EVE General Discussion

I currently have five accounts. Due to time and cost constraints, 4 of them are presently inactive. I have found, after re-activating this account, that there are serious limitations with not having hauler/market/scout alts at hand to assist my main. I would like to burn some toons and move others to different accounts, so in the end I have two active accounts with active toons.

I see that there is an option of activating an account for four hours in order to apply a plex to that account. Can I use this option to activate an account, remove unused characters from that account and/or move toons to a more active account? If I have a second account up and paid for, is there a way to move a toon from an inactive account to an empty slot on the active one?

The only other option seems to be to activate, for a month, each account just so I can make these moves/burns and end with the results I want. This equals approx. $60.00 just to get the results I want, and that isn't worth it to me. Is there an option I am not aware of?

Thank you.

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Hell, they all need training . . . I mean, that doesn't ever stop, does it?

What I was hoping for was an option to activate an account at eveonline.com for account management without the option to log into game on that account. Then I could move toons around as I saw fit, kill the dead accounts, and CCP would have a full paid subscription for one or two more accounts when it was all over.


Your point on the training is a good one, though. Thank you.

If you ask nicely and you haven't had a history of abusing the option many times, petition and they will almost certainly reset the H4P option. I've done it on several accounts where I used H4P to clean out assets during one of my returns to the game before they formally announced the H4P rules change. The response was sure, but follow the rules from now on (paraphrased).

OP, you might petition, but I would be surprised if they said yes. Moving characters is the same as moving assets in their eyes. In fact, I'm reasonably certain that they changed the rules because of a particular character trainer/seller who was abusing the system and using H4P to sell characters that were "in storage."

Does the account even need to be active to transfer?

But honestly, petition it and see.

Ye, I did at the time and since it was before they placed that giant warning in account management (which was at least a positive outcome to the conversation) they were willing to override it provided it wasn't abused in future. But I had a ridiculous number of accounts so it seemed like pointless workload for both sides to sort. It's only a handful affected now so waiting a few days for Hyperion is fine. That's interesting about character farmers abusing it because I noticed it going on and wondered. Particularly where some were selling multiple alts that were clearly inactive, which breaches the sale forum policy anyway.


It is an expensive exercise whether you pay via plex or RL funds. Don't forget you can use plex though (2 for transfers).

I keep wondering if a discount drive to allow players to transfer their characters between their own accounts would be useful. A lot of people seem to want to consolidate their accounts since MCT was made available but find the cost prohibitive. If it's an inactive account anyway CCP might gain revenue if people transfer them then reactivate training via MCT later - although they may lose out if people reduce their active accounts. Tricky to judge I suppose, particularly where character trading complicates things.

Gl anyway, and there's no harm bringing issues like this up on the forums if it highlights something that could be reviewed. Queries are always better than outraged ranting ;)


Yes. I think that rule is partly in place to stop inactive accounts from being hacked and sold but it's a pain for those trying to consolidate alts as per above, as well as people who return to game dirt poor and decide to firesale characters just to get some funds to play.

The transfers will only cost half of the activation.

You wouldn't be moving all the characters around, just mains of half.

$15x4 activation
Transfer 3 to 1 and 4 to 2 is another $40. From there you have 2 accounts with 2 characters on each account trained to where they are.

Really though you only need 2 accounts and haulers are low SP alts with the new Industrial layouts. Exception being if you want cloaky haulers that can make use of black ops bridging. They take a bit longer to prep.