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Not quite sold that they are going to change that much. It's the equivalent of having 2 accounts. Both which you may plex. Move them to 1 account and you still spend 2 plex. All you gain (or really lose) is the ability to log both in at the same time. So the pilots trained will be very specialized and in areas where you wouldn't really mind not being able to log them both in at the same time.

So yes, maybe plex prices will spike. Or maybe they won't change that much.

Anyone that reads MD probably knew about this already.

I would have liked CCP to come up with a different plan for this.

For instance..... one more plex on an account opens up training on all the slots .

The current plan does not make using a plex for each slot any more benneficial than simply starting a new accout and plexing it.
The only bennefit is that it makes account management slightly easier by having only one login while not being able to run the other character simultaneously.
Soo many players run multiple eve client that this will not benefit them much.

*Edit since you noticed the error in your logic, I won't leave a history of it ;)

I can see some additional demand for PLEX with this new scheme, while 90% of the time I'd rather use a PLEX to keep my second account going(as I do now) since I can then use it for scouting, Cynos and quick regional market scanning... I'd definitely pop an occasional PLEX onto a minor character on my main's account to round it out or brush up on a few PVP skills while not losing my main's skill plan.

Not a huge demand rush, but another little push on the price.

There is one advantage. If you're making an alt which you plan to stop training, then transfer to your main account so you're only paying one subscription, this new option saves you the cost of the character transfer.

But that's only if you don't make use of special deals like the Power of 2 .

Saves you the transfer fee on a limited SP build when you'd rather not stop training your main.

The benefit is retaining access to the character after you stop paying to keep the character training.

I expect to do the same & am looking forward to this new feature. I personally don't like the idea of having 2 accounts runing at same time & this will allow me to boost up my miner/gank alt which if this wasn't available to me much quicker. After awhile I doubt I'll keep trainning this alt though unless I decide to use it for PI not not have to dual PLEX unlike with 2 accounts ( which I refuse to do anyways).

I think it may hve a lil uptick in PLEX prices in short run but over time it'll even out TBH because over the long term people won't need to PLEX multiple accounts as much. For CCP it'll probably be WIN/WIN as it shrinks the PLEX stockpiles a bit on thier accounting ledgers ( although looking at Dr E's fanfest graphs about PLEX activation I wonder if the player purported stockpiles are not actually far far overestimated )

except the one rare case ruby pointed out, I dont see any use of this changes, hence no affect on plex prices. manip attempt failed

Either you use it to train specialized PI alts ect. Or you use it to train sell toons. The cost of your time and plex is factored into pricing anyways.

So lets say you have a main account a pve account and a pure pvp account.

You decide you want to start selling toons. You could train it while you train those accounts or setup a new one with your freebie, Plex said new account and get 30 days of game time.(you just got a new account with 51 days time + 30 for your main) Add a second plex to the trainer and train 2 carrier accounts at a time to sell.