Originally by: CCP t0rfifrans

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As many of you know by now, on Wednesday, Oct 15th, CCP will put out a server update disabling "ghost training". Ghost Training was an unintended feature where unpaid accounts of EVE Online were able to continue training skills. While this allowed players to run multiple characters on a shoestring budget, in all effect, this was a bug.

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Originally by: Player Guide

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How to Train Skills

You already have some skills when you start a new character. To take those to the next level, open your character sheet (go to the upper picture on the left menu bar) and go to the Skills section. Right-click on the skill you want to train and select Train to Level X. There is also a Settings menu, which gives you different options. One of the options here is Show All Skills, which will display all the skills available in game in your sheet. If you select this option, you will see some skills with a green check mark and others with a red cross in your character sheet. The green check mark indicates that you have the prerequisites to train the skill; the red cross shows that there are still some skills you have to train before being able to acquire this particular skill.

The skills that you don't already have in your character sheet will have to be bought from the market. They are sold by ingame factions controlled by Non Player Characters (NPCs), and also re-sold by players. Sometimes, skill books are loot drops on missions, too. Some race specific skills only get sold in the space of that particular faction, and when they are sold outside the area, they are often more expensive. Therefore, if you need a Gallente skill, for example, it is advisable to check how much it is being sold for in Gallente space. After you have bought a skill, it will show up in your hangar, where you can train it via the right-click command.

You will only have to buy a skill book once - it can be trained to the next level without having to buy a new book.

Some skills can't be trained on trial accounts. Those skills are marked in the Description tab of the info on the skill book.

Skills continue training even if you are logged off, but the skill will no longer continue to train on inactive accounts (an inactive account is when you’re no longer paying the subscription, training will still continue when you’ve logged off on an subscribed account). As a result, it is a good idea to train short skills while you are playing and longer ones when you log off. If you want to switch skills, you can simply do so by starting another skill training. The points gained on the previous skill will not be lost, but you don't benefit from the training until the level is fully completed. The highest level for any skill is Level 5, but some skills also have an advanced version. Some of those advanced skills influence the same area as the basic version, others only a related area.

There is no skill point cap in EVE. You will most probably also not reach the point where you have trained all skills available, since new ones are added once in a while, and there is also a huge amount of them available. However, it is possible to max out all the skills in a certain category.

You can only train one character per account and one skill per character at the same time, but it is possible to train several ones, one after another.

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Originally by: Vietone

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Some people here make no rational on why they shouldn't remove this bug. Yes its a bug, its something that I didnt even know about and it is unfair. Why should people who dont pay gain skillpoints the same as people who do?

When did they ever advertise it? Cause its definitely not listed in any obvious place or on any of their game ads. Therefore, they never did intend it to be a feature for people to get the game for. If I had known that I could have trained Industrial V for my character or Exhumer V without paying, sure, I might have done it but I didnt know about it because of the fact that they never advertised it.

So people want a solution? Fine let people continue to ghost train, but instead of training at their normal rate, make it so they train only 10% of their skillpoint they would normally get if their character was active. Make it so that every skill takes 10x longer than it would if an account is not paid for. That seems more fair if people want to ghost train. Make it so that 28 day Battleship 5 skill takes 280 days if they decide to ghost train it.

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Originally by: Venus Einstein

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Originally by: Sonao

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Originally by: Avon

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Hey, your bug...

Skills continue training even if you are logged off or if your account is inactive

I found it in the player guide.

You guys better get in there and ninja-edit it.

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It has been ninja-ed now!

Skills continue training even if you are logged off, but the skill will no longer continue to train on inactive accounts (an inactive account is when you’re no longer paying the subscription, training will still continue when you’ve logged off on an subscribed account).

Thanks guys!

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So here we are ccp ****S at us, not even waiting until this tread explodes
or the patch is done
First time the light comes, before the fire burns

MUHAHAAAAAAA (any Lehman Bros banker hired at CCP the last weeks????)

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Originally by: Richard Aiel

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active subscription request:
http://eve.coldfront.net/status/tranquility

It looks like over the year that the population is climbing not declining, but after this news we'll see

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Originally by: Borg Zorg

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inviting all unsadisfied player to bring their mains and alts on lag fest to jita.
manifastacion is good way of showing how unsadisfied you are.Bring remot reping moduls and remot reping dronse.2000 unhapy users and 10000 reping dronse looks like nice protest to me.
Im on my way to jita.
See u there

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Originally by: Saladin

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I hate to sound like a fanboi, but here goes.

I played a few MMOs before EvE, and if the account went inactive there was no garantee any of your characters or your stuff stayed in the db after a few weeks. It was only 3 years into EvE that I learned that skills train while offline. Limiting skill training to paying customers makes total sense and it was the way I assumed it worked.

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Originally by: Solomon XI

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And yet you, CCP, removed the 30-day GTC's making it HARDER for people to stay in the game. This is idiotic at best.

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Originally by: Mr Jollys

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I think that this should not be changed due to the precident that has been in place for 5 years.

This is a major change in the fuctionality of gameplay.

Remember what Lucas Arts/SOE did to Star Wars Galaxies.

They completely detroyed that game, and the servers are like ghost towns. Let all MMO devs and beancounters learn from SWG.

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