EVE General Discussion

I have 3 accounts, I only need two.

Once you get to capital ships it becomes mandatory to have a 2nd account. I made the mistake of selling a Char of my 2nd account then canceling the sub on that account. I realized when I tried to move my carrier that I couldn't due to the 2nd account with the cyno alts on it.

My 3rd account just trains and will be used to Awox ****, and then sell the Character in the next year to continue funding my pvp.

the ability to have alts really destroyed an entire section of the game, transporting. could be a really cool aspect having people who like transporting stuffs but since everybody has an alt that entire kick ass part of the game, its gone. i can name like 1 or 2 corps in this game that actually do transporting.

there could be a LOAD of transporting corps but as i said before, alts destroyed that part of the game.

Multiboxing is ruining my Eve experience because I'm compelled to play in windowed mode at the smallest resolution with all the graphics turned off. No sound, no immersion, nothing like that. Each client becomes a tool, a means to accomplish a goal. I haven't ever really truly played the game the way it was meant to be played, nor do I ever expect to.

Single account here. I do have the second character slot trained up for a hauler as I can't enter high sec. I also created a character in the third slot for checking prices in different regions, but obviously I can only have 1 logged in at a time.

I always played with one account exclusively.

But I can see the need for some people to have more. You can't always rely on others. Becomes painfully obvious when you are FCing and need a a back scout or something like that.

With no drive to to leadership or corp logistics i was always fine with a single account.

Now why would you want to do that?

I too have three accounts but at this time I can't run them all without a second monitor. I agree in some cases where it does become a hassle having to click on an active window to move a ship or transfering ore to a hauler. In other cases yes a scout to scout out gates for camps and what not would be good I guess.

I have over recent days thought about how I would do this but alas for the moment no until I get a new system in place thats better than what I got. Multi accounts are ok if as long as you have the upper hand in managing and watching what is going on in the immediate surroundings and I suppose even with Goonswarm floating around looking it could make for some interesting conflicts.

Funding one account is hard enough in todays climate, and plexing two or even three accounts over and above the main account would be challenging to say the least. I have often wondered how people with more than four can even stay on top of whats going on even in a mining situation. The one point that was made by another poster I agree with that it takes away from meaningful working with other corpmates or alliance members depended as it was said on time zone differences.

In closing once I do get back to New Eden I will try that and see for myself just how hard it may be and go from there, great discussion!!

Multi-accounting is part of CCP's business model - it's not going to change.

I have some friends who have up to 6 accounts in EVE. Imo that's going way too far. Personally I have two accounts though, just because I want to experience more parts of the game and training a indy character and versatile combat pilot on one account would take ages - so I feel I don't really have a choice if I want to know about all aspects of the game.

get a bigger / second monitor

If you're not mining like this, you're wasting your time.