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Zappity
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Posted - 2016.08.31 14:32:59 -
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Didn't see that coming.
T3Ds, cloaking, and cyno are not usable on alpha clones so I don't really see a problem with the concept. More people flying T1 frigs, destroyers and cruisers is good for the game.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.08.31 14:51:30 -
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Elenahina wrote:Winter Archipelago wrote:Will PI set-ups be disabled while on Alpha clones? You can set up two characters with a decent PI set-up in a 30-day paid-for period, so unless planetary colonies are disabled during that time, it's going to be rather overpowered to pay once for a free source of ISK thereafter. I never thought about that. Pay for an account for 90 -sih days to train all three characters, and then make free money forever. PI skills are not included in the alpha list in the devblog.
Zappity's Adventures for a taste of lowsec and nullsec.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.08.31 15:12:04 -
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Gneeznow wrote:what happens if I've x market orders up and my clone reverts to alpha? As it is now the market orders stay up even when I'm not subbed. Ditto for industry jobs.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.08.31 15:28:55 -
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I think you need to restrict red flags to omega. That way lowsec PvP is fine and fun highsec activities (killing MTUs, baiting mission runners) are fine without enabling a flood of gankers.
Either that or put a really tight limit on number of logged in accounts.
Zappity's Adventures for a taste of lowsec and nullsec.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.08.31 17:01:52 -
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Darkwing Fiftytwo wrote:What about limiting system access to high-sec or high/lo-sec?? Is that a good or bad idea? Good idea. Limit them to low and null.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.08.31 17:11:19 -
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Lugia3 wrote:I hope CCP reconsiders locking Alpha Clones into a single race. I quite like it. It gives some meaning (albeit short-lived if you upgrade) to race selection. It also gives the new player another reason to subscribe.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.08.31 17:49:05 -
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Nana Skalski wrote:I dont think it will end well.
CCP, stop until it will be too late. You will not gain money on this. It will not solve problems. It will cause many new ones. I think you probably need to be a little more specific to be useful.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.08.31 18:45:35 -
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Iowa Banshee wrote:Neva Second wrote:In an effort to increase players I think its a great concept, if I hadn't purchased a 6mo subscription out of the gate I would not still be playing years later. Eve takes time to wrap your head around and see how the game differs from other MMO's. Having time to train up some basic skills and experience it without hitting your wallet is a good thing for everyone.
*However: As a bitter vet who uses capitals pretty frequently I would love CCP to reconsider the Cyno skill exclusion. Many players like me have 1-2 accounts with nothing but cyno alts to help move their caps around the board. So with free accounts you could have 30 or 40 Cyno alts logged off in every system in your region. On the bright side hunting capitals would become a thing again ... although much much easier Alpha can't use cyno.
Zappity's Adventures for a taste of lowsec and nullsec.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.08.31 18:51:29 -
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Zockhandra wrote:Q: What happens if my subscription ends while I'm logged in, will I be converted to Alpha in the middle of a fight?
A: In these cases, you will remain an Omega until the next time you log out. We won't ever turn skills off during the middle of a session.
Quote from CCP Announcement
Sorry, But does this mean that if your clone gets turned to alpha, then you cant fly any of the ships you spent 7 years training for? If that is the case, that is an extremely unrewarding system and (personally) ridiculously unfair to your Veteren pilots (who have funded you for more than 10 years).
If you cannot use the skills you have trained after x amount of years, whats the point in paying to aqquire them? Theres no progression there.
Consider a player returning after say a 4 month inactivity. Now they cannot fly their ratting mission battleships and make enough money to buy a plex? Thats super restrictive. At the moment that player can't even log into the game, let alone fly those ships.
Zappity's Adventures for a taste of lowsec and nullsec.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.08.31 20:01:47 -
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CCP Manifest wrote:The NPE is currently set to get an update at the same time. http://reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/50hcpc/welcome_to_free_to_play_eve/d741gzt
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.08.31 21:33:21 -
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I think alphas should be able to fly the Gnosis to give them a taste for larger ships. Availability is limited so I can't see it becoming a major balance issue.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.08.31 22:49:52 -
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Thomas Lot wrote: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.. Why would you keep them out of null? If anything, keep them out of highsec.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.09.01 13:35:37 -
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Grookshank wrote:Please drop the safety idea. It is really a bad one. An army of free alts is not a high-sec problem; it is a general problem in all areas of space.
There should be a limit on only being able to log in one alpha and no alpha and omega together like on trial accounts. I have come around to this way of thinking. Red safety gameplay is one of the unique features of eve and new players should be allowed to try it. Just limit concurrent alpha account logins.
Zappity's Adventures for a taste of lowsec and nullsec.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.09.01 13:50:40 -
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DeMichael Crimson wrote:I can't believe I went through and read 42 pages, liked a bunch of the replies and quoted those that mirrored my own feelings about this topic which is basically NO, NO, NO.
Maybe I'm mistaken but for some reason I seem to remember years and years ago CCP saying quite a few times that this game would never be Free to Play or Pay to Win.
Within my 8+ years of playing this game, I've seen way too many good Dev's get fired and this game has been hurting for it ever since, especially in the last couple of years. Recently it seems the term 'New Content' mainly refers to graphics being redone or needless changes to UI or implementing drastic changes to game mechanics basically placing rules and restrictions on game play, etc.
Trying to portray the topic of this Dev Blog and thread as 'New Content' is an insult since it's actually an announcement about changes to subscription policy, more importantly, it totally goes against the core aspect that this game was founded on. Course the same was said years ago about introducing Micro Transactions into the game.
Anyway, despite all the objections posted in various threads about this topic, CCP will do what they want. I won't log into the game as much as I use to do but I'll definitely keep this account subbed so my character can continue training skills. I hope CCP will soon see the folly of their ways, come back to their senses and get back to releasing game expansions that produce excellent game content. That is what gains paid subscriptions. Having that content be bug free and not break any existing content is what keeps paid subscriptions.
If not, at least I'll be able to say I was there when Eve was real.
DMC Why don't you wait for your dire prognostications to come true before quitting?
The subscription model had undoubtedly been hindering EVE's growth in recent years. The market had changed and people are much more willing to spend money for spending isk than a subscription.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2016.09.01 20:04:02 -
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Daylan Vokan wrote:Liang Nuren wrote:Andrea Cemenotar wrote: [if gaming press was even remotely as decent nowaday as it used to in the past, the titles would be "EvE Online removes time limit from trial accounts"]
No, that's actually on CCP. They spent a lot of time talking about playing Eve for free, not about removing time limits on trial accounts or buffing trial accounts. Can't blame the gaming press for that one - a cursory listen to Seagull's video and read of the blog is definitely making everyone (both here and in the gaming media) use the words free to play. It's almost like they wanted to see the media boost but didn't want to actually use the words. -Liang Maybe you ought to listen to what seagull actually said, We would like to introduce a new feature to eve that allows both old and new players to take part in eve for free. Without messing with the base model that eve always has been a subscription model game we want everyone to be able to play and with this we have developed Clone States. Nowhere in the video or Blog does it infer that the game is free but that they have introduced a new feature Alpha state with all its blurb that allows free play and can be upgraded. Come now, it is a F2P move and is rightly being interpreted as such by the gaming media and players of other games. Sure, there are variations on the theme but the key point of being able to play for free means this is a free to play transition.
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