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Fuujin
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Posted - 2006.09.23 02:28:00 -
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 Originally by: Resolve
Originally by: Brutor Shaun
If CCP really want to make this a 'team game', ban trial accounts from > 0.5 completely.
You want a scout? Get a corp mate to scout for you.
So when a real newb/prospective customer undocks and tries the tutorial, they get podded and discouraged in the first 10 mins after undocking? It's a good way to prevent new subscribers for sure.
I imagine he meant < 0.5 completely. I think low sec space is a huge part of the game so cutting a person off from it entirely wouldn't be the way to go, still having access to a small selection of systems would be nice, not that a trial account can do much there but still.
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Fuujin
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Posted - 2006.09.23 02:35:00 -
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Originally by: Alekseyev Karrde
Just make it so that either one account can be logged in at a time or, if you want to get really serious, one IP logged in at a time.
This wouldn't work since there are many people that own several accounts. That's fine, it's the disposable trial account alts that are tiresome.
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Fuujin
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Posted - 2006.09.23 07:31:00 -
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Originally by: Nerf Caldari
No. No. No no no no no.
When I was quitting EQ2, I was looking at 2 games -- Eve (which I had heard about while on vacation that summer) and WoW (which a few of my friends were starting at the time). Eve had (at that point) a completely unrestricted, free, two week trial. I started then and I've never looked back.
When you go around limiting trial accounts, you come off looking cheap. "Oh, we don't want to waste our resources on you because you're not paying us". **** that. Personally, I was rather sad to see the trial account restrictions go on with RMR. It just gives off a horrible impression to newbies, and looks much too much like Runescape or some such to me. "You're not paying enough for your ship to go there" is just lame, IMHO, much like charging for expansions.
The EVE trial is definetly restircted, and should be more so. They can still portray the game as it is while limiting the damage done to the paying player base. I'm all for new players through trial accounts but a line needs to be drawn somewhere.
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Fuujin
Hadean Drive Yards
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Posted - 2006.09.23 23:12:00 -
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Originally by: FireFoxx80
Doesn't work. I still have two spare slots on my account i can use for disposable alts.
You miss the point, those aren't so bad since you have to log out of your main and onto the alt to scout around. You cant have 2 instances of EVE logged into the same account so at most you're still only using one. With a trial account alt however you can have more then 1 instance of EVE running, having the alt scout systems at the same time as your main.
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