The point is some people would actually like to grind for more than just reputation or isk. I can imagine not everyone can afford two accounts to train for example an Industrial toon and a PVP/PVE toon at the same time. Maybe they don't make enough isk to do it either. Imagine how those people feel? ''I gotta wait 2-3 years to be good at both professions I want to do''

Who the hell wants to really wait 3 or 4 years to be good at a few things in the game. Some skills should be grindable in the game and I think other people feel the same way.

Yes there are implants and respecs here and there but it really isn't much.

If you really stop to think about it....... You live in a highly advanced civilization that has figured out how to cloak ships, jump ships across the universe, build stations, mine moons, implants and clones, etc., etc., etc., so why in the hell does it make sense that it takes so long to learn certain skills after learning certain basic skills previously?

Hey guys! I learned Frigates to 5, Destroyers to 5, Cruisers to 5, but..... Now its going to take me a month to learn Battleships to 5? After already taking almost a month to learn every other class to 5? Is my character stupid? Just doesn't get how to fly a ship? Has to take remedial classes? Oh okay.. I got it. Where can I hire a tutor to speed this up some?

Okay so what is the deal? All of our toons are just handicapped or something? I'm an absolute PRO with medium lazors but OH NO... Don't give me LARGE LAZORS... HO NOOOO.... I JUST WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEM FOR ANOTHER MONTH OR SO....

That's just... Gay. In an epic proportion.

this is heading toward the graveyard again ... it's a shame , EvE really do need something to keep the game more active instead of an afk fest , more friendly to the general public and western gamers.

No. No. No.

The EVE skill system is beautify exactly because it is completely disconnected from the game play.
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Playing EVE rewards you by letting you play EVE without any concern for irrelevant stuff such as doing the optimal thing to gather the most SP.

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This is more reward than any kind of grinding system could ever hope to bring.

One set of conditions.

Skills invovled cannot be trained by time/passive.

Skills invovled cannot effect anything out in space.

Restrict to instation minigames for walking around envrionment.

Your name says it all... another Drizzt variation...

Do not need, Do not want. If I wanted to go smack stuff with a stick and raise my weapon skills I'd play wow...

I don't want to turn this game into a grind fest with this idea ( as it is already a grind fest )

TTo keep with the concept of EvE that skills take time to level up , same idea applies with the active . it's a " SIDE " bonus , you know what this mean ? it's not PRIMARY , meaning it's not forcing you to use it , .

Are you kidding me ? you saying you know better how to fly a ship without doing ANY effort for it than someone who is activly doing stuff with it ? go buy common sense.

how many time have you spent away from the game while it was in queue , how many month did it take without you doing ANY effort while it was training ?

wow, i'm stumped. 2012 still working on the same skill system there was 10 years ago.

put one in and wait til it's done ? not needing for you to play it ?

do you see what's wrong there ?

wow, i'm stumped. 2012 still working on the same skill system there was 10 years ago.

do you see what's wrong there ?

it's like trying to learn a monkey how to speak.

It's like you are saying " i don't want to get rewarded for playing / doing activity "
you are saying you prefer to put a skill on queues , and come back few days later when it's over and put another skill in and repeat.

Ok, this is not impossible, but ultimately it has to be popular in order to be desirable.

First, the characters are being trained by downloading skills over time. More difficult or complicated skills take longer for this reason.
It happens regardless of your location, interrupted only for clone jumping.

If you want it to be faster, you need to define how you would increase the speed. The current version uses your connection to your pod's systems, so it would need to replace that in some manner, or improve upon it.

Where do people go to learn anything? Schools or universities.

For a nominal fee, possibly modified by your faction, you could dock at a station run by the school teaching what you wanted, and double your learning speed for as long as you were docked.
In the event this is considered to reduce playing, the character would just need to get a booster drug for 24 hours of double speed on the specific skill.
(Have lousy faction? Cannot get to a teaching school for the skill you want? These could be sold on the market for a fee as well, but you would need to pay the price the reseller set instead)

This could be balanced, but I personally have little interest in them. I just like figuring out puzzles.

There used to be this in game, but it was removed very early on. Not only was it abused back then, but CCP could see it wasn't a mechanic they either needed or desired to have in Eve.

No thanks.