beor oranes
Nex Exercitus
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Posted - 2012.04.05 17:03:00 -
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You want to be able to train every skill in the game really fast right so you can 'finish' Eve?
I'll come back to that in a second.
One of the reasons that drew me to Eve was that it wasn't just a matter of playing 24/7 and leveling up and getting to the end-game content. My character progressed just as fast as anyone else (depending on attributes) regardless of whether I could put in an hour a week or fifty hours a week. I travel a lot for work and I have periods of up to six months where I can't log in for more than a few minutes at a time, yet I am keeping up with my friends who started at the same time in terms of SP which means I can fly the same stuff as them when I can play (they are better PvP'ers due to more practice, damn them). If there was a system like you suggest where they could skill faster than me because they play more then I probably wouldn't have stuck around for as long as I have, because I would be so far behind so many of my friends.
I figured out early on that one character was never going to be able to train for all the skills I want in a reasonable time so I started alts and trained them in area's that my main doesn't have any SP in. So I can do and use other things and ships in the game which with just one character would have taken me years to get into. So across the characters I can fly every races ships, do mining, industy, etc.
The idea of SP being linked to activity and/or isk in whatever way its suggested to implement will benefit two types of player; the one with no life (activity) and the veteran (having lots of isk). It would almost punish those who pay the same sub but only get to play a few hours a week. Someone would figure out a way to Power Level characters for either in-game or out of game isk, most likely in the form of a bot. This would mess up the character market for one.
Back to my original question: You want to be able to train every skill in the game really fast right so you can 'finish' Eve? Lets take a moment to ask what would happen if you actually managed to get every skill in Eve trained up, what would you do then? Quit? Make another character and do it again? RMT the character and make a few grand? SP and getting every skill to 5 isn't Eve's end-game, its a sandbox (so in theory it could be the end-game for you if that's what you want to make it, but you get my point), you don't get a credit roll when you have every skill trained up (well I don't know this for sure but its safe to assume you don't).
On one level I agree, there are times when I don't have work on and I have nothing else to do during the day when my friends are at work and I play Eve a lot. It would be nice to be able to 'boost' my SP when I have the time to play but on every other level I know it would be bad for Eve.
I would liken this idea to the idea of introducing arena's for PvP in highsec. One level it would be good but on every other level it would be bad.
Keep Eve unique, lets not try and make it into every other MMO out there. |