EVE General Discussion

Because Jade Constantine and Issler Whatever got wardecked.

But seriously, mainly it's for ****-posting. Whenever someone wants to say something that they know will be really unpopular and they don't want it to reflect badly on their main character. Or when they just want to drop the N-word a lot.

this is an alt

one that I actually use, but an alt nonetheless

I main post pretty much all the time atm, but there was a time I alt-posted heavily, and I'll explain why.

I ran a solo w-space operation after just 6 months of first playing eve. I did have some allies, but not the kind with the skills or time to respond to any sort of offensive or invasion. Simply put, giving out my info on a character tied to my main would very likely be a death sentence, especially because the system I was in had fairly high value in today's market.

Furthermore, I do a lot of solo stuff and have pretty much made my entire post-wspace eve career in lowsec, as a solo player. When I'm discussing my tactics and strategy in depth, I alt post. It's just a security matter.

Edit: And you can call it cowardice all you want, but like I said, I do all my eve play in lowsec, both PvP and PvE(bout a 50/50 spread between the two). I don't consider it cowardice to have the sense not to link general tactics discussion to your character.

Edit 2: If you live in highsec you have no reason to alt-post ever.

I think Chribba is a goon alt.

Dont have any alts seein that the nursing home hardly lets me have much money on my card to have one account as it is.

Well the social consequence of a wardec from the Goons for being an enemy of their organization does exist. Its just a bit of a shame that the social consequences of being an unpopular large alliance no longer lead to plenty of defensive allies through the Inferno 1.0 wardec system.

I received perma-war from the Swarm for basically being their most hated player in the game bar none (mostly for not being impressed by Mittani's fanfest antics). Lucky for me my alliance has been in a constant state of war since its inception and my first instinct on receiving the dec was to make it mutual and lock them into an eternal war with hundreds of defensive allies!

But I do quite understand why people choose to post on alts when they want to protect an industrial corp or something. In the current state of the game it is extremely cheap and easy for a nullsec alliance to spam wardecs at your corp that you can do literally nothing to counter or end - so the outcome for most small industrial corps would be either needing to alt-post to protect their assets or accept that their assets will need to be relocated to alt organizations.

If you are a player who doesn't want to attract wardecs this makes sense.

On the other side of the coin you have the nullsec trolling motivation where alt posting is either done because the person's other forum accounts have already been banned - or to attempt to goad people's main attempts into mutual ban situations by hurling abuse and invective at people with identities they care about.

F.ex. If a particular nullsec character wanted to score a victory over you Petrus - they would roll up a random disposable forum alt and try to troll you into losing your head and getting involved in an angry flame war that could then be petitioned by the colleagues of said alt. Worst case scenario for the nullsec'er in this instance is he or she loses a worthless alt its posting privileges - whereas worst case for you is you lose a posting identity you might have spent years building up. Its forum pvp with rifters against faction frigates and the people doing it with alts have very little to lose.

I always post with my main, unless I'm talking about my multi billion isk mission ships that I sometimes afk in 0.0 with, or I am shitting on my alliance.

God damn forums keeps logging in my alt as default, which itself is strange, due to both name and character creation being after my main, so I'm too lazy to change it, but I've posted on my main on occasion where I feel it's appropriate to respond to "post with your main" (very seldom, I am a lazy person after all) to just prevent anyone trying to argue dumb **** by using intellectual dishonesty or willful ignorance as a shield from reason or logic.

EDIT: CCP Eris Discordia also struck down my dissidence regarding how good a certain Sci-Fi show is, and I'm afraid she'll come back and finish me off.

I post with an alt, because my main account requires me to be respected by all of my customers.

This is my forum main.