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Scialt
Universal Sanitation Corporation
68
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Posted - 2017.03.29 13:53:09 -
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As others have pointed out... you can buy game time as an omega using currency earned in game. Someone is paying for that time (to buy the plex)... but that doesn't have to be you.
My advice.... play as an alpha until you reach the point where you feel like you're stalled. You have all the skills you think you need trained that you can train as an alpha to do what you want... but the limitations on training have stopped you.
At that point... decide if you want to continue. If you do... buy a 3 month subscription (40 dollars... or less with a deal).
Switch training to PI IMMEDIATELY (for your main and then for two alts). Read up on how to set up low effort PI planets and do so in a low-sec area with very little activity that you can get into high sec quickly (there are pockets relatively near trade hubs).
Once you get those set up... 3 toons with that PI should get you at least 300 million isk a month with maybe a couple of hours worth of effort (after the initial setup... which is annoying and time consuming). Start building up your isk reserves for when your paid time ends.
You should be able to bring in the difference in isk needed each month without too much effort after that.
You can do it without the 3-month sub as well... just save up the 3-4 billion you need to buy three plexes. But it's a bit harder since you'll be emptying much of your wallet to start your initial omega period... and it takes isk to make isk. |
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
10656
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Posted - 2017.03.29 14:20:24 -
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Nana Skalski wrote:Has anybody made enough ISK for a PLEX yet, playing alpha account? If by anybody, you include character traders, then yes.
Mr Epeen
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. You just saved one of them by typing 'u' instead of 'you'.-á Congratulations, dumbass!
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Jacques d'Orleans
3042
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Posted - 2017.03.29 15:23:42 -
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Arch Osis wrote:So I have played Eve in the past for a couple years and decided to try this game out again. In my short time I have done a bit of faction warfare, wormhole living, lowsec combat sites, and more. I just have to say that everywhere I go, absolutely sucks as being an alpha account. This game handcuffs the alphas beyond belief. This is the most pay to win game I have ever played. I cannt do anything efficiently...This game is basically telling me "F You, go solo lvl 3's in your cruiser".
I am very close to quitting this game.
Miner calm down! How about trying to find a corp and try to stay in it for longer than a few hours/days? Somehow I sense a very very special snowflake.
Otoh, don't let the door hit you on your way out.
Breakfast is the most important drink of the day.
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Kathern Aurilen
216
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Posted - 2017.03.29 15:25:25 -
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Arch Osis wrote:So I have played Eve in the past for a couple years and decided to try this game out again. In my short time I have done a bit of faction warfare, wormhole living, lowsec combat sites, and more. I just have to say that everywhere I go, absolutely sucks as being an alpha account. This game handcuffs the alphas beyond belief. This is the most pay to win game I have ever played. I cannt do anything efficiently...This game is basically telling me "F You, go solo lvl 3's in your cruiser".
I am very close to quitting this game. .... I'm sorry you feel that way. Most decent games don't even let you play at all if you aren't helping their bottom line. There has to be something to incourage you to pay a sub or buy a plex, and if it's just ship and skill limitations... That's not too bad at all. It's not like you can only have noob ships and that's it. I would love nothing more than than sit in my orca or a battleship or titian for free.
I'm a alpha and have been for 54 days. I went alpha for a while till I can have time to really play like I want, and catch up on some of my lackluster half hazard skill training I always have done, max out all the alpha I can do, then later sub and catch up the rest.
I love my crusers and frigs they are all I need for the time being, plus very cheap. I've learned more being alpha than the year I had subbing before I took a break back in the day.
If you feel that free isn't good enough I don't know how to help you.
No cuts, no butts, no coconuts!
Forum alt, unskilled in the ways of pewpew!
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Kathern Aurilen
217
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Posted - 2017.03.29 15:39:05 -
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Mortlake wrote:Arch Osis wrote:So I have played Eve in the past for a couple years and decided to try this game out again. In my short time I have done a bit of faction warfare, wormhole living, lowsec combat sites, and more. I just have to say that everywhere I go, absolutely sucks as being an alpha account. This game handcuffs the alphas beyond belief. This is the most pay to win game I have ever played. I cannt do anything efficiently...This game is basically telling me "F You, go solo lvl 3's in your cruiser".
I am very close to quitting this game. I too walk into stores, get free samples, use them and love them and then feel entitled to a whole bottle but refuse to pay and subsequently brand the product and the retailer as flawed for not submitting to my demands. When I go into car lot and ask to take the 2011 Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale Novitec Tridente- $400,000. ... a car I can't afford if I 20 years of my paychecks in my hand when I walked in.
