EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi all
I'm still very new (I started less than a week ago).

I noticed you can activate dual training on you account to train 2 chars at the same time (either by paying directly or with PLEX). That's about 20$, while 1 month sub is about 15$.

You can get discounts by buying multiple PLEX, but you can also get discounts by subbing for more that 1 month at a time, so it seems to me that training 2 chars on the same account will always be more expensive than keeping up 2 different accounts.

Is there a reason for that?
Are there things that you cannot do on 2 different accounts, or that are so expensive that it's more convenient to pay more money to train on the same account?

Got it, thanks!

The dual training option really makes sense if you have a character which is already partially trained and in existence on the same account as your main. This is because the cost to transfer it off, pay for a single month and transfer it back would be about 3 PLEXs worth in rl money. So in many cases about 3 maybe 4 months max is going to come out to close to even, to a character which was transferred off onto another account, paid for a month, then transferred back.

If you are going to do a new character it is usually more cost efficient to just make it on a separate account and train it to where you want, then transfer it to your current account. This is especially true if you plan on training for the long term, i.e have a mission running alt or industry alt for your pvp main.