EVE Online announces Free 2 Play with new "clone states" feature
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Might give it a go again, after having last played it 11 years ago.
Funnily enough I just resubbed last night. The huge influx of cheap labor and cannon fodder is gonna be great
I really want to get back in now when this drops, but the idea of not being able to use half of my ships is kinda bothersome. Like how is anyone supposed to plex when they can only use up to cruisers. Even in W-space you won't be able to make that much at all. Especially since last I played plex was only 500m and I hear it's gone waaay up.
[QUOTE=benzinxrm;50979492]I really want to get back in now when this drops, but the idea of not being able to use half of my ships is kinda bothersome. Like how is anyone supposed to plex when they can only use up to cruisers. Even in W-space you won't be able to make that much at all. Especially since last I played plex was only 500m and I hear it's gone waaay up.[/QUOTE]
plex is currently at 1 billion isk in Jita.
[editline]31st August 2016[/editline]
tbh you could make that money in about a week tops doing some scams
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;50978632]Your best bet is to immediately jump into a nullsec PvP corporation. They'll show you the ropes, fund your expenses, and show you how to go about making the big bucks on your own time. People mining asteroids and running missions in high security space are suckers. It's chump change compared to what you can earn in nullsec, especially as a brand new player.[/QUOTE]
Well, grindy isk making still peaks at incursions and VNIs running sanctums.
If you have the capital, T2 and cap production is where its at. Once I can afford a jump freighter (and a replacement...) I'll probably try reactions. But if you get your production lines up and have the skills to build things, you can easily PLEX by just buying materials off the market with buy orders and making T2 ships. I make Oneiros' and Command Dessies, mostly. PI is good right now too, and wait for the industrial citadels to drop. I'm actually caching components to build a large indy array, and have most of them in place :excited:
[QUOTE=Smoot;50979087]When does this take effect? I'd like to see where my characters are at, I haven't played in ages.[/QUOTE]
November
now EVERYONE can be a parasite in the fun futuristic world of Ayn Rand's EVE: Online!
I'll probably come play again in November but I don't think I'll be playing as an Alpha clone. I've got faar too much centered around higher level skills to make that feasible.
I wonder if this is an attempt to crash PLEX prices.
[QUOTE=markg06;50979711]I wonder if this is an attempt to crash PLEX prices.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure it'll have the unintended effect of raising prices by increasing demand, giving people more of a reason to raise the prices.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;50979766]I'm sure it'll have the unintended effect of raising prices by increasing demand, giving people more of a reason to raise the prices.[/QUOTE]
Probably gonna end up dumping the price of things Alpha clones can mine/fabricate/fetch in the long run.
Yeah, I'll definitely be setting some up to take care of simple things like buy orders, small material moves, etc. Mining will be the domain of bots, so rip those prices. I don't even know what to put my isk into, shit might crash hard for the EvE economy as a whole
[editline]31st August 2016[/editline]
if they can do PI maybe the citadel prices will stop being so retarded high (and profitable)
[QUOTE=paindoc;50979817]Yeah, I'll definitely be setting some up to take care of simple things like buy orders, small material moves, etc. Mining will be the domain of bots, so rip those prices. I don't even know what to put my isk into, shit might crash hard for the EvE economy as a whole
[editline]31st August 2016[/editline]
if they can do PI maybe the citadel prices will stop being so retarded high (and profitable)[/QUOTE]
I got an account with a full PI system set up (this requires high skills you certainly can't train in f2p mode), I wonder if it will keep functioning while I technically can't build it while in f2p mode.
The only problem I see with this is that it makes it even easier to generate alts now, empowering infiltrating other alliances.
I like that they casually shrug off the threat of bot swarms, exactly like every developer that later got fucked by a bot invasion.
EVE is going to be filled with bots like every other F2P game and it will create never ending problems and resentment within the community, just like it always does.
the last MMO i played that did it called it f2p by mistake. Its more of an no time limit free trial than real free to play.
I've been waiting for EVE Online to go free to play for literal [B]years.[/B] I played the trial a long time ago, and I had a lot of fun.
I also lucked out, cuz on my third day, I was just flying through space and this random guy came up to me and asked "Hey, you want a Galiente Cruiser and a few million ISK? I'm canceling my subscription and don't want it to go to waste." I said sure, and he traded it all over and left.
