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EVE has character bazaar. Dust has free character creation spam (for starter ISK farming among other things) and lots of inactive legacy mercenaries gathering free SP. This will lead into SP inflation if SP is transferred to Legion, and character bazaar inflation for Legion SP when one account for New Eden becomes reality.

IMHO skillpoints should be completely reset to zero for Legion to generate a fresh start for newcomers as well as alleviate transfer anomalies in the economy.

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Unlike Dust SP, EVE SP comes from paid training time. You could make an argument for resetting all but AURUM boosted extra SP.

The solution I'd propose as of now without much though would be to:

- Everyone is egligible of transfer
- Names are reserved
- AURUM is fully reimbursed and transferred
- Memorabilia items from various tournaments and giftings are transferred
- SP is not transferred
- A player persistence gift SP system is implemented instead, with a little bit of gifted SP (e.g. 1 million SP for 3 months of measured Dust activity)

If there is not a 100% transfer including assets, ISK, and SP I will not be there in any form. All of the money I spent on this game was based on their now horribly broken promises. When getting my *** kicked I ran AUR equipment to keep building ISK so that I could get the things I wanted when the player market came around. I have run boosters off and on mostly for events. I have purchased packs just for blueprints. I bought the EVE Collectors Edition just for the blueprints.

All of these actions were based on the premise of this being a long term game that would evolve at some point. Not even one year in for me (started May 15 2013) and the game is shot. I can not even imagine how pissed off the few beta players still around are. With that being said if we lose one thing in the transfer process I am done, that opinion is strictly because CCP currently have shown themselves to be 100% inconsiderate of the people that support them.