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Buddy key & New account
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Jim Malderan
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-04-04 07:14:26 UTC
Hi, I know that I can't upgrade from a 14-day trial account to a 21-day Buddy Account(which is too bad, just give me 7 more days), so that leaves the question; What do I do with my trial account? Do I delete it somehow? Can I create another one with the same e-mail? Is my trial account tied in to the forums? Do I have to remove myself from the forums as well?

It's too bad, I know my char is only 4 days old, but I like him, I guess there will be a Kim Malderan 2.0 out there;)
I heard that there might be problems with ugrading to a full account through PayPal(Towards the Buddy Key giver), is this so and if, which method of payment is preferred by most players?

Thanks alot, I am really looking forward to playing EVE on a regular basis, it's an awesome game:)
malaire
#2 - 2012-04-04 08:15:17 UTC
Jim Malderan wrote:
Hi, I know that I can't upgrade from a 14-day trial account to a 21-day Buddy Account(which is too bad, just give me 7 more days), so that leaves the question; What do I do with my trial account? Do I delete it somehow? Can I create another one with the same e-mail? Is my trial account tied in to the forums? Do I have to remove myself from the forums as well?

It's too bad, I know my char is only 4 days old, but I like him, I guess there will be a Kim Malderan 2.0 out there;)
I heard that there might be problems with ugrading to a full account through PayPal(Towards the Buddy Key giver), is this so and if, which method of payment is preferred by most players?

Thanks alot, I am really looking forward to playing EVE on a regular basis, it's an awesome game:)

You can't delete accounts - it will be there forever whether you use it or not. But that doesn't matter much since you can create several accounts with same email, real name, etc. And on forums you can use any of your active accounts if you have several - just logout and login with another account.

So if you don't want to use that account anymore, just leave it be. If you want you could delete your character from account. (In character selection screen you can start biomassing it, then you need to wait 10 hours before you can actually delete it.)

If you do delete character, then you can use that same character name again in your other account.

I don't think there should be any problems with PayPal - only that it can take few days for your inviter to get the reward after you pay.

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Grikath
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-04-04 09:03:05 UTC
Mostly the above, yes.

Simply Biomass the toon on your trial account. This frees up the name in game, and allows you to make a toon with the same name on your buddy account.

Highsec isn't "Safe".  Neither is it a playground for bullies and bottomfeeders. So stop complaining and start playing the game already.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-04-04 09:27:31 UTC  |  Edited by: J'Poll
Was going to post a list that would have answered your questions but malaire beat me to it

Some fact, ever since EVE is created no account has been deleted yet. So even when you stop paying for an account the account just goes inactive but will remain there. This also means that if you take a break from EVE for let's say a year and you come back and still remember the log in details you can continue where you left your character.

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