EVE New Citizens Q&A

You can use a PLEX to purchase dual training, which in some cases can be handy if you just need to skill up the alt for a month or two.
There is no other way to train two characters on the same account at the same time.
However, you can train whatever character you choose on that one account whenever you want. If you want to spend 5 minutes training on one, then the next 6 months on another, there is nothing that prevents you from doing this.

Reason for this, well.. at least in my opinion i would assume its because a system like that would see a lot of abuse and would wreck the sales of characters pretty quickly.
That and there would be no reason to pay for a second account

Which leads me to the next point.
You can buy a second account, which will allow you to train skills just like you can with your first character. However you should know that a trial account cant be logged in at the same time as a full account.
So, if you want to do this, be prepared that you have to upgrade it fully in order to log them in at the same time.

Edit; Once your on a full account you can contract items between your characters, does not matter if they are on the same account or not. Same goes for ISK.

Once you upgrade to a full account, you can transfer ISK and items between them freely. You can also pay, 10 dollars I think, to transfer a character from one account to another.


Welcome to EVE!

Yeah, pretty much what the other people said.


1) You can only train one character PER ACCOUNT at a time - unless - you purchase a plex. Thus - it costs you about $15 a month to per character you want to train.

2) If you get a second account - then you can train a character from each at the same time. Or spend plex on second characters from each.

3) As a new player - it's going to be fairly difficult to come up with the funds in game to fund a plex every month - unless you're just buying the plex with real money rather than trading for one with ISK.

4) You can play as many accounts from one computer as it will run - unless - one of them is a trial account - in which case the game only allows the trial account to run if you run it. Of course - if you don't run the trial account - you can run as many full accounts as the computer can handle.

5) Do you really want to split your training across multiple characters? As a new person - probably not. What your characters can do is largely dictated by the skills they have. The more skills you have the easier it is for you to make money. Thus, it is better, to concentrate on building up one character per account until they can bring in a decent amount of ISK - then - think about creating another character.

6) Alt's are expensive - in terms of in game money and playing time. You have to buy skill books for them and ships as well as spend time on them when you could be making more money with your main. So - before you create an alt, either on the same account or on another account - think - do I really need to do this? Only if you have a specific need that you can identify is it a good idea to create an alt.

7) Even with multiple accounts - having 2 characters is NOT going to make you twice as much money as having one. For each account/character you create - there is a certain amount of overhead you incur managing that character. So, not only are they expensive - adding characters can quickly reach a point of diminishing returns. Each one you add - makes the use of the others less efficient.

8) Some activities lend themselves better to using multiple characters from multiple accounts simultaneously. Mining can make very good use of multiple accounts. PVE less so. PVP ... you really want to know what you're doing before trying that - or it's just that many more ships you'll lose.

Just so you know, you can change the basics of your avatar for free as many times as you want (hair, portrait, makeup..), and you can use a PLEX to be able to change everything else.

And since i forgot in my previous post, welcome to EVE