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And what about the beer is that to compliment a fine kebab?

With hot chili sauce, of course...

So Alpha scrubs won't even be able to use small T2 guns? That sounds totally useless then. I think they should be able to use T2 guns of small and possibly medium size. And I say that as someone who will probably never play as an Alpha. As long as I play this game, my accounts will always be paid with money as they have been the past ~7 years. But people with T1 guns can never be competitive in pvp, the one thing that will hook up most people for a serious career in EVE. A player with limited experience trying pvp in T1 fits will most likely fail, and then fail again, and then give up. Allowing small but decently fitted ships is much more likely to give them experiences of success, making them want to play more and also get the bigger and more advanced ships.

I don't think many more people will engage in suicide ganking than before, the limiting resource is time. I'm not interested in ganking and most other players also aren't. Making it easier for me does not make it more likely that I'll do it. Those who are into ganking are already doing it.

So I don't see a huge influx of new actual players who start ganking. But I guess there is the danger that the active gankers that are already out there will be able to do much more damage more easily. So you should limit the number of alpha accounts per actual player... to one. And disallow rapid account recycling. If someone is as dedicated to EVE that they want multiple accounts, they should pay or plex. Alpha gameplay should be for newbies, casuals and returning players who aren't sure yet. With the limitations, playing as an Alpha will not be a tolerable long-term situation for any serious player anyway.

The easiest way to limit accounts would be requiring credit card info. But that would leave some groups of players out in the cold: Minors and many people from third-world countries or in general poor or financially troubled people that don't have a credit card and, being poor, would be the likeliest users of Alpha gameplay. So it would be preferable to find another way players can reliably authenticate themselves.

Because it is too easy to avoid this restriction. There are many ways. :)

Trial limitations can be circumvented a number of ways, none of which I will list. And by making alphas work like trials you will be preventing most of the player base that cannot afford subs occasionally the joy of the game. Will that make people pay? Doubtful. Will that make more people give up on the game? Probably. Will it improve the game? It'll will make abuse slightly more annoying, yes, but doubtful in many aspects.

Running alphas and omegas from the same user prevents the alphas from socializing. One could simply pay for one account (in a marauder for example) running level 4s with their alphas sitting in station safely gaining LP and ISK from the kills the marauder is doing. In the same token, alphas won't be able to run with major alliances. So your newbros won't be able to play with you, only other newbros... who will teach them? The person with a laptop googling "how to eve" every 5 minutes when a new 'event' occurs.

The only limitation alphas should have as far as any of these concerns is preventing someone from making 40 toons that are completely free and ruining someone who has less than five accounts' day. For example, a solo mission runner in a shiny ship getting alpha ganked out of his mission by FREE players. Another fine example is a small multiboxing group (Compact players as I like to call them) that are out mining could also have their day ruined. Many other examples should come to mind now, and this is detriment to EVE's existance if they are not addressed.

why do you limit yourself????

why will you allow others to limit you more than you are now?

current the system allow trail account to P >I> which is mining.. should we cut that away?

ccp place the design and the codes... but we are EVE.. we should learn and tell them what we want and not.

EVE is us.

So long as multiple log ins are possible this is going to hurt

Like or dislike alpha clones this statement of yours is totally incorrect.
Just go a couple of jumps away from Jita and you will find untouched belts just before downtime. Go outside Caldari space and you will find buckets of ore. And refining it makes it quite easy to move. It may not be 'ideal' but it's there and easy to access, and still perfectly good.

Apologies in advance if this has already been covered by another post, and sorry I didn't have time to read the full thread.

Does creation of one of these Alpha clone accounts require the customer to hand over a credit card number? Or is it just an email address required?

If it is the latter, is CCP ready for the massive increase in EULA breaking behaviour and "hacking" that is going to occur?

If you need a reference: I recommend you study the original Planetside, which removed the credit card info as a requirement to creating free accounts circa 2006 I believe it was, leading to a great influx of players *and* causing the game to be so full of EULA violations that eventually legitimate players were starting to be forced out.

Just make sure you've done the cost-benefit analysis here CCP, the strain on your GM/Security teams is going to increase like never before if you don't tie these accounts to credit cards.

That is assuming they know the superset of all your accounts, past and future. Yes, they can IP block you, but IP addresses aren't an authenticated address, so those with the knowhow/cash to use a subscription hacking service will be able to play a game of cat and mouse with the infosec team at CCP.

To answer your point that it's already possible to get somewhat anonymised accounts, I was under the impression that GTC sales were stopped some time ago, so this channel of anonymous accounts I believe has already been closed.

My point isn't that the sky is falling (although this is not a change I welcome), my point is I want CCP to be aware of the extra budget their infosec team is undoubtably going to need to deal with this issue. Hopefully CCP being quite an infosec savvy company they already have some plans in place, but I just want to raise awareness on this usually neglected issue.

If the rate at which players are breaking the EULA is so great that your incident response team can not handle them/ban them quickly enough, you have a big problem.