Amida Ta
German Mining and Manufacture Corp.
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Posted - 2009.02.21 10:21:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Fear
Learning skils. Yes you can train them but my advice to any noob would be to wait. Yes, you might get some long term bonus after X amount of months. But let's look at it this way;
Two noobies start at the same time. One is instructed to train the learning skills right away, the other is not.
They both hit the 1.6 million mark around the same time, but let's analyze their SP and skills.
The one training the learning skills has;
50K SP towards weapons, mining, ships and so forth.
1.55 million SP towards learning skills
The one that trained regular skills;
1.6 millions SP geared towards specilized weapons, industry, S&I, ships etc.
Now, which one of these would you like to be? The one that started the learning skills and gains some bonus in his training over a period of unknown time; or the one who can play the game from day one and gets to fly new ships and stuff.
Sorry, but this view seems incredibly naive. If a new player starts he will likely ask in local, ask in his start corporation or even check out the forums. AND EVERYBODY there will tell him: TRAIN LEARNING first. At LEAST train the basic learnings to level 4.
To the new player this is like: Hey, you like the game. No problem. Just stop now and come back in a week to start. Which is rediculous and stupid from the point of the new player.
And even IF it (from a "having fun" perspective) would make lots of sense to not learn them first nobody will do so because everybody will tell them otherwise and everybody will say how incredibly stupid they are if they don't get learings first.
And the fix would be so incredibly simple: Give them Basic Learing IV from the start (in addition to the boost to 1,6 Mio). This is not going to hurt anybody. It's not giving them an enormous amount of skillpoints. It's not of much use for secondary specialized trainig. It still allows them fully to "progress" and see themselves advancing. It works for any race. And everybody else got them anyways.
There's not a single argument against it.
P.S. The basic lower levels pay off FAR faster than in several months.
P.P.S. This might lead to them trying to get to advanced learing fast (If they can get the ISKs). A way to prevent this would be to raise the requirement for the Advanced learnings to Level V
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