EVE General Discussion

They can spend their money on whatever they like Darth, they really don't need our permission.

Much as people that do not wish to use this option need not spend a dime on it.

How is this useful? If I wanted to pay for another character I'd setup a 2nd account.

Not useful to me != not useful to anyone.

Don't like it don't use it.

Yes.





...what?

Are you high?

Say I need an alt with a 1 year training plan. I don't need it logged in at the same time with my main, and want it on the same account, because I don't want to plex a second account indefinitely.

Right now I would have to open a second account, plex it for 12 months, and then pay (2?) additional plex to transfer it to my main account, for a total cost of 14 plex.

With this, I could buy 12 plex, train my alt side-by-side with my main for 12 months for a total cost of 12 plex.

How the **** is it MUCH cheaper to use a different account?

Some people are doing What Ifs about The Power of 2 or friend invites and etc etc because they just have to argue about everything for sake of being contrary.

It's still great for multiboxing.

My combat alts can have some hulks (which will cost 5 plex worth of training each) on the same account. My space-coffin supercap accounts can do the same thing, and then there's the dedicated miner accounts I'm already setting up.
Now I don't have to take my combat setup to the other side of the galaxy every time I need money, and my isk/account is significantly higher.
You could always just buy characters, but finding a focused character that doesn't suck and or have way too much SP is physically painful. Go read the character trading forum some time. It'll make you realize that suicide gankers truly do Space-God's work.



"Why don't you just train hulks on even more accounts then do a transfer hurr :downs:"

1.) Effort. Go set up 8 buddy-invited accounts to train hulks on, then set up APIs for your corp and misc eve tools.
2.) When you plex a buddy invited account, the account that sent the invitation gets 30d worth of gametime. I PLEX all my stuff anyways so it's basically a free month. Perfect T1 strip miner hulks are going to take me something like 4 and a half months. That's basically 3 PLEX after the trial, plus 2 plex transfer fee.
Great! I accomplished the same thing for the same price! And all it cost me was significantly more effort, and the ability to train them in the future without screwing up my other dudes!

Hey all,

RubberBAND here from the team implementing this feature. First apologies that you have not seen a Dev Blog about this. We had planned for one to go just prior to Fanfest, but that plan fell through. We hope to have a Dev Blog out sometime soon, but we don't have an ETA for you all yet.

To answer some of the questions in this thread, we are very interested in feedback regarding this feature and how useful you may find it. As most have figured out, this is a short term option for people who want to train an alt on their account without having to maintain two (or more) accounts.

If you are training two characters and the dual character in training runs out, the character with fewest skill points is assumed to be the alt and will be paused, while your character with more skill points will continue training.

Anyway expect more information soon, till then keep this thread rolling.

you didn't say it loud enough, so i fixed.

I can see myself using it. It's definitely a handy option to have. I wouldn't use it 24/7 but I'd think the game would be better with this feature than without it.

If it costs a FULL plex for training on your second character, what benefit is there to doing this? Just open another account (which you can regularly get for like 5 dollars, maybe less) and you can use them simultaneously.

This is stupid, there should be some benefit to this, perhaps 45 days of training for an alt.