Do Little wrote:Civilian items are designed for use in the tutorial missions to demonstrate aspects of gameplay without requiring any skill. To the best of my knowledge they won't work outside the tutorial/career missions.
Some of the restrictions on Alpha characters are intended to prevent abuse by experienced players. A skill like advanced industry makes it a bit more attractive for someone like me to create an army of Alpha accounts and put them to work doing research or manufacturing. That would not be good for the game!
Civilian items work fine outside of the Tutorials, they're just not very good.
I kind of have to agree with Vokan here that letting an Alpha train Advanced Industry to 1 wouldn't break anything, and it doesn't make a lot of sense for the Tutorials to give a skill book that an Alpha can't actually use. Either the skill is basic enough that Alphas should be able to train a level or two, or it's not and should be replaced with something else in the Tutorials.
In a career as optimization heavy as industry 3% to job time is... basically nothing. If you can find a way to make bank with an army of manufacturing alphas you deserve a medal, because I'm pretty sure it can't be done.
Donnachadh wrote:There is a short version at the end for those who do not want to read.
No, because slippery slope and where does it end, was the basis for for my initial comments in your post about the Gallente haulers. Your response there was essentially just this one small change because the restriction is unfair and it makes no sense.
Yet here you are back again with another just give us this one small change because it is unfair and it is only a 3% change.
You do realize that the Slippery Slope is a fallacy, and in fact the exact opposite of a reasonable argument, right?
If we do X that does not imply that we're definitely doing X+1, let alone X+Infinity.
At the least he's presented a fairly reasonable argument based on consistency and usability here, and you've provided zero argument against it, you're just implying that it might break something down the line, or that clearly one level of a fairly basic skill that doesn't even impact profit margins is going to lead to cloaking alphas. Somehow.
Just what?