to be New player friendly, there are great benefits for being in X group, only requirement is that your character has 15M SP, You can purchase SP on the market, just use PLEX. Submit your API and application once completed"
I am not stating rip them from EVE, but I do see them turning into a larger Divide of players capable of SPing up accounts Vs those who are unable to. As well as those now needing to meet a resurging SP requirement now that its possible. We already have the "elitists/bittervets vs newbros" now it could become splintered further with a paygate. The Bazaar while enabling characters to be purchased maintained a balance between purchasing an account vs creating an entirely new emerging meta that might segregate newbros behind more of a paywall. While we are in the new crack stage of these and it has yet to mellow to an established metric, these are concerns I see becoming Relevant.
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