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I think a couple of no brainers should be limiting to one alpha account online, like trials and lock safety to green or yellow to prevent high sec ganking abuse.

Dude, read the blog. Any skills that go beyond the Alpha list will be blocked and any modules that require those skills will go offline. So no, you can't light a cyno on a free account (thank god).

Wait, now I'm curious, if people are leaving Eve because they can't pay for it, what exactly is the purpose of wanting to keep people playing that have no money to give to you?

Possible abuses;
- free mission pullers / lvl 4 burner farmers you don't need faction fitted frigate to kill a burner 5 T1 frigates will also manage to do it
- FW farming, is also T1 frigates and stabs
- eyes/scouting/tackling , nothing like 50 accounts each 3 characters that are logged in some region, login and look to something for tackle in specific system
- spam scamming - it is part of eve, but can this people can be locked out from local chat in major trade hubs?
- gate camp dps/miners - example you can assign vexor drones to a single tackler on a gate - eve is about alt game play
- citadel guners
- multiple character abuse, 3x5mil sp characters - maybe only first character in account can be only used in alpha state.
- account creation/skill training/character trading
1.make account
2.train 1 character to 5mil sp
3.train 2nd character to 5mil sp
4.train 3rd character to 5mil sp
5.start paying/using account or sell 3x5mil skill starter characters
- free sp farming (example, train alt to 7mil sp - extract 2mil of your basic skills - go alfa, train missing basic skills)
- free trading - create char that have max orders, create maximum number of buy/sell orders, go alfa and adjust them till you decide that it is time to create new ones.
- Implants, subscribe for 1 month, and put in your clones best implants, and use the bonuses after they expire. Full Slave/crystal or any similar set is a game changer.


Possible improvements
- multi race frigate skills, maybe pirate versions will be used more, simply lock it at lvl 4
- single home station - you will be podded always to you higsec school station.
- increasing the extraction threshold to 10 milion SP - without this people will just do thousands of new extraction farm characters - as they simply will be for free


For sake of EVE and what it is - don't limit PVP on this accounts in any way.

to be continued

Stuff it buddy. I had my fill of CSM when you guys pushed to get watch list status destroyed and murdered the true merc profession.

This is going to be zerg central.

Those are the ones you want, actually. They lurk reddit the hardest and hype is good.

On behalf of everyone else who wants to know...

Will Alphas be able to post outside of NCQA?

Thank you.

Pls, decide to restrict multiboxing with alfa clones, because if u will not do this, there will be 255 man fleets of suicide toraxes in t1 fit. Guys are planning already ^^

looking at it

it looks like a more limited trial, but without the time limit

they can't train battlecruiser like they could in the trial. but are limited to frigates, destroyers, and cruisers


what i'm concerned about is tech 1 or tech 2.
if they limited to tech 1, fair enough.

if they allowed tech 2......oh god the stealth bomber spam plz no nononononoononono.




overall its more appealing to myself personally (if i was just joining the game now) because no time limit so i can hop on whenever in a venture or rifter. or kestrel

and no time limit means they have all the time they need to earn enough isk to buy plex.




but considering i'm in love with stealth bombers, confessors, Hurricanes, and rokhs. i'm going to continue to subscribe. cause i can't play without my hurricane

It's not that, it's that CCP does understand that (as nonsensical it is to me and others), that whole "50 cents per day for 23.5 hours of game time" thing is a psycological barrier to some people.

The idea is to let those people have some bit of EVE for 'free' and then depend on other psycological pressures to get them to go beyond that ("I got blown up because I can't use tech2, I'm going to sub and fit tech2 stuff and win!!!").

So far so good, i don't really have a problem with that though I think it's naive thinking. The Sub isn't a big barrier, lack of thempark style pve and EVE non-consensual pvp natures are WAY bigger barriers to most players, and if CCP touches those they will be admitting that the EVE experiment is a failure.

But, unless CCp rethinks some things about this 'feature', they are going to run smack dab into a version of "Malcanis' law" where old players are going to use the feature to improve their experience while new players end up quitting anyways, just like it happened every other time someone at CCP uttered the words "this will help new players".