EVE General Discussion

not true, you get another friend to play with and enjoy the game
best ship is friendship!

So the reward if the Alpha actually subscribes is pretty big. And this announcement thread in the newbies forum shows a lot of veterans willing to give the Alpha the PLEX or part of the PLEX, as an enticement.

Finally, you can buddy invite your own accounts and get a month or two out of it, but ultimately this is how it's been designed and offered by CCP for YEARS now, and the point of it isn't to give you extra free months, the point is to get more subscribers.

If the rewards are not worth it to you, don't use it.


Edit: Off topic parts have been removed, CCP Phantom

Imagine if recruiting gave PLEX to people that recruit others that don't spend a dime on the game. Wouldn't that be a strange business practice?

Amber,

Ok maybe I went over the top there to prove a point really. It is really not my problem how they solve it. My suggestion is only that the rewards for recruting someone to EVE should be SLIGHLY better...

But people choose to read what they want to....

I may regret it, but I'll try and indulge you before the topic gets locked, assuming you are actually serious:

What's keeping a player from just creating a new account to grab a reward? CCP can technically prohibit it, but they won't have a good way to enforce it. So, all this would accomplish would be that people create a bunch of accounts they never log into to grab a couple of rewards, no matter what those rewards will be, really.

To avoid this, the only one who can technically get something when an active player recruits a new alpha player is the alpha. It cannot be isk or hardware, though, because those could just be transferred. So, players could just recruit themselves, and then transfer whatever the reward is to their main or a third party, again, achieving nothing but a surge in inactive new accounts.

So, a couple of extra skill points for the alpha is about the extent of what can reasonably be done without creating a ridiculously exploitable system. I'll go out on a limb and say about everyone in this thread has figured that out right away, since it's glaringly obvious. You have either not been thinking about this or you are grossly underestimating the average eve players tendency to exploit whatever can be exploited. That's why you are getting a lot of snark and trolling.

Thanks admin...the spamming was annoying. It is going on in many of the threads. Hopefully we can get back on subject now...well actually...its more of a "player suggestion" so maybe it should be moved there

Agreed.

--Concurring Gadget

What problem?

I mind you, this is the question that everyone is actually asking you even with the snarky responses - visible or not.


--Gadget