Passing Time
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Posted - 2008.10.15 15:33:00 -
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I did one post in original (outrage) thread, I'll do one more here. Few things I want to say.
1. Is ghost training free? NO, you have to pay to (be able to) start training, and you have to pay to have use from ghost trained skill. Ghost training allows for a somewhat cheaper advancement of skill points, as you can pay for 4 months and adance your skill points by 4 months plus overtime of ghost trained skill. Ghost training allows bored, tired or busy player to get out of game and also be done with training of too long skill. In return the server is freed of input of hybernating player and thus lag is reduced. It really was a win-win situation.
2. Balance disturbed, unfair to players who work on their characters? Thats silly, since a)everyone could use that feature/bug, and b)those who play the game were obviously able to advance their characters by much more then just skill points. What I think is really unfair to those who "actively put their time and energy into working on their characters" is that someone can buy a developed character.
Thus I feel that this change is unfairly hurting the balance in favour of a)veteran players, who used ghost training for years, and b)rich (and bad) players, who have no need for ghost training as they can pay for a fully developed character.
3. I'm new to Eve, but since i started using trial, I wasted no time to advance the skill points of my character. I used ghost training twice, and I payed twice. My account expires in a month and I was planning to ghost train a long skill, and return when it finishes. With no ghost training, after it expires, I'm going to return much later then I would have, if I return at all. This change has greatly reduced long term playability of this game for any new player who wishes to build his character from start. If you wanted to make money like Blizzard, you should have learned that you never compromise the quality of your product - the game.
I'm very disappointed. I hope you lose a lot of money because of this fast and return ghost training. But, no hard feelings, it's not the end of the world, do as you wish and if I don't like it, I'll just go play something else. |