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A question for players with multiple accounts
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Mal Mandrake
Space Goat Likes it Rough
#1 - 2011-10-11 14:11:00 UTC
Hello Friends,

I was curious how many out there are like me? Or maybe I am the only one.

I choose not to use multiple accounts. I like having the one character that is "me." The choices I make with my one character are important because I do not have another account to run too if I mess things up. I have been in corps where if we are wardecced, the other players just doesn't log in for a week and instead plays a different account not in war.

I have a personal friend with no less then 6 accounts! To me this is madness, that is a lot of money on subs a month! He doesn't even play one of them. It is in a safe station on training mode with high level implants. Evemon tells my friend he will be ready to come out sometime in July.

The question is:
If you use multiple accounts, how do you use them? Why do you use them?

-Mal Mandrake
Weaselior
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2011-10-11 14:12:29 UTC
a large majority of 0.0 stuff is simply impossible with only one account

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Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#3 - 2011-10-11 14:16:53 UTC
And it lets me to have characters, focused on different things rather than just one.

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Dorian Wylde
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2011-10-11 14:18:38 UTC
Weaselior wrote:
a large majority of 0.0 stuff is simply impossible with only one account



No, it isn't. You just need to learn to trust people. The current atmosphere of the game makes that difficult, but it's not impossible, and it's not CCP's fault.

I lived in null with 2 accounts. Neither one could fly a carrier, or a freighter for that matter, or use cyno's. I still got by, because my corp is awesome, and we had a decent alliance at the time. I did what I could, and trusted the other people to do what they could do.
Jenny Cameron
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2011-10-11 14:20:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Jenny Cameron
Mal Mandrake wrote:

The question is:
If you use multiple accounts, how do you use them? Why do you use them?

-Mal Mandrake

Simple.

Not necessarily speaking for myself:

One character with industrial skills and one with combat skills.
One with high security status and one with low security status.
One with a capital ship and one to cyno.
One scout and one main in an expensive ship or one carrying a lot of valuable stuff.
One missioner and one salvager.
One with an Orca, many more with Hulks/Macks.
One with a freighter and one with a webber.
One ganker and one neutral repper.

And so on. CCP deliberately designed the game so you can maximize efficiency with more characters, hence their "power of two" stuff and the like.
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#6 - 2011-10-11 14:25:06 UTC
If you ever want to fly caps you will need atleast one cyno alt. In some cases you can depend on corp mates to launch a cyno for you. Best case you will find yourself stuck somewhere without a cyno alt. Worse case you will get ganked trusting someone else to launch a cyno for you. I have found the best way to move stuff in and out of 0.0 is to keep it quiet and use your alts to scout/cyno. Every corp has a spy, would be my luck he would be the one to answer my request.

Do not assume anything above this line was typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
Weaselior
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2011-10-11 14:25:13 UTC
Dorian Wylde wrote:
Weaselior wrote:
a large majority of 0.0 stuff is simply impossible with only one account



No, it isn't. You just need to learn to trust people. The current atmosphere of the game makes that difficult, but it's not impossible, and it's not CCP's fault..

no, it's not: it's not just I don't want to trust people but it's flat out impossible in some cases (e.g. my nyx pilot cannot be my subcap pilot), in some cases dedicated characters are so stupidly superior to generalists (i don't want my cyno character being my 70m+ main because he gets podded all the time) and seriously inferior to dealing with other people (scouting myself is infinitely better than relying on even a trusted scout due to instant intel)

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Alexandra Alt
Doomheim
#8 - 2011-10-11 14:26:52 UTC
I live in null, I have 1 account only, you're not the only one, but, 1 account means help, if you need to be self sufficient then you need more.
WisdomLikeSilence
BurgerkingTM
#9 - 2011-10-11 14:28:51 UTC
I used to have multiple accounts, but like many - ditiched them after the Anom nerf.
Bloody Wench
#10 - 2011-10-11 14:29:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Bloody Wench
Jenny Cameron wrote:
Simple.

Not necessarily speaking for myself:

One character with industrial skills and one with combat skills.
One with high security status and one with low security status.
One with a capital ship and one to cyno.
One scout and one main in an expensive ship or one carrying a lot of valuable stuff.
One missioner and one salvager.
One with an Orca, many more with Hulks/Macks.
One with a freighter and one with a webber.
One ganker and one neutral repper.

And so on. CCP deliberately designed the game so you can maximize efficiency with more characters, hence their "power of two" stuff and the like.


Yup this sounds about right.

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Feligast
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2011-10-11 14:29:44 UTC
Only one character person checking in.
Jokerface666
Intergalactic Expeditionary Corp
#12 - 2011-10-11 14:30:29 UTC
Easy as that:
Account 1
Main cross trained for A and B
2 Market Alts
Account 2
Main Indy toon
2 x Cyno toons
Account 3
Main cross trained for C and D
1 market toon
1 cyno toon
Jooce McNasty
Islefive Consulting
#13 - 2011-10-11 14:32:58 UTC
I own a Carrier, if you have a carrier it is almost a 100% requirement to have a minimum 2 accounts.

I run 3 right now.

One paid for with power of two that trains up and I will sell him when I need Isk.

1 PVP pilot
1 scount/mission/cyno alt
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#14 - 2011-10-11 14:34:58 UTC
Don't forget some/most 0.0 corps require you to live in their space at all times. How many pilots can survive on a sanctum? Unless you want to spend all your entertainment(prosititute) money on GTC you'll need an empire alt.

Do not assume anything above this line was typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
rodyas
Tie Fighters Inc
#15 - 2011-10-11 14:44:21 UTC
Only have one account myself, but no answers to the complexities of null and such. Would be nice to have alt, just to always fleet and recieve bonuses with at very least.

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Mag's
Azn Empire
#16 - 2011-10-11 15:03:14 UTC
Scout, fleet booster, industrial, cyno alt off the top of my head. (it's a big head)

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Mal Mandrake
Space Goat Likes it Rough
#17 - 2011-10-11 15:08:09 UTC
I am satisfied knowing there are at least several other people out there using only 1 account.

Thank you everyone for good answers.

-Mal Mandrake
Karn Dulake
Doomheim
#18 - 2011-10-11 15:12:31 UTC
Ive only got one account and one character and this is it.

As im posting on my main you can tell that my time is fast approching where i just stop playing.
I dont normally troll, but when i do i do it on General Discussion.
Gogurt
#19 - 2011-10-11 15:21:34 UTC
I have 1 account as well. All attempts to have 2 accounts at the same time has resulted in a metagaming snowball for me and I inevitably lose interest in all of them. So, I don't aim to fly caps (no need for cyno alt), I don't build things and I focus on ships I can fit with a cloak.

It's more fun this way anyway. In a way it does personalize the character but only because everything is invested in it.

And I do see it sort of as a person in the eve universe. Rather than 'look at all my character slots' in the eve universe.
Florestan Bronstein
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#20 - 2011-10-11 15:23:17 UTC
Mal Mandrake wrote:
If you use multiple accounts, how do you use them? Why do you use them?

How?

account 1:
carrier pilot
trade alt

account 2:
mission runner
hauler (& cyno)
cyno

account 3: (currently unsubscribed)
fleet booster
covops scout (& cyno)

why? makes my life easier and because I can
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