Player Features and Ideas Discussion

no it shouldn't alpha is nothing more than an indefinite trial do not confuse it as more than that.


ever heard beggars can't be choosers?

i have alphas flying with me all the time seem to be having heaps of fun

and yet you can actually do less than a trial could of

What limitations are you talking about? Please elaborate.

Limitations on how many market orders you can have? 3 characters without any account overhead cost (subscription, PLEX) with lets say 30 slots each make 90 slots without any minimal maintenance cost for the account. That's a lot of money that you can make per month. This is nothing new people need, this is something that existing players would exploit.
Not contracts? Same problem as above. 5 contracts or something like that per completely free character makes 15 contracts on a completely free account, which again is something that veterans can exploit way more efficiently for bigger monetary gains than new players. However, if you want to move things around between characters on an account, you can easily do that in citadels with the Deliver To feature.
Gank ships not good enough? From what I know, Thrashers and Vexors are awesome to gank ships.
More industry jobs or mining capabilities? Again, same problems as above.
You can't have more than 10 people in your corp? Judging by this very topic, that is a good idea. If you want to form a bigger corp, you have to show some commitment and invest in the game and in your corp members by actually demonstrating that you want to stay and not just fold everything (and grab everything from the hangars) as soon as something unpleasant hits the fan. Someone who can't demonstrate even a little staying power, which alphas as extended trails clearly can't, should not be able to form something that requires a lot of just this.
Ship performance limitations? Those were put in place because your clone's capacity is that of a slightly above average NPC. The performance of the alpha ships is sufficient for what they are intended to do, not what you would like to do with them. A fully skilled Omen or Stabber can do a lot more things than just "basic gameplay", especially in groups.

What you want is way beyond "basic gameplay", you want the full gameplay experience without any need to upgrade to Omega.

What your "suggestion" would also create are completely free SP farmers unless CCP increases the threshold beyond which you can't extract SP.

Also: a big "told you so". Didn't take long until people weren't satisfied with what they get for free.

No more features for alpha clones ! If you like what you play buy a plex or subscribe ! Thats what the game keeps alive.

-1

Eh.... I still kinda think alpha's should be able to train battlecruiser 3.

Certainly not BS in any capacity ofc.

As it is they can really only do frigs and dessies and gutted cruisers. They should be able to fill out cruisers a bit more, and squeeze by with BC's. Still leaves vast areas of eve to lure for subs, but gives just a bit more flexibility to sink that hook a bit more.

Blah blah, doom and gloom about mass unsubbing, inaccurate statements about massive isk farming with poorly fit BC's and gimped cruisers....


Got it, worthless post is worthless.

As for skill extractors and such, once again, a feature for Omega clones, only, in my mind.

No it isn't. I love how everyone is reading more into what I am suggesting than what is intended. Apparently you didn't read my OP or my responses.

With the above 'limits' you just described, you would be able to fly incursions quite happily, because Alpha's can use faction/deadspace items, and in fact any T2's that you meet the skills for as well. So you could run an incursion alt with no subscription at all. You could take part in high end WH play. You could take part in Null sec doctrine fleets. I can't think of a single area of game play you wouldn't be able to play at the 'top' end of the game with those limits, meaning nearly everyone unsubscribes to save money, and EVE dies.