I have a paid for apple that has been in the game 9 months and has 1.2m SP. I have a free orange that has been in the game 3 months and has 2.5m SP.
Nope…still doesn’t make sense.
Alpha accounts are there for
- New players to try out EVE Online
- Older players that can’t pay the fee and will play on a reduced capacity.
Omega accounts are there for
- players who want to enable all options in the game and can afford it.
So why does Alpha give new characters such a small advantage? To lure people into making more accounts and subbing more after they got lured in. How does that make sense? Why would a comapny want to make money? That’s so strange?
You can take advantage of the small amount of SP once per character.
Characters aren’t accounts, all those poor people who believed you now have like 3 characters on their alpha accounts and understand you left out a mechanic. The mechanic of 1 character has a skill queue.
You post all this right before major changes to the skill queue system. Seriously? Do you even lurk?
What about when Mr Wookie, Mrs Ewok, and their 4 foot tall son Wookiewok and up paying 1000 units a month for Wookiewok to NOT get the same free education that every other Ewok gets ?
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That shows there is improvement to become a better player for you.
Most likely you didn’t fill up the skill queue?
These days EVE Devs are allowed to tell players they are. Your weird and contorsed view on this games does make me believe you are a dev, or CCP Hellmar. Although I doubt he would know of the skillqueue system.
What is conceivably weird and contorted about wondering why a character within an account I am PAYING for…I repeat, PAYING for…receives no SP at all whilst a character someone is NOT paying for carries on receiving SP ?
The penny might finally drop.
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There is your issue, I told you that there is a difference between character and account.
OMEGA account - Chewie Dad - ChewSon - ChewNephew
Alpha Account - Ewok Mom - Ewok Daughter - Ewok OutOfWedlock
Now, feel free to raise the skills on Ewok Daughter or Ewok OutOfWedlock when Ewok Mommy is learning a skill. See, when mommy and daddy are busy ‘skilling’, none of the babies can learn. They either wait or get a MCT, which provides dank money to CCP.
Oh, and asking for a friend, Is there any explicit video footage you have to prove the Wookie and the ewok made babies? For eductaional purposes offcourse…
CCP Hilmar is very interested in that penny, can you send it to him?
Of course there is, but you still haven’t explained why any character within a paid for account should be worse off…in terms of SP…than an equivalent solo character in a free Alpha account.
WHY are the other two characters in my Omega account that do not have the skill queue on them not simply treated as Alpha accounts in terms of SP ? How does one end up with the bizarre situation where a character in a FREE account can overtake a character in a PAID FOR account ? You keep ignoring the ‘paid for’ bit.
Silly, could you try to calm down?
You can buy a multiple character training certificate if you really want.
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ha ha
he is talking about sex
he is using skilling as a euphemism
ha ha
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Because otherwise CCP would never sell MCTs and would miss out on money. If Omega included a free MCT up to the Alpha training limit, that would be lost income for CCP.
Also remember that Alpha is relatively new to EVE and should not be used as the basis for balancing Omega account features. An Omega account grants one character the ability to train any skills at X rate, with no limit in total SP. An Alpha account grants one character the ability to train limited skills at (X*.5) rate, up to the 5 million SP limit.
You always have had to pick which character you want to train, or pay for additional training slots, and converting from a 2 week trial setup to an indefinite limited free-to-play setup has no place changing that.
Want to train a 2nd character at no cost? Train them while your Omega is lapsed, and renew when they are done.
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I’m perfectly calm. Just trying to work out how two characters in a paid for account actually have about as much ‘worth’ as a dead parrot…whilst siberian hamsters get fed regardless.
Omega lets you gain skill points twice as fast, not six times as fast.
Stop crying so much. It’s embarrassing.
I paid since 2006. Did you know that ‘in those days’ the skill queue was limited to a cutoff of 24 hours ? So when a skill was 23h59s you could add a second. So any queued up of skill going over that was not allowed. In 2014 this was changed to no time but maximum 50 entries for Omegas. “30 day trials” players had still the 24 hour limit though.
CCP will be making significant changes this year. Maybe you can wait and see how much they shower you with? Because teh weird way you formulate it sounds like the question to how the CCP presentation was forumlated. Could be concidence or could be a check to see how many angry players they will have to deal with after the changes. I won’t be angry, I will try to adapt.
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If a situation is absurd, then ‘that’s just the way things are’ is generally not the most thought out response.
Then propose the changes you like, or if you have insider knowledge, the ones CCP will be implementing soon™. Thank you in advance.
What is absurd about Omega giving twice as many skill points? You want six times as many, but I think you are the one who is being absurd.
I’ve already stated, above, that my solution is that up to 5m SP…no Omega character should be worse off in terms of SP than any equivalent ( i.e started at the same time ) Alpha character with an active skills queue.
Otherwise, alt characters in an Omega account that one is paying for are actually at a disadvantage compared to Alpha characters that are not paid for. I’m actually paying to have two characters that fall behind what an Alpha account can get.
CCP disagrees with you.
Thanks for your input!
Manage your account better?
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Your comment shows that like Aedaxus you still don’t grasp the point being made.