The CSM heard about this concept just a couple days ago--basically the same time you are,

The DevBlog specifically states that you CANNOT extract skills from an Alpha Clone!

How many of you are just reading the title and then clicking the Comments thread to scream about things you don't even understand?

EDIT: Okay, I see what you're saying about subscribing them afterwards, but how do you make a profit with that? PLEX cost more than Skill Injectors.

The current barrier to entry in the SP farming trade is the initial 5 mil SP. You extract at 5.5 mil back down to 5 mil, rinse & repeat. Assuming that this change drives SP farming margins to 0, its still worth doing to provide near unlimited Omega alts after the sunk cost for things like PI, Skiff miners, cyno, AFK cloakys - whatever you want

Holy **** you're dumb.

Note he wrote injectors.

And he is slightly incorrect. If you fill up 3 injectors worth of SP you make about as much as a PLEX costs.

The prices of extractors, injectors were speculated to end up close to the cost of a PLEX...and look it is.

So if you are going to create 100 "skillgoop bastards" (which is not free as there is opportunity costs; if setting up 100 accounts is your idea of time well spent...you're pretty pathetic) you'll rarely sub them and log them in and if you did, by the time you are done skilling any profit you might have obtained could very well vanish.

Yeah, exactly where is the error?

BTW, look at what you wrote:

Skill Injectors are going to crash!

But....skill injectors will be profitable enough for you to log in.

Which one is it?

Really? How do you accomplish this magic?

8,760 hours in a year (non-leap year).
8,760/12 = 730 hours for your "average" month.

To get 4 extractors you will have to skill at about 2,740 SP/hour.

Implants? Well, the theoretical max there is 2,700/hour.

You are just short of covering your average monthly sub costs for the second month.

Further, your argument is basically a market timing argument. You'll be able to tell when selling skill injectors is going to be profitable 30 or so days in advance.

In the end, all you'll end up doing is covering your sub costs more or less once you incur that initial $1,495 cost (possibly $2,990) to start the subs.

Edit: And I don't recall the requirements for attribute enhancing implants, can those be trained on an Alpha account? If not, then you'll definitely spend nearly $3,000 on this scheme.

But once you dock you can never undock.

Yes, on average you can pay for your sub, but the problem with averages is that some months you won't and you'll shell out nearly $1500 to keep the game going.

Also claims of mineral prices crashing are highly over wrought as well. Sure it might happen, but considering that mineral prices and the economy were fine back when we had a peak of 50,000 players logged in, I doubt this is going to suddenly change. It might, but those predicting this have absolutely no evidence and are just resorting to absurd claims.

One of the key aspects of this is how many new players will there be as a result of this? 25,000 logged in? Great, we'll go back to where we were about 2-3 years ago. Will this mean economic catastrophe? Don't be so fecking absurd. Back in 2013 the average PCU was 48,000. The average PCU now? 20,000. So all the hystronics about T1 production, minerals and the like are just simply bullshit. Literally bullshit. Lies spewed by people who are ignorant and do not know what they are talking about.

With more players there will also be an increased demand for T1 modules and ships. Therefore, there will also be more demand for minerals. There will also likely be more ships destroyed meaning which is also good for ship, module and mineral demand.

Anyone who thinks more players in game is bad is a complete blinkered moron. The claims of catastrophe are also wildly exaggerated claims based on outlers and non-standard behavior as if it were the norm. Now, could this be bad? Sure it could. But I have yet to see a claim that is not based on histrionics and nonsense.

Please regard the post I just made above. The restrictions are being pondered with the implication to be limited like Trial accounts. This is telling as it is not based on pondering to have them free as Omega accounts.
Neither of this confirms the status of multiboxing Alphas, which is the entire base of argument for some. They argue based on a speculation and throw tantrums based on a speculation and doom the game based on a speculation.
If I haven't heard that before somewhere