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Remove Industry from alphas,

1 - install eve on my gf`s lappy
2- stock up on minerals and researched blueprints
3- make alphas and train indy
4-trade bps and minerals to alphas
5-after a few months log back on alphas trade all the things back to main

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I think I feel a song coming on!

Nevermind...it was just gas.

Neither caldari nor minmatar can even use medium drones. This mainly hurts them with the gnosis (the best ship alphas can fly) I don't mind whether they reduce the amarr or gallente or boost the caldari, but until they do the races have a substantial imbalance.

rabble rabble

oh wait. wrong thread

Unless something has changed, the Devblog does not include PI skills.

I like the idea of ftp however my first tought was now i can have a free scout and pi , wich seems to be the main problem with this model.

Suggestion

State sponsored capsuleers.

Following the same logic of the racial skills, the objective is to narrow down the alpha clone functionality within the game.

example
you create a new industrial character, wich will be sent to an industrial npc corp of the empire you choose, and indy alpha character will have a slower skill progression than an omega one, but it could also have a much slower progression on skills that are not necessary for industrial pourposes, the speed will be faster or slower according to how necessary they are for the chosen profession, and the difference will increase the more the alpha character specialices in its chosen profession, maybe even to the point of locking them out of some skills.

The skills available to train for the alpha clones could be tied to the an npc corporation, and only available when the standings are reached, this will not matter to someone playing the character on the job they choose, but will force anyone else to grind for the character skills.

There could be also tax and services walls between empires following the same logic, so if you are gallente you will pay the same as an omega clone in gallente space, but taxes will be higher depending on standings between your chosen character race and other factions, and no way to change this by doing missions, this will localize alpha clones to their chosen empire and eventualy npc corp in any profession, making them an npc sponsored capsuleer, like a cold faction warfare.

As the character progresses it will become more difficult to multirole and more specialized characters will be more difficult to get since they cannot be obtained afk, it might even allow for free characters to train for anything they want, within a narow path.

Alpha clones could get penalties for going against the npc faction they belong to, like loosing the skill funtionality, they could also join player corps but only if standings allow it.

Alpha clones cannot be bought.

P.s.- Add pirate factions to faction warfare and wis.

Spend 1-2 months as Omega. First month on a referral is free effectively since you get matching game time on your main account. You train PI skills during that time. Then you drop back to Alpha status having your PI up & running. Since they haven't answered if they can actually stop an alpha using PI it's already trained and set up it's possible that you could have free alpha PI alts using this method.

I applaud your decision to add alpha state to the game for some sort of Free to Play to the game. However I do have 1 concern with this.

I feel that the limitations may be too restrictive to be profitable for CCP and all around advantageous for the normal f2p gamer.

So while I understand CCP's approach to getting new and returning players back into the game and the goal is for a full subscription.

While this is a solid premise at the end of the day it would be more profitable to set in place a hard limitation to 1 Alpha account per Hardware Mac address, similar to what DayBreakGames did for their TrueBox servers where 1 Machine can only run 1 Client per connection, however multiple machines could be used. This would prevent free accounts from multi boxing and farming,

However I believe the ability for free accounts to reach a state of income where they can PLEX their account would increase the number of PLEX purchased thus increasing the overall income benefit of going F2P model. I am hugely against micro-purchases as I am sure the entire eve community is.

I believe that the ability to fly Mining Barges and use tech 1 strip miners would be sufficient income capability for players to farm up to earn a plex and utilizing a software similar to the TrueBox I mentioned earlier which blocks multiple accounts from running based on Machine Media Access Control address (MAC) would prevent this system from being exploited.

"Gone" won't quite mean what it used to.
There was one guy in a certain other game who used to be on the top of what passed for killboards. One day, someone stepped on a third rail in the off-topic forum. He got squelched for something, think it had to do with stepping on a locally sensitive political topic.

He then went to another forum with his alts and tried to get the devs to pardon his main. He was gone, and so were all his alts.
Well, not quite. The next day, there was a day-one newbie doing exactly the same thing in exactly the same forum, with exactly the same posting style. It was obvious the character wasn't being used to play the game, because in-game channels could look.
Soapboxing all day about politics tends to make you a few "fans" with people who don't like what you have to say. Leaving that guy there cost the community of that game a few people.
If we have to give CCP payment information to play the game, "banned" has a lot more teeth to it. If we don't, well... can't say you didn't know.

By locked it means if your skills are higher then what the Alpha state allows then it will locked out the parts that are over the Alpha cap and you wont get any bonuses from anything above the cap, I mean what is there to explain its pretty self explanatory