# Came back to game after years of afk **URL:** \ **Category:** New Citizens Q&A\ **Created:** [May 21, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019 "2020-05-21T19:14:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hakaisamoto\_Hurasaka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/hakaisamoto_hurasaka/32/207340_2.png) [@Hakaisamoto\_Hurasaka](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Hakaisamoto_Hurasaka)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019/1 "2020-05-21T19:14:55Z")
Gotta say the omage limitation is such a punch in the … as hell. Half of my ships are unusable. I’m literally crippled to 0. Nice one wow. What happen to Free EVE ? 😕 This just sad :- ((( Gotta reconsider coming back now 😕 And I can’t train, I cant make money, I mean HOLY F4"! !! Wow guys. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Pedro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/black_pedro/32/257285_2.png) [@Black\_Pedro](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Black_Pedro)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019/2 "2020-05-21T19:52:20Z")
> [@Hakaisamoto\_Hurasaka](#): > > What happen to Free EVE ? Eve _is_ free. Ok, alpha clones are one form of it, but the real route to free for a veteran like you is skill extractors. Use them to extract and sell a month’s worth of PLEX. Then buy 500 PLEX and play for free for a month the whole time training back those skills (with max remap and implants for maximum value). Then extract skills again and repeat _ad infinitum_. You won’t gain new skills, but you will more-or-less cover your subscription costs and have access to all your skills. > **[Skill Trading in New Eden | EVE Online](https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/skill-trading-in-new-eden)** > > Good day Capsuleers! A couple months ago we published a dev blog introducing you to the idea of Skill Trading. The blog sparked a really great discussion in the EVE community. We decided to be fairly hands off and see where it would lead without us... ---
**Author:** ![Brun\_Warbear](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/brun_warbear/32/380353_2.png) [@Brun\_Warbear](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Brun_Warbear)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019/3 "2020-05-21T19:56:05Z")
You’ve never had access to those skills as an alpha player. You haven’t lost anything here. If you have those skills you were subbing or plexing before. If you don’t wanna sub or PLEX, you take the skills you’re allowed. ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019/4 "2020-05-21T20:12:48Z")
EVE has been subscription-based for 17 years now. You should already know this if you are a returning player. Just be glad that CCP gives you unlimited-time free play, unlike the 14-day trial that we used to have… ---
**Author:** ![Wyk\_Bathana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wyk_bathana/32/374287_2.png) [@Wyk\_Bathana](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wyk_Bathana)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019/5 "2020-05-21T20:25:00Z")
good riddance coming back AND whining and complaining that you cannot have everything while you bring nothing please go back to other mmos we don’t need you " i want to play tennis but i don’t want to pay the location of the ground" “i want to go to the mac donald but i don’t want to pay for the meal” ---
**Author:** ![Scoots\_Choco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/scoots_choco/32/262262_2.png) [@Scoots\_Choco](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Scoots_Choco)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019/6 "2020-05-21T21:43:17Z")
Why don’t you just sell your assets, use the ISK to buy PLEX and go Omega, and use the leftovers to do what you want? ---
**Author:** ![Xuxe\_Xu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xuxe_xu/32/464660_2.png) [@Xuxe\_Xu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xuxe_Xu)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019/7 "2020-05-22T06:12:49Z")
Welcome back! Pay for a subscription (you know, like everybody including you did before) = you can then use your stuff = “problem” solved. ---
**Author:** ![Shipwreck\_Jones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/shipwreck_jones/32/274382_2.png) [@Shipwreck\_Jones](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Shipwreck_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019/8 "2020-05-22T06:26:49Z")
I think I’m going to get a lot of mileage out of this clip. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/f/e/fe01dd901793a59ea2cc2613abcfb4d3c86c83a9.jpeg "Should you play Eve?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJq7kRMdrps) ---
**Author:** ![Pierre\_de\_Bricassart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/pierre_de_bricassart/32/386093_2.png) [@Pierre\_de\_Bricassart](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Pierre_de_Bricassart)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019/9 "2020-05-22T09:58:07Z")
Did you honestly ever happen to find a free game, without adverts, with daily maintainance, with such a complex structure? I know Linux, but that’s no game. You need people doing the work, machines, and infrastructure. I’m very happy that someone’s there setting up a quite stable platform for a reasonalbe amount of money. All “for free” games I tried yet were simple or disappointing and laden with adds and hidden offers. EVE is not cheap, that’s true. But it’s very honest, which I appreciate. ---
**Author:** ![Zeewolf\_46137](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zeewolf_46137/32/345558_2.png) [@Zeewolf\_46137](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zeewolf_46137)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019/10 "2020-05-22T19:14:29Z")
A 3-day trial back in the good old days 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/came-back-to-game-after-years-of-afk/243019/11 "2020-08-20T19:14:31Z")
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