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Schalac
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Posted - 2009.02.04 13:27:00 -
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While I like the idea of a skill cue, I dislike the idea of making it time based. The things I would use a skill cue for are when I am unable to log into EVE due to life or military obligations that would make playing impossible. At the same time I love the ability to set a bunch of low time skills and then go to sleep and have them all at 1-3 when I wake up. This would only work for a small amount of skill training times though as the short skills are such a small amount of actual training time in EVE.
What I would like to see is options. 50 skills max for a 24 hour period, or 3-4 skills that take weeks to train. I would love the ability to set 4 rank 2-3 skills to train to 5 for those times that I go out into the field for a month or more where it is impossible to log into EVE. I'm sure there are others that feel the same way and now that ghost training is gone I don't see why this should be a problem as long as the account is active and payed for.
Please CCP listen to me and make it available for us to do this. |
Schalac
Caldari Apocalypse Reign
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Posted - 2009.02.04 13:42:00 -
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Originally by: DrAtomic Typical, we finally get a skill queue and it solves a non-existent problem. The real issue is prolonged afk (businesstrip/holidays), not juggling short timed skills.
Juggling short time skills is a motivator to log in and play and even stay logged in.
Short timer skills i.e. 6 hour skills can easily be trained during 1-3 playing sessions, sure they'll take a couple of days but it's not like you are loosing training time. It's just that the actual progress is slower then advertised due to time management. But was/is it an issue? No not really. Nice to have it changed? Sure.
Now I'm going on a holiday and will be gone for 27 days and I don't have any skills left that I want/need, but also no option to continue training so I'll end up loosing out on 2 weeks worth of training unless I'm giving my login credentials to someone else in order to change my training (EULA breach).
Also what gives, who is CCP to decide if my real life doesn't permit me to play for a prolonged period of time and I choose to keep my accounts open and pay for them in order to keep training going. Don't they want my money? Really strange decission from a business standpoint of view.
Ok then give us the option to change our skill through a webinterface, ow wait then I wouldnt be playing the game either, so thats a no-no as well?
Whats the difference if I can't play for a pro-longed period of time and decide to keep my accounts open to train and only log in to change skills versus giving us the option to actually manage that situation (webinterface/skillqueue).
Bottomline the whole login to change skills makes you play logic is seriously flawed; if I choose not to play but pay and train I do so. My skilltraining never brought me back from an afk. Why not simply accomedate this community demand by giving the community the tools to manage that situation.
In the end it's better for the game to have a backbone of sponsoring characters financing a better gameworld for the active players that aren't even using any serversided resources/support/bandwidth. Thus getting additional funds for creating/enhancing an environment that more people choose to participate in and will grow and evolve both the game and playerbase?
IMHO this is a typical case of have a cookie and shutup but what it effectively does is removing a login motivator. I.e. I'm more motivated to login and play to complete that 3 hour skill that I have trained 2 hours on in order to move on or be able to use something. Whereas when I'm training a 23 dag skill I couldnt care about logging in from a skillchange perspective.
Really there is no harm in being able to queue longskills since it doesnt change anything (if a player has choosen just to skilltrain he/she still will), however being able to queue all those short skills does make it a lot easier to say meh forget about eve for today my skills are going anyway, i'll just check back tomorrow.
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Schalac
Caldari Apocalypse Reign
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Posted - 2009.02.04 13:54:00 -
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Originally by: Niedar Edited by: Niedar on 04/02/2009 13:52:33 Thanks but mostly a waste of time, 24 hours is not what is needed. We pay for subscription time and are not able to ghost train anymore, I see no reason why you don't want to allow us to train skills while we don't have access to the game, even though we are paying for it..
This is how you breach the gap between the vets and the M10 newbs. |
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