Saffoo
Native Freshfood Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2016.10.29 20:55:06 -
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OK i'll copy and pasted to this thread
Greeting all
This may cause huge flames but what the heck here goes :)
OK we have this lovely big ass patch almost upon us with lots of exciting, controversial and game changing stuff, though I only have one real bone in the broth
Alpha's :x
The concept of eve being free to play / unlimited trail play is great though CCP seem to have missed a rather large trick and i'll explain
The current trail system restricts the use of power by the fact that you have to pay, you want the goodies you had pay, this also had the advantage of smoothing the increase and decrease in player numbers and giving stability to the eve universe
OK come November the 15th (yup please make sure this patch works guys :) the handbrake comes off and Alphas will be with us
This is going to be really good for eve in lots of ways, more players trying eve, new player experience (if they get it working), free to play, try and die :D
Now everyone is concerned that come November there will be a huge increase of chars created to do one thing, that being gank the heck out of high sec and your right, high sec will be gank heaven
Now this is where CCP is missing a huge trick, by letting alphas have all this power in high sec they are missing out on risk v reward, IE the Alpha pilot has NO RISK but LARGE reward though ganking
Also CCP will miss out on a revenue stream as these pilots can make as many accounts as they like and put no isk into CCP's wallet, this is bad
The answer is very simple, just lock an alphas safety system to green while they are in high sec, this has several benefits
1 CCP won't have to do any monitoring of the player bases activities to work out if they are going to go gank crazy, be honest CCP you know we will
2 The idea behind Alphas remains truer, ie to get more people playing eve and having a better experience
3 Keep's the gankers under control
4 keeping alphas safety system locked in high sec means that if they want to shoot people in the face they will have to go to low sec, where this sort of action is SUPPOSED to happen, according to eve lore anyway
5 This is the biggie. OK a new player has an alpha clone, like eve but wants to do more things then he's going to be happy to buy a PLEX or sub his account, this gives a much higher player retention and also gets people that want to gank into paying for the game
6 CCP will look like muppets when they have to retroactively apply a brake on alphas due to the massive number of gankers flying around
OK i'll wrap this up in the following way
If you want to trading, mining, building, invention (IE PVE) in highsec (or anywhere else) you HAVE to pay, there is no way around it and at the moment if you want to gank then you dont really have to pay, just make a new account
So CCP, in this patch that i'm really (in most part) looking forward to, keep the alphas safety system locked in high sec and reap the rewards of having more money coming in and also having a better high sec :)
Ganking is a way of life in eve and it's not something that will ever go away, it's a lifestyle that people like though they need to pay for it in the same way that that other people do
Basically whatever lifestyle people choose in eve, they should rightly pay for it
FREE TO PLAY, YES!
FREE TO GANK NO!!
OK that's me typed out :)
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