Originally by: Schalac

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I do. Older players already have too much of an advantage. I think that every new character made after the new expansion will start max scanning/learning/gunnery/engineering/mechanic skills just to even the playing field. Also there will be a new Caldari bloodline introduced that doesn't even have the charisma skill listed as an attribute, instead those 10 points get directly injected into intelligence and perception.

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Originally by: Dedalus77

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Originally by: Oday Darkcrest

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Will it be a case where all older members who don't have 9M SP points will get some kind of injection?

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This is what I want to know.

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Originally by: Haakelen

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Why does everyone keep repeating this 9M number as if it has any weight?

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Originally by: Schalac

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I do. Older players already have too much of an advantage. I think that every new character made after the new expansion will start max scanning/learning/gunnery/engineering/mechanic skills just to even the playing field. Also there will be a new Caldari bloodline introduced that doesn't even have the charisma skill listed as an attribute, instead those 10 points get directly injected into intelligence and perception.

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Originally by: Omber Zombie

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CSM actually got to hear (and see a little) about what CCP have been working on as part of the New Player Experience. There should be a dev blog about it soonÖ. Suffice to say - it's pretty awesome and should fix a lot of the issues new players are having with eve.

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Originally by: Obento Jones

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This character was created over 10 months ago. Never finished my trial period and just came back the first week of January and I'm just now approaching 2 million SP. I, for one, would be ****ed if I have to go out and buy the box to get to the point where people who are just now picking up the game are starting off (especially if it's the learning skills).

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Originally by: Bruce Scythe

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Edited by: Bruce Scythe on 28/01/2009 20:17:16
Argh what the hell is this about? Does this mean I will have to buy the boxed set, because my character is only 1M SP now. So I'll be even worse than 1 day olds. God damn this is stupid.


This is dumb, I really hope they don't include a 9M SP character or whatever it is. It will take me over half a year just to catch up with new characters.

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Originally by: Bruce Scythe

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Does this mean I will have to buy the boxed set, because my character is only 1M SP now.

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I really hope they don't include a 9M SP character or whatever it is.

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Originally by: AnonyTerrorNinja

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"We're sending you on a special training mission, recruit.

Should you choose to accept it, you should come out a new man (woman), armed with new skills that few ordinary civilians could dream to acquire so quickly..."


To cut to the chase, missions that will give players a level in a related skill or two purely for finishing their arcs, is what I'm guessing.


I mean, way I see it, with mission arcs, this kind of thing becomes possible:


You choose your race and bloodline; these affect your starting attributes alone.


You are sent on your training. You choose at the start which field you would like to study in, such as mining, industry, trade, military operations or the like.

As you progress through the arcs, this directly affects what skills you come out with at the end, truly affecting how a 'new player' sees the game and what they know about the gameplay, as opposed to the way it currently works where you're simply given a few skills and modules you may not have needed and might not train (or could have just bought with the copious amounts of isk that generous guy in local gave you when you started).


I somehow doubt this'll necessarily mean that new players post March10 will get MORE skillpoints total when coming out of their mission arc than current newly-created-players get, but I do suspect that it will allow players to far better focus on what they want for their character.

For example, not everyone is at all interested in the few thousand SP spent in missiles when creating a minmatar character; defender missiles? Most people never even use them, since whatever is spewing the missiles can't do so if it's dead.

Industry lvl1? What's that used for again? Mining? I did not have refined relations with that omber!



But yeah - it's just over a month away, so we'll see when it gets here :D

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Originally by: Kayosoni

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Originally by: Schalac

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I do. Older players already have too much of an advantage. I think that every new character made after the new expansion will start max scanning/learning/gunnery/engineering/mechanic skills just to even the playing field. Also there will be a new Caldari bloodline introduced that doesn't even have the charisma skill listed as an attribute, instead those 10 points get directly injected into intelligence and perception.

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Um WRONG. my main char (this one, has 75m SP. I was created on the FIRST day of retail, and have had implants since they came out.

I made an achura when they came out sometime in the middle of 2006, and she now has 50m SP. She will catch up to me in 2 years.

Old characters are at a rather huge disadvantage due to complete ass for attributes.

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Originally by: Quake Abuse

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I also heard this that you get 9 mil sp when you buy the march 10'th boxed version and all the people who have less than 9 mil sp get shafted

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Originally by: Aeo IV

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I think CCP should perhaps up the skills, or add a 4 profession.

And then I think they should let everyone repec their character's attributes.

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Originally by: ry ry

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Besides, i'm going to buy the boxed version just for the manual. ;)

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