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Terminal Insanity
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#1 - 2011-09-18 02:17:26 UTC
Open the game up on an extremely limited basis, no FW, No Incursions, etc. they're free to play with no time restrictions.

PLEX would be the highest level Pilot Licence, where you'd gain all full account privledges.
Sub accounts, could include a Frigate Licence, Cruiser Licence, etc. Maybe spilt it based on Tech levels as well? with increasingly higher levels of payment for extra features.

This would open up eve to a huge audience of players who might enjoy eve but havent really gotten hooked yet. It also increases the general population of eve, more market activity, more targets, more explosions, more community.

Heavier restrictions could be applied, such as lesser, or NO concord response (lol) for unpaid accounts. Can recieve, but cant send isk, contracts, etc. Agent levels will be restricted. high end ores will be too hard to mine with your limited experience and shotty tech1 equipment., and grav/mag/etc sites will be unfindable to unpaid accounts. Wallet balance restrictions. No corp contracting. Highsec restricted? maximum fleet size of 1 squad? or NO fleet at all? etc.

The idea is to give just enough for people to hang out and form communities and interact, for free, simply to increase the general population of eve, give us more people to recruit from (who would probably be forced to upgrade their accounts to join proper 0.0 fleets etc). Maybe we could pay for their accounts too, when an alliance needs more people for a major upcoming fight, they could PLEX a few f2p corpmates to join the battle

It seems many other mmo's are turning to free2play model, i figured i'd suggest a method that might work to keep eve in the future =P Would love to hear other people's suggestions for a Free2Play model that could work for eve.

"War declarations are never officially considered griefing and are not a bannable offense, and it has been repeatedly stated by the developers that the possibility for non-consensual PvP is an intended feature." - CCP
sabre906
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2011-09-18 03:12:37 UTC
Do free accounts earn SP?Cool
Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2011-09-18 03:15:19 UTC
make 100 trial nubs
gank hulks till cant enter highsec.
destroyer? blob lowsec gates

its a bad idea... though F2P would work in most other games, eve it wouldnt.
also with bots, they can run 10000 accounts on 1-2 computers because of modded clients, even in rookie frigs bots can mine boat loads every day and at ( to them ) 100% profit because no cash is used.
Terminal Insanity
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2011-09-18 03:19:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Terminal Insanity
Herping yourDerp wrote:
make 100 trial nubs
gank hulks till cant enter highsec.
destroyer? blob lowsec gates

its a bad idea... though F2P would work in most other games, eve it wouldnt.
also with bots, they can run 10000 accounts on 1-2 computers because of modded clients, even in rookie frigs bots can mine boat loads every day and at ( to them ) 100% profit because no cash is used.


obviously f2p accounts would be limited to one client only. Abusers would be banned. The bots on f2p accounts couldnt transfer their wealth very well, and they wouldnt be able to accumilate wealth and then pay for one month to transfer it out due to a wallet restriction. Mining ores on f2p accounts could also be restricted. The idea here is to give access to the eve universe for free, but keep the f2p accounts disabled enough so they cant greatly effect the game unless they subscribe.

I agree its difficult to implement a f2p model into eve, but i think with certain restrictions placed on the f2p accounts it might be possible. I'm hoping for some interesting ideas that might overcome these problems


sabre906 wrote:
Do free accounts earn SP?Cool

No, or limited to a SP cap in some way (Can train up to 1mil sp?) Once your paid account subscription expires it reverts to a f2p account and you are unable to take advantage of some skills (You wouldnt be able to use your hulk, or battleship anymore, etc)

"War declarations are never officially considered griefing and are not a bannable offense, and it has been repeatedly stated by the developers that the possibility for non-consensual PvP is an intended feature." - CCP
Elindreal
Planetary Interactors
#5 - 2011-09-18 23:10:35 UTC
Basically free to play trial accounts? From the sound of it the restrictions on these accounts are more or less the same as that of a trial account.
Emperor Salazar
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#6 - 2011-09-19 00:55:22 UTC
F2P thread from a guy with a monocle?

Stop posting.
Zloco Crendraven
BALKAN EXPRESS
Shadow Cartel
#7 - 2011-09-19 06:14:20 UTC
it would become pay to win...which is not good at all. Ppl dont like pay to win F2p.

BALEX, bringing piracy on a whole new level.
Nezumiiro Noneko
Alternative Enterprises
#8 - 2011-09-19 09:29:08 UTC
Emperor Salazar wrote:
F2P thread from a guy with a monocle?

Stop posting.




this really. What better to way to show the eve model of isk to buy plex works jsut fine...than by putting an expensive pointless cosmetic mod on a char becasue you can say meh...I got isk to play for a few month free, Ima splurge with the extra isk. Which is cool btw....got the isk to burn by all means.