EVE New Citizens Q&A

Your alt join FW, your main is safe, doing missions, mining what ever.
Your alt in logi reps your main during PvP.
Just two usages, that came into the mind of newbee without alt ;)

You will have to pay two subscriptions.

1) PI for additional income
2) FW for additional income (so your main doesn't have to worry about the problem of being in a militia if you want to mine or run missions)
3) Train to haul your combat characters stuff around
4) Focus on another career path other than your main (mining, combat, trading, exploration)
5) Basic training and use for scouting
6) Placing the character as a cyno alt (though as a newbie you probably won't be worrying about this for a long while, if ever)
7) Awoxing fun
8) Attempt to infiltrate a corp and steal everything
9) Train for links/boosts for your other character

The list goes on and on.

If you don't know what to do with an alt, you don't need one!

I have 5 accounts:

Alt #1 = My shadow goes wherever I do. His purpose in life is to make mine easier, which includes training skills I don't have time for. Primarily a booster alt (maxed: Orca, Rorqual, all Command Ships), and secondarily a drone-boat pilot, tertiary carrier pilot (all races). He started-off hauling, salvaging, and assisting with exploration (hacking & archeology). Also a blops pilot. Currently working on all reprocessing skills to 5. He started life about 40 days after I did.

Alt #2 = Research, manufacturing & trade, POS Manager. Also ice and scrap reprocessor. His purpose is to earn me ISK. As he stays in hisec, he also is mission-capable.

Alt #2.5 = Research & manufacturing, only. (Second character on same account, partially dual-trained, 12.77m SP = about 6 months).

Alt #3 = General assist. Started as a miner-only character, but has gone way beyond that (e.g. HIC, Tengu, drone-boat pilot, covert cyno).

Alt #4 = Alt training account. Currently has a 62.7m SP Science & Industry char that I plan to transfer to my main account someday. Currently finishing-off all Science skills to 5.

Alt #4.5 = Booster alt (somewhat like my shadow, but more leadership focused & has FC 4, but much fewer SP) a friend that left EVE transferred to me. Don't know what I will do with it yet.

All of them can do PI, research, and manufacturing. All are POS gunners. Most are Logistics pilots (can pilot Basilisk & Guardian, though some do more), and freighter pilots. Most are jump freighter pilots.

The above doesn't include cyno alts and market price-check alts that are on the same accounts.

No need to apologize

Only one character per account can be logged in at one time. So if you wanted two characters in space, you would need to sub two accounts. However, if you wanted another character to do things when your main isn't logged in, you could keep it on one account and switch back and forth when necessary. Additionally, only one character per account can be trained at a time, unless you use a PLEX to activate multiple character training from month to month.