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New account without dishing out your cc?
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Brock Nelson
#1 - 2012-02-28 01:45:06 UTC
Topic title says it all, is there a way to create a new account without having to dish out the CC? I want to pay using plex

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SirSpectre
Harbingers Of Destruction
#2 - 2012-02-28 02:05:04 UTC
Start trial account. give isk to trial. buy plex. activate.
Brock Nelson
#3 - 2012-02-28 02:10:44 UTC
Apparently you can't log into a trial account but someone just told me that its because I'm trying to do it on the same machine.

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Taipion
Adeptus Petrous
#4 - 2012-02-28 02:25:37 UTC
Brock Nelson wrote:
Apparently you can't log into a trial account but someone just told me that its because I'm trying to do it on the same machine.

Thats right, but 2 different Computers over the same connection does work.

SirSpectre wrote:
Start trial account. give isk to trial. buy plex. activate.

Trial account can not give any money back, but will be able to do so after buying plex and using it. => Full account.

As you can not:

- accept a contract with a trial
- logg into a trial and a 2nd account of whatever type on one machine

You cant go wrong with sending isk.
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#5 - 2012-02-28 03:16:59 UTC
Brock Nelson wrote:
Apparently you can't log into a trial account but someone just told me that its because I'm trying to do it on the same machine.


VirtualBox FTW
Ai Shun
#6 - 2012-02-28 03:46:33 UTC
Brock Nelson wrote:
Apparently you can't log into a trial account but someone just told me that its because I'm trying to do it on the same machine.


At the same time, I believe. You should be able to login the trial on its own when your main account is not running.
Serge Bastana
GWA Corp
#7 - 2012-02-28 07:52:25 UTC
You can send the money from the main account, log out, log in to the trial with the main account not running and buy the plex.

WoW holds your hand until end game, and gives you a cookie whether you win or lose. EVE not only takes your cookie, but laughs at you for bringing one in the first place...

Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#8 - 2012-02-28 12:50:11 UTC
Serge Bastana wrote:
You can send the money from the main account, log out, log in to the trial with the main account not running and buy the plex.


Don't think you can send money to trial accounts if I remember correctly. You can however buy the PLEX with your main and make a contract for your trial account. Log out, and have the alt accept the contract and plex up.
Caldari Citizen 786478786
#9 - 2012-02-28 13:08:33 UTC
Ptraci wrote:
Serge Bastana wrote:
You can send the money from the main account, log out, log in to the trial with the main account not running and buy the plex.


Don't think you can send money to trial accounts if I remember correctly. You can however buy the PLEX with your main and make a contract for your trial account. Log out, and have the alt accept the contract and plex up.


No. Serge has it right. Send the ISK to the alt, Buy the Plex, Activate. Don't bother with contracting to an alt.
Serge Bastana
GWA Corp
#10 - 2012-02-28 13:13:53 UTC
Caldari Citizen 786478786 wrote:
Ptraci wrote:
Serge Bastana wrote:
You can send the money from the main account, log out, log in to the trial with the main account not running and buy the plex.


Don't think you can send money to trial accounts if I remember correctly. You can however buy the PLEX with your main and make a contract for your trial account. Log out, and have the alt accept the contract and plex up.


No. Serge has it right. Send the ISK to the alt, Buy the Plex, Activate. Don't bother with contracting to an alt.


Yeah, you can send isk, just not make contracts for them. Trial accounts just can't send isk themselves so it's a one way street.

WoW holds your hand until end game, and gives you a cookie whether you win or lose. EVE not only takes your cookie, but laughs at you for bringing one in the first place...

Velicitia
XS Tech
#11 - 2012-02-28 13:26:27 UTC
Serge Bastana wrote:
Caldari Citizen 786478786 wrote:
Ptraci wrote:
Serge Bastana wrote:
You can send the money from the main account, log out, log in to the trial with the main account not running and buy the plex.


Don't think you can send money to trial accounts if I remember correctly. You can however buy the PLEX with your main and make a contract for your trial account. Log out, and have the alt accept the contract and plex up.


No. Serge has it right. Send the ISK to the alt, Buy the Plex, Activate. Don't bother with contracting to an alt.


