Lore fail is fail.

Your attributes are the result of your schooling (your corporation choice has no bearing on your attributes, only basic extensions), which is why you choose a university to study at, your major and minor and stuff like that, each choice having a smaller affect on your attributes.  Think of it as your profession, which makes you better at learning certain tools of your trade.  It hearkens back to EVE in that you're almost book learning your skills, but with the convenience of the EP pool.  Basically making learning decisions retroactively, so you're in a way deciding the history of your agent when you train your extensions.

I just sewed a flash drive with the encyclopedia Britannica on it into my arm and I feel no different.....  maybe a little queasy, but certainly not any smarter.  What gives?  I thought this sh*t was just supposed to work regardless of what world we live in?

You also seem to have some sort of tunnel vision when it comes to sci-fi.  What makes you think that such technology would be possible here?  We cant even manage to send anything larger than a nano-bot through the wormhole.  It really doesnt seem to fit.  Why bother making us go to universities and study if we could just implant knowledge at our discretion?  Dont say its about money because I damn well know college would be just as f*cking expensive as it is now.

And for the general idea of increasing attributes, I dont see why its necessary.  Its not that bad to raise industrial control.  Its a fraction of what all the damn mining skills cost.  How much would you propose it changes your attributes?  Are they permanent?  What do they cost?  How would they be acquired? 

By the way, you presented this idea from a purely lore based perspective, so we're refuting it based on your obvious lack of understanding of it.  Dont get pissy with us when you didnt even RTFM.

You cannot associate these with the Nian technologies, because they couldn't possibly exist in the same place.  It would be created on Earth to be used there, so how would you associate what we do to obtaining said implants?

I disagree with your "you can always go to another university and learn to learn better".  You'll learn more things over time (which is essentially what EP is.  Time spent doing something which you decide on later.) but you dont necessarily get better at learning everything.  Your brain is not like a hard drive that has unlimited capacity and can recall any bit of it at any time if given the command to.

Your attributes are your basic decisions in schooling that give you the foundational knowledge to operate and learn related things with ease (also why you gain some extensions from the start). 

When it all boils down, I think anything that augments how quickly you can get extensions past what you chose at character creation creates the "learning" skill idea from EVE that we all want to avoid.  It creates this goal that you must reach before actually progressing your character to avoid not being as efficient as possible.  In EVE you trained learning before really getting into any serious skills because it saved you so much time in the long run.  If we had implants, people would grind up money (or have it given to them from a corp) to buy the best implants the first thing they do before spending any EP so they can make the most of it as possible with the best attributes they can.

Just have to barge in, but this is wrong.
Universities give you a superset/examples of tricks on how to absorb and learn information better. After you finish university you are not magically limited in the ways you learn new things.
Technology and learning processes tend to evolve based on your experiances, and say if you learned certain subject at uni, it does not make automaticly worse at other subject.
Yes your initial knowledge is low in another area, but as you progress you wilkl obviously learn how this subject works and get better and understanding it, develop new techniques for absorbing the information.

In terms of game world, this could be something like, based on your attributes initial costs for first, say 4 levels are high, but as you go, the price difference should be diminishing.

So you saying everything is always copied from EVE? You saying that god created EVE and then everyone copies it now? I don't see CS fans raging at BF fans for stealing their idea of "Shootan Game"...

Same idea can be implemented differently.

I did not mean moving points from one side to another.
Sorry should have been more clear.
All I meant is literally per skill basis, if someone "fights" for that knowledge, they surely would get slight decrease to costs of later levels.
I dont mean that past lvl 4 all skills should be trained same rate for everyone
Something like: Im an indy, but I really want to learn for this heavy bot.
While someone who is specced for heavy bots will use, for example, 200 points for level 10.
Someone who is an indy, but stuck through this, should get slight cost decrease. ie instead of 500, lvl10 would cost 450.

And this way is certainly very different from eve where bonus gets applied across the border.

I think I was against attribute remaps a couple months ago, and we'll see where the new reset goes to. The choice would be between a complete redo and the ability as Alrione mentioned - to push some points around.

Being conservative, I'd say try out being able to push a FEW points every 3 months with some sort of 'NIC sink' cost and go back to a 1 time EP reset. If that fails go with a full remap every 500,000 EP (about a 1 per yr).
Basing it on EP means your agent has to be subbed to earn the remap.

Read my other posts, I explained exactly what I meant.
I did not suggest redistributing stats.
The idea is you get a slight decrease on the cost of high levels of the specific skill.
Ie lvl7 will give you 1% discount, lvl 8 2%. lv9 3% and lv10 4%.
Based on each skill.
NO LEARNING or such skills.
If im learning heavy mecha, and decided to stick through with it, later levels would have little discount.
Its not blowing anything out of proportion and isnt overriding your initial stat choices, so the end result is still higher then someone with better suited stat.
View it simply as player incentive.

What incentive? To make something that is supposed to be harder easier? That isn't incentive, that is impatience and laziness.

Why bother with implants, lets just put in a "learning" extension

Personally, I hope implants and/or remaps are never introduced into Perpetuum. They reek of laziness.