You've removed the decision of whether you should train that level 5 skill.

As it is now, you make a choice and have to stick with it. Even if after a couple of weeks, you realize you actually should have trained another skill to 5. With your idea, that consequence is removed and you collect SP to distribute as and when required.

Sorry, but no thanks.

people will simply dump all their unused skills into Will/Perc to be able to dump them into the next FotM when it rolls around.

Any system that allows characters to suddenly dump SP into skills faster than [training them as usual] is fundamentally abuseable and would destroy skills in Eve as we know them by removing the main consequence to training in Eve.

I'm not sure if you're deliberately missing the point, or just not seeing it.

As it stands now, you make a choice and have wait for that choice to give fruit. It could be weeks for a level 5, so your choice and decision to train that skill is one to be considered.

With your idea, you gather SP and are able to choose when and to what skill you apply it and instantly gain level 5.
You don't even need to use them, you simply keep gathering the SP and wait for new stuff to arrive. Or wait the new FOTM to show it's head and apply as needed. Instant skills at level 5, no worries.

It even removes the need for the skill queue, as it trains this super skill if you forget to set one. Hell, why even log on at all? Just let it run and return a year later and apply that 20 odd million SP to where ever you fancy.

You're under the mistaken impression that Eve is fair. It isn't.

Eve is only as fair as you make it, therefore, your proposal is fundamentally broken.

You seem to be under the impression that the skills are some sort of race to 'keep up' with other players? It isn't.

What's to stop me rolling a new character, not learning anything for the next 3-4 years and, when my corp/alliance needs to take space or whatever, I just insta-learn a titan pilot! Now imagine that times a few thousand for other ships or specific roles. This will not help EVE in the slightest, will only help those with cash to burn (and there are a lot of people like this in EVE).

Enter your idea. I do a space command only spec train and ride out 6 months of trains. Don't need to train anything real...I can bank up the sps' and not care too much. Gives me the option too see what the summer patch brings to caps if they get looked at in some way. Will niddy be fixed? Will summer patch due to wtf play testing inhouse make chimera's so op its scary? That happens....jsut cash my chips in and bam, instant uber chimera. Same with major numbers in every alliance who either on mains just fill in time since "done" up to supers or the training char on one of their cyno alt accounts.

NO consequence to this setup. I wait for summer patch to settle, see what the trends ar, have my months of sp's....and bam I pick the new winner. Old system is fine as is. I pick my ships, hope next patch is either nice or does nothing to me (since nothng is better than getting nerfed lol). Element of risk eve players have taken for years. We all lived through it, so can newer players.

Rather than stockpiling forever with minimal consequence, any and ALL unspent points are lost upon being podded.

Rather than training from two attributes at the same time, I would suggest only being able to train one attribute at a time, requiring you to swap the skills regularly to get what you'd like.

Penalties could be introduced that slow training speed the more generic points you have saved up.

But if they nerf the Chimera before you finish training the skills with your system, then there are no consequences whatsoever. See the difference?

Yes, but your idea removes great swathes of them, leaving no real consequences to speak of.

Biomass your character(s).

Then don't stockpile. Spend the points now or you might not get to decide at all.

The point of training one attribute at a time is to reduce complexity in the idea. With 5 generic skills, you can pop one in your queue with the current setup and the points go directly to a bank. With a mixable system you either need 20 skills or a new gui system to allow you to set primary and secondary attributes which may or may not work with the queue. My modification to your idea is as an addition to the current system, not a replacement.

Your idea makes the queue obsolete...

and removes any balance in that regard.

Your idea removes consequences and the difficult decisions we have to make now. The fact that you cannot address that point to any degree, speaks volumes.

This isn't a 'problem' though, it's a feature. There's always a potential for missed skill points (not lost, because you never had them to begin with). Whenever you're not training skills, you're getting less SP than you could have, but you're also getting less SP than you could have if you are using anything other than a fully speced skill map with +5s in the relevant attributes.

Part of the core of Eve is the decisions behind the skills you train and how you train them. Do I train X skill now with a good mapping or do I train Y because I need it more, despite having a bad attribute map? (something I made a decision about just this week personally). Do I use a set of +5s for maximum training or do I use +3/4s because they're cheaper and I can afford to replace them? Do I log in now to add another skill to the queue or do I blow it off because I don't feel like it?

Actions have consequences in Eve, this is by design.

Not necessarily.

The queue is working as intended in this regard, and shouldn't be removed (pre-queue days of planning around "work", "sleep", "school" and "downtime" were a pain).

"Balance" in the regard of "not forcing people to log in every day for 6 hours" (e.g. a traditional MMO) and "we still want you to log in semi-regularly". If you could set and forget 3 or 4 months of skills and not log in, what's there to keep you around?