More flailing. There is nothing in the blog that addresses metrics or the extent of the issue. Only “this is part of the botting problem and we are addressing it this way”.
Quote:
"As part of the fight against abuse of Alpha accounts by those involved in botting and real money trading, the EVE Dev Team have been looking at what Alpha characters currently have access to in New Eden.
As we discussed initially in the New Year security update, the team were considering placing level 4 and 5 courier missions behind the requirement to have Omega clone status.
After investigating further, the decision has been made to place all level 4 and 5 missions behind the requirement to have Omega status, to assist the fight against RMT and botting.
Of course, we are aware that mission running is only a part of the issue, we’re also investigating more ways to reduce the abuse of alpha accounts."
This is basically management-speak for “this is the excuse we are using to justify this so you don’t complain too much”.
As for:
Since I mentioned only Bounties, sale of Commodity drops to NPCs, Incursions and Agent Rewards/Bonus as part of the bot/ISK creation problem, if you can outline how I am ‘confusing’ this with ‘wealth generation’ then you would look a little less like someone making up anything to support your viewpoint, and more like someone with something substantive to say.