As a nine year Eve veteran, it is different than character trading. Character trading has permanent investments of skills that creates a specialized path for the character, be it a Super pilot, trader, etc. This whole SP Transfer conundrum is nebulous, vague, and boils over with issues for abuse. There is nothing to stop a player from throwing money at their problems and buying SP Transfers with which to apply to their main character.

Eve Online is all about the decisions and choices we make having an impact. The butterfly effect. The minute little change that causes giant changes in the future. If you have a player that creates a character, throws however much money at CCP, and then can suddenly fly Titans, it fundamnetally devalues those choices and decisions (if any). Further more, it takes away almost completely the core concept of specialization. If you can just buy SP Transfer packs and fly whatever you want, is that specialization or generalization? Is there even a point to having skills for any reason other than to be a barrier between paying players and non-paying players?

The RMT potential of a move like this is disgusting and stupid.

I have always made a hobby of recruiting people into EVE. I am very passionate about it, so tolerating me for any real length of time generally requires you to know enough about EVE to have a) heard about it to any length you desire and b) gotten a trial account and anything you want and personally lead through the game if you so desire (I am a bit over-zealous I am afraid). However, thanks to this and my love for newbies in general, I have kept a pretty good pulse on why people quit the game, and what I have found is very large percent of players quit because they want to advance faster, are willing to pay for it, but donGÇÖt want to give up their identity.

We arenGÇÖt talking about huge claims for power either, some people would be willing to pay the price of a game (50 bucks) to buy enough SP to get started. A few million SP to allocate to ensure you can at least pull your weight with your buddy, nothing wrong with that. The problem they all run into is that buying a character on the market is too impersonal for these people. They are not attached to the game yet. Their whole attachment is their character. The first thing they did was painstakingly chose a race, bloodline, school, and sculpted every contour of their skeleton until it was perfect. Now, drop him, pay 50 bucks and buy xXMOMhumperSS from the market. I know he has corp history that is suspicious, but that is why he is so cheap. And that is when you lost them.

This change allows those wish to invest in their own identity a chance to compete with those who couldnGÇÖt care. The pricing will be prohibitive to make a profit off the system, the price of aurum can dictate the value of the product vs. PLEX, and they will ensure you cannot sell your SP for greater than the cost to have an account long enough to earn that SP.

i did the math behind, and as someone who has a long standing hate from day one for skill respec's and booster stacking in dust. It's hard for me to even be mad about this EVE update.

Unless i am misunderstanding something you can get SP instantly, but it will be 10% of the SP you would get from training and waiting the 1 month, at 110% of the cost(at minimum)

Because inorder to extract the SP from one character you will have to use a character services item which i am assuming will cost one plex. so that is a base price for this service, plus whatever the person selling it will want to charge. At 5-50mil you get 20% of a month long train instantly for more than a monthly cost of a subscription. At 50-80mil you only get 10% at 80+ mil you get like 2%?

Unless i am misunderstanding something you can get SP instantly, but it will be 10% of the SP you would get from training and waiting the 1 month, at 110% of the cost(at minimum)

Holy crap I just realized something else on this.

How many vets will forego a secondary training queue and instead perfectly spec their second and / or third slots for different roles to have a possible total of 3 perfect characters while only plexing 1 account?

Yes I understand. I was thinking more in terms of hauler characters, PI characters, wormhole holders, possibly even market trader characters, and surely some thing I am missing which do not require being multi logged.

I fore see some alliances having quite a few shiny new Titan characters sitting around.