EVE New Citizens Q&A

Do an alt! Make a new email and send yourself a 30 day buddy invite. That way it's free for 30 days to get your alt going. If you chose to not run an alt, then you dont lose anything in the end.

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Your mind might change on what you want to do. Mining is okay to do while relaxing, while PVE Mission running recquires more attention.
If you must chose between the two, I start off by mission running a bit. Level 3s and 4s (once you can do them) will be worth your while.
In the meantime, join a corporation and see if playing with them can sway you in one direction or the other.

Well I basically want to do both for fun. I like mining, but I also really like mission running. However I'd rather specialize a character in something and therefore I thought it was better to get an alt. However a miner and mission runner can't really help each other like perhaps an Orca alt could help a miner, therefore I was slightly unsure wheter or not I should actually get an alt.

Once you go down this path, forever will it dominate your destiny.


Alt away, just be aware of the dangers of "afk" mining... or missioning for that matter.

For pve, it's not really at all unless you get like 6 of them and work as a stripmining fleet with an orca.

If you were PvP oriented it would be a different matter, but you wouldn't need to ask us about that if you did have that need as it would be clear and obvious to you.

When you need another character online at the same time as your main it will be abundantly clear too you.

That said I run two accounts and I enjoy it enough to have bought a second monitor for that account.
Admittedly my particular playstyle pretty much necessitates a second account so I'm somewhat biased towards dual-boxing

If you want to, go for it by all means,
just have something of a plan for the characters on it before you start throwing money at it.


Veteran tip : Don't name your alts similarly to your main.
(you will thank me for that in years to come)

Allright thanks a bunch everyone!

Hi! Let me give you a very different point of view on this one:



In your case definitely.

You can train for mining just as much as you can skill for running missions ...
... and both activities make you money, albeit one worse than the other of course.

You're not actually saving anything when you have a second account for something like this.

You can be a figure in the web of New Eden's society, who has learned to be a miner AND a servant to the empires. One character can do a multitude of things and he can potentially do them ALL equally good compared to everyone else, because all skills cap at V!

Even a "jack of all trades" can be as good at everything a dedicated alt does! The idea of "jack of all trades/master of none" does not apply in EVE. It only takes *the player* more time, compared to someone else who uses an alt to train in parallel.

For me, the most important difference between these two options is that I, as character, accept my existence and stand before you capable of doing a lot of things, because I believe that humans do not need to specialize like ants. I, as player, believe that having seperate accounts for seperate play-styles (unlike having a scouting alt, which is a usefull tool) actually diminishes the experience.

Why? Because it reduces *all* your characters to TOOLS, which is the diametrically opposite to this when you think about different characters as "living entities" inside the game world, compared to scouting alts which have no life in the game that they could call their own.


Note: It's not like escapism, because escapism lacks the barrier between the player and the character. Escapism is when the player projects himself into the game, mistaken the virtual identiy as his own, which can cause a multitude of issues ...

including, but not limited to: ragequitting, making a huge fuss out of getting ganked, death threats against you or your family, doxing, demanding safe space, etc.


This was long enough already, wasn't it?

I'll conclude with something that might help you see your question from a different perspective.



The real question, which encompasses your question, is: Who do you, the character, really want to be?


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Hear ya.

At one point I had 9 accounts (not all subbed at the same time) just for the fun of it

Just fixed a minor minor mistake.

No matter how bad your sec status is, you are never actually blocked from high-sec.
It just means that traversing high-sec will be made a little bit more fun / a cat and mouse game / annoying *tick what applies for your playstyle*

It is worth pointing out that there are 3 characters on your account you can train and you can use all three for the one monthly sub.

The DOWNSIDES of the 2nd and third characters is:

1. You can only log in one of these characters at a time - no multiboxing
2. You have to switch training from your main to the alt character OR pay for multicharacter traing at a PLEX per month

The ADVANTAGES are:

1. You only pay one sub per month
2. Once a character is skilled at a particular job you can stop training and still use it

In the case of a miner alt it may make sense to enable a 2nd char on your account and multi-character train it with a month or maybe two months of basic mining skills. Once trained you can log it in at any time (just not at the same time as your main) and go mining with it.