As he appears to have deleted the majority of his posts over the past few years, that may be unlikely.
Mmmm. Well maybe he's pulling his mind apart about it, which is a shame if he's in a bad way.
Point is the entire history of the game there have been advantages that once existed and don't anymore. We are not on the same playing field. Mission changes and rewards. People that had imk2 and mod faps with huge advantage over everyone else for over a decade. Not to mention those that copied those items in the game code (when it was possible to do so).
People that abused evade skilling system using acid baths with mod faps to get Godly evade skill.
I could list 500 things that is bollocks about players skills.
I've been taming for 4 years, trying to get skills that was easy just training pets in the old system pre 2009. Then I get scientist and two days later MA say there you go scientist is now a looter skill....suck that up Rick.
I skilled mindforce for 4 years with attack chips to get to force merge (hard as hell) then MA drops noobie Arson UL chips and non-mindforce guys get force merge in months. That was a massive kick in the nuts for me.
Players skilling on other planets with noob gear getting Godly skills gains in months. That was massive bullshit. But it got left unresolved so PP's could survive. Until it went public so MA changed it.
It's all bollocks, so I'm hardly going to get upset over this chip issue. People with level 160 or what ever trying to sell the bullshit message they got it as hard as other players.
These skilling titles we skill for have kind of become meaningless. What value does it have? Who cares anymore? What advantages do skills even provide these days?
We still skill of course, but I haven't felt "impressed" by another players godly skills for the last 5+ or so years. Because all I think is what bullshit did they use to get it.
So Dan can stop stressing, and just come back when MA allow it.
Rick.
Edit: I will never forget when I unlocked commando (years sgo), and almost instantly I "felt tuned" down to accommodate the additional HP gain. Then my commando skill gain was practically reduced to such a drip it felt pointless...it felt I was deliberately tuned to be held back. Then they wonder how we know how the loot return algorithm works...whatever. I switched to mindforce after that. I honestly don't know why I carry on at times.