EVE New Citizens Q&A

Here is a silly/noob question, but I just never had anyone explain it to me yet and I have never read anything on it yet.

When you log in for the first time you create a character and activate it and then use it.

Then when you exit and enter the game again, you have a choice of using the "Main Character" or choosing 2 blank boxes that are also for characters?

I have never tried to create a new character before. If I do create a new character, does this affect the other one somehow?

Is this how people have mining characters and also pvp characters?

If I had 2 characters, do I (or can I) use one to mine ore and then refine it and sell it and then give the money to the other character?

How does this work?

I dont really like having to play 1 character and then say, yeah, I spent a lot of time on this one but I think I will log out and back into yet another character and go mining for a while and then log off again.

To answer your questions:

Sometimes.

Some people run two separate accounts, so they can train on both. Some buy a mining pc and transfer it onto their account. Some split the training time between them.


A lot of people have a posting Alt [:-d], so they don't expose their main.
A fair number of people have a Jita price check alt, that they park in jita, and bounce over to when they want to see if it's worth the trip.


And yes, you can transfer isk between alts.

1) Yes clicking on the blank boxes will let you create a new character.

2) The only effect creating a new character has on the old one - is that if you want to train skills on the new character - you have to stop training them on the first one to do it. Otherwise - no effect. Be aware though that if you give enough of your API away - people can see all your alternate characters. Many Corporations require you to do that or they won't let you in. The API methodology has changed recently so I can't give you a better answer than that just now.

3) For characters on the same account - you can use each of your characters to do anything you want - you just can't use them both at the same time. If you try to log in a second time to the same account - it will log out the first log in. Most of us who use a lot of characters have done that now and again ... "Oh! I'll just log in Charcter #12. They have the skill I need ... oops ..."

4) As mentioned above - if you want to have more than one character active at the same time - you have to have a second account. If you do have a second account - one character on that account can train skills at a time, just like with the first account. There is no built in connection between these accounts - unless you create one - by putting them in the same corporation or trading with each other (which some levels of API may be able to detect).

5) You can transfer money from any character in the game to any other character in the game. Just go to your People and Places - look the character up - and give them money. Equipment and ships is a little trickier. If they are in the same corporation they can have a Corporate Office where they share hangars and each character with the hangar access privilege can access whatever is in it. You can create a contract from one character to the next. You can also dump things out in space then have the other character log in and go get them - but then anyone else can get them too.

6) For the most part - you don't want to split your training time between characters until you've got the first one fairly well along. You can create another character if you want - just don't train them to do anything. Price check characters are common uses for untrained alts - as are posting alts.

7) One thing to look out for with the creation of alts characters and accounts - is that each one you create tends to absorb some of your time. That is to say that there is a certain amount of overhead associated with each one you create - if you are going to make use of them. So ... mostly ... don't create another character or account just for the hell of it - have a reason in mind.

8) Deleting characters. You can delete characters any time you want. There's a cool down time to give you a chance to change your mind - and if you change your mind after deleting it - you can try an appeal to the GM's and maybe they'll restore the guy for you. But - don't delete characters to avoid any bad reputation they've accumulated - this can get you in trouble with the GM's. An example would be - creating a character - going out and ganking a bunch of other players - and then deleting that character once they can no longer go into Hi Sec because of their bad security standing - so you can create yet another character to do the same thing with. If they find out you've done that - you will get in trouble. But - if you screw up in character creation (say you were drunk) and later on sober up and think "My God! What did I do?" then you can just delete them with no problems. I've deleted two characters because I made an unfortunate name choice and another I created simply to do something in an area I had no characters in.


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