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Ok, this is the things that I am woried about:

-Alpha accounts should be able to launch only one game instance per computer, point. Also you can't launch Alpha if already have Omega running.

-Alpha players must be limited to public communications, to prevent spamming. So if you want doing ISK doubling in Jita local please keep subscription. Also consider in this case "verified alpha" state for characters that have been subscribed to omega at least onece, "verified alpha" shoud have no restrictions in terms of public communication, but can lose that privilege if eula was violated.

-All "offline" professions should be also limited by some way. PI, T1 blueprints (production, research, copy),R&D agents, market orders, contracts - to prevent abusing by hundreds of alts. Maybe just double or triple industry tax/broker fee for alpha character so running all those jobs/orders would not be economically profitable in large scales, but newbros still be able to try build rifter from veldspar.

-Not shure about hisec gank and FW. If we can keep "one player - one human" nothing bad will happen there.

And the most sweet part - Wormhole Keepers
What if I will create thousands of characters and then logoff every one, in every wh system I can reach, sitting heron and probe launcher, and then at any time later I can login and scan down way to any wh system in universe in couple of minutes.
So I think Alpha clones are very cheap and imperfect - they must visit medical service once a week to keep them alive. If you want to live in wh you could have Astrahus(God bless Upwell) there. If you stay in space more than a week -> eject -> selfdestruct -> welcome to home station. And yes, no ship reimbursement, is it still game about cruel galaxy or what?

Hope I was heard. Thanks.

The devblog already answered this question thoroughly;

"We won’t be moving ships around or cancelling your jobs and orders. Instead, benefits from skills that require Omega state won’t be applied and modules requiring those skills will go offline." <-- thus only the skills apply you are allowed to have as Alpha, in case you even trained them.

In case you logged out in a ship which is Omega skill restricted:
"You will be allowed to fly the ship until the next time you dock, but any ship bonuses or attributes will not gain the benefits of Omega skills." <-- I reckon if you don't want to be locked out of your ship, you just log off in space if you know you're prior to expire. However, given the nature of possible exploits, I wouldn't bet my money this devblog entry will remain. You don't need to dock anywhere to still be viable to do certain shenanigans in the game by simply BEING in a ship, like bumping Machariels or the role bonus of a Combat Recon ship of not being detectable on d-scan. There are still concerns pending requiring CCP's decision.


This ones stands out about the other restrictions you suggest.
Look at a current trial account, which has a few second spam prevention, and tell me why it's so bad for Alphas to be chat restricted but not for trials?
Think about trial versus Alpha and ask yourself, what would you permit a trial that you would not permit an Alpha and vice versa? Because CCP has said how Trial status will not go away. I guess it will be something like Trial having more freedom than Alpha, but less than Omega, and after the period you get set back to Alpha and teased with subscription.

This goes to any and all people by the way who have in all those pages roared something about what Alphas totally are not and never allowed to do, which trial accounts already can do.

Might as well make it 90 days. That seems to be a number CCP likes.

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Epic Arcs can be repeated after 90 days.





DMC

Ive been playing a while aswell, and i honestly think that the changes made to EVE in the last year or so have been some of the best changes theyve done.
Phoebe jump changes are amazing, though i think they should come up with some way of making it easier to just move caps (as in when moving home).
Fozziesov, though far from ideal, imo is much better than domsov. Definitely agree that they could do with spending some more time on it to polish and balance it better, but the core ideas are good.

And overall, EVE already has so much **** in it already. You dont need to add more to help create content. Sometimes balancing or changing stale existing content can do much more for the game.

I'd definitely say it will be worthwhile to stick around and see how the game changes as more random scrubs are added. I for one think it will be a good laugh. Many scrubs will still quit very fast, but some will stay, and join the community.

CCP still have plenty of time to work out any kinks in this new system before releasing it, and due to its nature, im sure they will keep a very close eye on it for balancing even after its out.

I have faith in CCP here.

#dicksOutForHarambe

ive read this, and thought long and hard about how I want to respond to this

EVE has been unique in this aspect of sand box shared single shard universe

I honestly think that the free to play mode was just one more nail in the coffin for the decline of the online game EverQuest.

I think this will be bad for EVE as well, for too many reasons, many of which have already been listed previously

If I understand the goal of this, its to attract more players with the chance to mess around in the game, try it out, interact with other players ect ect. then hopefully upgrade to full paying account

for the safety and health of the game.... I think this is possible, but I would say that all non-subscribing accounts that start out when this goes live... should be restricted to a "pocket universe" and not fully access to the rest of the Eve galaxy... a dozen or so solar systems, with variety of tools and stuff to learn the game.... with a one way wormhole exit out of this "region" to the regular universe of Eve online (drop em off right in Jita )

that is my suggestion, yes it would need some more fine tuneing and expansion of this idea, but that is the basics of it

I foresee too many issues that could be disruptive to the game

old accounts that players start back up come back in a restricted "alpha" mode and no restrictions on locations since they are already in the existing universe.. I'm only suggesting that any new accounts created after this goes live start in the new "pocket universe" and restricted to the pocket universe until they go paying account and able to move into new universe

another thing after some more reading through...disable implants for alpha clones.

In case you didnt know: F2P EVE is available right here, right now. Just extract your skill points at the end of the month and trade injectors for a PLEX. If managed right, you'll get some extra ISK for a bunch of Rifters.

So if there is some smart-ass exploit that becomes available with Alpha-clones, it is also certainly available anyway. In this regard Alpha-clones can not pose a threat.

The security setting to Yellow is a bit unnecessary if the concern about suicide ganking is the reason. You need T2 guns on a Catalyst, for example, to be able to effectively gank anything larger than a Venture most of the time. Mechanically, you're gimped by the lack of T2 mod access on an Alpha account already making the yellow safety unneeded. With the lack of T2 mods, suicide gankers require more coordination between themselves, which is about as emergent of gameplay as the concept of suicide ganking is. Putting a paywall behind being able to play one of EVE's more notable sandbox gameplay aspects seems silly.

There is far more positive/optimistic comments and views on this than you're willing to admit. Mostly because those people actually read the dev blog (reading comprehension is hard for you apparently), and used common sense.

I think we should be aware of the priorities of our content... I don't really see this as the end of the game, due to it's restricted nature. But can we keep motivation up long enough to tolerate these kinds of changes? People may opt to blame current subscription numbers to things like these. And people may tend to agree with them.