Talk:Black Market (mission event)/@comment-114.79.13.181-20110630053542/@comment-3069692-20110701152849

I disagree, skill points are the single most valuable thing you can use RP's on because they don't depreciate and the longer you play the game the larger your long term return is for them.

For example, say you run an account with 10,000 energy, your choices are...
 * Buy an energy refill for a 1 time boost of 10,000 energy points.
 * Buy 3 skill points (since they cost 14RP for 4 lets says its 3 for 10RP). This means that you need to use 3,333 energy refills for it to become better value than an energy refill. With an average of about 5 refill's per day (including a single level up) that is about 667 days play before you cross the line.  However most people level up multiple times per day.  Lets say you level 4 times for day, that means 8 refills per day, and 417 days play before it crosses the line.

While i have used energy for this example the same basic logic applies no matter where you place the skill points (except health which is kind of irrelevant, a/d alter your chance of winning in fights/etc and by extension the stamina:xp ratio you will end up with). A serial-leveler of course will level many more times that that and cross that 'better returns' line much faster.

Buying refills may enable a quicker levelup, but a slower levelup will still get the same rewards per level but with the added bonus of extra skill points from the purchase. And ultimately, in the long run, that player will overtake the first because of the accumulated higher skill points.