EVE General Discussion

I have to wonder how many accounts have already been lost due to issues such as these. It is no secret that the Eve community isn't growing. When you see 40k people logged on, how many players is that really?

I'm gonna go on a limb and say maybe it IS game breaking.

The neutral scouts make gate camps only about killing the single account players. The neut repps (from multiple accounts, because it IS possible to have neut repps from actual people) make pvp about killing single account players. Or at least makes pvp risk-free for multiple account players.

How about the market? How has all these mining alts effected ore prices? This in turn effects all other prices in Eve.

We know about the big nullsec wars in the last few months... All the scandal! Isn't that really rooted in multiple accounts and botting?

Is this CCP's fault, or the players fault?

There are a few game play styles that lead to the need/want for a second account.

For example in a fleet fight do you want to be the one in an off grid booster? Sitting there alone away from the combat? This is better handled by an alt.

Or being the Cyno for a fleet of caps/supers. This is better handled by an alt as well.

Mining is done with multiple accounts at the same time due to the need to haul and mine at the same time.

Its the way that the game is designed from its core that certain activities are better with an alt.

I have dual boxed PVP pilots and that is a challenge, its not something I enjoy doing but I have done it in the past.

I held off getting an alt for years but recently came to the conclusion that if I want to go back to null sec I need a money making alt - in the form of an industrialist.

Nothing wrong with multiple accounts if it gets the job done.

there is many problems with team-paying style in Eve:
1. time zones
If you need someone to help you with some stuff and no one around atm..... You need to wait/wake up your mates/use alts.

2. Lack of trust to other players
Most of a time without knowing person in RL you can't trust him in Eve enough. This is about scouting, cyno-, hauling, salvaging, etc....

3. Some important tasks are boring
Tasks like hauling stuff around the universe in frighter, maintaining POS, PI, mining, etc.... These tasks are really boring. Almost no one will play long enough if you limit his playing style by this boring BUT IMPORTANT FOR THE TEAM tasks.

Yes. It affects other players. But Eve is MMO game so you always feel other players some way. And using alts for boring stupid tasks safes you time to do other playing style like pvp, team-work and other. So from this end alts make the game more interesting.

I'm a noob, but not long after starting Eve I realized a second account could enrich my gaming experience:

- My main (this one) is purely PvP focused with the intention of getting into FW sometime in the furture.
- My second account is an industrialist (mining, PI, production and small time hauler).

This approach, IMHO, allows me to experience several facets of Eve, in a timely manner, without having to spread my skill points and micromanage skill queues for two or three characters on one account. Whilst my second account tends to be played stand alone, there have been times when it has assisted my main and fellow corp mates too.

I should point out that I never go AFK when playing, the character in space gets my full attention and the non active character stays docked.

The fact that you need a "cyno alt" just to make a capital move from one system to the other, is the main reason i don't even play in 0.0 at all. I hate it when you have to rely on others to do whatever you want to do. Having an alt just to do this, is something i never understood.

I did't have any alts for four years. Then i made an alt that is doing support work, like gang, haul, scout etc, never got involved into a fight with it, i can't play two clients simultanusly, it's hard for me. I guess the main reason i have an alt, is because i can easily pay for it at the moment, buying plexes. If, in the future becomes hard for me to pay for the alt, the alt will be gone...

I generally don't agree with the alts idea, but who cares... It's established years ago, makes good money for CCP, most people like it, many mechanisms of the game require it.

Running one and only one shroom here

Use to run 2 accounts, but circumstances changed, so now I'm down to one account, and one character who is a jack of all trades. Actually enjoying it more, its really made me think about my skill training