"A long overdue and much needed change will be put in place with the Wednesday, 15 October 2008 patch. Ghost Training, the continuous skill gain on accounts in an inactive or expired state - will no longer function after Wednesday, 15 October 2008. This practice upsets the balance of the game, and capsuleers who actively put their time an energy into working on their characters will no longer be unfairly affected by those few who have not."
Well, in determining whether this was a good move one should consider newly made character, those who train low level skills and are pretty much forced to live by the alarm clock, waking every now and then to re-pop a new skill.
You have a huge-ish dis-balance in sheer amount of hassle between them and older gamers, who train 29d skills while not paying the monthly fee.
It is simply a question of fairness. EVE as it is often rewards older players, older players have it easy, and newbies don't, the game is infinitely more difficult when you are a newbie pod pilot, this in itself is quite a big design error.
Bye bye ghost training...
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