Schnitzar
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Posted - 2008.11.01 00:37:00 -
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So I went overseas on the 10th. Imagine my joy when I got back, reactivated my accounts, and found that none of my skills had finished training. CCP wouldnÆt make a spelling correction with less than a weeks notice but they make what they know will be a hugely controversial change with two days warningà Nice.
Now IÆm fairly ****ed off, so this will be a text wall, deal with it.
Firstly, itÆs not like a character can be trained month on month off. When starting a character there are simply not enough high rank skills available, unless you donÆt mind training just any rank five or above skill. Seeing as most alt characters trained in the background are very specialized, they will train the skills they want, not just find a high rank skill to pass the time. Then when you get big juicy skills you probably have a very well skilled character who you actually want to play with.
I trained my alt like this for a while, barely had him inactive for more than 10 days until he had 15 mil SP. I have since only left him offline for a long period of time twice and I doubt I would have done so again because heÆs now a great character to play with.
Players can do nothing with an inactive character; I canÆt understand how this problem could be such a huge tax on CCP that they have to disable such an attractive feature so suddenlyà I would bet that keeping market orders up uses a lot more resources, why not disable other æghostÆ activities like this as well?
And finally, most characters with multiple accounts seem to have one main, which is nearly always active and one or two alts which they allow to go offline when it is convenient, as mentioned above. So one character 100% of the time, and two others 70 û 80% of the time, thatÆs about 2.5 subscription payments per month. A lot of people in this situation will now deactivate one account and keep the other two online fulltime, thatÆs two subscription payments. The way I see it both sides have just lost out.
Now I just need to decide which of mine to deactivate
Schnitz
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