EVE General Discussion

Just wanted to share a few thoughts and see if discussion can emerge.

I personally choose not to have multiple accounts, but I am not against them. It may be important to have a combat pilot on one account and a money maker on another. This thread is not about having multiple accounts. It is about people running multiple instances of Eve at the same time.

Does any of the followings instances bother you, annoy you, make Eve unbalanced? Do you think this defeats the multiplayer part of the game? Or maybe you don't give a crap, and don't think it matters? Either is cool just wanting to see whats up in the community.

Neutral Repping -
Is the problem the fact that neut repping exists, or instead that one person will have 3 other accounts logged on doing the repping?

Mass mining -
How bout a guy running a couple miners and a hauler all by himself? (To be honest as an industrial guy not in an industrial corp, mining by myself a lot, I hate these guys the most.)

Scanner/SB pvp- How bout those guys who scan you down and kill you with his SB using his other account?

How about RF (Red Frog) doing freighters hauls with neutral alts in NPC corps? Don't you just want to find em and blow them up anyway?

Cyno alts - Let's face it, you need a cyno to get around out there, and it sucks trusting someone else to do it for you, I understand this one.

Thoughts?
-Mal Mandrake

People can name heaps of reasons when an alt is helpful in Eve.

If you're trying to say you're better because you don't, it's a bit silly.
Its a game people will play it how they play it. Mostly it's easier to do some things with an alt. Without alts it makes team work more important. Neither way is better than another.

Try not to make it look like you're crying because its unfair what others get away with, with more than one alt.

Same here, the other alts just minor forum warrior alts.

Also: Needing a seperate cyno alt sucks for me :((

Don't come crying to us when we shoot down your ship because you jumped through blind.

Well I'd say that an alt helps most when you're in a corp and not many people in that corp are online (timezone issues or some other reason). If you want to move a ship and need to scout or cyno alt.

Don't know anyone who plays this game, so it makes the activities in which I wish to partake less impossible.

I saw something like 18k people logged on earlier tonight, which thinking about the amount of people that openly run multiple accounts - Hell I heard of someone octoboxing (8 accounts at once) - does that mean in actual reality there were about 6-7k people on?! And if these miners like the OP mentioned are pilling up the isk at such ease, where is ccps future funding going to come from? Incursions are already driving the market into oblivion, all of a sudden a billion will become the new million, not the current hundred million (if you get me)

Going back to what the OP was saying. I partly agree, having multiple accounts partly negates the need for assistance from others. The element of bringing people together to beat another group of people is a part of the experience that I really enjoy, thats what really captured me with Eve from the beginning.

an alt has almost become a necessity because of everyone else running them. Especially if you plan on pvp, in which case multiple alts are nice.

But has it ruined my Eve? Nah I wouldn't have as much isk or as many options and I still run around in fleets, but with the capability of two chars specialised on different paths.

I pride myself on this being my only account.

That said, no, I'm not particularly annoyed by people who multibox. Just means more pewing

I don't have alts.

I have multiple accts with multiple characters specializing in various things.

It's pretty rare that I have more than one character logged in at the same time. I just log in the one who's talents are needed at that time.

On top of that I have characters that are actually in different corps that are at war with each other. So if I logged them in at the same time I'd have to pod myself. And that would be just too weird. Even for EVE.

Mr Epeen

I'm a miner and I run only two accounts. I felt that its more than enough for me to mine with just one Hulk and an Orca. So far, been doing better than when I had one account. However, that doesn't mean I'll be putting in more accounts as I find it a bit over the top to have three or more. You remember the old saying: Two is a couple, three is a crowd? Yeah, that's how I see it.