Because kestrel.

Personally I don't like the character market either, but to the core of the matter, Pay to win ruins the game. End of statement

Seems silly and backwards.

Eve allows the entire sale of characters but not minor improvements on original character.

Because those characters had to be skilled up at one point by someone.


You can't buy SP, period. Someone had to go through the time.

Here's a suggestion, let people buy SP but only up to a monthly limit based on their worst attribute training times. Once you hit that limit you are not allowed to train until the next 30 day period.

Acceleration for the kiddies but fairness to everyone else.

This would mean that EVE could become WAY more attractive for new players that have a bit of extra cash as they could accelerate the first 30 days to jump up to already training stuff like electronics, engineering, navigation, energy management, the boring but essential skills. Let them insta train to a BC so they don't have the agony of waiting. They won't care that they cant train for the rest of the month cause they already got the stuff they wanted. If they train something and then suddenly decide they want something else then too bad, you screwed up, live with your mistakes, this is EVE; have fun waiting 29 days to train anything new.

And if you increase your skill point, you're the one who skilled up that character.

The difference is......?

It has no effect on the economy. The only difference is that one way will be defended to the death by used character salesmen scum.

yeah, buying SP is exactly the same as training.

It costs nothing to train SP. It costs something to fast-forward SP. If anything, fast-forwarding should be more powerful than training.

It costs nothing to train SP. It costs something to fast-forward SP. If anything, fast-forwarding should be more powerful than training.

So you convert one form of currency to another.

It doesn't even take time to train skills in EVE. Not real life time, just waiting time. No actual effort is put in.

What are you on?

Waiting time is still TIME. If it didn't take time, why do I still have over two weeks left on my current skill?

Time is EVE's most valuable currency. You do not understand how this game works.

Go away.

Time isn't a resource.

Time isn't a resource. People don't sell time. They sell skills, like lifting up a rock or programming a computer. They don't sell time. A vegetable's time is worthless. It takes all the skills of a partial-vegetable (IE logging on) to play EVE and train up skills if that is your only goal, which is why the character bazaar is demented.

And once again, if somehow the skills of a comatose were a currency, WHAT CURRENCY IN THE WORLD CANNOT BE TRADED FOR ANOTHER CURRENCY?

Currency, by definition, is meant to be traded. So why not trade some of my money for a fast-forward for something that would essentially have required zero effort anyways?

P.S. Don't cry just because you'll lose your precious character bazaar that nobody else cares for.

And if you increase your skill point, you're the one who skilled up that character.

The difference is......?

It has no effect on the economy. The only difference is that one way will be defended to the death by used character salesmen scum.