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Starting with the Ascension expansion (November 2016), there are two different ways of playing EVE:

* You can play for free (i.e. without paying a [https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/203599091-Subscription-Costs monthly subscription fee]), but you will be limited in which [[Skills and Learning|skills]] your character can train. This is referred to as "Alpha".  

Alpha clones are welcome to [[Applying_to_EVE_University|join EVE University]], however, there are some limitations on which [[titles]] Alpha clones may receive.

== Alpha clones ==

* They may add skill points to skills in the Alpha set up to 20.5 million skill points with [[Skill_trading#Skill_Injectors|skill injectors]].

* They take twice as long to train skills and have a shorter skill queue (24 hours, as opposed to unlimited for Omega characters)

=== Alpha skill set ===

* Combat ships up to [[battleship]] size, as well as basic [[industrial]] ships.

* [[Techs, Tiers and Meta levels|Tech 1]] sub-capital modules and ships with a few exceptions.  

** Arms Race patch granted Alpha clones the skills for T2 Small and Medium weapons.

Expand the table below to see which skills you can train as an Alpha, and to what maximum level. For a list of skills you start the game with, see [[Starting Skills|starting skills]].  

|- style="background:#222222;"

! style="background-color:#222222;" | Group

! style="background-color:#222222;" | Skill

! style="background-color:#222222;" | Rank

! style="background-color:#222222;" | Points

| 4

| 226274

| 226274

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Amarr Drone Specialization}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Caldari Drone Specialization}}

| 7071

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Medium Energy Turret}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Motion Prediction}}

| 90510

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Rapid Firing}}

| 90510

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Sharpshooter}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Small Energy Turret}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Trajectory Analysis}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Small Pulse Laser Specialization}}

| 24000

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Medium Pulse Laser Specialization}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Small Beam Laser Specialization}}

| 24000

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Medium Beam Laser Specialization}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Large Energy Turret}}

| 4

| 226274

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Small Blaster Specialization}}

| 3

| 24000

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Medium Blaster Specialization}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Large Hybrid Turret}}

| 226274

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Small Autocannon Specialization}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Medium Autocannon Specialization}}

| 40000

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Small Artillery Specialization}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Medium Artillery Specialization}}

| 40000

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Large Projectile Turret}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Medium Hybrid Turret}}

| 768000

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Rocket Specialization}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Heavy Missile Specialization}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Light Missile Specialization}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Heavy Assault Missile Specialization}}

| 3

| 40000

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Torpedoes}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Missile Launcher Operation}}

| 5

| 256000

| rowspan=6 style="text-align: left;" | Resource Processing

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Ice Harvesting}}

| 2

| 1414

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Hybrid Weapon Rigging}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Launcher Rigging}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Shield Rigging}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Projectile Weapon Rigging}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Drones Rigging}}

| 24000

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Electronic Superiority Rigging}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Energy Weapon Rigging}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Jury Rigging}}

| 16000

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Amarr Industrial}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Mining Frigate}}

| 90510

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Spaceship Command}}

| 8000

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Caldari Industrial}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Gallente Industrial}}

| style="text-align: left;" | {{sk|Minmatar Industrial}}

Alpha characters are perfectly viable in low-level PvP and PvE, and in support roles in larger-scale PvP (such as [[EWAR]] or [[Tackling Guide|tackle]] for a fleet). However, their performance will not be on par with Omega characters once the latter has trained the skills to start using Tech 2 modules and ships.  

Alpha characters can [[mining|mine]] (ore or gas) in a [[Venture]] (but not use more advanced mining ships), and can perform basic (only Tech 1, no [[invention]]) [[manufacturing]]. While they will not be as efficient as an Omega character (who have access to more advanced ships and skills which improve mining and manufacturing efficiency, and are not subject to the addition 2% tax levied on Alpha characters), they can nonetheless participate in basic industry. They can [[salvage]] wrecks, but they cannot, however, do [[Planetary Interaction]].  

Basic [[hauling]] is an option for Alpha characters as they have access to Tech 1 industrial ships.

Alpha clones are no longer locked to skills of the character's race as they were during launch. However, the [[Starting Skills|starting skills]] count toward the free training skill limit while in Alpha clone state. The subsections below describe the benefits of training into skills of a specific race. Keep in mind that every ship in the game has its nuances, and there are always exceptions to the rule; Omega characters in particular have many more possibilities to bend or break the principles listed below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each race has two basic [[Hauling#T1_Industrials|industrial]] (hauling) ships that Alpha characters can fly. Additionally, Minmatar and Gallente characters can fly industrial ships specialised in carrying large quantities of a specific cargo type: ammunition for Minmatar ([[Hoarder]]); [[Asteroids and Ore|ore]], [[Reprocessing#Ore|minerals]], and [[PI|planetary commodities]] for Gallente ([[Miasmos]], [[Kryos]], and [[Epithal]]).

== Omega clones ==

Omega clones may use any skill, ship and item in the game. Additionally, you may log into the game with more than one account at a time (multiboxing), but only as long as ''all'' the accounts being logged in have Omega status.

* [https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/introducing-clone-states-and-the-future-of-access-to-eve-online/ Dev Blog: Introducing Clone States] (August 2016)

* [https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/clone-states-post-csm-summit-roundup/ Dev Blog: Clone States - Post CSM Summit Roundup] (October 2016)

* [https://community.eveonline.com/news/patch-notes/patch-notes-for-eve-online-ascension/ Patch Notes for the Ascension expansion] (November 2016)

* [https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=501519 Forum Post: [December] Defender Missiles] (November 2016)

* [https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/clone-states-the-next-steps/ Dev Blog: Clone States - The Next Steps (December 2017)]