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After thinking about this some more, I really think 99.9% of the issues with this idea revolve around people abusing alpha clones to scale alts in ways that haven't been thought out yet.

The way to solve this is to limit the number of alpha accounts belonging to a single human that can be simultaneously logged in to one. The problem here is that people are clever and just using a simple 1 account per PC check isn't sufficient in the days of people having multiple computers and VMs and containers (the real scary one because containers scale much better).

The way to achieve this is really to tie all characters to a human being (name, credit card number, street address, mobile phone number, etc). Make alpha players pay 1 USD/EUR via credit card to verify they are a real person. Make players do mobile phone verification via SMS text messages. Etc, etc, etc.

Then, completely scrap the concept of having multiple accounts. Every human gets exactly 1 account. This new account can have an unlimited number of alpha characters on it (or some large limit that CCP sets for database reasons). The new account also gets the ability to log in a single alpha character (ie 1 simultaneous login). Whenever you purchase a monthly subscription (plex, time card, monthly fee) you get the following: designate 3 characters on your account that are upgraded to omega clone and you get +1 simultaneous logins for omega clones. You can let people remap which characters are omega clones using a timer similar to the attribute remap timer.

Then update the EULA to make it a perma-ban offense for for any human to attempt to have more than 1 Eve online account. The only issue here would be when multiple people in the same household play Eve and in that case there are minors involved so some extra verification is warranted anyway. Also update the EULA to make it a temp ban offense to use alpha clones to circumvent criminal timers or do anything else that you don't want people creating armies of alpha characters for.

If you do this, then you really nip this problem in the bud. NOBODY will attempt to circumvent the 1 account per person problem for fear of getting all their character banned.

...Gnosis...

CCP may have overlooked this hull IF SKILLS ARE THE ONLY LIMITING FACTOR, which would be the obvious and simplest way to implement alpha clones.

Nope. CCP have confirmed that the Gnosis is available for use. Oh, right. It wasn't clarified in this thread, in the dev post, or anywhere on the eveonline.com domain, where it might be easily seen or found by players of EVE Online, the game CCP created. IT WAS CLARIFIED ON REDDIT.

CCP, please. Posting information to Reddit instead of your own bloody site is frustrating and insulting. It's enough of a challenge to sift through multiple threads and dev blogs to put together relevant information. Having to include Reddit in that search (actually, going to Reddit first instead the official site) is just silly. At the very least, cross-post the information to both sites. It won't hurt to put a link in the thread dedicated to the subject (ie., this one) pointing to the question that was answered, either.

but to remove mining frigate, mining, and reprocessing removes the ability for actual new alphas to make isk when they've lost everything. is it possible to lock their mining lasers to not work in 0.0?

3 alts on 3 different computers is fairly easy when they are only scouts. (and you could also train them up on drones and have them assign drones to your main. its a force multiplier. ratting HAVENS in 2-3 min by virtue of 20 drones following your commands. granted they are T1 but you can still faction fit those vexors. once the drones are assigned the otehr accounts requre no input except for monitoring ship hp and drone health levels.

go into wormhole scan down all wh exits pop your alts 1000km off of each hole. you have instant feedback if anyone enters system
same thing that used to be done with cloaky camera alts except its live and they are actually vulnerable since they cant cloak.

I am not sure if this has been asked but will Alpha clones / accounts have full access to the forums or will this be reserved for paid for accounts only?

Dear CCP,

I have a question. I just started playing EVE, with a paid subscription. Will I be given all of those skills for free come November? Or, should I just stop my subscription now, and wait to get them in November?

In case this was not asked: For the char and alts that were trained up from 0 skills on the current subscription plan, will the new free clone skills be reimbursed per char if we've already spent the time and real life money to train them?