EVE General Discussion

Recently, I decided to upgrade my account to Omega. What are the benefits? Does it grant me a pilot's license? Please, I need all the help I can get before deciding either to get an upgrade or no.

Train at twice the rate,
Have access to all the skills
No longer be a second class citizen.
Do it.

So you decided to upgrade before you knew what you were getting in return?

Tell you what, you send me all the stuff you have and I will give you two of everything in return AND give you a highly detailed explanation of what Omega is. That way you'll have plenty of stuff to start your Omega career :)

If you plan to play the game a great deal, then subbing would be money well spent.
If you plan to only play a little, it's absolutely not worth paying for the game.

the only reason to sub is that you can ****-talk alphas as inferior beings all the time. (no racism, or maybe yes)
worth!

Have you tried to do anything in the game yet that you can't because you're an alpha?

To me, that would be the trigger to upgrade to a subscribed account.

If you aren't hitting walls now with skills, ships, modules, etc. then there's no real need to upgrade only to gain access to faster training (since the other aspects you don't really need yet anyway).

Yes, that all is great, but do I get a license? 'Cause you know how they love to scream out on us: "Treak or treat! You upgraded your account, but we didn't say that you will get a license! Ha-Ha-Ha!"

It used to be that a plex or a subscription was the pilot license.

Now with alphas existing I suppose you could say you purchased your advanced pilot's license.

Might be worth looking at the upgrade deals CCP offers and timing it to save a few bucks and get some free goodies.
Typically deals happen at certain times of the year or during promotional events.

Like right now, for example

Upgrade to OMEGA
Special Perks for multi-month subscribers

There are a couple of different ways to look at this, and the way you choose has to do with a number of variables like your financial situation, the amount of time you want to play, how mentally invested you choose to get, etc.

First and foremost, remember that this is a game. How, in general, do you respond to games? Some people get really really serious when there's an ongoing bit of money, and they forget that the whole point is to have fun.

Some people start to feel entitled and turn bitter when they are paying money to get blown up a lot. Is that you? Maybe play for free for a while.

But the two approaches I mentioned above look like this:

1) Milk the free part of the experience to its maximum potential. The way the limitations are set, you can experience pretty much every aspect of the game in some way before you run into the skill limit. So do that, find out if it's worth it to you to open up the full possibilities of the game. There are even corps that will take FTP players in and work within those limitations. You can even experience the social aspects of the game without paying.

2) Dive in and commit a small amount of money each month to get--albeight--slow access to everything the game has to offer. Because you are not a bitter person who expects everything to work your way. Because you understand the mechanics of the game are not about "winning". Because you understand that losing a ship is just as much fun as killing a ship. Because you understand that there is no lvl 81 where you always win. There's a level of "winning" that is called having fun in a game.

Pick which one makes sense for you and go with it. There is more fun and more content in the subscription world than there is in the free world. I'm playing a n00b free toon right now just to see what it's like. You can do a lot of fun things there.

The choice is yours, and you don't need to pick only one.