Originally by: BravoFox

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Let me start by saying that I am an active Eve player for 3+ years now. I have held 2 paid accounts for the duration of that time. Never once have I let an account lapse and utilized the method of "Ghost Training". I have known others to use the feature because they were either going away for awhile (real life), they were growing tired of Eve but planned to return, or they're real life financial situation was to harsh to justify the monthly subscription fee. I still don't see any fault behind their actions and although I never used the feature, I was never opposed to it.

With that said and this new server patch implemented to essentially ban it, I can't help but see exactly what was stated in Torgi's Dev Blog, "CCP is a greedy money chewing monster". There are literally thousands of computer games out there that you buy once and you have the right to play that game for all eternity, Eve-Online is NOT one of those games. Eve is Pay-To-Play, if you want to play the game, you pay the subscription fee. The price you've paid to play continues to grow and you never reach a point where you've been a subscriber for X amount of time or you've paid a total X amount of dollars so CCP says... "Ok, you've been with us long enough. Your account is now paid for." To date, I've paid CCP a total of $1,124.90(US) to play this game and god damn it, if I want to take a month off to train for something I can't even afford in-game, I think they owe me that right. What's basically being said here is that if someone wants to train a skill, they have to pay CCP, even if they don't actually log into the game and play for 30 seconds the entire month. How can I not see you as being a Greedy Money Chewing Monster?

Ok... so you've eliminated "Ghost Training" making it only possible to train a skill if you're character resides on an Active-Cold-Hard-Cash-Forking-Over-Account. If you're not looking for ways to suck every last penny you can out of your subscribers, IMPLEMENT A SKILL QUEUE. Quite honestly, I'm paying YOU MY CASH. I'm your customer. We, the player base, YOUR CUSTOMERS, want you to implement a Skills Queue so we can train skills without throwing away our hard earned $$$ that we are paying to YOU. When our characters finish training skills and we aren't around or too busy to log into your server to start a new skill, we are wasting money. We're not playing the game and we're not training skills offline (which you are charging us for now) so we're basically just giving you cash because we like you. Sorry, I am a nice guy, but this isn't the case. I need every penny I earn just as most of the other players of Eve probably do.

If you want to make a show of good faith and prove to your customer base that you are not out to just suck them for everything you can, implement a Skill Training Queue. If you do this, neither of us will be leeching off of the other, you'll get paid subscriptions for accounts that are training, and we'll have characters that are constantly training and not wasting unrecoverable time. A fair compromise.

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