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Hello capsuleers! As some of you may have heard already from CCP FoxFour's presentation at EVE Vegas, Team Size Matters will be releasing a number of improvements for trial accounts in the Phoebe release on November 4th. This blog will go into detail regarding what we're actually changing and how we hope to improve the trial experience for new players.
Why We Are Changing Trials
The goal of these changes is to open up the game to new players so they can explore a greater variety of the content available in EVE. We believe getting new players invested in the game early on will keep them playing longer than if we throw all the good stuff behind a subscriber wall. In addition to opening up the game for trial users, we will be adding extensive logging in every area that we are removing restrictions. This way we can closely follow changes to ensure they are not enabling negative behavior such as botting or trial cycling exploits.
What We Are Changing
We want players on trial accounts to have a chance to experience a large variety of activities in EVE without being overly burdened by existing restrictions. This will help to make it easier to find something they enjoy doing and thus decide to stick around. In that vein we are lifting the following restrictions in Phoebe:
Trial accounts are no longer limited in the ways they can send and receive ISK. They are now able to directly transfer ISK to other characters and corporations and send ISK to other characters by direct trades in stations. This will assist trial players who want to share ISK with each other or are looking to get into a corporation.
Players looking for places to trade will now be able to post in trade chat channels (Channels 10 - 15). The normal restriction on chat frequency still apply.
Players interested in mission running are no longer limited to just level 1 and 2 agents and they can now participate in incursions (and receive a cut of the reward pool). Those interested in some low-sec mission running and/or PvP can now sign up for Factional Warfare.
To assist with joining corporations, trial players will now be able to apply to up to 5 corporations at any one time. If they are rejected by a corporation or withdraw their application, an application slot will free up and they will be able to apply to another corporation. For those who are not quite ready to make the jump into a permanent corporation, trial players will now be able to post fleet finder advertisements.
Skill Restriction Changes
We will be removing the trial restrictions from a lot of currently restricted skills. Some new restrictions will be put in place, but most of these are to inform trial players about what is achievable within the trial period, or are directly associated with already trial restricted ships. As mentioned earlier we will be keeping a close eye on how trial accounts use these skills and we will not hesitate to restrict some of them again if they are leading to misuse or exploits.
Skills which are currently restricted that we will be allowing trial accounts to train are:
Anchoring
Command Center Upgrades
Interplanetary Consolidation
Planetology
Gas Cloud Harvesting
Amarr Starship Engineering
Caldari Starship Engineering
Gallente Starship Engineering
Minmatar Starship Engineering
High Energy Physics
Plasma Physics
Nanite Engineering
Hydromagnetic Physics
Graviton Physics
Laser Physics
Electromagnetic Physics
Rocket Science
Nuclear Physics
Mechanical Engineering
Electronic Engineering
Quantum Physics
Molecular Engineering
Amarr Battlecruiser
Caldari Battlecruiser
Gallente Battlecruiser
Minmatar Battlecruiser
Amarr Battleship
Caldari Battleship
Gallente Battleship
Minmatar Battleship
Amarr Industrial
Caldari Industrial
Gallente Industrial
Minmatar industrial
Assault Frigates
Skills which are currently not restricted which we will be restricting:
Capital Remote Armor Repair Systems
Capital Remote Hull Repair Systems
Capital Repair Systems
Megacorp Management
Empire Control
Sovereignty
Fighters
Fighter Bombers
Amarr Drone Specialization
Caldari Drone Specialization
Gallente Drone Specialization
Minmatar Drone Specialization
Projected Electronic Counter Measures
Tactical Logistics Reconfiguration
Advanced Weapon Upgrades
Capital Capacitor Emission Systems
