Oh c'mon! Join the think tank/brainstorm!

Why so gray? Title did say controversial solutions.

Let's be honest, its easy to simply speak the negative (apt farm) instead of using brain to create new ideas. I know I've been thinking about this all day.

I got you brother.

How about arena battles? Sponsoring 3 man champion teams for bi-monthly Gladiator styled matches? The Merc characters are only activated and can be used for these competitions. Say that you would manage and finance your team. Your SP can be given to each individual of the team but limited to a certain amount, in designated training weeks. We could have rookie, mid level, and veteran brackets. Wagers can be made. Teams would have their own corporation logos and taglines. You can use AUR to create team specific colors. SP could be traded for map sockets or installations.

I said mercenary characters would be locked to three man team arena battles. Also the SP could be given only during designated training times with limited SP disposal. Therefore, the sponsored merc couldn't be used for pc, pub matches and FW. And he wouldn't have SP advantages against others who don't have a crazy amount of SP

Passive SP gain cannot be extracted, leaving active SP you earn in battles and the SP you earn from boosters only available for extraction. District Kredits are required to purchase implant materials which can only be used with the appropriate warbarge level which requires components as normal to level up. If you buy implants on your PC playing main and send them to your alt that alt is still locked to the lowest implant factory meaning high grade implants won't work. If you're not actively engaging the alt character, then you don't have any non-passive experience to extract.

It's really quite easy to separate lifetime passive gain from anything else earned--just look at how long the account has been set to 'active.' Passive Sp is earned at a steady rate of X points per day. A 24 month old account would have 26,280,000 SP earned passively if the account accrued 36,000 SP passively per day, for example.

If a player wanted to extract their skills, they could only extract the amount in excess of this 26.2m SP figure. Anything earned by active play, bought boosters, and (maybe) daily log-in bonuses would be applicable to extract.

If there is a way for an alt-farmer to abuse this let's discuss rather than being reactionary.

This 'persistent universe' wouldn't exactly change.
The lifetime passive SP you've gained could not be touched for extraction. It's a buffer and representative of your clone having spent time and lived in this universe.

Active and Boosted SP are available for extraction. Think of them as actively shaped components of your mind. They have value in the military sector and second hand mercenary market because they have been whittled and shaped by field testing and activity--battled hardened components.

Machine learning through trial and error.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/537101/deep-learning-machine-solves-the-cocktail-party-problem/

Again, after a point 10m to 20m SP (this might lower with slot flattening and powercores), the amount of skill points you have really doesn't have an impact on your combat effectiveness. Having a maxed skill tree, the only benefit you have is the ability to respond to various play-counter-play situations, but if you have little skill with FPS' the 269m skill player is just going to die as easily to the 10m skill player in a focused role.

After a point, skills don't enhance your killing power.

I'm hesitant about adding new features like ugraded power suits, or the Omega clone and pirate module idea that I proposed in the other topic under addition features.

I am more open to allowing skill implants to be combined with existing regular boosters to craft synergized boosters in order to enhance/compliment CCP's sale of existing boosters.