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I would not want to see this info everywhere.
Can't remember when/if I had a trial account.
Wouldn't it be possible to show this info only to the affected trial accounts?

Also, why the negative form?
Negative: "This skill cannot be trained on trial accounts."
Positive: "You will be able to train this skill as soon as you upgrade to a full account."

If I'm not mistaken at the moment one can only play one trial account or your mains and alts but NOT more than one trial account and NOT a trial account with mains and alts at the same time. Will this restriction hold in Phoebe or will we be able to run multiple trial accounts and/or trial accounts with mains and alts at the same time?

CCP will do anything but agree that most subscribers are in EVE for the PvE and hisec, and so improving those items to enable content creation would do more for retention than anything else.

"Here's a spade and a bucket, use the spade to hit other players and the bucket to trash their sandcastles as we can't be arsed to develop other ways of using those tools -signed, CCP"

with letting trial accounts into faction warfare it'll make it easy for any milita to bolster their numbers and make plexing/deplexing far too easy wouldn't it be fair if they made it so trial accounts could join fw but were unable to run the plex down to change the system control level

Not to mention the fact that trials cannot be run concurrently on the same computer with other trials, or active accounts, so its not like everyone is going to start plexing with 3 or 4 trials while playing. Maybe 1 or 2, for those with multiple computers or a laptop, but even then,

If you do the SoE arc while participating in any sort of FW you'll be roflstomped by ridiculously fit OP NPCs anyway since you're being handed once around the ENTIRE cluster anyway.

Looks good - I mean now at least the big giant orange "give us your money" signs explain why stuff is limited.
Until there would be infinite trials however I don't quite see the point of locking XL ships. Of the top of my head I personally still need somewhere around 4 months to fly a carrier if I'd start to train for it now - after having 40m SP spread to the one or other skill.

I don't think there is a trial quite long enough to reach XL ships is what I want to say I guess.

While CCP already pointed out that they plan to keep them locked, etc, etc; you can get a brand new character into a carrier in something like 6 months. (I plan to run the numbers later, I actually want to figure out how long it will take me to make some holding alts). So, under 14m sp or so.

Slightly below 7m SP in about 5 months assuming no implants for absolutely barebones - you can undock with it but that's about it. Cloak, any sort of tank and whatever else is fitted allowing stuff to stay onlined probably adds the same amount again so 14m SP is probably very close.

When I say fly I mean "actually being usefull while fielding it" - going by the assumption that my piloting skills with said ship would just suddenly spring out of nowhere and I don't behave like a complete idiot fielding it (a battleship is flown differently than a frigate as well 'innit?). "The one or other skill" would be 307, 308 in about 16 hours, different skills so I'm a bit spread out actually. In case you're wondering what that looks like go to eveboard ^^.



"Future proofing" is nice - can we have Dogma to future proof the system for FRIGGIN-HUEG fleetbattles though? (which will become less likely/occur less often with the changes to the long distance travel which may or may not be a good thing - the logs will show after the fact).

If - in any sort of potentiall future - you lengthen the trials so considerably that one could train for an actuall carrier pilot you should think about unlocking T2 small weapons again. AFs without T2 weapons are a bit hilarious TBH and T1 frigates without T2 weapons aren't the most competitive sort of fits either.
Show people what is possible and all that - Scorch for example is such a massive performance increase to Pulse lasers you'll never want to go without it again once you can use it. Null is a comparable step up in usefulness - can't say for Barrage as projectiles completely elude me and missiles are boring either way but Blasters and Energy weapons to my experience play drastically different at T2 compared to T1.

Every solo miner with two computers will be training Miasmos pilot trials now. Probably not a bad thing. I know I could have used one!

It does help with the consistency during the career missions. They give you two racial industrial for completing missions but until this patch you can't use them until you sub. This way a newbie can get right into region trading.

Since you are unlocking PI you should perhaps add some of that to the career missions?

As for cloaking, maybe you could create a Civilian Cloak. Only activates for like 10 minutes and has a long re-activation delay. Not very useful for afk camping but would at least let them explore null a little and go to the bathroom once and a while!