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The ONLY way these changes make any sense as a whole is if you are planning on having unlimited length trials, aka Free -To-Play.

On a side note, I agree with the restrictions you guys have on these new upcoming F2P accounts:

No T2 weapons
No T2/T3 Ships(except AFs)
No Capitals
No High-end trade skills


I do think you should have done something to restrict PI and T2 Manufacturing alts a bit more.

Also, if you were not going to have F2P accounts why in the world would you ever restrict the unlimited length queue to paying customers only? You would be going far out of your way just to annoy potential customers!

Your talking about noob toons with little skills.

Fix - don't invite noobs into the alliance.

Come to think of it, why not allow trials for unlimited duration? Or at least up the time limit on trials to 1 month? It typically takes people a long time to both learn EVE and an even longer time to decide whether they like EVE--many people have to give EVE multiple attempts before they are hooked (I did fwiw). I think the devs need to ask a serious question about EVE as an 11 year old game that is fantastic and constantly improving, but badly needs new players: Would it be better for the long-term health of the game--financially and in terms of the player base--if trial players had more time to actually try out a variety of features?

I also think new players should start with more skills, so as to be able to try more and not have to train 10 skills just to fit a ship for a simple mission.

In some ways I actually hope you are right. EVE needs new players, there's no doubt about that. And players abuse everything--it's just a question of whether it is game-breaking, in which case it can be nerfed/changed/bannable, or whether it is just the regular old abuse allowed in EVE.

What do you mean "hope I'm right"?

I said it, so it is true. We will be ankle-deep in adorable F2P newbies flying around in their Reapers and Iblises before the new year!

Trials can no longer train Small Autocannon Specilization! If you are a marketing mogul then stock up on Meta4 weapons! They will be more in demand soon!

• Disruption of the character bazaar: why buy a character when you can just train one for free?
• Disruption of multi-character training (see above)
• Much lower penalty for grief play (i.e.: your reputation won't follow you since you'll just have a legion of alts ready to burn)
• Drastic increase in PLEX prices as people are able to raise decent incomes on "endless trial" characters to feed their main
• Less requirement to pay subscriptions, the restrictions do not prevent flying officer-fit pirate hulls, for example, so there is little restriction from endless swarms of mission runners simply dropping subscriptions and going free-to-play. I imagine nullsec blocs would develop T1-fit doctrine fleets to accommodate their endless trial members whose only technical involvement in the game is showing up and pressing F1 (because N+1 is always better)

CCP could add some "concierge" features (cf: 'Greed is Good' issue of Fearless) to encourage people to subscribe, even for a month or two at a time. Some initial thoughts:

• Limits on wallet capacity (where would the excess go? free ISK for CONCORD? sell orders get cancelled?)
• Limits on hangar capacity or number of hangars
• Restrictions on LP stores (or simply have agents/incursions not award LP to unlicensed pilots)
• Restrictions on the ISK value of items on the market (i.e.: total in escrow)

Endless trials would be a more attractive alternative to the "hardcore sudden death with faster skill training" option proposed by one of the devs at EVE Vegas.

Are trials restricted from CREATING corporations? If not, are they restricted from declaring war?

A lot of good things for trials but i have bad feeling for one ;


= More spamming trial bots and players in channels for isks.

this is one of the things that we will be following closely. But our main focus was , we don't want to restrict the many for the assholery of the few. The old trials had a lot of restrictions like that and our aim was to give players the freedom the enjoy eve as much as possible in the limited time that the trial is and instead handle the bad apples accordingly