Capital Energy Turret
Capital Hybrid Turret
Capital Projectile Turret
Doomsday Operation
Tactical Weapon Reconfiguration
Small Blaster Specialization
Medium Blaster Specialization
Large Blaster Specialization
Small Railgun Specialization
Medium Railgun Specialization
Large Railgun Specialization
Small Autocannon Specialization
Medium Autocannon Specialization
Large Autocannon Specialization
Small Artillery Specialization
Medium Artillery Specialization
Large Artillery Specialization
Small Beam Laser Specialization
Medium Beam Laser Specialization
Large Beam Laser Specialization
Small Pulse Laser Specialization
Medium Pulse Laser Specialization
Large Pulse Laser Specialization
Fleet Command
Wing Command
Citadel Cruise Missiles
Citadel Torpedoes
Cruise Missile Specialization
Heavy Assault Missile Specialization
Heavy Missile Specialization
Light Missile Specialization
Rocket Specialization
Torpedo Specialization
Jump Drive Calibration
Jump Drive Operation
Jump Fuel Conservation
Jump Portal Generation
Advanced Infomorph Psychology
Advanced Mass Production
Capital Ship Construction
Deep Core Mining
Advanced Laboratory Operation
Capital Shield Emission Systems
Capital Shield Operation
Amarr Strategic Cruiser
Caldari Strategic Cruiser
Gallente Strategic Cruiser
Minmatar Strategic Cruiser
Amarr Defensive Systems
Amarr Electronic Systems
Amarr Engineering Systems
Amarr Offensive Systems
Amarr Propulsion Systems
Caldari Defensive Systems
Caldari Electronic Systems
Caldari Engineering Systems
Caldari Offensive Systems
Caldari Propulsion Systems
Gallente Defensive Systems
Gallente Electronic Systems
Gallente Engineering Systems
Gallente Offensive Systems
Gallente Propulsion Systems
Minmatar Defensive Systems
Minmatar Electronic Systems
Minmatar Engineering Systems
Minmatar Offensive Systems
Minmatar Propulsion Systems
Corporation Contracting
Margin Trading
Wholesale
Retail
Tycoon
Skills that are currently restricted which will remain restricted:
Starbase Defense Management
Cloaking
Cynosural Field Theory
Advanced Planetology
Drug Manufacturing
Astronautic Engineering
Laboratory Operation
Amarr Carrier
Caldari Carrier
Gallente Carrier
Minmatar Carrier
Amarr Dreadnought
Caldari Dreadnought
Gallente Dreadnought
Minmatar Dreadnought
Amarr Freighter
Caldari Freighter
Gallente Freighter
Minmatar Freighter
Amarr Titan
Caldari Titan
Gallente Titan
Minmatar Titan
Advanced Spaceship Command
Battlecruisers
Black Ops
Capital Industrial Ships
Capital Ships
Command Ships
Covert Ops
Electronic Attack Ships
Exhumers
Expedition Frigates
Heavy Assault Cruisers
Heavy Interdiction Cruisers
Industrial Command Ships
Interceptors
Interdictors
Jump Freighters
Logistics
Marauders
Mining Barge
ORE Industrial
Recon Ships
Transport Ships
Contracting
UI Changes
Trial accounts will now see more information relating to their trial status in a number of places in the UI. This includes clearly indicating trial restrictions in the UI and giving players a more direct way to get to Account Management (actually a streamlined subscription page) from the client.
The InterBus Ship Identification System
The ISIS will show players a visual representation of the ships they can and cannot fly on a trial account. Players seeking further info on the specific restricted skills can hover over a ship to see more details.
Character Sheet
The skill list in the character sheet will now indicate whether skills are trial restricted or not. Note that as mentioned in CCP Seagull's Phoebe dev blog, trial accounts will still have a 24 hour limit on their skill queue instead of the upcoming unlimited skill queue.
Information Window
In the information window, players will be able to see whether any of the required skills to use the relevant item are trial restricted.
Market
The Market will display restrictions on ships and items which cannot be used during the trial. Players will still be able to purchase and move these items as normal.
Industry
Industry panels will display any trial locked skills required in manufacturing and research.
We're very excited to be bringing these changes out in Phoebe and hope they allow new players to really get a feel for EVE while they're in their trial period.
- CCP Terminus, on behalf of Team Size Matters
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