EVE General Discussion

No. How else am I going to like my own posts on the forums?

Short answer: Yes

Long answer: Yes, although large scale industry/industry with a POS, T2 manufacturing, missing AND salvaging, and a few other things are going to be a bid difficult. The only thing I say you NEED an alt for is if you plan on flying capitals/supercapitals because they need another person (see: alt) to move them around via cyno, not to mention once you have a supercapital you aren't going to leave it unless you sell it or get blown up (or are incredibly stupid).

Yes.

Just to clarify, you mentioned alts and multiboxing... which are two different things. Like alduin said, you might need alts to do more industry type events as you will have more manufacturing slots available (at the character level) and such. But do you really need them? No, not at all until you hit capital sized operations (which as a new player, isn't something you need to worry about anytime soon). I myself have 4 cyno alts in order to allow me to keep them in place for moving capital ships around. I also have a dedicated hauler so that kill rights or other things wont get him/her targeted while moving high value items. The rest are just nice to have and may help with industry. Someone could also provide a great argument that not using alts to do planetary Interaction is a waste as it can easily bring isk income.

If I had just one account, my setup would look like this:
Main PVP/Industry Player
Main Hauler backed with some basic industry/PI (also has trade skills)
Additional Alt for industry/PI

Having a cyno as an alt when your just using a single account wont help much as it generally requires multi accounts which is a bit more than "an alt"

#deathtoallmultiboxers

Yes this is a thing now . . . don't judge me.

You can play without alts, but the longer you play, the more you will want to be able to do. It isn't essential though.

Example: I stopped training one character to train a lab alt for 7 months, so now I have an additional 10 slots for research and manufacturing.

Is it a thing that you would put on twitter? No. But I do know a fair amount of people who hate multiboxers. Not to mention that if you are caught multiboxing in high sec while mining the New Order will hunt you down (as they rightfully should).

Most multiboxers I know are in my alliance, and even then we just shove them into a 'you get no say' corp while they provide us with materials for capitals while we hold a whip over them.

This is my current account: this guy
and another guy living off faction warfare and piracy, hoho.

Only if you find enough live people.

Really? There are a few I know that have a rather large amount of accounts. But most people I know including me have only one.

I rather play a second game than EVE twice.