New Skill Boost Bundles

Dear players, 

Since the introduction Skill Points have been one of the most important currencies in New Eden. They shape careers, unlock ships and mastery, and define your progression as a capsuleer. At the same time Skill Injectors are a cornerstone of the player-driven market, empowering new and veteran players to participate in the value exchange.

Since the concept of Boost Bundles that gave you instant Skill Points (SP) were introduced, they have gone through several iterations of design and targeting experiments. One of the latest additions was coupling the convenience of instant SP with cerebral accelerators (CA), which would allow you to gain additional SP over time.

The performance and player feedback has been analyzed for each iteration, and while the financial results were satisfactory, it became clear that the value proposition of the bundles themselves wasn’t clear enough: SP amounts were not anchored to anything meaningful, the variety of accelerators complicated the process of counting the actual SP you get, there was no clear way of comparing its value to Omega training or player-made injectors, and so on.

We have since worked on addressing this, leaning into learnings from recent changes to the Value Packs, Omega, PLEX and MCT. A decision was made to redesign these from the ground up, keeping the following principles in mind:

• Clarity: make bundles easier to understand by creating a relationship between the new bundles and additional Skill Points trained as Omega:

• Flexibility: introduce larger bundles and split them into equal buckets, so you can distribute the purchased SP between characters on the same account if needed (using 1 month Omega equivalent of additional SP trained as the smallest bucket)

• Balance: avoid competing against player-generated SP and Skill Injector market, at the same time ensuring value makes sense for both new and high-SP pilots:

• Simplicity: cut down the variety of accelerators and focus on clean, useful value

• Fairness: single purchase per account, but with more instant SP than before

As a result, each new Boost Bundle matches the amount of SP you’d additionally train as Omega over 1, 3, 6, or 12 months. As a free bonus, you will receive Genius ‘Boost’ Cerebral Accelerators to speed up your training even more:

The total SP gained from these packs will depend on you and your training efficiency!

Alongside the Global PLEX Market and Omega bundle updates, new Skill Boost Bundles are part of creating a healthier and more intuitive economy.

As always, we are eager to hear from you. What do you think of these changes? We’ll be monitoring feedback closely, so let us know what you think on Discord, the forums, through your CSM, or wherever you fly.

Train smart,

o7