And ask if I can take this car for an unlimited test drive... I storm out feeling cheated that I couldn't have a car for free that I could have never ever afforded in the first place. WTH lol
No cuts, no butts, no coconuts!
Forum alt, unskilled in the ways of pewpew!
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Kathern Aurilen
217
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Posted - 2017.03.29 15:46:06 -
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Lan Wang wrote:ive paid a lot of money to this game and haven't yet won anything, what do fc? ... Neither have I Now that u mention it. DUHDUH DAH!
I smell class action lawsuit.
No cuts, no butts, no coconuts!
Forum alt, unskilled in the ways of pewpew!
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Jinn McKellin
Templis Training Academy Templis CALSF
48
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Posted - 2017.03.29 15:53:49 -
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-Waves bye bye- |
Kathern Aurilen
217
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Posted - 2017.03.29 15:54:05 -
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Nana Skalski wrote:Has anybody made enough ISK for a PLEX yet, playing alpha account? i did that once. If I wanted to, as an alpha, I could easily plex running small sites and mining high sec in around 45 days, if I really lean on it.
Right now, easy time laid back. When I get to play a little I can. No probs.
No cuts, no butts, no coconuts!
Forum alt, unskilled in the ways of pewpew!
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Ravnik
Infinate Horizon
13365
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Posted - 2017.03.29 16:25:32 -
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Dear CCP,
I have been playing on and off for 13 years and paying good money for this game. Recently i have been playing Alpha i think it is outrageous that I cant fly all my shiney toys that I have aquired over the years......hmmmm hang on, thats probably a good thing actually. If i cant fly them, then I wont lose them!!!!
Alpha ftw
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly..........
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Yebo Lakatosh
KarmaFleet Goonswarm Federation
140
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Posted - 2017.03.29 17:09:03 -
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Nana Skalski wrote:Has anybody made enough ISK for a PLEX yet, playing alpha account? I was a PLEX owning alpha for 3-4 weeks if that counts. I felt that I have more to learn in my 'trial' period, and I could focus on that better without the pressure of a ticking clock and an urge to grind.
They say Alpha clones are only for trying stuff. I say it's just the Hard Mode.
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Cherry Sulphate
ojingo
50
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Posted - 2017.03.29 17:22:20 -
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Arch Osis wrote:This game is basically telling me "F You, go solo lvl 3's in your cruiser".
hi mate, i am also telling you "F You, go solo lvl 3's in your cruiser". |
Keno Skir
1446
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Posted - 2017.03.29 18:15:46 -
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Arch Osis wrote:So I have played Eve in the past for a couple years and decided to try this game out again. In my short time I have done a bit of faction warfare, wormhole living, lowsec combat sites, and more. I just have to say that everywhere I go, absolutely sucks as being an alpha account. This game handcuffs the alphas beyond belief. This is the most pay to win game I have ever played. I cannt do anything efficiently...This game is basically telling me "F You, go solo lvl 3's in your cruiser".
I am very close to quitting this game.
Whatever mate. Last night i spent an hour watching a rank new player solo a C1 sleeper combat site in a 40dps Tristan. It took a while, and i even offered assistance but was turned down and so just watched from my perch. Took her about an hour and at the end i was able to question her a little more. I asked how much ISK would make it worth while for her personally? I was told it didn;t really matter it was her first time out in wormhole space so she would be happy if she made it out with her pod in one piece.
In the end i helped her salvage because she wasn't aware that salvage can be the bulk of income from wormhole sites, she was more than happy with the blue loot she said. Her Tristan and fit apparently was worth under 2 Million ISK in total, meaning that when she eventually finished the site she had payed for her wormhole site running ship 15-20 times over.
This player is an Alpha Clone, and she is playing EvE correctly. Out flying by the skin of her teeth using actual skills to make up for not having many SP skills trained yet. She had read about sig tanking online and was using the concept to great effect against some of the fastest and best tracking NPC in the game and WINNING.. slowly...
OP - It looks silly to make out like things are impossible that other Alphas are doing fine literally as you speak. Why are you grinding LvL3's when you could be playing for dank wormhole loot?
Answer - Because you didn't bother to see if it could be done, you just complained instead. That is THE ONLY DIFFERENCE between you and the Alphas out having a great time.
<Gùï> 250,000 Bonus SP when you start an Alpha Clone HERE <Gùï>
<Gùï> Contact me regarding my trusted Alliance Creation Service <Gùï>
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Keno Skir
1446
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Posted - 2017.03.29 18:25:56 -
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Nana Skalski wrote:Has anybody made enough ISK for a PLEX yet, playing alpha account?
Yeah loads of times over actually. Then again i'm coming at it from years of EvE experience. That said several of the Alphas i mentor are plexing at least one account fairly successfully, some are now plexing several.
