EVE Online shifts its skill system to provide skills on demand

There’s a persistent issue with the skill system in EVE Online insofar as the system requires buying skills off the market in order to train them. While this definitely works, it means that new players have to overcome this stumbling block, and it can slow down the pace of play with things that aren’t necessarily interesting. So the game is moving to a new “skills on demand” system allowing players to simply buy the skills and start training directly from the character sheet.

The actual mechanics of training skills, acquiring skill points, and the like won’t be altered; in addition, buying directly from the character sheet will be more expensive than using the market, so players will still have an incentive to scour for deals. In other words, it should be a change that veteran players won’t need to fret over but new players will see as far more convenient. Read through the full update to see how this mechanical shift is meant to alter the game.