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This here caught my eye when I read the devblog:


After checking the terms of service, harassment of other players in the game is still not allowed. My guess is, this should rather have read "non consensual combat". Still I'd like to ask:

Are there any plans or discussions to re-evaluate suicide ganking or other forms of non consensual combat as harassment?

We can only hope that all of these "GREAT IDEA CCP GIVE US MORE PLAYERS!!!!11" are just dumbasses and not CCP's sockpuppets.

Well, I don't troll the forums very much, just read what's going on from time to time. Like every other player in Eve, my voice is just one of many and may or may not count. However, since going FTP is going to happen (no way they'll cancel it after announcing it) I'll add my little opinions as well.

1. Limit logins as they are with trials now. No Alpha and Omega logged in at the same time on the same IP address.
2. Set safeties to green in highsec for Alphas to prevent a huge increase of highsec ganking. For that matter, you can set ALL safeties to green or yellow while in highsec (gankers flame away lol) . When I started this game back in 2005, there was no ganking in highsec. Never happened. Highsec was meant to be a safe place to practice pve and learn the game. Now, it's more dangerous than null/WH space with way less rewards.
3. Alphas should not be able to buy or use skill injectors or extractors.
4. ItemsAlphas can build should be severely limited so as to not negatively affect the economy now.

Just a few thoughts

Agree with this.

I've been around since Dec 2004 on one bastard character or another off and on... why does the eve community treat each new wave of incoming players like the newest immigrants coming to steal their missions, asteroids, salvage, content, etc... ? It's gotta be real fear of loss and I love it. "There gonna take something away from us!" ****, might as well have hillary and trump debate the "Alphas".

I just don't want to see them abused and think an isk limit is good but only in the form of donations to the Alpha and deny them the ability to sell ships. I love that these starters have decent core skills allowing them to get into things quickly, but think the SP level should be 7.5 mil so they can really get into the hook of training while at work for a few days. We want casual players to become dedicated players. If we lose anything to them, good to have the blood pumping.

Will there be any artificial balancing of how many clones are available for each empire because we might see only a small number of amarr and gallente in favor of caldari and minmatar? Say, 500 alphas for each faction so if the limit is reached on a particular race players will be forced to fill up the empty race's slots an then another 500 slots opened up?

Hopefully, this set of changes coincides with changes to how intel is conducted.

For example, throwaway Alpha alts stationed in every system of a nullsec pipe for dscan and Local's instant intel purposes... seems strategically relevant and enabled by this set of changes.

There will need to be game design changes that not only improve the sophistication of intel gathering in Eve... but also and especially limit the extent to which simply scaling mostly-afk characters will be abused (i.e. wormhole and gate activation sounds come to mind as well... though maybe the burden of flying an alpha alt back out to a given location is enough of a disincentive).

Certain modules like scanning modules (for scanning ship holds) should probably be prohibited on Alphas too... Otherwise, every gate in hisec will be littered with scanning Alpha alts... It's one thing to enable this type of alt play (which is already viable). However, presently, you can run your own intel and link hostile characters together to figure out the appropriate course of action. If scanning (and intel) alts become truly disposable, then that's a problem I think.

Items you can build are already limited by skills.

Alphas should be allowed to use skill injectors, just not extractors (I would limit extractor use to Omega only)

I would like to see trial accounts reshaped as a third clone type, meaning skill restrictions applying to trial accounts use the same mechanism as clone grades. This also opens the avenue to a cheaper subscription that uses trial-account equivalent Beta clones but only pays, say, $5/month. Or an option like ESO Plus where you get a trial-account equivalent Beta clone for a few months and a bunch of Aurum. This means an Alpha player can increase their commitment commensurate with their experience, alpha for free while "learning the ropes" and graduating to beta and so on as they become more comfortable or want more power.

So I guess this would be reintroducing "clone grades" from the bad old days as a limit to the skills that can be trained, rather than the SP preserved at death.

Do you really wanna play the trash hole EVE will become after November?

There's a good game Elite: Dangerous. Let's go there and not deal with all this crap upcoming.

Is there a chance to get contracting 3 on the list, so you can use alpha clones to make a reasonable amount of contracts? I don't see how this would hurt the economy in any way.