There is no point a Veteran should have multiple Alpha Accounts.
I would like to frame the Alpha Account ussage as the following:
To give beginners a chance to explore New Eden
To give Veterans a chance to comeback to the Game and see the changes
BUT NOT
any acctivite which generates ISK, INTEL or is not related to “discover” NEW EDEN.
Alpha clones are free, serving as a baseline provision for every pilot, accessible to all - providing the opportunity to explore the possibilities the cluster holds at the cost of a somewhat more limited set of available skills and pilotable ships, and a slower skill training speed.
As Veteran aka already Omega User you already have the opportunity to explore the possibilities the cluster holds.
The inital idea is to give new players an glimps of the huge world of EVE Online before upgrading into an Omega Account for 1 Month.
The amount of Accounts need to be fruther discussed but my suggestion is less than 1 Alpha Accounts if they used as following:
Skillfarm
Wormhole Seeding (optional)
Selling Standings (Thanks for the Update)
Mass farming datacores
any other “mass” usage which isn´t intended as an Alpha Account.
This doesn´t include Alpha Armys since you only can run a single Alpha Character.
Alpha Armys are still limited by the 1 Alpha Account if you have an Omega Account.
This also means you can have multiple alphas to train them for Dread, Carrier and Titan accounts until you reach the 5 Million SP Limit. Vice versa if you get caught bypassing this rule for Skillfarm your ISK will get removed and you get a single Warning until you get all Accounts banned.
This isn´t applicable for Accounts which are long time Omega and falling into Alpha State.
Therefore Account Holders need to link their multiple Accounts as currently given in the Account Control Center. To support this behavior an addtional discount will be granted to keep omega state for all accounts (more than currently is available)
For Example:
You still can use Alpha Accounts to try out the updated new player experience
You still could have a mini alpha Skillfarm
You still would be able to seed three Wormholes.
but… a single Veteran wouldn´t be able to maintain +500 Accounts for an Skillfarm, Wormhole Seeding or any other NOT Alpha related content.
Technical Solution
You are not the first one and by far not the biggest one dealing with Accounts on an ecommerce plattform. So there is no need to discuss the backbone for this.
But if you get caugt bypassing this rule via VPN, Multiple Emails etc. you will be not allowed to use any Alpha Account. If you get caught second time you will lose your access to your Omega Account and recieve a perma ban.
How about the CSM do something worth their weight in salt and get the game more exciting and engaging so people stop posting their frustration in forums?
You can skill up the magic 14 until Omega Level, which than you can upgrade into Omega for your Capital alt.
You still can have you Alpha Account, but you will not have it for any “MASS” Actions.
If you can´t name any of your activitys they probably all fall under “MASS” and therefore will be illegal.
Somewhere The Oz & Youngpuke2 had this IDEA way before me with a diffrent approach.
I am just not aligned with their ideas… or they not looking enough into the future.
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ICFxZqvGRA
Ofc the Content in EVE is not challenging enough and everything feels like a grind.
Which you better accomplish with Multiboxing instead of playing with friends.
No worries this will be my next post regarding the nonsense of Multiboxing.
We still need more Audio Lines, more Cinmentic input.
The whole PVE area is so dusty old.. no wonder… but if they are not aware of this Elephant than i don´t know what they doing at all.
Maybe someone doesn’t want to pay for more than 1 account
maybe what we need to do in game (selling standings) we don’t need an omega for that, especially the soe or pirate arcs.
I don’t see the point of rules that cannot be enforced.
Either be able to enforce the rule, or don’t make it a rule in the first place.
As CCP cannot prove two accounts are owned by the same person if this person doesn’t somehow link both by reusing an email address, there is no way this rule can be enforced.
So besides that I don’t understand the purpose of such a restriction in the first place, I also don’t think CCP should make such a rule which they cannot enforce.
So if you ask me, this rule should not be made.
Let CCP spend their resources chasing people who break real rules, like third money trading, botting, input broadcasting. In other words, let them chase and catch cheaters who negatively impact the game for the rest of us, unlike players who happen to have multiple alpha accounts.
Everytime i read about complex rule stuff because someone got jealous or hurt, i am missing the sandbox of the old days before the many restrictions were introduced to EVE.
Less rules is the way of the sandbox if you want to have more stuff going on in the EVE universe, not more rules.
Your undock button is grayed out, and hovering your cursor over it gives you instructions on how to set your home station to Exordium and suicide your clone.
I call it excrementium. But will wait and see. Why should I not be able to fly alpha while having paying acct’s when I can only log on one alpha at a time with no paying acct’s online?
Holy ■■■■ this is a terrible idea. How do you expect to get new players to stick around if they’re literally only allowed to participate in mindless grinding?
CCP can track your emails by your billing information, which includes your full legal name. If you’re playing EVE Online you did agree to these terms of service. If you didin’t, then you should contact CCP and do get a lawyer…
CCP can also easily see your machine’s hardware ID, so figuring out which accounts and emails are run by whom and on which machines isn’t difficult or illegal at all.
oh boy this is a texas law thread now, havnt had one of these in a while
As a commercial enterprise CCP Games has no business attempting to track anyone in RL, in the US i could gt a lawyer, call the FBI, homeland security for such grievances.
your mind is gonna be blown when you learn about how commercial enterprises like facebook and google make money
As per thread’s topic - yes, if one of these accounts is omega. Well, that is, if it is done in a very low-effort approach.
There are some games, where only one account is allowed per individual. Many such games used to do IP blocks and similar, but these days there are better ways to track who is who. Two main accounts ran by their respective owners have different behaviours than someone with a main and their alt army. So, no, they don’t risk bans at all.
