EVE New Citizens Q&A

A number of reasons. A lot of purposes don't require a lot of skillpoints. I have a research alt on my account that only required a couple days of training. Didn't want to do it on my main since it would require tying him up in a single region.

I used Power of Two awhile ago to train up a trade/industrial alt, then transferred that character to my main account so I don't have to pay the recurring sub.




RP corps exist, though I'd mention that egregious xenophobia and roleplay are not the same thing.




It affects your starting skills and whatnot but no. Why should EVE shoehorn you into certain skill/ship sets? Why does the fact that I am Minmatar make me better at flying Vagabonds than Ceberuses? EVE is all about choices, and having your choices restricted by an arbitrary decision you make as a newbie before you have any idea about the characteristics about different racial weapons and ships would be dumb.

Plunderbunny is in 1 slot, my carebear in a 2nd, and the guy holding onto PETA for me for when I go to other corps like the Hulkageddon Orphanage

Figured I would chime in since this is something I looked at before...

Gallente you can look at Federal Consensus Outreach (alliance), also there is the Federal Nationalist Party, but with 2 chars, not sure if it is active, or recruiting. There are some options there with Gallente, but unfortunately, I really do not know much about them.

Caldari...I tried to get something going, but due to time constraints on my end, and seeming lack of interest and numbers, I am basically inactive. However, The Fourth District (alliance), which operates out of the Providence region of 0.0 is semi-RP if I recall correctly, along with a handful of other RP corps in caldari space that are slipping my mind.

Other, to expound further, if there is a particular group you want to RP as, chances are that someone else has started something similar. Whether you want to work with them or start fresh is your own choice, but coming from someone who tried it basically solo, it really helps to have other people you are working with. Otherwise you kind of end up getting burned out, at least in my experience.

Now, as far as the 3 character slots, it doesn't hurt to just create them to have something there if you want. Even if you don't skill them, or only a little, it allows you great flexibility. I have a couple accounts, and all of the char slots are full. Do I really log in and use them all often? No, but I have them there for different purposes.

Anyway, hope this helped, and good luck with EVE, and hope you enjoy it.

Have you ever played any MMO? Do you know of one that only allows you one char? do you know of one where you can train / level-up more than one character at a time?


Some people like to have lower skilled alts.

I have the following:

1: Jint - main char
2: Corp CEO. With corp management skills
3: POS gunner & scanner - for when i was considering setting up in a wormhole.

They have their uses, but you are not forced to use them if you think they are pointless.

Even if you have only one account alts can be handy for a variety of things.

Considering my line of work mostly neutral alts for scouting and cyno alts.

You can use them for research, trading, or hauling.

You have to be careful though they tend to be the gateway into multiple accounts as you get sick for a while of the whole: Great now I have to stop training on character X to train character Y.

Once you get to that point "power of two" deal looks mighty tempting.

Alts, or maybe even some more trial accounts are actually great to try other stuff.

As for wanting it all, I was drunk lately and though let's put all skills to level 5 on my character (already ~2 years old), takes me another 20.5 years to train every single skill there is in game atm to level 5.

So CCP, let's hope EVE is here to stay. At least for another 30 years or so =)

Why have search options when people don't use them to read up on topics that have been beaten to death?

Uh ... don't do that.

Being able to accomplish things in EVE is largely based on how much money you have - and new characters have no money.

Also - New Players - have no idea what they're doing or what they want to do. Once you are a veteran player - you'll have a better understanding of the game and be able to make more informed decisions.


So - what you should do - is to play one character for a while and build them up. You can have that character do different things if you want - think of it as a starter character - and learn different aspects of the game - but even that is splitting your time and resources. Specialization is the key to getting rich. Which doesn't mean getting rich is the only goal worth while - it just means it is a consideration. Thus - building up one character to the point where they can really do something before splitting your time and money across multiple characters.

THEN, once you've got a character that can generate some cash flow - WHEN you have a reason for making an alt - then make one. You want to be thinking, "Gee - if only had another character I could do - this ...."

Mostly - you can train anything you want on one character - what another character gives you is someone who can be at a different place at the same time as your other characters - you just can't actually play them at the same time. If you want other characters to play at the same time - then you need another account.

Don't create alts just to create alts. If you just want to play around with different things - you can create a trial account and mess with that for a couple of weeks but I'd not really encourage that because of the drain you YOUR time.

Once you have ONE character what can make some real money - that character can help finance any new ones.

If you go out and make a bunch of alts - all you have is three characters with no money.

Each character you create - costs money in terms of skill books and ships - and it costs you TIME that you could have been spending on your main character.



Now ... why am I saying this?


Because I have over 4 accounts and most of my character slots are full. So I have lots of characters and do believe I created most of them before I should have - although - in each case - I did have a reason for creating that character. One of which was to get a flavor for the different Factions. What I found out - is that unless you ARE into role playing - it doesn't matter what faction you are from. Outside of role playing - no one cares.

The other thing is - I get bored fairly easily - and creating new characters in different regions - just lets me see something different for a while. The stuff that goes on in each region - isn't that different - except for the people there. But that's pretty much it. That is however enough for me to enjoy doing that ... going somewhere else and looking at different ships and gas clouds and playing a character with a different face. So I tend to play one set of characters for a while - then play with another set - the trouble is - all that stuff I mentioned above.

In short - you can do what you just said - and may enjoy it - but there is a down side to that type of a play style you might want to think about before hand. If I had known then what I know now ... I would have done some things a lot differently. I'd still have a lot of characters - I'd have just space them out more and concentrated initially on getting some characters developed that could make some real money before spending my time bringing up a bunch of new ones.

*shrug*

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This character as well as another were trained on different accounts then transferred to their current account. This allows my main to be the primary character training but allows these characters to still be useful.

It isn't always useful, but it does save on cash if you can't afford multiple accounts.

No problems. I might not agree with Mr. Kuvakei's views, but I do always enjoy reading your threads on the IGS.



Tch. Sounds like you do about the same thing rats do in belts. I suppose a master can only get so creative with what he can tell his servants to do.