I really think eve could benefit from some sort of skill point grinding system. However it should be limited in how many points per day you could gain, so it wasn't mandatory, but it could give new players something to "work for" until they get the ropes better.

I think Active skills would be the best way to do it, so guns and missile skill points are learned while being used, in addition to the normal training. Again, only a few thousand points per day (good training now is 2800 pts per hour)

no, just no. Eve is great because its the only game that doesnt have a gaytarded leveling system.

Eve's skill training system is pretty unique.

Sure an experience style system makes some sense. Rewards people for playing the game more rather than just logging in to change skill queues. Less of an issue since they removed ghost training.

If implemented without restrictions there'd be a lot of vets who wish to maintain their SP advantage and the flexibility that comes from that. Secondly it would be days before botting programs were adapted and characters churned out en masse to be sold on the bazaar.

Even if implemented in a restricted form it would be seen as pretty much mandatory to log in and actively train your character each day. Reminds me of power hour in Ultima Online where you'd log in each character for an hour and run your macros to take advantage of the skill training boost.

That used to be in beta. When cunning individual where spending the night shooting roids with a civilian railgun CCP decided that's not the route to take.

What makes you say it would be mandatory? I was thinking of it more of a thing for those who chose to take advantage of it, and like I said it wouldn't be much. Certainly nothing worth changing the way you play for. Just something to reward those who do play. It wouldn't shave thousands upon thousands of hours off of your training time. Just a few minutes on lower level skills and maybe a few hours on the longer ones. Nothing spectacular.

I really think eve could benefit from some sort of skill point grinding system

Then I am thankful, that it is not up to you.

Well sure, if it's 1000 sp a day for one skill it wouldn't be much. However every min/maxer would still be training that every day.

Another advantage of pure time based training is that it encourages new players to go out and put the skills they've learnt into practice rather than just grinding them with blinkers on until they've achieved some sort of minimum template.

Was it time for the "let's make Eve more like WoW" thread already? I thought it wasn't due until next week.

I still think it seems really cool and can't think of a thing wrong with it.

It would not work because there are plenty of skills that do not have an action associated with. How would you XP-up Corp skills? By shooting POS guns all day at a dread is siege? The bots wont care ofc. In fact they would love it.

Unfortunately (or fortunately if a person is against this sort of thing) this would be a ridiculous boost to botting.

A person can start their bot, and not only make ISK but train extra SP in their target area.


That is my reason to not support it.

Gosh you people really don't think outside the box here do you?

1. Civilian modules would be restricted.

2. Weapon skills would actually require you to be in combat with a ship, not a rock.

3. Like someone already suggested, there could be daily limits.

I still think it seems really cool and can't think of a thing wrong with it.