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I'm all for someone trying to make a MMO other than EVE that doesn't rely on the same old leveling treadmill
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One of the only reasons that the EVE system works at all is because character buying/selling is completely legal. That means that you can catch up to a reasonable level by grinding out cash and buying a character. If you couldn't do this, the nature of the SP system would mean that new players could really never catch up.
And yes, to a certain extent, more SP only means more variety in the things you can fly, but to really catch up to the level of "maximized in enough stuff that your character is decently competitive" takes at least a year, which is a very long time to "max out" in an MMO, and it's arguable whether a year is even long enough.
