EVE General Discussion

I run two accounts because I'm often forced to play alone. EvE is not a solo game, it will break you if you try to play that way. You need scouts for combat, freighters for PI Characters and I even have Industrialists to keep Ms. Mindari in throw away buzzards and ravens.
If you want to spy you'll need a completely fresh account in case full API is required.

As a kiwi, I rarely see corp mates as they're all getting rack time. Woe is the solitary raven.

Lived in null sec almost 5 years. Had one account most of the time.

And during that time, I was able to make enough money to keep my self in fleet doctrine BS fits, special snow flake t2 ****, grind up 2 x dreads and 3 x carriers, all the while still jumping on more than 50% of the POS SHOTS and cockfagging sessions that was posted (time zone issues and actually had a life so only 50%)

So, yeah, I do not see the issue.

I got 4 accs.
account 1:
caldari pilot
PI alts.
account 2:
all races pilot
PI alts
account 3:
all races pilot.
PI alts
account 4:
all races pilot. inherit from a friend recently.
account 5: booster.

living in wh, with that much accounts allow me to solo any C4 site when no one around, and I'm paying for them by GTC.
earning about 1.5 in an 2hrs ops allow me to maintain as much accounts as I want.

Hence the "power of two"?

I think you can't reasonably expect someone you need to be online, in the right ship, in the right place 23/7. No matter how big your alliance. Unless you don't mind waiting for hours, even days for the right one to come by.

Multi-accounts are the dirty little secret that contradicts CCP's marketing, ie. working together and having to live by your reputation and the choices you make and having to place your trust in people who could backstab you at any time. People make alts to do the things easier than having to rely on other players for and to avoid having to live with the consequences of their choices when they feel the perfectly normal and understandable need to backstab somebody.

Consider cyno jumping and hauling----two boring tasks that are regulated to alts because it's safer and quicker than trying to find a living, breathing person to help you with because they could royally screw you over if they turn corrupt. But if people didn't have alts to do it for them, and carried their reputation for all time, then these mundane-yet-easy-to-train-for tasks would become the lifeblood professions of the nullsec alliance and anyone who did them would be just as necessary as the ones who require their services.

So....did anyone else enjoy the multiboxer tears when their graphics cards melted last summer?

As to the OP, I personally have at least ten accounts tied to my name. Only two are active right now, and five of them were only active during the winter of last year when Planetary Interaction was the low-effort way to make billions of ISK per character per month for only a couple minutes worth of clicking per day. I don't know if it is still that way or not, but I do know that I burned out on it.

My extra accounts are not meant to "keep an eye" on other people. For the example of my Planetary Interaction accounts, they existed specifically to increase the amount of money I was bringing in, mostly passively, which was a function of total planets which was in turn a function of total characters.

Had 4-5 accounts at one time. Mostly doing t2 production/research and market stuff as well as my pvp main. Made good money even after buying plexs for the accounts. After awhile it became soul crushing and probably cause me become a :bittervet:

I ended up letting most of my accounts expire when I took a break from EVE this past spring, for two reasons: first, because the relevant training on them was finished; second, because each account represented an extra PLEX per month that I would have felt obligated to log in and maintain. It's easy enough to maintain a single or two accounts—less than a billion ISK per month—just on loan interest or other infrequent, low-effort things.

Excellent.