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This ^^ A use for useless Aurum

Seems fair...or buy 1, get 1.5 return???

It's not a mandatory thing. If you see other options being preferable, feel free to use them instead.

I sort of see why CCP went with this sort of system.. it's a balanced thing

This is never intended as a replacement for alt accounts, since all it is enabling is the activation of another character's skill queue. Of course, the limitation (only one additional skill queue, and you paying for the feature) is there for a reason.

Sorry to spoil the fun but no, unlocking all three toons' skill queues as a free added feature will not happen, and as such you won't be training alts for sale as a form of passive income, and you all know CCP don't like effortless passive income...

I am against the 'one account per customer' thing. And highly likely CCP will not restrict it - it's already giving them the revenue they need. If you can't recall all your userIDs and passwords for every last one of them off your head, you shouldn't be complaining about the problems of operating multiple accounts, ad most other more competent players can do that effortlessly.

Besides, having 4 accounts and a total of 16 toons active, and having to transfer the best ones over into a single account with the fees associated is not worth it - individual accounts' client settings and fully functional independent operatability aside, i enjoy the current implementation of multiple accounts, and the capability to pay for another skill queue is a great addition.

Though the price difference between PLEX and equivalent current subscription fees for the same period is a bit imbalanced / not identical for value, but this may be due to the price of a 1-month regular sub fee being exactly worth a PLEX ($19.95) so i wonder what solution CCP can grant for this issue.

Overall, i approve of the current implementation of this addon. Subscription Period Timers can go on the character profile > PIlot License window and logon screen , whilst the new Skill Queue timer can go on the characters' Skill queue as an expanded window or as a timer, and as another timer on logon screen that shows when the particular character is highlighted.

The only other thing that really needs addressing is switching between characters - the current implementation of having to completely log-off and restart the client is quite cumbersome. I've gone and run multiple clients, pausing skillqueue on one then instantly logging on the other just so i can squeeze in a few seconds of skilltraining on the other character that would otherwise be lost just going through the entire logoff and restart client process...

Not precisely, because what happens at the end of that month? If you're training a character with a 30-day skill requirement (trader, scout, cyno, etc.) then you have to pay your extra $15/month to use the character at all, even after all the skills they need are trained, or more than that to merge the character back into a main account. If you pay the $19.95/1 PLEX for a second skill queue, that's all you ever pay in order to be able to use that alt.

It doesn't make much sense if you only have 1 account to begin with (although, especially if the alt is a CEO or a trader, it might). But if you have two or more, it's a nice option to have.

If you want a second character who can log in simultaneously with your first, has a dedicated skill queue, etc., then of course you want that character to have their own account. But then, you don't want an alt, you want another character.

Somebody needs to protest and point out the negative side of this new feature.

But it won't me.

Well I will point to CCP that they are going to lose some revenue from pirates. Now rotating pirate alts can be done on a single account with no months where alts have reach optimal useful training but its too soon for starting the next alts. Lots of those guys held extra accounts open continuously for pirate alts - so that pirate alts could be periodically replaced without interfering with the main toon training when the pirate became too infamous to be profitable. Not talking about the big name/big fleet pirates who take pride in their infamy but those pirates who do small squad ambush piracy of commerce and exhumer bounties. Hard to do ambush when half of EVE recognizes you in local and flees to stations.

Plus of course CCP loses the toon transfer fee off the old approach of "train alt on separate account until mature then transfer alt to consolidate accounts".

On positive note -- maybe we will see less trial account abuse by veteran pirates. Although given the cost of PLEX, I doubt it will disappear. Still there are things full accounts can do that trials can't - which CrimeWatch changes have made more important. Things like haulers getting suspect flagged for stealing loot mean higher tanking/navigation skills are important. Plus snatch and grab hauler names gaining infamy in local due to flagging...leading to need for name changes/alt replacement.

On the bad news/good news front...I expect the average quality of player pirates to increase since additional training comes in 30 day blocks. Sure many will just split training time in half and give two alts the training of old trail account strategies. Still the temptation for more skill and better pirating ships might makes some pirates SLIGHTLY more vulnerable to revenge as they have more to lose.

Great feature change.Can hardly waitingfor the ripples to settle and final effects on game to be seen.

I would argue that the duration remaining on your character's in-game pilot license, which you paid for by purchasing an in-game coupon, which you can only activate while in-game, counts as worthy in-game information.

I agree that "Paid account time remaining" should not be displayed in-game... But what if we were to say that purchasing a month's subscription was actually both increasing your account time AND granting you an in-game pilot's licence extension? Even though these two things would have identical timers, they could still be treated and presented differently.

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There are benefits and drawbacks to using a second account and there are benefits and drawbacks to using dual character training. With dual training, you don't need to continue paying that extra PLEX or $15 every month to use the character you've trained. If you need to keep a second character training long-term with the ability to use them both concurrently, a second account is more suitable for you. If you only need to train a second character for a while but don't want to commit to paying an extra $15/month to use it, dual training is probably a better option.

This is why you still have the choice of using a second account, but CCP is simply giving you another option to consider.

It's a 33% increase, not a 125% increase, and they're probably using PLEX because it's easier to implement for an experimental feature that we have no guarantee will continue to be offered in the long term. I'm sure they'll consider allowing you to buy it directly through account management eventually, but for now, this is probably aimed at those of us who already buy PLEX in-game to pay for our accounts.