EVE New Citizens Q&A

Multiple accounts can open up additional income streams while not taking away focus on your main.

2nd account:

Mining if you enjoy that. PI is always popular. Salvage on 2nd account ( train for the Noctis). Trading if that's you thing. Hauler. Just a few examples. Industry is great income if you take time to learn the markets and such.

Long run consideration is a 2nd account to support your pvp: The always hated Falcon alt or any of the recon ships. Logistics pilots is always welcome but takes experience to pew and logi multibox. Some frown on this.


2nd account is a good idea.

I see.

The upsides are that your main character can be steered more immediately towards a designated goal with hardly any side tracking, providing the same for your alt.

Combat/Exploration on one character, and a PvE/ISK generating focus on the secondary one.

In my case, Ruby could build mostly for combat and grab the odd buck with exploration, and a potential alt can mine, manufacture, freight.

I reckon it would also be a handy investment for 'solo' travelling through unsafe zones, using the alt to jump ahead and detect trouble for me.

The downsides for a single-monitor user such as me is the alt-tabbing, if my system would not be able to manage that adequately, which is something it should easily be able to do.

Food for thought.
I may postpone getting a second account, on the other hand starting early would simply mean both accounts would more or less achieve their respective goals simultaniously.

Exactly why would you state such a thing?

We each play games for entertainment purposes, and dedicate a particular amount of time to it.

If a secondary account would double my time spent I may have remotely agreed with you, but since both can be played simultaniously and later on, funded with ingame currency (thus not affecting my spending pattern in any way, shape or form) your statement makes little to no sense.

Then I must apologise, seeing how I was in the process of assuming you more or less insulted people with multiple accounts or those who are considering it.

I may come across as too harsh, but yeah, I was insulting.

The first rule of alts: if you don't know what to do with it, you don't need it.
When you have a clear goal for an alt's purpose and consider it within your budget, then go ahead, keep an eye on side-kick offers or such, but don't go making one just for the sake of having an alt, the clearer the goal, the easier you'll be able to skill it efficiently with proper use of remaps and possibly implants, but an alt needs assets too at times, so you need to be able to fund it before it can do its job.

While I agree with what has been granted to me in the previous posts I am not certain I can fully agree with your insights.

Obviously I am new, but scouting, logistics and the like are roles that friends can also fulfill, or I can do it for others when the time comes.
Making ISK however, is something I should manage solo and while the added usefulness of scouting with an alt is a bonus, I do not think it is mandatory.

I will however, not brush your input aside and instead keep it in consideration, but for the moment I will respectfully disagree with it being a must.

Understood. I do have a goal in mind, and a plan in the making in EVEmon. She would be a valued sidekick.


I hear your reasoning here, but I yet again have to raise you: friends.
This is afterall, an MMO.

The initial feedback I agree with in full, the latter can be covered alt-less.

In the end it's a personal decision. I play with guys who have a single account and I play with guys with 7+ accounts. Personally I have 3. I can afford 3 comfortably, Eve is a pretty inexpensive form of entertainment and it keeps me out of the bars mostly.
I've thought about a forth but have no good reason for it.

I always smile when people talk about considering the cost of this game, IMO its very cheap for it's entertainment to cost ratio and I gladly pay for it. Paying for three accounts on a yearly sub costs about $1 per day. If you can't afford that or its even a consideration you probably shouldn't be spending time playing video games.

More power to you if you can manage to plex your account(s) on a monthly basis, but be aware that has the potential pitfall of turning EVE into a job.

(Ruby, I realize you probably already understand both of these points but I thought they were pertinent to others who might read the thread)