Fang Fox
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Posted - 2007.12.14 09:34:00 -
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I've read a lot of posts about this and I for one am all for it!
I used to work 12 hours shifts 5 days a week at a job one and 1.5 hours, my life for those days went as follows wake up, get dressed leave for work, get off work, eat, go home, shower, sleep. So yeah maybe I do have that extra minute to log on and change my skills... and my days off I can train the shorter skills. But really what options does that leave me? Ok so I want to train for heavy assault lt ships, its sunday the start of my work week. OH no nothing fits in 24 hours... or heck maybe i can get up a bit earlier from my normal 6-7 hours of sleep! No wait nothing overlaps 15 hours that I need. WELL might as well train Frigate V until thursday.... Couple weeks of that and guess what frigate V is done... weeks go by now everything I got left is under 12 hours because I've had to keep switching though skills and now I've started training into skill groups I don't even want or need. Ok so now I just start eating the lost time, I then end up with a character who is 10 months old with 5m sp, and cant do much of what I want him to do.
I know my case was a bit dramatic and even with a queue I would need to do some work around and take some sp hits. Now in some other MMORPGS sure I wouldn't be very high level due the fact I'd actually have to be there but the character would go in the direction I really wanted to without jumping through extra hoops. Now I already know some of you are going to come back and say "Well go play those then" well I don't want to! I love EVE. Really that has never been a wise argument in my book, imagine if they all did go play something else? Eve would be quite empty 
These days I work 8 hours at a job 5 minutes away. I recycled my first pilot (Which never made it into a HAC btw) and now with my new one I am able to work out training a lot smother building the pilot I really want and am able to actually enjoy the game ALOT more. Oh last bit. no computer access at my old job. As I'm sure it is for thousands of other eve players so how does a browser based skill change help the situation?
I hope for some of you nay sayers this puts things into a little more perspective as to why some times it's not possible to be there. It's not always about being lazy or not good enough to work it in it's about the game and being able to play our characters the way we WANT them to develop instead of training remote armor rep to 80% of level V when you really want to finish those 6 hours of drones V and cant do so untill 4 days which means maybe next week I could actually train heavy drones up to 3 and get 4 a couple weeks from that beacause nothing else fits into your schedule!
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