EVE General Discussion

Everybody can use a scouting alt.

If you don't feel the need for an alt, follow that feeling.
If you do feel the need for an alt, follow that feeling.

Ultimately, the only one who can answer your question is you. By the sound of it, you don't particularly feel that need at the moment. For L4 missions, in particular, an alt would bet better used by simply running a second mission — using one for salvaging is ridiculously wasteful.

Alt for Exploration? That's what I did. Blow things up with my main, travel the stars with my alt. My alt actually makes more isk salvaging and the like. Odd that.

I started playing in 2007 and for the most part I have 1 account till late 2009. I was living in null by then and the shear logistics of trying to fight "on the front" (back then i was in Atlas and right about then the "front" was up north where we were deployed) then going back to the South (where i "lived") to make isk was incredibly hard and irritating, even with jump clones (damn 24 hour wait).

So I made a seocnd account and took a toon (actually my original toon) off the 1st account and put it on the second and trained it to use ratting ships (and haul stuff to empire with a prorator via the jump bridge network). It was 1000% better, rather than having to jump or death clone around, losing skill points because I'd sometimes forget to upgrade lol.

Then i got lazy and made a 3rd accout just for hauling so I could leave my ratting toon ratting lol. I can't remember why I made the 4th accout but it was probably because I wanted to train 2 or 3 things at once. for the last 3 years I've had 4 accounts and it's so much FREEDOM it's crazy.

If i don't feel like null sec, i log in my 2 wormhole drakes , if I don't flee like that, it's my FW alt for some pew pew, if none of that works its the high sec incursion/mission alts etc etc. Now that i'm at the point that making the isk for 4 plex is 2 or 3 days/session work, it's all good for the other 27-29 days of the month.

i have a mining alt and a leadership / hauling / looting alt.

I use both a lot and cant really picture going back to one toon.

If i never mined again .. i would still keep the hauling alt.

He can fly everyting up to jump freighters, has max leadership skills, flies a noctis when im ratting with my main, can cloak if i need and I am working him into a Rorq - all and all very useful.

I really like to use the 2nd account to loot .. while the main toon is warping otu of the belt or anomolee - alt is warping in to clean up .. while im killing the rats at the new loc .. i cant alt tab back and forth and clean up .. all the while granting some bonuses.

All that being said .. i liked it back in the begining where most people didnt have alt accounts .. and people were specialised within the corp -- lent itself more to RPG - pilot role specific toons .. added a certain element to the game .. ike an old DnD party made up with different specialists who worked better together than apart. Now everyone is more or less self suficient .. not sure whats better - but i dont plan on going back to the old way of doing things.

An exploration alt might be worth looking into... But other than fun factor, is it considerably more profitable than missioning? I should mention that I dont leave highsec if I cant help it, but if I ever go for a Tengu, I might give it a shot.

Need cyno alt to move around your carrier m8r

I played with one character for about 5 years before I needed a Cyno alt. I got a carrier for this character and that became a requirement.

However, since training up my cyno alt to 900k SP, I started a new character on that account that is all Industry. I have to admit that I enjoy my indy toon almost as much as this PvP toon. Guiding his skills, mining, harvesting, researching, copying. It has opened up a new part of EVE that I was missing before.

Looking forward to the isk sink that is T2 Manufacturing.

I find alts totally ruin any immersion brought by the game itself. That said, I have 3 accounts because its hard to get anything done with only one. If you are a decent sized corp, you might have pilots on hand that can coordinate for a particular task, but there will always be times when the right guy isn't on when you need to do something. Its hard to get jazzed about new jump gate animations when you never look at them. During jumps your mostly looking at the other screen trying to see what needs to be done there.

It also seems to depend on what you're trying to do. If you are doing 'explorer' type things, then one char is fine. Want to live in a wh though, then you'll almost certainly want at least two chars. My experience is in C3s, maybe the big boys in C5-6 wouldn't find it necessary. If you want to be a hisec ganker, you'll need someone who can fly safely to bring you ships. Sure, maybe your gank squad has someone who can do that, and that guy won't be logged on when you get the jonsing for a gank and need stuff. Oh you'll need your own scout too. Want to wardec hisec corps for fun? You'll need 3 chars for that. Trigger puller, scout, and locator.

I'd love to find a way to exist without the 'alts.' I feel scitzophrenic.

So OP if you can resist the urge to altify, then I'd say go for it. Also, please send me email about how you get by. I'd love to ditch all my alts... but now I'm not even sure which is the main any more.

alts are for people who care about this game too much, tbh. i use 1 character and have no problems doing anything.