Player Features and Ideas Discussion

That would be pretty toxic for the game, since there are a number of skills that are incredibly useful, especially on a disposable character or account, that could be unlocked and abused. If the character gets found out as a spy you can just make another since it's fairly cheap, especially compared to the cost of a subscription.

You could also open up a high multiplier skill and then use the character as a free SP farm for Skill Injectors.

Also if you're unwilling to pay $15 per month then you could sub for a longer time period and pay less, down to around $10 per month if you sub a year at a time.

Lastly, your math is simply wrong. CCP might bring in new customers, but over the long run (and Eve players tend to think long-term) it's much cheaper to unlock skills as you train them rather than paying a monthly fee. For example this character has 264 skills known, almost all of which are outside of what is permitted by the Alpha Clone state. That means that I could pay $264, or I could pay the ~$120 per year that I've paid over the last 8 years to keep the account running. While I might have to front-load a bit, $264 is clearly far less than the ~$960 I've happily paid CCP over the years to play this game.

So, welcome to Eve, this idea is terrible.

My advice, if you're really enjoying Eve then pay for six months, in that time you can easily get your character to a point where you can PLEX your account if you're still playing actively at the end of that time. Heck, if you're a bit clever you could probably earn PLEX while still in an alpha state, though that would take some work and serious thinking on your part about how to go about it.

"Hmm... can't use this new Alpha thing for free cyno alts. That can't be right... TO THE FORUM!"

Why would you suggest that?
That would completely undermine the entire skill system as well as the alpha/omega dichotomy..

Why would anyone ever train a skill again?
What purpose would PLEX have?
Wouldn't this totally replace CCP's monthly revenue with a bunch of flat fees?
What would that do to the game's economy? Character bazaar? Pandemic Legion's network of cyno alts?

All that and we get to enjoy the most cancerous, greedy, monetary system to have ever graced the world of video games.

You want to pay something in a free to play mode?

Just a small example: In order to somewhat fly a Hyena, you need somewhere around 18 unique skills. At 99 cents, you pay more money than a 6 months subscription to be able to use 1 single ship. At 30 Cents, you still look at nearly 4 Euro just to be able to fly 1 ship. Obviously, you need these prerequisite skills for other ships as well so you have to pay additional money to these 18/4 Euro for every ship/module/thing you want to use.
Obviously, since you talk about F2P, there is no permanent unlocking, my dear. Instead, you will have to unlock skills in certain intervals (daily, weekly, monthly) so that CCP can make some money. Congratulations, your system costs you more than even the expensive single month subscription and you can just use 2 or 3 ships. Before you ever post a F2P idea ever again, please just reconsider and use your time more productively by biomassing your characters.