I had to spend a while training skills before I could even fly the damn thing, but it was pretty cool regardless.
EVE is one of those games that I could never justify the monthly price, for the reason I couldn't run the "pay for PLEX with ISK": I simply wouldn't play it enough to do either.
But if it's free to play now, then I can put a handful of hours in every other week, without consequence.
I was pretty excited for this at first, but f2p has ruined a lot of game communities before.
[QUOTE=Axznma;50980525]I like that they casually shrug off the threat of bot swarms, exactly like every developer that later got fucked by a bot invasion.
EVE is going to be filled with bots like every other F2P game and it will create never ending problems and resentment within the community, just like it always does.[/QUOTE]
Please? Eve's had russian bot swarms for forever.
Yeah bots are not at all new
it desperately needs more players
[QUOTE=Axznma;50980525]I like that they casually shrug off the threat of bot swarms, exactly like every developer that later got fucked by a bot invasion.
EVE is going to be filled with bots like every other F2P game and it will create never ending problems and resentment within the community, just like it always does.[/QUOTE]
Thats not how eve works though. Sure you can have a massive bot mining fleet, but where would you put it? Going into low and null sec for those rarer materials sure as hell aint gonna work. That bot fleet would get destroyed in minutes. That means you'd be relegated to doing it in high sec but that doesn't mean you'd be safe. All it takes is someone wardec'ing the corp all those bots are in and they're free game to kill
Fuck I had an old, old, old account back when mines were a thing I think but I did play again some years ago on a trial account. I tried to do the ISK for PLEX thing but I just didn't have time and my internet cut out anyway. I think this is a neat development, I'd have stuck with that if it were an option.
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;50980658]I also lucked out, cuz on my third day, I was just flying through space and this random guy came up to me and asked "Hey, you want a Galiente Cruiser and a few million ISK? I'm canceling my subscription and don't want it to go to waste." I said sure, and he traded it all over and left.[/QUOTE]Depending on how long ago this was: small world, I did that exact same thing. If the trade included a gorillion cigarettes then that was me, I hope you enjoyed your new ship.
This is great. I loved the trial of EVE, but I don't have the money to fund an MMO habit. I'll probably play it now.
Well its a good thing I spent most of my time investing in being an annoying ass in a fleet firetail, I can play again!
I know "eve is dying" is an old saying, but I noticed the login figures on eve offline recently and the game seems to be doing very poorly compared to a year or so ago, I was playing the day it reached 65k concurrent users which was a great feeling, but it seems now it struggles to hit 30k daily and the news of the f2p hasn't seemed to increased logins by much, if at all.
Anybody think there's a possibility of eve going down in the next few years?
[QUOTE=FalloutAddict;50983424]I know "eve is dying" is an old saying, but I noticed the login figures on eve offline recently and the game seems to be doing very poorly compared to a year or so ago, I was playing the day it reached 65k concurrent users which was a great feeling, but it seems now it struggles to hit 30k daily and the news of the f2p hasn't seemed to increased logins by much, if at all.
Anybody think there's a possibility of eve going down in the next few years?[/QUOTE]
Why would the news of it going f2p increase numbers? Wait until it's actually f2p and then we'll see how it fares.
[QUOTE=FalloutAddict;50983424]I know "eve is dying" is an old saying, but I noticed the login figures on eve offline recently and the game seems to be doing very poorly compared to a year or so ago, I was playing the day it reached 65k concurrent users which was a great feeling, but it seems now it struggles to hit 30k daily and the news of the f2p hasn't seemed to increased logins by much, if at all.
Anybody think there's a possibility of eve going down in the next few years?[/QUOTE]
No, not really. EvE won't last forever, nothing can. But its been going strong for a long time and has steadily accrued players in a general upwards trend, this trend just being much smaller than the big spikes in activity. With World War Bee finished, players will stop subbing/playing for a bit until the next big war. Then activity will spike again, and if previous patterns are to believed, it will spike higher than it has in the past.
With this news I am going to give away my billions of ISK. If you send me ISK, I will double it as a gesture of honesty.
[QUOTE=Smoot;50984180]With this news I am going to give away my billions of ISK. If you send me ISK, I will double it as a gesture of honesty.[/QUOTE]
Check cheeky you.
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