Flinchey
Amarr
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Posted - 2009.02.10 14:22:00 -
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 Originally by: Gartel Reiman
Originally by: Flinchey
Originally by: Gartel Reiman
In particular it is pretty bad for the newer players, since when you have low skills everywhere, that's when you get the biggest bang for your buck in training 'real' skills, but at the same time you really ought to be training learning skills to help in the longer term.
this doesn't change that. they SHOULD be training learning skills still. and NOW it's even more beneficial to do so. 100% more beneficial in fact.
I agree with this. And I consider it a good thing that new players can get their learning skills "done" quicker, and so move on to training real skills and actually advancing their character's abilities.
Your opposition to this seems to be based solely on the argument that "well it took me two/three months to train up learning, it ought to take that long for them too!" I just don't see the benefit in trying to keep new players down, it's not like you win by having more skill points than them in the long run (which incidentally you still will do anyway). This makes things better for new players, and unless you're being bitter about the Bad Old Days, that's good for everyone.
ahah, no, i know what you mean, lemme see if i can explain it better...
it took me x many months to get to the 7.x m sp i have now
it will take them SIGNIFICANTLY less time to get to that point
it's not keeping them down
its just that this invalidates my play time, allowing newer players to catch up to slightly older ones with extreme ease.
say in a year, they will have caught up to me, and will be passing me, purely becuase their learning skills, instead of taking say a year to pay off, take half a year (figure would actually be a lot lower than that from my quick guesstimates)
i dont care about ""well it took me two/three months to train up learning, it ought to take that long for them too!".. meh, i am my own player.. i care about a new player actually being BETTER OFF than an older player, in suach a significant way, should said newer player choose to train their learning skills.
this makes it better for new players, and worse for old (ok, no im not old.. just... the 'newish' players then) players. if it was just better, i'd be moreee than happy to help out the newbies. but effectively disadvantaging the newish isn't fair.
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