I know a guy with 38 extra accounts, none of which he plays, solely ghost training to extract and sell skills.

Is this how skill extractors were intended to be used?

I thought skill extractors were supposed to be used by people who wanted to specialize or gain isk, so they would extract skills from an area they no longer do (mining, boosting, scanning, exploration, etc.)

but 90%+ (no, I don't have a stat to back this up, but we all know it) of skill injectors come from characters that likely see less than 3-4 hours of playtime a month.

Is this working as intended?

Skill injector/extractors were integrated in to the game for one reason.

They're much more profitable for CCP compared to the measly $20 CCP was making from character transfers.

Mr Epeen

Yeah, I think CCP has realized that they have hit a wall with the recruitment of new players where essentially the player base they have is all they are really going to get when it comes to true revenue.

So they are pulling out all the stops and all the features that they teased 10 years ago to keep the vets interested are starting to make their way into the game, like pirate capitals and supers and such. It always seemed those were last ditch things to implement when they ran out of development ideas.

I expect the Jove to be a playable race not too long from now, or maybe the Eve Gate reopening... "The Terran's have experienced a dark age that has lasted thousands upon thousands of years, now you can steal their stuff as well"