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Stinks of desperation and a false attempt to pump concurrent online user numbers.

But thank you for the ability to make multiple trial account suicide gankers!!

Great news.
Anything that faciliates getting new players on TQ is welcome.

Please ensure that the limitations ans special restrictions "somehow" become very clear during the process of creating the buddy account.
Like: WARNING - if you pay like this, your inviter will NOT get a reward.
Or even disable the option for accounts created through a buddy invite.

Just to avoid tears and anger.
I had issues with that.


Also:
Are there thoughts to allow buddy invites to EXISTING trial accounts?
Yes that does not seem to generate any advantage for CCP, because the person already IS interested in the game, aware AND has created an account.

But especially CCP Rise complains about people not sticking with the game after the trial and not getting in touch with corps etc.
I really like teaching a new player from time to time, but friends who might be interested already know about the game (after I played it for 5 years).
I would like to meet NEW new players who can become my buddies.
I can go to a starter system... a little incentive here could certainly help (maybe a different reward for becoming a mentor for an existing trial account could be suitable?).

Only if the "Buddy" pays in cash, a rather neat marketing trick in the small print would you not agree :D

I would rather see the Buddy system as a benefit of supporting the game rather than allowing the system to be used to create a succession of Free to Play accounts.

Without addressing the ability of trial accounts to engage in suicide ganking, you are basically creating a F2P option for that activity.

Can you confirm that CCP will be monitoring the use of the new system and taking action against those who use it to bypass the character cycling rules?

Look at the small print on rewards and go into any reputable skill training software and see exactly how quickly you can build a suicide ganker.

Right, so TL;DR now trial users can also use the buddy program, the first reward being 30 days of game time + conversion to full account.

The question if, what if Player A invites Player B, who in turn invites Player C, and Player C subscribes before Player B?

Player B becomes a full account, but I guess Player A doesn't get any reward for the upgrade of Player B?

(I hope you're not lost )

Who cares what the character does? They're still paying.

Is there anything coming in Scylla - bar the Sov wand?! I check back everyday but nothing - for the last couple of expansions there has been updates within a week of the last being released, this time round; nothing...I know its fanfest, I guess there is lots of stuff going on and being set up - but its for a fraction of the player base - I am not going to fanfest, I am not a nullsec sov'er, and all my buddies that would play Eve, already do...

CCPlease!!

Guys, do you realize you've killed buddy program for those who actively promoted it when you've decided to make its length equal to standard EVE trial? As result I had much less registrations and zero upgrades during last month.
If things will go like that you'll have to promote your game alone.

Seems like a reasonable idea. Marketing seem to be beginning to get over the idea that there always must be a trick to catch you out, it's not PVP guys!


The buddy programme definately needs a rework now though, 30 day trials, took the advantage of using them away for the new user.

How about some nice ship skins, or a bundle of starter ships to make it worthwhile for them rather than using a random trial?

Well let's see. First, the changes to force projection resulted in a large reduction in number of cyno alts. Then input broadcasting was banned. Sounds to me like CCP is more interested in improving core game play than just directly increasing accounts by whatever means possible.