EVE New Citizens Q&A

Basically I was enjoying myself on tutorial did all the mining agents tasks and recieved my 3rd ship. At that point I was going to start mining and selling minerals with my new large cargo ship.

So I find out I cannot fly my new ship without a skill, so I think ok no problem and buy the skill. The game then informs me I cannot learn the skill in the turtorial which means I cannot use my new ship.

Quite frankly spending some time to get that ship and being told I cannot use it has really soured my experience and its been 2 days since I have been online. Now im thinking about going back on to do other agent work but in my head I know I can only do so much before I hit a brick wall.

Now I know there are some thing trial players shouldn't be able to do, but stopping the player from improving is not the way to go about it. I understand a level and money cap but stopping them from using a ship and learning certain skills is uncalled for I think.

I was not going to buy the game due to the p2p feature but I did want to try the 14 day trial, but right now I don't think I will continue with it and its destroyed the whole "Should I buy the game" argument in my head making it a 100% no.

The reason that you're not allowed to use industrial ships and chips above a certain size on a trial is to prevent people from making trial accounts just to use those ships and making a new trial every few weeks for that. It may be annoying for newer players, but it's much better for the game overall.

Instead of trying to go for Industrials, why not work towards Cruisers instead? Especially the Exequror, a Gallente Cruiser, has a very large cargo bay for a cruiser and makes a pretty good mining ship.

Edit: and the reason that there isn't a level or money cap is that there aren't levels in Eve (just skill levels, which are nothing like levels in other games) and a money cap wouldn't really make sense in the game. Limiting people from ships above a certain size really is the most logical way to handle it. It gives people a taste of the game without being too exploitable.

So you are complaining that you can't progress in a game you don't intend to keep playing anyways? What exactly is the benefit you would get from that progress?

p2p? Pay to play. What would you prefer micro transactions? Id prefer P2P. Micro transactions almost always end up degenrating into pay to win unless its something like league of legends or tribes ascend.

By the way EVE can be free to play. Buy a plex with in game isk. Cant make it off of missions? Dont bother. Start trading. Alot of trades skills you can get despite having a trial account.

Im not going to argue with some one who clearly doesn't see the same value in this game as I do. Thats pretty short sighted. I just wanted to correct you that eve can be F2P if you know what your doing.

It's a trial .. it's supposed to have limits. But there is a hell of alot you can do in those 14 days and if you want to mine you can, i'm sure someone will haul the stuff for you if you ask.

I understand your sentiment. I was reluctant to pay for the game too, but I got hooked (I switched to paying with PLEX as soon as I could though). It definitely is a great game once you get into it.

And that's the right attitude. I remember when I was on trial myself that it seemed like a stupid rule and somewhat limiting, but looking back I can see that it is an important limitation to keep it from being exploited. It also helps once you realize that there isn't a "bigger is better" mentality that most games use. Heck, just last week I was using T1 frigates which you could fly now (though maybe not with the fits I was using); there's lots of ships you can use on the trial which are quite useful.

I see how preventing others from exploiting the trial can be a good thing, but isn't there another way to go about it? Limit the number of times an account / email / IP address is allowed to create a trial character?

I bet if EVE had prepaid cards at stores like every other good MMO (and even the bad ones,) that 15$ wouldnt be so hard to pay now would it?

You might want to send word to the marketing people, lots more people would find out about Eve if they saw real game time cards in stores

*Edit: Also I'll take a tribal issue tempest in payment for my awesome idea

Pointing people to the EVE store is a sure way to lose them as a customer, they're never on time and don't react to mails. Since its start it has been a blemish on CCP's image tbh.