Originally by: Maximum KILLDEATHRATIO

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Edited by: Maximum KILLDEATHRATIO on 25/11/2008 15:30:56
Earning SP by actually playing the game.

My opinions and percieved problems
-CCP's pov on ingame interaction for training skills is boring and unsatisfying. CCP thinks that simply logging in and changing skills is sufficient skill training progression.
-Not everyone plays eve for the same reason, and for some simply progressing IS the endgame. For this playstyle, gaining more and more isk may not be stimulating enough. These people want to experience eve, fly more ships, fly ships better, or try out the different activities that eve has to offer.
-Players should be encouraged, but not required, to play eve in order to progress. And gaining more and more isk isn't necessarily considered progress. For instance i've got more isk than i'll ever need for what I can currently do in eve. Progress for me is waiting for my skills to allow me to do more or different things in eve. The only way I can achieve this is through skill training. My logging into eve and actually playing the game brings me no progress, thus the only progress that encourages me to log into eve is by skill training.
-I am all for the skill queue idea, but I fear it is not enough by itself. Sure logging in simply to skill train is boring and dull, but at least it got me to log in while waiting to meet certain requirements to <fly that ship> or whatever eve activity. With a skill queue there would be NOTHING encouraging me to even login in order to progress, unless CCP made actually playing eve a means of progress.

Goals
-To have an additional way for players to gain skillpoints in eve by actually playing the game.
-To not remove, nerf, or in anyway alter the current skill training system, but to introduce an additional source of SP accrual.

Rough idea
-Players accumulate Potential at a rate of 1/1440% every minute of every day until their Potential Pool is full at 100%. (at the rate of 1/1440% per minute, 1day = 100% Potential)
-You can then earn SP by doing ingame actions until your Potential Pool is empty.
-Maximum Potential Pool I leave out as any value you or I provide would be arbitrary, should be decided by CCP what total % of SP should be earned by playing the game compared to normal skill training.
-Potential Pool is limited this way to prevent too much SP coming from playing the game.
-Im keeping this the core of the idea and not including how the SP be spent as I cannot think of a slam-dunk winner way with which to spend it. The challenges listed would need to be solved by CCP.

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