CCP has released a February patch for EVE Online, updating their MMORPG with extensive changes, all detailed in these release notes. Most significant is probably a new feature to allow players to transfer skill points. This previous blog post has all the details on how this works, and here's an overview from their announcement:

Skill Trading is a new option for EVE Online players to use Skill Extractors to remove accrued skillpoints from one character in order to create an item called a Skill Injector. That Skill Injector can then be traded to another character--typically for in-game currency via the markets of EVE--and used to apply a pool of skillpoints to the second character, boosting whatever skill levels they want to apply the skill points to.

In essence, Skill Trading is trading character experience from one character to another, a particular bonus for any secondary (or “alt”) characters if a player’s main character has a surplus of skillpoints in areas he or she might not currently use. It’s also a way for any pilot to reassign skills and further craft their characters, accelerate supporting skills, quickly get into an Alliance’s fleet doctrine, or jump into a new ship class a bit quicker than waiting out the training time.

EVE Online players have long been able to sell whole characters to each other through a forum-based marketplace known as the Character Bazaar. With each sale comes the history of the character, its name, and possibly its assets--but also its reputation, good or bad. While there is still a place for characters to change hands in the bazaar, Skill Trading offers more granular control and flexibility over character progression.