Skill injectors?

Jaldren

I am coming back to the game after a couple years pause, and found out what skill injectors do. It gives me the shivers. Wouldn't this actually turn EVE into a P2W?

What stops me from getting a new character, and injecting 20m SP? EVE's levelling system is based around time, and if you remove it, then you have a bunch of newbs with T2 fully fitted ships in their first week. 

I know that it does not matter much WHAT you buy, but how you fly and fit it, but I am afraid this could be a dealbreaker.

You guys have seen these items for a while. What you think?

Octagon7711

They have an auction where players can sell their characters so this would be no different then buying someones older character.  Before that players had been selling their characters and accounts on Ebay for years.

Jaldren

I see, thanks

Kyleran

So yesterday I wanted to hurry up the training on a hauler alt I recently created, using 5 Skill injectors which let her fly a single Deepspace Transport well.  Those 5 injectors cost me about 3B ISK, and along with all the skill books I invested in.

So she needs level 5 in one skill to gain an extra 2500 M3 in space in the fleet hanger (currently has 60000 m3 in space.

She has about 28 days to train this skill, I decide to buy a skill injector for 630K, and find if I apply all 500K points, she'll only get 46% of the way through the skill.  I'd have to buy perhaps 2 more just get one skill to level 5, so I can get 2500 m3 more hauling space.  Decided just to wait the month.

So that's probably the great leveling mechanic, sure, you can raise up a low level characters skill points from 1-4 pretty quickly using injectors, (still, I think I could have bought a hauler alt charcter for not much more) but getting to level 5 is very expensive, and on higher level characters where you only get 150K per injector instead of 500K, I can't see it being worth it, much better to just wait it out, at least for the level 5 skills.

Calfis

Jaldren said:
 Wouldn't this actually turn EVE into a P2W?

Or pay to lose LMAO