There might be a thing or two missing from here but this should be most of it:

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Trial_account_limitations

Working as intended. Giving you an indy ship at the end of the tutorial mission serves a few purposes. It alerts brand new players to the existence of industrials...an entire class of ship they may not have realized even existed.

To a brand new player, the fact that a ship class exists that is tailor made for hauling, rather than combat, speaks to the fact that EVE can be played in many different ways.

A player who might not be too keen on combat but sees the potential for the economic aspect might be encouraged to subscribe when they see this shiny new industrial ship and picture what they can do with it and how easy it would be to train for.



It worked on me when I was a new player. I subscribed only 4 days after being on my free trial because I wanted to fly those industrials sooner rather than later.

Yeah, but I would wager around 5%, max, would read that, or even see it before signing up!


Trial account characters can not:

Post on the forums

So how come I can then?

Its not really a biggy, as I intend to sign up anyway, but it would be nice if newbies, such as myself, could read this before signing up.

Just wondering, but if you did see it ahead of time would you say "Nah, i guess I won't try EVE after all since I can't train to fly indy ships on the trial... whatever those are"

And NOT give you ships at the end of a storyline tutorial, the Iteron, that you cannot train to fly untill you pay for the full game.

This is probably been gone over 1000s of times before, but nowhere during signup does it say the game is restricted to certain ships!
I also cannot see the point of giving a ship away that you cannot fly until you cough up the readies for the full game,whats the point?

Still would have tried EVE, but at least I wouldn't have bothered buying the Gallente Industrial book for over 200,000 ISK knowing I could not do the training.

That's the whole point of a free trial. To entice you to subscribe to the full game. Be glad the game even has a free trial available, many games don't have demo versions at all.

Uh... You know what it says on the gallente industrial skill book when you look at the description tab:

"Skill at operating Gallente industrial ships. Can not be trained on Trial Accounts."

You can see that without buying it.

In fact that little piece of info is tagged to thousands of skill books.

If you dont plan on doing a lot of reading in this game your going to have a lot more complaints like^ this before you sub.

I dont know how many people read before they play but it must be greater the 5%.

Those people who actually do there homework before hand are rewarded greatly by this game.

By the way a lot of people appreciate the depth and complexity of this game because they have to think and research before they act. It isn't straight up complete task receive bacon.

Also you could have put out a cheaper buy order and waited if you didnt want to pay 2oo k for the book

And NOT give you ships at the end of a storyline tutorial, the Iteron, that you cannot train to fly untill you pay for the full game.

This is probably been gone over 1000s of times before, but nowhere during signup does it say the game is restricted to certain ships!
I also cannot see the point of giving a ship away that you cannot fly until you cough up the readies for the full game,whats the point?

Wait, it gives an indy or destroyer now?

When I was new, it only gave out a simple Navitas!