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Yeah, as somebody pointed out, not going to be possible.

They've been here for years.

The only question is......why?

lol what?

T2 ships, most T2 mods, Battlecruisers, battleships, faction ships, cloaks, mining in anything more than a Venture, any type of activity in a wormhole above C2 (with the exception of small bits of exploration), Entosis, research, invention, large-scale manufacturing of anything that makes ISK, PI, effective combat scanning, ice mining, anything to do with any type of structure that matters...

I think I've made my point, so I'm just going to stop here.

Don't feel bad, seems most of us missed it too.

I have read the blog and about everything I can get my hands on ATM, however, I also assume that anything that CCP says at this point is FLUID and thus I want my "voice" to remain on the named issues. I may not hate what CCP is doing but I certainly don't trust them to keep their current position.

I have my reasons for all of them, most of the reasons are based on things I can already think in my head on how to abuse.

Idea...

Limit Alpha clones to High and Low security space. Only let the Alpha clones set safety to red if they are in Low Sec. If in High Sec, the safety is set to green/yellow..

I just entertained quite the amusing thought.
...for every unsubscribed cap / supercap / titan pilot waiting for the day to be worth subscribing again,
...for every unsubscribed bittervet unsatisfied with too many gameplay changes,
...for every unsubscribed person disagreeing with the direction of the game,
you have one (or several) Alpha accounts per old eve player who likely has more than enough combat experience to make these maxed out alpha pilots count on t1 ships.
And they could come back. All they have to do is log back in.
There is this gleeful amusement I harbour how CCP keeps talking about new players, about fresh blood, so many other things... but never about how bringing players back they've lost over the years, or have frozen accounts of existing players resurface.

Here is me painting a picture how these capsules will thaw and seed into "low tier" ships, as old blood returns with a vengeance, bite and ruthlessness which New Eden hasn't seen in a while.
You look for new blood, CCP. That's fine, let them come and struggle with an awful NPE. Let those few percent of players managing to overcome the hurdles be welcomed and embedded in the community while the rest gets torn apart.
My eyes rest on a different edge of the horizon, seeing how many of the old blood resurface and what they will be up to.


What I said before. Unless plans are revealed to majorly polish the NPE (which seems to be ), they will open the polished gates decorated with false promises and let players experience the rough truth.

But what's much more bitter is how CCP seems to be unable to do anything for their NPE, as they've solely relied on the community and third party services to do this job for them for too many years. Unless they show wonders in November, I remain sceptical and say they just can't do it any more. Be it lacking experience from other people leaving or be it decisions done in the wrong direction. They're simply unable.
I invite CCP to surprise me and prove me wrong.

Are so few ones remembering how terrible gold sellers and mining bots have been a problem before plex have been introduced? Is this forgotten already? Spam in local and NPC corp was abysmal. "report ISK spammer" right click option was legacy code from right there. It was used plenty. Overnight, it died. CCP did some good job implemented anti-botting and anti-RMT features and they kept on the ball for the longest time. I'd like to pretend they could easily do it again.
Also, why would it be different with Alphas than with Trial accounts? Trial accounts have negligible chat spam restrictions. If RMTs really want to make gold in eve, they would still be trying their hardest and trial account abuse would still be giant.
Alpha clones will not change that. Everything working right now to prevent any and all these practices, will prevent Alpha surges. We might see a little bit more in November, and CCP will monitor and hammer it back again.

And for all that's worth, we don't get the raging foaming "Call of Battlefield" type kiddies. The teens of this type trying at the game do not last the trial period anyway. The younger ones who do enjoy it, stay. Their mindset is completely different. Thus they play different games, like EvE.

I did, which didn't make your statements of supposed encouragement for a doomed idea any less ridiculous. It's still wrong and will remain wrong in regards to Alpha / Trial accounts being used as Candles. Only because they've trained the skill doesn't mean they can use it as Alpha Clone. Because they can't. They never will. And CCP won't allow it. CCP knows well enough how much they would break the game if the'd allow it. Cynosural Field Theory was never trainable on trial accounts to my knowledge, regardless of NPE iteration. For a reason.

How out of touch with reality are you? All these restrictions have been imposed on trial accounts for the longest of times until the recent changes a few months ago, though I'd like to see a newbro going anywhere with a battleship in less than 14 / 30 days.

Seriously. Folks frothing at the mouth how bad Alpha players will have it starting as if trial accounts never existed. Reality check.

How about writing a support ticket and see where it will lead? There was a time when people's capitals got moved through a ticket because they've been months in "hostile space" if memory serves me correctly.

Ill try to dumb it down for you..

In P2W games they have a system in which free players are no more than sheep...that is they are basically there for P2W players to farm. That intentional mechanic provides content for P2W players and acts as an incentive to "buy in". Eve has no such mechanic because players are protected by concord. There has never been a reason to have such a system in Eve. So a free player in Eve can literally farm for an infinite amount of time and as long as they dont leave high sec be mostly protected from being farmed themselves.


You really should undock more. There are people in Eve that do nothing but mine for 8-12 hours a day for years on end. And there will be players doing every faucet of PVE like that. And Eve players arent even close to what free play will bring in. Your going to see farmers on a whole new level. Farmers that will keep ratting, mining, and running sites like little lemmings despite the obstacles you put in their way.

You think Eve PVERs are bad you havent seen anything yet, Wait till you get a load of the F2P crowd.


For some people mining in high sec is enough. Not everyone requires the same level of entertainment. Just like some people can sit on the front porch for hours and be entertained by the nothingness that happens in front of their house.