Alpha seems limiting for you as a newbie, as it seems you’re focused on all the things you cannot do.
Try to do all the things you can do as Alpha - you will notice the game has a lot of possibilities!
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I disagree with that, if you enjoy mining at the start you’ll enjoy it later on as omega. If you don’t enjoy mining as an alpha you won’t enjoy it as an omega either. If you don’t like grinding missions up to level 3 you won’t enjoy them at level 4 either. And so forth.
This isn’t a “wouldn’t it be great for new/other players”, this is a “this would be great for me personally” thread.
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This.
The only thing Omega adds is the ability to train into more expensive ships to get a bit more rewards. Bigger numbers.
If you enjoy an activity as Alpha - it is the same as Omega but with higher risk and reward.
In you do not enjoy an activity as Alpha - it’s not any different when the numbers are higher, for example mining is pretty much the same.
As Alpha you can try it all, just without the bigger numbers.
Play as Alpha, imagine bigger numbers: that’s Omega gameplay. And you can try it all without payimg!
plenty to do if you go to the right place
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I think that alpha is fine, but paying for omega has it’s drawbacks. For example if you don’t have enough time to play the game during week, then you are effectively paying 15$ to play the game for a few days per month. What i would like to have is an option to activate the omega status for 1-2 days for a lesser cost.
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I realize that there is a lot to do before I want to get involved and think about omega, but I am the kind of player who sees the future in the game, so my time shouldn’t be wasted. So if I have to invest so much time in it and try to get omega in ISK but it seems completely absurd.
In a game where people pay for secondary (tertiary etc) accounts for situational extra characters such as capital alts, I guess many players would welcome the ability to pay for those extra accounts only in the weekend that they use them.
However, I don’t think this is good for CCP, and thus EVE.
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That’s what I did: create a bunch of accounts, train different characters for different things, try them all and see what you enjoy most. There seem to be only a select few options that alpha can’t do but those you can easily just look up on YouTube to see if you’d enjoy them or not.
Then don’t. Play for free and accept the limitations, pay for omega and enjoy the benefits, grind for plex and hope you’re still enjoying the game. Those are the options you have and as I see it there’s no need for more granularity.
As a side note, once I had an idea of what I wanted to do and focussed my 1 mil sp and some training on that, combined with lots of effort reading wikis and watching guides, I very quickly started making good isk, easily 20 mil/h. I’m now at a point where if I make less than 50 mil/h I get grumpy but that’s me being omega and having invested.
If you put in active effort you can find ways to make good money, if you don’t put in any active effort and “just want to grind away doing mining” or something similar then why should the game reward you for that?
Of course not, if mining is not the gameplay that requires the most effort and investment it seems normal to me not to be able to have access to OMEGA, but if there is a method that requires effort and the reward is OMEGA, I’ll take it.
There is, it’s called “making enough in game money to buy plex”.
and what can I do to make a lot of money, are there any guides somewhere on how to get from ALPHA to OMEGA without using a bank card?
Ninja looting/salvaging in a fast aligning ship is always a winner.
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Yes, it’s called Wiki and Youtube. Those options DO require a bit of effort though, don’t hurt yourself.
I’ve not tried that yet, just looked it up and might give it a go. On an alt obviously.
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Its good fun.
A Sunesis is great for it but its easily done in a very cheap T1 explo frig
Instead … please spread some love and care to this idea…
Can provide a surge of subscriptions and can hold many new players in the game
Ok. I would like this forum to be free of terrible ideas as that is my point of view. Unfortunately you have disrespected my point of view so I’m going to have to disrespect yours and tell you that the idea sucks. Alpha status exists to be a free trial of the game and encourage you to pay for it. The lack of reward is deliberate, if you want rewards you can buy the game like a normal person.
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hmm … NO
make a subscription or plex like all the others
for my view … cut in half what the alphas get …
JuuR
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