What does new players need to catch up to? This is an often cited reason to why we need to allow to bypass most of the game, so what will these new players then do?
If anything from the past have told us about Elite and players skipping the game, is that players who do this have not learned to fly. Just go back in time and look at all those Anaconda players, who used various get rich fast methods, to buy an Anaconda, and then took it into combat and got obliterated in seconds, because they had no combat experience, and did just about any rookie mistake there are, so of course they failed misserably, and it drained their saved up credits very fast, as they lost shup after ship... . Add to this how they had no knowledge how to deal with Chaff, so they hit nothing with their all gimballed loadout, and on and on the list goes. and since this was before the Advanced docking computer, several even had problems leaving the station, as the standard docking computer only would land you ship.
So adding a mechanic where players can dump hundreds of dollars on new fancy maxed engineered ships. and then they have no cluie on how to use them, which will create new demands, to dumb the game down. Again, we can see this from past experience, as when the AI got improve on, and thgus the skill level to do combat was increased, there was a big outcry from alot of players, that their game now had been ruined. so the AI got tuned down again... And this change would add even more entitlement to these demands, as now players had paid real money to have their game ruined as being to difficult.
So what do you expect all those new players todo ,when using any kind of catch up mechanics, that shortcuts the very important lessons on how do the basic stuff in this game, as we have seen this repeatedly in the past, and the players who took the shortcut are often very upset about how bad their "top tier" ship is, especially at combat, these ships are not living up to what they can see others doing in Youtube videos etc.
