If there is no loss on skills - just redistribution - I need to skill up my low skills now because then my skillpoint pool will be larger than that of a player just started .. say i have 8 skills at 100 and 4 at 50 - my skill pool will be 1000 points - a newbee will have like 2 at 25 and 8 at 5 - 120 points in total ... I can not see how this should work out ? does the soft skill cap start at 50 ? or at 70 ?
I think that the vets will have a very large advantage, also because the skills sort of determine your HPs - so a vet will always have an unreachable HP for those who start new ... Not that I mind that much

However on my char I see a huge problem for the future ... charm is at 1.5 and perception at 101.6 ... if charm is really going to influence the skills as listed - my scavenging (at 100) will suck big time (Scavenging: Charm | Perception) :-/