Eve Online gone Free to Play

[Geoff]

As noted in the Guardian. You can play completely free as long as you like.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/15/eve-online-goes-free-to-play

 

Here are the trailers.

 

 

 

Download the client and sign up here: https://community.eveonline.com/support/download/

 

The best newbie advice I can give is to check out the Eve Uni Wiki New Player guide though.

 

Getting Started in EVE Online - UniWiki

[Xellpnz]

Been playing for a few days, not to shabby. Nut the limits on what you can learn in the skill trees, and what equipment you can buy/pickup is annoying. Going to see how far i can get before i tear my hair out

[Arreks]

It took me about 48 hours to actually get access to my account but it's a good excuse to get back into it. New character sheet is awful, though! May need to get the Edugeek channel going again.

[Garacesh]

Servers were overloaded two days ago, but from what I've gathered in Militia chat, everything seems stable now.

I should probably try and get back into my old account, it's over a decade old now! Created in 2004.. But I wouldn't know where to begin. Plus, I think at first, my brother was paying my subs lol. I doubt I'd have much of value, but I was part of Quam Singulari, who were a pretty huge corp back in the day.

 

I'm enjoying Faction Warfare at the moment, I welcome anyone who wants in to apply to Kill Them With Kindness, BRAVE's FW corp. (Bonus points, the Caldari Militia is actually pretty active, and it's easy enough to jump in with other corps. I've gone fleeting with BLOC a few times.)

Edited November 18, 2016 by Garacesh

[Geoff]

I resurrected my old account and bought the subs for a month myself. If you want to grab me in-game my pilot name is 'Llisander'. I'm dinking about in high-sec based out of Jel at the moment although I bob into low-sec and w-space sometimes. I also have my own corp called 'Citisys' (entirely for tax reasons, so I'm not too attached to it). If you want to fleet up and do stuff I'm in.

 

I also know what I'm doing to a medium degree, so any questions just ask away.

 

Oh I can loan some isk for a better ship too if you are stuck (but honestly just ask in Jita Local).

Edited November 18, 2016 by Geoff

[pete]

^ So if you've an old-school account, can you resurrect it under the free-to-play inititative and what restrictions apply?

[Garacesh]

^ So if you've an old-school account, can you resurrect it under the free-to-play inititative and what restrictions apply?

Yes.

 

IIRC, any Omega clone whose subscription lapses reverts to Alpha status. Alpha restrictions will apply, but you do not lose skill points or injected skills, you just lose access to any skills not trainable by Alpha accounts (and train new skills at 0.5 speed). This includes piloting ships higher than Cruiser, piloting ships that aren't your race, or using restricted modules like cloaking devices.

Edited November 18, 2016 by Garacesh

[pete]

^ So T1 Cruisers and below? I assume you can fit T2 modules?

[Garacesh]

Some. Not most.

 

A full list of skills trainable by Alpha accounts is at the bottom of this page.

Edited November 18, 2016 by Garacesh

[pete]

Hmm, a cheap-fitted low-sec rifter/merlin* using named modules is doable, but really benefits from max fitting skills which aren't available as an Alpha.

 

*or whatever's the current flavour-of-the-month on SHC.

[Garacesh]

Rifters suffered a lot. They didn't really get nerfed, just power creeped out of relevance. They're still good for cheap tackle though.

[Arreks]

Saw this really cool image that I've somehow never seen which may be useful for new players

[Garacesh]

Saw this really cool image that I've somehow never seen which may be useful for new players

 

There really is something for everyone in EVE.

[DJ-1701]

There really is something for everyone in EVE.

 

Even the Amish?

[Garacesh]

Even the Amish?

 

Especially the Amish

[Garacesh]

A great little guide to Frigates fresh off the BRAVE propaganda wagon.

 

[Garacesh]

EVE-Offline :: EVE-Online Status monitor

EVE is currently sat at 45k players!

 

 

Doesn't sound like a lot, but when you consider that's 45k players all sharing the same server, it's a nice statistic.

[localzuk]

Those are near their old numbers when I used to play proper. Nice to see it happening.

[Geoff]

weekly peek is Sundays. So we'll see.

[Arreks]

It reached 50 thousand or so when I was playing yesterday, not bad!

[Garacesh]

Aye, I think it was a peak of 52k yesterday. This is good news!

Some of this will almost certainly be multiboxing/alting, but either way it's definitely an improvement from the 20-25k on before Alpha Clones were a thing.

[Geoff]

They excluded multiboxing from the stats (IP limit) a while back.

[Garacesh]

Huh. Interesting to know!