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Neuntausend Rens Nursing Home 1139	Posted - 2016.12.01 20:12:16 - [1] - Quote Elenahina wrote: But since CCP likes to make money, it's not going to happen - at least not in the way you envision. There's a very specific reason why Alpha clones are capped by the skill and level, and not by a raw number of skill points - CCP doesn't want everyone trying to PLEX their accounts on the backs of FTP characters. I don't think that's the reason. The reason probably is to keep alphas below the SP extractor threshold. Now, they can't reasonably fit all racial cruiser, frigate and destroyer skills within 5M SP, so were they to allow alphas to train anything up to 5M, we'd end up with a bunch of Alphas who trained minmatar cruiser, medium beam lasers and repair drones, with no way to respec into something sensible. So, it's to keep Alphas below where they can be used to farm SP, but prevent them from training useless crap they can't fix later. Assuming someone found a way to grind a PLEX every month with a free account, it wouldn't be much of a problem, really. Every PLEX bought on the market with ISK has been put there by a player who bought it with Money first. So, even if you finance your account with ISK, every month you play as Omega is a month CCP gets paid. They wouldn't really care who exactly pays them, as long as they get paid at all. That's why it's also not a problem if you for example have all the skills you want already, and decide to finance your account by selling your excess SP training and buying PLEX for it. So in practice, you can currently easily play an Omega without paying a dollar to CCP, just by selling your SP and maybe adding a minimal amount of grind on top of it. CCP still makes money off that, as long as PLEX are involved. If they were to let you play a fully trained account without a subscription or PLEX however, no matter how you pay for those skills, as long as it's a one time payment,they would stop making money off of that account at some point, and that would be really bad, because even vikings need to eat sometimes.

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