Read the post; Cynosural Field Theory is not on the list of skills allowed to be trained by alpha clones and is in fact listed specifically as a barred skill.

Multiple logins from Omega and Alpha accounts at the same time must be prohibited, and circumventing this must be a bannable offense.

Otherwise I (and I'm sure many others) will just start multiboxing 10 griffins (at a total cost of 2 million isk, so I don't even have to pay any real attention to those clients) in addition to my main in every single fight, and I'm not sure if that's really the gameplay you are looking for. Don't turn this into "who can micromanage the most accounts at the same time", please.

PS: Apart from that, I'm cautiously optimistic. Free multiboxing is my primary issue.

What about FW LP farming? I see people creating tons of free characters to farm FW LP?

I am not convinced its good idea yet. its going to swell ranks of some major alliances and like to silly levels and it will need to be limited to one alpha account online per PC (IP/MAC). Otherwise it you will be able to have ton of free alts and s h i t DPS something with numbers over skill

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?

They are thinking that they are out of ideas. They tried attracting casuals by making eve a more friendly place and that didnt work. They tried dumbing down the game and that didnt work. They forgot what made eve good in the first place, abandoning their base in favor of chasing after wow players. Nothing has worked. They are at the end of the rope. So like all mmo dev's who are out of ideas they throw in the towel and go ftp. Ofc this wont work. FTP attracts casuals - but eve is built around hardcore players - the casuals will spike eve's player count in the short term - but it wont last. It never does. The casuals being casuals they will fade away. A year from now eve will be in a worse place then it is today.

Well it was a good run.

I agree that this wont work because ftp doesnt work. But list of reasons why people dont play eve is flat wrong. Eve is a niche game that catered to hardcore players. It was counter programming to games like wow. When eve embraced its hardcore status it thrived. The more articles that appeared in the news about big fights, assassinations and corp thefts, the more eve grew.

Eve only went off the rails when CCP started chasing casuals. Just as an example - when I first started playing there was a pretty good chance that someone would haze you in a starting player system - they would put up a can saying something like "tactical supplies" waiting for you to take it and when you did they would blap you. Sure it was not sporting - but it gave players a taste of the true eve - while those that didnt like it left, others, htfu and figured out how to survive - those survivors became long term players. Now, ccp has made it so the starter zones are safe bubbles divorced from the real rules of eve. So a starting player does not get to experience being ganked until later in his career - so instead of losing an ibis in a starter zone they loss a faction bs which they bought with plex in a lvl4 mission system. Since they hadnt been hazed early in their career and no one told them about pvp in their tutorial new player experience - they had no idea that they could be ganked and when they lose that faction bs they rage and maybe quit. By making eve starter systems more safe and friendly - all ccp did was make the lessons harder to swallow in the long run.

Will be funny if online doesn't improve after this. Even more funny if it just continues to decline.

Rewards for daily logins next, pl0x.

I'm so happy more people are starting to realize this. It's really not going to change anything that much. We'll just have more people to play with.

Why do you think I've largely keep quiet on the topic.
It's a red herring, a deeply concerning one but far from the deathly shrieking some think it is.

Also might be a faint, to thin the old guard somewhat
(shah,dmc don't go, im right with you on principle but don't become martyr's because ye don't like the the weather forecasts)