http://massivelyop.com/2016/09/18/eve-evolved-free-to-play-pvp-cruiser-fitting-guide/
EVE Online‘s new free-to-play account option will be going live as part of an upcoming expansion this November, allowing new players to delve into the game and its community for free without the time limit of a standard free trial. Free players will be restricted to a subset of the game’s skills to limit the types of ships they can fly, and they should max out those skills within about four months. I imagine that most new players will take the alpha clone limitations as a challenge to work within, and many will attempt to collect enough ISK within those first months to begin buying PLEX and effectively subscribing for free.
I discussed the free account limitations and their implications for gameplay in my previous EVE Evolved column two weeks ago, which sparked off some interesting discussion on exactly how powerful free players would be. What kinds of ships will they be able to fly, and how will they fare against subscribers? Is there a useful place for hordes of new players in EVE, or will they just be cannon fodder for the wealthy and established elite? I’ve been investigating various alpha-clone-ready ship setups this week in an attempt to answer these important questions, and my conclusion is that free players may be a lot deadlier in PvP than many people think.
In this edition of EVE Evolved, I look at four cheap but effective PvP ship setups that free players will be able to use.
http://massivelyop.com/2016/09/18/eve-evolved-free-to-play-pvp-cruiser-fitting-guide/ This is just a short clip of the full article. Read the full guide on massivelyop.