Alphas pay nothing to play EVE, therefore the features that are available to them come free of charge.
They do not pay, yet they receive features and services - they are, essentially, freeloaders. In doing so they receive more than they pay for.
This only applies to those who do not have associated Omega accounts, of course. It could be argued - and I do so argue - that it is those of us who subscribe to the game who actually pay for the play experience of Alpha-only account holders. I’m not sure I voted for that, but there you go.
So, the reason for the ganking one is that ganking has costs, costs which alphas can easily circumvent and not have to deal with, it also prevents zero cost botting as in order to play with more than 1 account they need to be paid for, this prevents a lot of the normal MMO automated farmers from doing their job as easily
I’ve played EVE on literal dial-up and even a fairly potato PC can manage to do things like start industry jobs or mining, you don’t even really need anything super fast or high end due to everything in EVE being limited to 1 second long server ticks anyway, latency can matter in some scenarios but for regular things like missions or mining or PI or industry, it doesn’t make an ounce of difference
Right, but unless you can guarantee 100% that nobody will ever share a computer, then no, CCP isn’t going to just automatically link accounts that login from the same machine
Like, i get you think you’ve found a solution to a problem, but that isn’t the case and there are literally no benefits to them doing this and only potential downsides
Because by your logic, if they can afford a PC to play the game they should be able to afford omega so they can open both accounts on the same PC and just directly trade assets
So you’ve already solved the issue of shared resources yourself, by using systems that have existed in the game for decades
The very first sentence of my suggestion started like this
OPTION!!! Also if two players use the same launcher to run two separate accounts once the second account is added WHAT would stop one of them to steal the other player’s stuff even without the shared storage but by using contracts or some other way if the launcher can’t tell which player is which because passwords or any other kind of identification are no longer required? Seriously dude can you just think a little before posting all this nonsense?
‘Getting more than they paid for’ is a pretty common, somewhat sarcastic, phrase that one hears in lots of different contexts. I’d be surprised if any English language speaking person had never heard it before.
And it brings one to the irony of Alphas whining about multiboxing. After all…who is paying to keep Eve going more so than those ‘20 char multiboxers’ without whom there wouldn’t be enough in the CCP kitty for there to be a game for the whiners to whine about.
You are making a simple ‘issue’ way more complicated than it actually is. CCP already know that all the characters on the same account belong to the same account…and ‘the same account’ was the matter raised in the OP. And I’m pretty sure CCP would have multiple ways of knowing that two accounts were owned by the same person…not least being ( for Omega accounts ) the same payment method, same PC, same email address ( which is part of the login ) and so on.
But leaving all that aside, you still haven’t gotten round the basic issue of having a global pool of resources accessible by chars with multiple different skills levels. This does not matter so much with individual inventory items, but it does matter with entire fitted ships.
When I transfer a ship from char A to char B, I in any case have a naming convention that tells me who the ship ‘originally’ belonged to. For example all ships owned by this char start with ‘G*…’ and all those originally owned by Altara Zemara start with ‘A*…’. That tells me the ship was originally fitted for a different character with that different character’s skills…and that I might not be fully skilled for it in the new char.
Your proposed global sharing of stuff has no way of identifying this. You’d lose track of who you originally trained for a specific ship. You might board a ship with a character without realising that character was not optimally trained for that ship the same way the original char was.
That was the point I endeavoured to raise earlier…which was never answered.
See, the important part you’re missing here is that, should said player steal anything by using your login, they would be breaking the EULA and GM’s will do something about it
They don’t do anything about people stealing items from a shared storage because you gave them access to take the things in the first place
So yeah, the difference is one is an EULA violation and could get your account banned, the other isn’t
Well that part that you are missing is that both players agreed to use the same launcher, which means each one of them had to put their logging infos as the launcher prompts that in order to connect the accounts and that removes any liability on CCP part, just like it would remove any liability on a bank if two people agreed to use the same bank account OR one person willingly gave their bank logging info to another person and then later that second person stole all the money, no judge will put the blame on the bank in these two cases and force it to recover the stolen amount! And that is the same as allowing another person access to any other shared storage in any game - “it is your responsibility for giving them willingly that access, there is nothing we are going to do about it”!
No, i didn’t miss it, sharing a launcher doesn’t change that account sharing is against the rules, so even if someone has an account in the launcher you still aren’t allowed to access it or its contents if its not your account
So just because its in the same launcher that doesn’t mean its owned by the same person which means they aren’t going to share the inventory
Like, i get that you’re obsessed with this idea, but we both know its never happening
If you use the same damn launcher as somebody else you’re an idiot for doing do. If they log into your account and do something shady, that is on you. And you will be banned and most likely the other person as well.