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Clone states will be the same for all characters on the account. If you subscribe an account by any method, all characters on that account will work just like today. This change will give currently inactive, un-subbed accounts a chance to log in (on any character in the un-subbed account) and see EVE, with reduced abilities.

I hope they limit concurrent alpha clones even though some people may cheat to try to get around it. That is not a reason to just destroy the game by letting hordes of meaningless alpha clones in.

Also unless I missed it, it is still unclear whether this will kill the value of pi for paid accounts. What happens for pi factories already set up by an omega that stops paying and goes alpha clone? Will the factories offline like modules?

And that you can stick where the sun don't shine, You may run 2 a week but for some of us there would be no escape key left on the keyboard ....... keep that blizzard crap outta the game.

One of the things that separates EVE from other games is the single shard shared real time (except tidi) experience we are all subjected to.

In game breaks for cinematics would be jarring to say the least. Making them a part of missions while in station is fine, you are docked up. Making them available when you interact with billboards in space also fine, you take the chance when you disconnect from the other capsuleers around you to watch, your choice.

During game play as an automatic part of a mission or event you are flying I think would not be good.

One final comment from me: in a game that has already alienated those who prefer to play with one account logged in at a time, this is somewhat the final straw.

I feel like this is CCP telling me:

"You really should have n accounts logged in at all times, see, silly! That wormhole over there, you could have scouted that with account number y, and you didn't, so here, get ganked you numbskull! HTFU and install ISBoxer you neanderthal!"

Well personally I don't find this aspect a welcome change at all.

There was a similar problem in a game called Dofus that I played for a long time.

It used to be ok, most like me ended up with a couple of accounts for professions as you were limited to 3 per character.

But then it started getting silly with some guys ending up with 8 accounts for one reason..dungeon runs.

Call it what you want, selfishness/efficiency whatever, but they socialised with nobody then because they just ran them day in day out and sold the high end mats and items they produced.

Ofc a lot started following suit and before you knew it any new players could never get on a dungeon run, even in the lower classed one because everyone had their own team, or 2 guys had 4 characters each so they wouldn't get their runs spoiled by a nub :/

Then another problem crept in somehow, you'd see someone outside the Goball Dungeon and let him join you as you could easily solo it, but then you would get pestered day in day out for more runs until you blocked them and became as anti social as everyone else...

After a long time of this the makers recognised it as an issue and tried to mitigate it with a system similar to our opportunities. But in Dofus you earned points, and as we all know, points make prizes, or in this case companions who would fight alongside you.

They did that and made the dungeons scaling as well so that if you had 2 accounts, you would also have 2 companions and the dungeon npc's would be half of what they would be for a full team of 8, in a turn based game you basically had 4 fighters instead of 2....This was all because guys who couldn't afford 8 accounts could never compete again, plus new guys were basically never going to catch up under the old system and get to run the elite dungeons. Yes you could join a Guild but you still had the same issues.

They also gave a single character the ability to level every profession, just to try and level the playing field a bit.

Did it work, imo nope. I subbed a couple of months ago to see what was happening simply because of the changes in here. To be met by a dying server, strangely with the same old faces who were a big cause of it just standing around moaning about the game and server being dead and the market which was dead, the forums are full of the same complaints as well. There's basically only 2 servers left with any semblance of life in them now, but they too seem to struggle now and then.

Does all this have anything to do with EVE? Not really I suppose, apart from the fact that this isn't the only game that struggles with what to do about multiboxing accounts. It's probably an issue in a lot of these types of games, and no, I don't have an answer.

I applaud your decision to add alpha state to the game for some sort of Free to Play to the game. However I do have 1 concern with this.

I feel that the limitations may be too restrictive to be profitable for CCP and all around advantageous for the normal f2p gamer.

So while I understand CCP's approach to getting new and returning players back into the game and the goal is for a full subscription.

While this is a solid premise at the end of the day it would be more profitable to set in place a hard limitation to 1 Alpha account per Hardware Mac address, similar to what DayBreakGames did for their TrueBox servers where 1 Machine can only run 1 Client per connection, however multiple machines could be used. This would prevent free accounts from multi boxing and farming,

However I believe the ability for free accounts to reach a state of income where they can PLEX their account would increase the number of PLEX purchased thus increasing the overall income benefit of going F2P model. I am hugely against micro-purchases as I am sure the entire eve community is.

I believe that the ability to fly Mining Barges and use tech 1 strip miners would be sufficient income capability for players to farm up to earn a plex and utilizing a software similar to the TrueBox I mentioned earlier which blocks multiple accounts from running based on Machine Media Access Control address (MAC) would prevent this system from being exploited.

Virtual Machines have a hard time running the game and can be blocked by client port restrictions.

And how would that be separated from Omega accounts multi logging?

read the list of allowable skills, they do not have enough indy to be able to plex.