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Great move CCP i genuinly think it is :) Ive been playing for 8 years and will continue to subscribe both accounts but this will freshen the game up , a game held to ransom by bitter vets decsions goes no where !! Hope fully much broader range of players/feedback /wants and money for developement , i think only positive can come of this just maybe limit the gank abiltites safety for alphas in high ;)

Also add walking in stations :))

I'm assuming the 5m SP limit is a result of the skill limits, not a hard cap on SP that can be trained.

Agreed.

And so the horde of retаrded kids is coming.

Great. Just keep it in some locked, separated, forgotten part of space. No one welcome 'em in this cluster.

Yes, really.

This is a great and needed idea. I'm a veteran and i really think this is cool in all ways, just limit the active alpha accounts and that's it.

And please guys, stop crying and asking for SP reimbursement, be constructive and also go and read the full blog before making already answered questions. cheezzus..

Could someone from CCP please explain how this will effect PI?

Assume I train omega characters in pi skills and set up planets then let them go unpaid. Will they still be able to manage several planets and all the factories based on the omega skill? Or will the factories offline?

edit: personally I hope you won't be able to do any pi on an alpha account.

. If alpha state is not viewable, then soon killboards will lose their meaning. Just create an endless cascade of alphas and then gank them yourself.

The only way to tell real kills from fake kills will be to see how expensive the ships were.


Also if any of my alts is lacking in a skill on the alpha list, I'll probably unsub them for a month to train those skills for free. So there could be a sudden drop in subscriptions when this rolls out.

It may not be, but some effects i see of this:

1) High sec is going to become flooded with new players. Thats going to make shopping lag central. The silver lining to this cloud is most of the free players will likely stay in high sec, and may push some paying players into null and low for more pew pew.

2) Im sure this will increase pvp targets. But you know how crafty eve players are. I can almost promise you that some alliance is going to become the blob of T1 ships and be like a swarm of locust. It doesnt matter if you kill 50 or 100 of them because there are thousands. Your tossing a cup of water on a forest fire.

3) The price of minerals are going to go through the roof because now you have masses of people buying t1 frigs> cruisers. This is going to cause everything that uses these minerals to also increase in price.

4) The price of plexes are going to go increase probably by 20-30% at least as the free players attempt to plex their account.

5) These free players are going to suck up resources that are already heavily competed for. Specifically exploration sites. As it catches on we are going to have to compete more and more with free players to the point where grinding is going to become so grindy thats literally all you can do in game is try to grind a few million isk. So CCP will have to increase the amount of resources seeded in the game to match the demand, and honestly they havent been impressing me lately. I feel like they are concentrating a lot of revenue generation and not so much on making the game entertaining. I feel like what is done for upgrades in game is a rush job that is usually delayed multiple times and still buggy as hell when it comes out but revenue generation seems to be in nearly every major update.

CCP seems to of taken more of an interest in generating revenue and less interest in providing a quality product as time goes on.

Let me be very clear about my objections to this: I play Eve for the "arcade" aspect of frigate PVP. I really appreciate the thrill of how balanced that kind of PVP has become, and even how little impact OGBs have had on it. I have thousands of T1 frigs stationed in the Amarr/Minnie FW war zone. I'm very disappointed that I will no longer have that arcade challenge to the PVP. A paid player will utterly destroy free players because of the limits you've chosen for skill points. Paid players in faction/pirate frigates will be able to destroy these players effortlessly.

I would instead encourage the following model for free to play:
- Skill training any skill becomes free to play
- Add "entitlements" to ships and modules based on your sub level and based on microtransaction purchases.
- Create a rotation of ship entitlements for free players (this requires timed entitlements like ship skins). T1 frigates, destroyers, and cruisers can all be permanently free (suits my play style fine. :P)
- Don't create entitlements for faction/T2 versions of modules - do it at the base module level.

I'm unsure how to handle the industry side of things, but I'm sure the industry people have some ideas that are a bit more reasonable than "don't". Thanks for listening.

-Liang

Ed: BTW, you're making a change big enough to the nature of the game that you may want to consider ending suicide ganking entirely.

Killboards have meaning?

You can train frigate skills, sure. But you can only train a few skills to level 5. So a frigate flying alpha is always less powerful than a well trained omega on the same ship.