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Skimmed the blog again, didn't see this - what is the reduction in skill training rate for Alphas?

That's a good point. Luxury Yacht's and Gnosisisisis

Point #1 is reasonable. I think it'll probably be necessary, in fact. It will be necessary. I will make it necessary.

Point #2 is... not a good point. Most players have scouting alts on their Omega accounts now. There really isn't much difference between that and an Alpha clone. Lots of players don't use scouts as it is because they are too lazy, not because they don't have a spare character slot. I think for #2, it would be a smarter play to wait and see. I'll bet you not much changes.

Fortunately CCP has left out pi - probably because they realize that it would only take 4 lvl 1 alts to double the production on you fully skilled PI toon.

But the yellow safety sounds like a great idea

Unless the devs have explicitly stated that the Gnosis can be flown, the Gnosis is a Battlecruiser. It may not require and Battlecruiser skills to fly, but if the intention is to disable anything above Cruisers, they (hopefully) won't overlook it.

Another couple idiots who can't read.

They said you will be limited to the ships of YOUR RACE.

Unless yatchs, gnossisisisisiissisisidsiofjiosdjfslk's and ventures are one of the starting races, you guys better go back to the drawing board.

Those are faction ships. I don't think Alpha Clones can fly them, unless I misread the dev blog.

You seem to have missed the second-half of what I said. If CCP intend for Cruisers to be the upper-limit, they're probably planning on putting a lock on the Gnosis, even if it doesn't come in the form of a skill.

Also, I already know how interesting ganking is going to become. I have a ganker alt of my own (not associated with CODE. or Miniluv, but I've done my share of ganking). The char is, unfortunately, Caldari, so if I let the account lapse, I won't be able to use Catalysts or Thrashers. The other two chars on the account are PI alts, so it might be interesting to biomass them and roll a new Gallente and Minmatar ganker alt, instead.

Yes this is a question that I wish ccp would answer.

I would recommend that the functionality of pi not be allowed on unpaid accounts.

Why? PI is different than pvp. For PVP more pilots means more fun. Giving people free pi accounts will mainly hurt people who use a paid account.

Break people into 2 groups. 1) More time than money or 2) More money than time. Relative to the average eve player I consider myself to be in group 2.

I barely have time to go through the pi characters I currently have. So ccp telling me "hey now you (and everyone else) can have a bunch of free accounts to do pi in" has zero appeal to me. Lots of group 1 people will spend all sorts of time with their free alts and drive the prices down and I will have one less thing to do in eve.

If someone is really just trying the game out then I doubt pi is the reason they are trying it.

Even if ccp doesn't mind losing group 2 players, having a huge number of alts doing pi is a recipe for burnout.

Finally, by limiting this functionality to omega clones would be a big reason to have an omega account.

Nah maybe you should learn to read. Gnosis is above cruiser first off. And yacht? If youre an amarr pilot who can only fly amarr, why would that make the yacht eligible?

Why make assumptions based on current skill information that is all likely subject to change? There's plenty of crap out there that has "cannot be flown on trial" flagged on it, and this wont be any different.