<Gùï> 250,000 Bonus SP when you start an Alpha Clone HERE <Gùï>
<Gùï> Contact me regarding my trusted Alliance Creation Service <Gùï>
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Elenahina
Agony Unleashed Agony Empire
1638
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Posted - 2017.03.29 19:42:31 -
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Keno Skir wrote:
Whatever mate. Last night i spent an hour watching a rank new player solo a C1 sleeper combat site in a 40dps Tristan. It took a while, and i even offered assistance but was turned down and so just watched from my perch. Took her about an hour and at the end i was able to question her a little more. I asked how much ISK would make it worth while for her personally? I was told it didn;t really matter it was her first time out in wormhole space so she would be happy if she made it out with her pod in one piece.
In the end i helped her salvage because she wasn't aware that salvage can be the bulk of income from wormhole sites, she was more than happy with the blue loot she said. Her Tristan and fit apparently was worth under 2 Million ISK in total, meaning that when she eventually finished the site she had payed for her wormhole site running ship 15-20 times over.
This player is an Alpha Clone, and she is playing EvE correctly. Out flying by the skin of her teeth using actual skills to make up for not having many SP skills trained yet. She had read about sig tanking online and was using the concept to great effect against some of the fastest and best tracking NPC in the game and WINNING.. slowly...
That right there is how you win Eve. You do what you want, and you do it your way, and you tell the rest of the cluster to kiss your ass.
Eve is like an addiction; you can't quit it until it quits you.
Also, iderno
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Yebo Lakatosh
KarmaFleet Goonswarm Federation
140
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Posted - 2017.03.29 19:47:41 -
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Elenahina wrote:That right there is how you win Eve. You do what you want, and you do it your way, and you tell the rest of the cluster to kiss your ass. Thought I should tell the rest of the cluster that they should do it my way, for I am right and they are wrong.
Seems to work for many.
They say Alpha clones are only for trying stuff. I say it's just the Hard Mode.
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
4985
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Posted - 2017.03.30 02:06:05 -
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Yeah. For the holy love of Eve. Tonight I tried to log into my Alpha account, just to talk with some new joiners and hear what they're thinking. It's a strange game you know, but best there is. So checking in with new guys (and letting some of them viciously whip around on you, like stepped on slepping reptile Gaboon viper) shouldn't be so bad. One of us! 'Doctor, you got it!' -Sid Phillips
But, err--- Why is my Alpha account now not loggable? I never did anything with it except hang in recent joiners Local chat, and talked to new guys and did 1mil isk quizzes, just to keep it going. It turns out that 1mil isk is a lot, if you're new and jamming for isk and got interested in the game.
I want to be an intro to Eve/mentor guy. All kinds of good dudes or baby vipers out there, fired up and ready to join. Why I can log in as Omega, but not hang with Alphas where we hang?
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Chopper Rollins
Far Beyond Triggered
1805
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Posted - 2017.03.30 02:55:47 -
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Arch Osis wrote:...This is the most pay to win game I have ever played.... I am very close to quitting this game.
You, sir, are confused. EvE is 'pay to PLAY' with the option of 'free to TRY'.
Goggles. Making me look good. Making you look good.
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Mephiztopheleze
Laphroaig Inc.
1264
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Posted - 2017.03.30 04:05:02 -
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the ONLY things an Alpha cannot participate in is a fleet that's taking a covert jump bridge or lighting the cyno to drop a fleet in. that's IT.
Alpha's can participate in pretty much everything else EVE has to offer. For a 'free-to-play' account, that's pretty damn good really.
Occasional Resident Newbie Correspondent for TMC: http://themittani.com/search/site/mephiztopheleze
This is my Forum Main. My Combat Alt is sambo Inkura
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Djsaeu
Xx-illuminati-xX
55
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Posted - 2017.03.30 09:54:38 -
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Can I have your stuff?
Did not see that in there yet, now it feels like a real thread. |
Yebo Lakatosh
KarmaFleet Goonswarm Federation
144
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Posted - 2017.03.30 10:26:14 -
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Djsaeu wrote:Can I have your stuff?
Did not see that in there yet, now it feels like a real thread. Almost correct:
Tuttomenui II wrote:Can I have your ISK and Stuff. You wont need it when you quit.
They say Alpha clones are only for trying stuff. I say it's just the Hard Mode.
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Another Posting Alt
Zerious Fricken Biziness
243
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Posted - 2017.03.30 10:29:48 -
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I think the Alpha-Omega system is a great success. It gives more people the opportunity to try lots of gameplay for free, then filters out the self important, lazy and presumptuous. Some of whom will post their dissatisfaction for our entertainment. |
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