EVE General Discussion

I think they were joking.

First thought was when did they take the straitjacket off, but then he talked about these accounts would have no skill training, he got a bit conflicted then and talked about earning at double speed.

There's some idea here where you have disposable characters that can get going, doing stuff right away, and the account gets reset if you die, it seems.

Well, that's an option, one could get instantly useful alts, but the devil is in the detail, if I sub for a year and get podded, is all that subscription lost? Or do I have a character who is never able to do anything, sort of brain dead?
Or do I reapply xmillion skill points again and roll a new set of skills and start again?

I wonder if he is talking more of a pheonix character rather than permadeath? Just lose your reputation. That has potential.

Or maybe they should put the straitjacket back on?

we will know when we see where this goes.............

With 20 million you could create a infinite army of market, science and datacore alts that never leave the station. Unless they have harsh restrictions on their skills, that concept will be very devastating to the account infrastructure of EVE.

Was this at Eve Vegas? What did they say exactly?

I was there (quite literally, up in my room working on blog entries right now), and I'm not even sure I "got it". First, he started talking about skilling twice as fast. Then, it was "implants" that "granted SP" that could be allocated, but only to certain skills (specific mention of NO trading/manufacturing/research skills).

Either way, permadeath pilots would be perma-suspect. The whole thing just made me sit and go "But, why??" Apparently after talking about it for 30 mins, you're supposed to buy into it, that's how long Rise said it took him to convince his team.

I'll have more when I actually make out the chicken-scratched notes and compose them into a shitpoast in my blog. :-D

That'd be hilarious. It would turn the game into a roguelike.

Jump into PvP without any real loss yet balanced with permadeath alts while my main's now unlimited skill queue means I don't have to log him in for a couple of years?

Sure why not.

Soon we can roll a night elf, have pvp flags, and forests full of boars that we can hunt in 100% safety, as well as a store that will sell 30-day SP boosters.

Anything that brings in loads of fresh meat and doesn't break the game for the existing player-base would be a good idea at this point.

IF they are smart about the limitations they place on free accounts and have real benefits for players that continue to subscribe, then F2P may be a great way to extend the life of this game.

dafuq are you all going on about?