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This feature should be free.

I would agree, if it weren't for the introduction of second character training on a single account for a fee. Single training is fine and dandy due to any number of justifications, but once you remove that limitation by spending PLEX in game those justifications fall to the wayside and the limitation becomes arbitrary. It's little different than other MMOs which include steep XP curves, then sell bonus XP potions/implants in their online stores.

This feature should be free, or the limitation should remain in place.

I understand where you are coming from, and your point makes some sense, but I think it's more of a game design decision.
EVE has always been 1 PLEX = 1 Character training, and this isn't changing.
The only thing that's changing is what account that character happens to be on, and the fact that there is now more choice about how you train individual characters is great!

For those saying "is it greed"... Yes it is greed.

Its smart too.

If they want to come up with some charging mechanism for it, fine.

I do think that there should be a "paid" option for it in addition to a plex option. The main account costs 14.99 a month, a plex costs rougly $20.00 (legally). The alt really should not cost more than the main on the same account.

If its 14.99 a month, throw the people who would rather pay a bone by giving a $10 a month option for dual training, so it would cost a person about $24.99 a month to dualtrain a account, not 34.99 a month .

(That's $35 dollars a month to play eve with dual training on a account that you can only log 1 character in at a time (the $14.99 + the $20.00 for the plex itself).

That is over DOUBLE what every other game charges for subscription of 1 account, and all those games went fremium.

By doing the $10 option, you would get more people who would rather pay money to you to dual train the character, rather than using ingame isk to buy plex, *Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal
The pure $ option would cause allot of people to consider just making a dedicated effort to just pay the cash rather than plex the account.

And to those who argue cash is stupid, if you had intentions of doing dual skill through plex, most likely, it'd be buying plex via Isk anyway, *Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal

Just want to get more cash in your wallets CCP (and preferably keep some in mine :-/)


Here is my specific reasoning. 2 accounts is 30 dollars a month. I can validate the cost realistically.

$70 a month though for 2 accounts with dual training? That is more than my Gym Membership, More than my cable bill, more than my phone bill, internet bill, that's more than I pay for Gas at the pump to fill my car up. My grocieries are cheaper than $70 dollars. Heck a damn date's cheaper than my videogame bill. My headset costs less than $70 dollars. And we "or me specifically" would have to pay the subscription fee $14.99, PLUS to dual train an account... of an alt, THAT I CANNOT LOG IN AT THE SAME TIME, costs me 25% MORE than my account itself (or 50% if you have a year subscription). That is more than my Power Bill.

14.99 a month. I can validate that. X2 for 2 accounts that I use simultaneously.. ok I can validate that.

$30 a month for a great game.. Sure. Not a problem.

$70 a month for that same game to enable a "30 day feature", is LUDICROUS!!!!

1. As far as i know you can turn the game time cards into PLEX, hence you can so to speak use them for this

2. Yes this annoys a lot of us doesn't it :) some day... some day



That might be an option in the future if this works out fine. We decided to start with this and see where it takes us, but to be clear there are no immediate plans on going further with this.



I couldn't agree more


And finally, to the few (some obvious trolls ) complaining about CCP being greedy with this feature:

We are not removing or replacing existing methods. Of course there are scenarios where it would be cheaper to sign up for a new account but then by all means take the cheapest path, we are simply giving you, our beloved users, an alternate way of training alts.

Yeah , like i said , FREEDOM !

CCP Doubled the price of a account and nobody is even twitching. (they actually increased it by over 125%).

Surprisingly come a few years ago when they planned all of this Pay to Play, the Eve Universe Rioted.

Ok this sounds good but can we do the following.....

We have a paid account with say 3 toons.
1 is the main....with the main account training as we do now.
Alt 2 paused training
Alt 3 paused training

Will this new feature of 1 plex allow training alt 2 for 1/2 month then pause alt 2, and continue training alt 3 for the other 1/2 month..?????

If not

The work around would be to plex train our main alt for 30days, and use our main account training to train alt 2 for 1/2 month and alt 3 for 1/2 month then when plex month is finished on alt 1 we can then use account training back on alt 1.

Regards

JEDI

You can't convert the icelandic GTC's to plex...

I think its more aimed for those people who want to train something short on an alt, but who have perhaps not done so due to the extra cost of having another account and incurring the extra cost in moving the alt to and back from aforementioned account.

Especially those people who only have 1 account full stop.

So if anything, its more likely to bring in some extra revenue for CCP, or at the very least drive the cost of plexes a bit higher than it already is.

That being said, I do firmly believe that given the cost balance involved (which other people have already broken down on previous pages) that the 30 days should be "as used" as opposed to a straight timer.

In other words:

1: I activate second PLEX
2: 30 days dual training added to account
3: Alt 1 trains Skill X for 17 days.
4: Alt 1's skill completes. No further training is set.
5: 13 days dual training time remains in the bank waiting to be used.

Or, allow the remaining "bank time" to be added to the primary subscription timer.

Why? Because how often are you going to have 30 days exactly to be trained? If you're going to charge us essentially a months sub cost (and don't get me wrong, I think its a fantastic addition to the game) then make it flexible dammit.

Em.