EVE General Discussion

CCP has placed a hard cap on how many space barbies one can have on one account, so I have four accounts.

Go on, count the boobs.

4 accounts here. Only pay for one, other 3 are paid via plex. Pretty much 95% of the people in my 0.0 corp have at least two accounts, and I would say many have 3. I would agree with the statement that if you are serious about spaceships, you MUST have at least 2 accounts if not more depending on the activities you pursue.

thats WHY you can't afford a PLEX. i think of extra accounts and characters as part of a bigger engine. you ramp up accounts with a buddy trial, convert and get the plex back, skill up 3 quick basic PI alts (4 days), and then get 40-something days of free PI. There are many variations on this that will get you more money over time, including cranking up the skills and promoting the alts to production alts. its easy and it doesn't take much time or investment. plus you can sell decent characters.

Bear in mind that this is also only the people who visit Eve-O and post. Most people who visit don't post, and most people who play don't visit.

-Liang

Confirming I have millions of alts*


*Completely ******* true

This has been going on for years, incarna making a lot of single account players leave the game has only made multi-accounting more obvious.

Most corp/alliances now require you let them look at your acct before you join. Thus, if you want to do something completely sneaky, you need 2nd account.

I have 5 accounts, 7 characters. I thought about making a 6th, still on the fence about it. Not sure.

Selling pre-trained characters on the character bazaar can be serious biznizz. One character that I'm training I would be perfectly fine with selling for billions of isk. But honestly I have not done the math on the value of training specialized characters compared to RL or ingame investment.

Id have to agree with the reasonings here as to why and add some of my own.

To me I get bored quickly. If today I had to only play one account in Eve Id probably quit out of sheer boredom. Ive been around since 2003, though not on this toon, and the depth and integration of the Eve universe that is expanding and changing makes me delve into every lil nook and cranny of this game. Looking and analyzing top down and bottom up social structures, economic features, interactions, game mechanics, etc. I love being in several places at once. I love organizing, maintaining and building stand alone units for all sorts of things. I love primary to end point manufacturing and the complexity of finding, organizing and maintaining such supply cycles by myself all the while analyzing and thinking about how a new game mechanic change or new item or even just the possibility of a new change will affect the entire structure of Eve.

For me this is a study not only in human nature and psychology but economics and really all things human all in one go in a closed biosystem if you will, though I envy CCPs position at having the hard data in a lot of ways, in others I dont as it forces me to make data calculations based on other factors and forces more hypothesis creation in the long run due to there being more possibilities and variables than static raw data charts that can be interpreted in different ways.

To be honest this is why I enjoy Eve immensely. So in short...yes, yes.... I AM studying you! And the results are startling to say the least.

The other reason is this guy https://sites.google.com/site/khromtor/

At first I was like **** THAT ****!! What a looney!! I mean really! But after a while, and having done a lot of other things in Eve already and already being at 4 accounts then really I got to thinking. Now for me its just a matter of what can "I" personally do in Eve? So its also a lot of self exploration in terms of mental capabilities. Controlling different and unique clients doing unique and different things, multitasking to the extreme as well as planning trianing, usage of accounts and characters, short, mid and long term goal planning etc. Ive found that after so and so many clients my brain simply cannot keep up after a while and degradation of efficiency slows down extremely. Duration of gaming sessions at high, mid or low volume application changes a lot depending on the activities and what Im forcing my brain to task both cognitively and subconsciously. So it all combines for me.

Yes I study everything and everyone to a minute degree and have been for all my life really.

SImilar. For training alts might as well get a new account and transfer it over - if you have a fairly good idea of where you want to train it to and then stop, anyway.