EVE General Discussion

Hello! I really do not wish to get banned after my first three days I will attempt to make this as succinct as possible. Bullet points, go!

- Took up someone's offer and am currently on my first 21 day trial (love the game, thus far).
- Messed up quite a bit, but also learned what I did wrong.
- Was hoping to simply make a new account and get a better/'correct' head start.
- Would only do this once. My general rule of thumb is one game, one account. No alternates for me.
- After making the new account I would permanently delete this one.

Now comes the "legality" issues:

- 1 day into free trial, friend offered to let me use his 21 day trial and mentioned the perks of the Buddy program.
- Friend stated he would take the PLEX, sell it, and split the profits (maybe a little something extra if I joined his corp).
- Just recently found out about the 3-month subscription special offer with the 'Starter Pack.'

My idea:

- Use ~18 days to only mine and make ISK on this trial (gives me some breathing room just in case).
- Take up friend's offer, use his 21 day trial, and immediately subscribe by buying the special offer.
- I start off with both the Starter Pack, a decent amount of ISK to get me started, and the knowledge to not screw up right out of the starting gate.

I do not wish to sound rude, but you answered before I even asked my question

If you have any information about what you posted, though, I'd love to read about it, just in case.

As long as you're creating another account, just like someone who uses multiple accounts, I don't think you'll have a problem with CCP. Just don't expect to use more than one trial period on the same account.

I'm pretty sure when you sub, you lose your trial period. So don't sub until your trial period is over.

I'll have to look it up, but Rookie Chat/Help was abuzz with this question and I kept seeing the same answer: whatever is left on your trial period will be added to your first 30-day PLEX. Thank you for the help, though!

Yea, except I think the waiting period is 6 months (unless that's only for subbed accounts), but I'd rather just delete the first account I made and focus on the one I'm going to make (my 'real' one). If I want to later down the road I could always make a 2nd character on that account.

Also, Goonwaffe? I'm pretty sure Goon were responsible for most of the EVE-related stories I've seen over the past few years (what initially got me interested in the game). While I have many short term goals to pick at for the next few months I set one ultimate goal; one that seemed impossible, but gives me that reason to carry on: to exterminate teh Goon!

Correct, sir. And indeed, I know that. I know it may sound odd, but I don't want to 'waste' any equipment, ships, or ISK from this account. Figure I could give my corporation all of my ships for practicing with and transfer any ISK to my new account.

And you are also correct on that front, as well. I wish no ill upon any players, new or old. I didn't even think about that until you mentioned it because I wouldn't have thought about it on my own, lol.

I will admit i have no idea what your talking about here.
Shooting other people will not get you into trouble unless your trying to trick new players into fights. If the OP decides to gank someone because they run around in a t1 frig with 10 PLEX's in its cargo he is not breaking any rules. He dosent even need a reason, he can shoot at people because he feels like it and CCP will not care and he will not get into trouble because he has a low sec status.
Please correct me if there is some rule im missing, because if i am i would like to know in case a question like this comes up again

To the OP.
The only problem you might run into with what you have in mind is that im pretty sure trial accounts cant not send ISK to another player, so you will have to find some other way to get the ISK to your new main.
What you could do (as far as i know) is to save up the ISK on your current character, and right before the time runs out use that ISK to buy a ship or item that will cost you more or less everything you have.
Then trade said ship to a friend or a person you trust (trial accounts can do direct trades, but not contracts or trade ISK as far as i know) and then hope said friend will keep up his/hers end up the deal and trade the item(s) to your new character.
The reason you have to rely on a friend for this is that your not allowed to run a trial account and a paid account at the same time (might be some way around this).

Or, buy said ship/module, warp to a moon or planet in a quiet system and jettison the item/eject from the ship, log in your new main who should already be placed there and just pick it up. Please note that if you jettison it your new character will be flagged so dock up until the timer is gone.

Good luck

Just a few tips for you:

* It is fine to have more than 1 account, you can use the same email address on multiple accounts.
* You must use the link provided by your friend or the link in the Buddy invitation email to take advantage of the 21 day Buddy trial. It is important that you are logged out of any existing account when you follow the link.
* Many offers cannot be combined with the Buddy Program, they will not appear in Account Management for you, so please check what is available before you count on combining offers in this way.
* Check out the terms and conditions of the Buddy Program, these are linked in the invitation, the page where you create your trial, and from your Account Management page. Some payment methods are not eligible for your friend to receive a reward, or might have restricted rewards (such as not eligible for PLEX) .
* When you upgrade your trial you will NOT lose any remaining trial days, these are added to your total subscription time.

I hope this helps, and that I didn't miss your actual question If in doubt it is a good idea to file a support ticket (press F12 in-game, create from the website or by email to support@eveonline.com) and ask a billing GM for advice on your specific case.

You're about to get another lesson about Eve: never trust anyone and between all betrayers you might find in this game, your true RL friends will most probably be the ones leading the first strike

Welcome to Eve

I know it seems like you're 'wasting' stuff by not using the few million you might make during trial. But honestly, it's not worth the effort.

You could sneeze that amount of isk in 20 minutes after 2 months of dedicated training. Less, if you're content to salvage vs. killing.

Focus your energies on having fun, learning the game, and joining a group that can provide help/advice. Whatever you do, don't get into the 'game' of 'wallets online'