Yeah, you can send isk, just not make contracts for them. Trial accounts just can't send isk themselves so it's a one way street.


yeah ... easiest way I've done it is add the main to contacts from the alt with the "notify them" box checked (because hell if I'm gonna remember the name in 5 minutes when I need to) ... login with main, check people & places to get the alt, right click -> send isk. swap accounts, log in, buy plex.

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
Serge Bastana
GWA Corp
#12 - 2012-02-28 13:57:11 UTC
Velicitia wrote:
Serge Bastana wrote:
Caldari Citizen 786478786 wrote:
Ptraci wrote:
Serge Bastana wrote:
You can send the money from the main account, log out, log in to the trial with the main account not running and buy the plex.


Don't think you can send money to trial accounts if I remember correctly. You can however buy the PLEX with your main and make a contract for your trial account. Log out, and have the alt accept the contract and plex up.


No. Serge has it right. Send the ISK to the alt, Buy the Plex, Activate. Don't bother with contracting to an alt.


Yeah, you can send isk, just not make contracts for them. Trial accounts just can't send isk themselves so it's a one way street.


yeah ... easiest way I've done it is add the main to contacts from the alt with the "notify them" box checked (because hell if I'm gonna remember the name in 5 minutes when I need to) ... login with main, check people & places to get the alt, right click -> send isk. swap accounts, log in, buy plex.


Definitely, adding the new account as a contact also helps to make sure the isk is going to the right character. That would be a nice surprise for someone when they're wallet flashes Lol

WoW holds your hand until end game, and gives you a cookie whether you win or lose. EVE not only takes your cookie, but laughs at you for bringing one in the first place...

malaire
#13 - 2012-02-28 15:23:04 UTC
Serge Bastana wrote:
Yeah, you can send isk, just not make contracts for them.

Well, you can make private contract for char on trial account, but that char can't actually accept it. Lol

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Cat Casidy
Percussive Diplomacy
Sedition.
#14 - 2012-02-28 20:02:23 UTC
Velicitia wrote:
Serge Bastana wrote:
Caldari Citizen 786478786 wrote:
Ptraci wrote:
Serge Bastana wrote:
You can send the money from the main account, log out, log in to the trial with the main account not running and buy the plex.


Don't think you can send money to trial accounts if I remember correctly. You can however buy the PLEX with your main and make a contract for your trial account. Log out, and have the alt accept the contract and plex up.


No. Serge has it right. Send the ISK to the alt, Buy the Plex, Activate. Don't bother with contracting to an alt.


Yeah, you can send isk, just not make contracts for them. Trial accounts just can't send isk themselves so it's a one way street.


yeah ... easiest way I've done it is add the main to contacts from the alt with the "notify them" box checked (because hell if I'm gonna remember the name in 5 minutes when I need to) ... login with main, check people & places to get the alt, right click -> send isk. swap accounts, log in, buy plex.




What in the what? It's your own account! Can you not remember the name of your own character? Log on main, open people and places, type in the alts name, give him money. Log on alt, buy plex. How is this so incredibly complex?

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Ai Shun
#15 - 2012-02-28 20:06:46 UTC
Cat Casidy wrote:
What in the what? It's your own account! Can you not remember the name of your own character? Log on main, open people and places, type in the alts name, give him money. Log on alt, buy plex. How is this so incredibly complex?


Oh shock horror! The inhumanity! Call OXFAM. Or NATO. Maybe even dear old Helen Clark at the UN! It is an international emergency! Somebody on the forums is doing the same steps as Cat Casidy but in reverse! Quick! Quick! We need action!

CCP! DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!
Velicitia
XS Tech
#16 - 2012-02-28 20:17:02 UTC
Ai Shun wrote:
Cat Casidy wrote:
What in the what? It's your own account! Can you not remember the name of your own character? Log on main, open people and places, type in the alts name, give him money. Log on alt, buy plex. How is this so incredibly complex?


Oh shock horror! The inhumanity! Call OXFAM. Or NATO. Maybe even dear old Helen Clark at the UN! It is an international emergency! Somebody on the forums is doing the same steps as Cat Casidy but in reverse! Quick! Quick! We need action!

CCP! DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!


I lol'd

seriously though ... it's an account that has been "active" for all of ~15 minutes ... as compared to having "Velicitia" here for the last four years...

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#17 - 2012-02-28 20:32:47 UTC
You people do so love to turn every simple little thing into a major event, don't you?

Mr Epeen Cool