EVE New Citizens Q&A

because you have already achieved what you need from your main or alt account(s). Like, let say someone is a single account player with a 100m SP pvp main and a 10mil hualing alt. Everything they train on either account they feel is unnecessary. They still have an extra character slot so the best use of that SP is to put it into a new character that people want to buy. You still need to keep the account active, so why not utilize it to its fullest. Its like putting your money in the stock market instead of under the mattress so to speak.

There are sublties, like the character needs to be worth more than the transfer fee, but you if your happy with the skills you have it might be better to train something for a year or two and sell it for a boatload of isk.

Also, people trade characters as a profession. They have enough isk to cover the plex for the character transfer and fill remaining holes in the character and try to increase the value greatly in a short amount of time. Like flipping a house or selling a used car

I've sold an alt before, he displeased me so I sold him to another plantation owner

Also I don't think he plays anymore because "Surfin's Carebear" doesn't have a face anymore

Hmm, think you do forget that you don't own the money while you train. Yes the alt would probably sell for more if skilled correctly. You can add cost of skill books for certain types as well to avoid making it loss operation. But even then, if you would have sold those plexes the money you make will start making you money if managed well. For trader Fe, more money to work with = more profit. On the other hand some people can actually use the alt while it is trained and get the profit there. Other would just pvp the money away if they would have sold the plexes.

So guess what I am trying to say is that whether or not you run profit is highly dependent on what type of player you are.

I've got an army of accounts (9) (also, not a recommended idea for new peeps) in which most of them (7) have perfect mining and a few other perfect things like PI, research, etc. I'm mostly a miner and my low-sec region is practically empty/peaceful. I don't have anything else for them to train, so I've been training alts there to sell off. I plex all the accounts 3-4 times over every month. Taking Time out of the equation, these accounts don't cost me anything and they easily fuel anything I want to do on my 2 main accounts. Taking an estimated rough number like what was posted earlier (6bisk for 18months of training, not unreasonable at all):

6bisk / 18 months = 333misk a month

333misk / ~30 days = 11misk per day

11misk * Number of Accounts (7 for me) = 77misk a day for idle skill training queues for me.

This obviously runs off huge assumptions like assuming your SP goal is something people will want in X amount of time and you being able to keep up with them (and other things I can't think off, sleepy :x). And again, the example number is a rough estimate going by what people are paying for now.

And I broke it down this way for practical comparison purposes, obviously you don't see any earnings until you sell the account.