EVE General Discussion

Train it to either fly a Tengu or a Carrier (Archon/Thanatos) maybe even a jump frieghter then sell it for a good amount of isk, retire from missions and take up PVP. That is literally the only thing you should be doing with your first alt, and your second and possibly your third alt until you need to start thinking about having a cap character and cyno alt for yourself. You will not regret doing this i promise you. Its a really passive and easy way to make isk and fund the good stuff

My first alt was a logistics pilot, armor logi to be more exact. But my main was flying Gallente armor tanks so the armor logi fit in. I
then trained my main to provide a bit of support (remote reppers) to my logi incase she got primaried. Even if you train all the way in to logistics you can still cross train the pilot to be a hybrid combat/logistics. I could do all kinds of stuff with my Domi and Onerios combo, in time I added a thrid alt then a 4th....... am at 11 now with a pretty good spider tank setup with combat pilots if needed.

The is nothing better then to be in a pvp fight and your enemies think you are toast 2v1 they mock you in true EVE fassion. You uncloak your logi at 65km and start repping. They go after your logi but it has a awesome tank on it and your main can support it if needed. Soon you see an explosion, guick get your tackle on the other ship and you will get to see another explosion. Victory!

Spend a few buck to make a 3rd and 4th account, train a couple traders on them, when they are trained well in the art of trade transfer them to you main and 1st alt account. Make profit to support your escapades in space.

Skys the limit.

One word: Falcon.

Nothing provides that OMG-WTF-GTFO like that ship!

Also a nice stepping-stone for the Tengu, because two of them are rather impressive.

Or shoot blues.

The only reason I started an alt was as a hauler to move the enormous amount of crap that I've accumulated.







Oh, and this character has random skills all over the damned place, based on my n00b decisions several years ago to just pick skills that "sounded good", so i wanted another character that I could build "properly".

Just ask yourself: What in EVE Online requires the most interaction with other players or would benefit the most from interaction with others?

Whatever that action is, that's what you want to train your alt to do. Just bear in mind that your first alt won't be enough to completely insulate you from human interaction in the game, not at first, anyway.

Now, you can generalize that first alt, in which case it may be a few months before he/she/it has the efficiency in all the tasks you want him/her/it to perform so as to reduce human-to-human interaction by a noticeable amount. The other option is to launch right into alt #2, alt #3, alt #4, etc., etc., etc. If you want to do that, if you have the commitment for that (and the hardware setup and bankroll), then each of those alts will be ready to perform their task much sooner, since their training will be much more focused on the relevant task you want them to perform, rather than all that extraneous **** like flying a spaceship and whatnot.

The problem you will run into with having a swarm of alts is that at any given time, only a few of those alts will be useful. If you are ok with this inefficiency, then that's fine. If you aren't, then, what you can do is to have other people play on those alts whenever you are not using them, preferably having them perform the very same tasks that you would be performing on the alt. This way, even when you need the alt for something, you will be able to operate it with verbal and written commands, rather than having to log into the account directly and "play" on the alt. The alt will essentially run itself. You just have to convince the other person to run it for you, which isn't actually that hard. Believe it or not, some people will take the initiative of starting the alt for you, paying for it, training it, and learning to use it. The only downside is that whole "interacting" thing you have to do with these people that run your alts for you . . . and some of them require ISK or favors in return for the service they are performing. Some of them might also be under the misguided impression that your main is THEIR alt. (They might even try to pod you if you don't do what they want.) You just have to work around this.

A great side benefit of this is that once these people are funding and running your alts for you, you are free to have a virtually unlimited number of them.