Player Features and Ideas Discussion

2 plex to swap characters between accounts. Already exists, it's just not free.
If you want the ability of characters on different accounts you should have to pay for it if you later decide you've had enough of that power and want to merge them.

Gentlemen! Thank you for your responses!

Even if there was some good reason to keep my 5 accounts active and therefore unrestricted access to the characters therein this does not solve the problem of freely moving characters (except the mains) between accounts and or give the ability to manage the 5 paid subscriptions from one account management sign-in.

Nor can it be feasible to pay 2 PLEX a time to move a character if and when you feel you need to move multiple times. I don't see why there should be encouragement to have more than one account and then punitive restrictions on the ability to move or manage characters within the scope of your accounts. Be they active or disabled.

I understand the statement of "Either keep the accounts active or not have access to those characters" when I was working part time and could easily play and use 5 active accounts but now there just isn't the need or the time and I usually just focus on 2 - 3 accounts at a time...but there is no way you can convince me that paying and keeping active an account just to use a character for a 15 minute scout run makes sense.

If it's a case of making sure there are restrictions so that people do not abuse a proposed system then so be it but I guarantee you that there will come a time when those who have invested in multiple accounts will want more flexibility and for free or players will simply dismiss the notion of the power of two...or more than two.

Let me give you another example:

I have 3 active accounts - one of my characters is a sub (ALT) character to my main which means to access the ALT I have to log out my main and vice versa constantly until I achieve the goal such is the case if my ALT is mission running and my main is boosting, salvaging, remote repping, and providing support & firepower. That is his purpose. Ideally I would swap out my ALT to my other active account without penalty and then my main and ALT can mission side by side.

You then respond: well what about your other 2 active accounts?

And I say: 1 is in null sec or WH cuz he is the capital pilot for WH defense, for whatever reason the other is a miner with limited to no missioning skills because he is (by design) a pro miner, or a scout, or bait or whatever, and therefore not suitable for the role.

By aforementioned logic I would have to pay to activate a 4th account and or pay PLEX to transfer characters to facilitate 20 minutes of salvaging.

In all honesty, I think the multiple account thing should go completely.
Yes, you can have multiple accounts, yes you can have them running at the same time, NO you can't have more then 1 in space at any time.

Ahhhh.... class envy. How cute.

I think they should look at account management and multiboxing a little more and redefine the limits. One big gripe for new players is they will never catchup to 10 yr bittervets, another issue is some people live on a budget and can't afford to multibox accounts for years at a time to build their skill base up. How about changing the system again like they did with multiple character training. Let players use plex to speed up character training to catchup. Let players use multiboxing with one character cost plex you get limited use and requires new skills under informorph psychology. So a solo account drake pilot could bring 3 drakes into a DED for quicker Isk creation. Yes this could be used to field multiple Titans with the same pilot, but still requires a good pc, good skills and nerves. CCP gets more plex sales and people get easier kills vs the multiboxers. Most 10 yr players have most of the skills maxed out anyways. They have nothing to fear but more ppl on their lvl.

If a ten yr vet spent 1800$ on subs roughly to date then a new player would need to apply 1800$ of plex to their account to catchup and there should be a limit to how much of a plex training multiplier can be applied monthly. For the solo toon multiboxers the plex would only last so many hours and now character training would not be allowed since multiple memories overlapped for the same period would cause psychosis.

This all seems kind of silly to me. On a basic level, you pay for 30 days of game time. What you get: The ability to swap between 3 characters on that account. With the basic subscription you can only have one character training at a time. You do have the option to train more, but again, the smallest block to train them is 30 days and you have to pay for it.

It seems like you're looking to have the ability to swap inactive characters in and out of an active account to skip paying for all 5 at the same time. Taking it a bit further I'm assuming you're here in F&I to do some rabble rousing to help bring home the bacon.

Poor planning on your part using moving up from part time to full time as a reason to not need (or be able) to utilize all 5 accounts based on reduced playtime. If you could afford 5 when you were part time, then I'll assume you can afford 5 with greater financial ease now that you are full time.

The only change you really NEED to make is move your number of active characters up to a respectable 15.... I mean really, you're wasting 1/3 of your options on that last account by only filling 2 of the 3 character slots.

TL/DR: CCP will let you scam Jita all day long, but they aren't going to go out of their way and do a lot of coding so you don't have to pay full price for 5 accounts.

Cora I get where you're coming from but CCP have always stipulated that you cannot spend money to give your character ability above and beyond what any other character cannot train up for naturally or earn in game through one method or another.

But among other things that constant development and moulding of your character is what makes you identify with it and that's why training is so fundamental - it is you crafting a being from nothing. Actually to voice your comment 3 drakes in a DED is no mean feat if you are running solo! You should use that as motivation for new players, not suggest they pay to fast forward :)

Yes, yes, yes, whatever. You obviously don't have an issue keeping an account alive irrespective of the amount of gameplay you anticipate getting for your money. Good for you.

Now how about a unified account management?

I don't get the tunnel vision - there are two points I raised; any thoughts on a unified account so that I don't have to log on 5 times to manage disparate accounts?

I fail to see how CCP thought discussing this with my fellow pilots was going to enlighten me.

OK point here please - if I have paid for and made all five accounts active are you saying it's fair play to pay 2 x PLEX to temporarily move an ALT from one account to another for a few hours before returning it to its original account?

Unified accont management - yeah, I can see that. At least let us skip the logoff / login thing on linked accounts.

Shuffling your characters about for free - No. I can see why you would want to do that, but if you want to control 14 characters, you have to pay for the corresponding 5+ accounts. If you want more flexibility, get more accounts.
And stop making a difference between mains and alts - they're all characters and therefore treated equally, regardless of amount of SP.