Our losses are guaranteed. In the face of inevitable certainty, the only sane responses are either calm stoicism or giddy laughter.
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I can never quite see what the problem is. About 2/3 of my ISK is from buying PLEX. That has bought me a lot of nice ships…but not the actual genuine skills to fly them. I have billions…yet still cannot fly the 780 DPS Tornado I want to set up. And my Drake runs out of capacitor when fully fitted. So I am ‘paying to win’ and have gotten a few kills but am not exactly taking over the universe. I don’t buy skill points as I think its absurdly expensive. And most of my actual ship flying skill is from endless PvE practice. I’m paying to win…but still a long way from winning. And I suspect it is no different with most other ‘P2W’ people.
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Oh, I added plenty of supporting evidence. You just chose to ignore it, and instead focus on to the part where I said you were a terrible player. Guess that’s all that my argument amounts to -petty insults.
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Oh, and not for nothing, but I don’t bring up player skill levels, blame shifting, bad attitudes, and wrong perspectives in order to insult people. It’s because I think it has explanatory power.
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If you have the ability to do so, you should.
Game progress is an exponential curve, and doing this allows you to skip a portion of it, which shifts the curve to the left and significantly accelerates your in-game capabilities/earning potential. You’ll plateau at some point anyway, but why wait? You can front-load the costs now, and then pay yourself back in the future by not needing to pay as much then.
I’ll put it into terms I’m personally familiar with: I make about 2-4 billion a month from my wardec loot, meaning that I can essentially run 2 accounts just on that income. You can spend 2 years’ worth of PLEX today to be able to start doing that right away, or you can do another 2 years of training to get to that stage and then start being self-sufficient. In this case, it makes a lot of mathematical sense to front-load the costs if you’re sure that you’d be able to capitalize on the gains.
This scales better/worse depending on the activity, and my example is on the lower end. If we’re talking about something like super ratting, which makes considerably more than it costs to run an account every month, then it makes even more sense to front-load the costs, as that’s potentially many months or even years of making tens of billions of ISK per month put off for later while training manually.
The guy used to be in CVA, so when Provi bloc fell he just went turncoat and joined his new overlords.
Thank you for finally getting the guy to stop 
ing up the forums by trying to label everything “personal attack” instead of actually engaging.
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You guys realize it’s a troll, right? There are some giveaways. It’s a fun one though so I’m just going with the flow.
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Since Poe’s law is a real thing, I want to clarify for any lurkers and future readers out there that Altara and DC are being sarcastic. You can’t actually microtransaction your way to success in Eve, and attempts to do so will end in frustration.
Also, I just realized that your initials are DC. I knew there was a reason I didn’t like you.
Also, hello lurkers and future readers. I hope all 2 of you are doing well… What am I saying? If you’re sitting around reading our petty nerd fight, your life is obviously in shambles.
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I’m not being sarcastic. Buying injectors isn’t a bad idea if you have a reasonable use case for doing so. There’s a reason why they exist, right? You’re not going to win anything by doing so, but you can definitely shave off a lot of time needed to get toward latter-game content.
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FYI The pilot date does not include the amount of time played!
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Not when it wants 600m ISK just to shorten the skills queue by 9 days. I’m going for level V on a lot of skills, and that’s a lot of bunches of 9 days or 14 days. Further compounded by the fact that some weapons demand that level V before moving on to ‘advanced’ level. That’s the case for my Tornado fit, for example. Anyway it’s not like I’m just sitting in dock doing nothing while waiting for skills…I’m actively out there engaging with people.
Okay, my mistake. Let me add my two cents for potential readers then.
I have farmed and used skill injectors in order to help me chase new strats and opportunities, but those skill points would have been worthless had I not known what I was doing. And while I do agree that incomes can scale quite a bit, and that you can skip over the character skill training part, you cannot skip over the player skill training part.
So, yes, I like saving unallocated SP, I have bought skill injectors (with isk), and I have farmed skill injectors for personal use, all to make it easier for to chase new strats and opportunities. And I advise older players to make similar plans to help them to pivot in the case of buffs, nerfs, or new opportunities. However, I strongly advise against new players using skill injectors to “skip the wait”. It’s not going to work out like you think.
I think the other reason why it is bad is that if, for example, I move straight on to my blingy Tornado or to the corp doctrine Ferox ( which I also still dont have skills for ) then I will end up skipping all the experience gained in lesser ships…and end up losing my blingy ship at some gate camp from lack of experience. Waiting for the skills points means I am forced to learn to combat with what I already have…which is a good thing.
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He’s right though. If you whine about ganking it indicates that you suck terribly; hisec ganks are the easiest form of attack to avoid.
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Never bling an attack battlecruiser. Like, ever.
Do you run lv4’s or even 3’s?
Do you mine, and if so trained to a satisfactory level?
if yes to either of those, train corp managment skills, Corp Managment, Diplomacy, Megacorp, and Empire control specifically…
suggest running missions, use the rat loot to sell to buy extractors, keep your ISK and LP, when able to extract those corp managment skills turn into injectors, that is cash or future SP if you store them.
BTW, CCP is changing skill training, and I think the way it’s going to work is that we will train unallocated SP, which we can then apply wherever we want.
The fact that mining isn’t include in the autopilot algorithm means this game is dead. I should be able to automine in low sec and null and there should be a consent button.
Enjoy your dead game I’m uninstalling.
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Hey by the looks of that fit you sent me in evemail it appears that you already do afk mine in lowsec!
I never afk mine. That’s why i have never been ganked. That fit is optimal compared to that abomination you show from killmail 
