I used to be digging via the in-game and net shops for EVE On-line the opposite day on the lookout for an possibility to purchase a neural remap. I didn’t look forward to finding such an possibility. I merely wished to substantiate that right here in 2026, almost 15 years after CCP launched an in-game money store, neural remaps have been nonetheless not a factor on the market.
This appears loopy to me.
However let me step again for a second to clarify to what I’m referring. Hell, let’s simply go to CCP for the outline. Right here is the blurb from the associated assist web page:
Remaps enable gamers to vary their characters attributes, which have an effect on the time it takes to coach abilities.
Nicely, that doesn’t clear a lot up does it? So let me clarify why I used to be on the lookout for a neural remap.
I used to be my talent coaching queue, which is one thing that runs in actual time in EVE On-line. Every talent you be taught takes time to coach. Every talent can be related to 2 character attributes. So in case you are coaching a talent that has the first affiliation with notion, that coaching goes quicker in case your notion attribute is increased. There’s a complete assist article detailing this, if you could know extra.
There are 5 attributes related along with your character. These have been stolen from some previous RPG little question:
- Intelligence – the pace at which you course of info
- Reminiscence – how properly you keep in mind info
- Charisma – the diploma to which you affect others
- Notion – your capacity to grasp the state of affairs round you
- Willpower – the quantity of stamina it’s important to attain a objective
And there’s an excellent query as to why, twenty three years later, attributes are nonetheless a facet of the sport. I’ve been down that path earlier than. There was an entire weblog banter about this again in 2015. They actually do nothing in addition to have an effect on your talent coaching time.
Sadly, as a result of they do have an effect on talent coaching, which does dictate what you are able to do within the sport, they continue to be form of essential… even when they’ve largely been uncared for.
At one level a pair years again CCP stated they have been going to do one thing with or about attributes, however like a lot from the corporate, that has come to naught.
Anyway, again to the purpose. I had remapped my attributes to be flat, all roughly equal, as a result of I used to be coaching a bunch of abilities linked to completely different major attributes, so quite than pace up some and decelerate others, I made all of them about the identical.
My present attribute format
That was then, that is now. Now I’ve a protracted stretch of abilities which are lined by willpower and intelligence. EVELens tells me I may shave off almost 80 days of my 700 day talent queue if I may simply tinker with my attributes a bit.
And also you completely can change your attributes. Simply not at will. I’ll return to what the remainder of the assist article I quoted above says about remaps:
After a timed remap has been carried out, it’s going to solely be obtainable once more after a yr has handed, until bonus remaps can be found. Bonus remaps enable gamers to remap their attributes at any time. If a bonus remap and a timed remap can be found, then the timed remap will probably be used first. Gamers can see when their final remap was carried out and what number of remaps they’ve obtainable on the attributes tab of the character sheet.
Gamers ought to be particularly cautious to make sure any attribute change they carry out is right as they could be unable to vary the assigned attributes till the subsequent remap turns into obtainable.
Gamers ought to be particularly cautious certainly as a result of remaps are on a one yr timer… and I suppose I did my remap when the Catalyst enlargement landed late final yr as a result of my subsequent remap received’t be obtainable till November twenty second, a very good 170 days from now.
And I discover this irritating as a result of I’m who I’m and I’d completely spend a few of my hoarded PLEX within the in-game retailer to purchase a neural remap as we speak within the title of imaginary digital effectivity. It is a literal in-game annoyance I’d purchase my well beyond.
However no! CCP received’t promote us THAT! They are going to throw tons of of 1000’s of talent factors at us month-to-month… even when there isn’t a login rewards occasion you possibly can earn 300K SP doing the AIR Each day Duties day by day, plus a 225K bonus… however promoting us a remap. Nicely, some issues are simply past the pale I suppose.
I’ve complained about this prior to now. I’ll most likely complain about it sooner or later, as long as attributes are a factor and you may solely reset them yearly.
So it goes.
Lastly, as an apart, in a part of my checking and re-checking the net to guarantee myself that CCP nonetheless had not put the best, slam dunk merchandise within the money store, I requested Claude AI if CCP bought them. I knew the reply, however figured why not exhaust all avenues.
And, after all, Claude got here again with a pure hallucination:
Further Remaps through the NES (New Eden Retailer) CCP does promote further neural remaps via the in-game money store for PLEX. This has been the case for a variety of years, permitting gamers to remap extra steadily than the once-per-year free remap permits.
Now, to be truthful, I had left Claude set to the default, “low effort” mode, which is principally asking it to deceive you on any primary level of reality. I hadn’t seen the setting as a result of all I have a tendency to make use of it for is to transcribe textual content from photographs sometimes. I discussed that to anyone the opposite day and received an “Isn’t AI fantastic!” kind of response that made me snort so arduous I feel I injured myself a bit.
I used to be working with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) again in 1993 at World Village the place the know-how was gentle sufficient to run on 68030 PowerBook 140 with 4MB of RAM and a 20MB arduous drive. AI doesn’t enter into it, my fridge may run this on the processor it makes use of to observe the temperature. I’m fairly certain Google Glasses would do that for you again within the day. Claude is only a useful present, and free, UI to do that one annoying job.
Anyway, one other warning about AI. As soon as I set Claude to a better stage of effort and referred to as bullshit, it got here again and agreed that I used to be proper, linking me to 2 sources that had actually no point out of neural remaps, which didn’t guarantee me in any approach that it knew what the precise reply was.
TL;DR – Promote me a rattling neural remap and AI would be the demise of us.
