EVE General Discussion

I believe there was a time you could activate a trial with a plex, but you only get 20 some days iirc (Cause first month has a 'setup' fee)

I'm not sure if it's been changed.

the long and the short of it - it's more expensive to activate an account then to maintain one.
Also i've heard of it taking a day or two to remove trial restrictions, So there's that too.. (Aka you will only be able to run one account or the other until trial restrictions are removed)

So CCP's okay with it. It makes them more money, after all.

Do what you like

The only time its not accepted by the management is when you are creating suicide alts


Which goes to show that this do what you, like anything goes, scam away kind of game is all junk in reality.

I know it can be activated, I just recall reading somewhere that I think it was only 21days for a 30day plex on a trial account at one point, Thus you'll be plexing every 3 weeks instead of month.

I've done it previously and I think I was getting the full 30 days, but it was 2-3 accounts and then they had out lived their usefulness.
I did a quick look to see some kind of confirmation if its still same duration or what but can't find anything that looks official.

If CCP didn't expect a little 'wonkyness' with invites, you would be blocked from sending them to your own/same email - so I don't see CCP's stance on it ban worthy, at worst probably frowned upon.

Please read the buddy invite rules again and then also quote the part that abusing the buddy-invite program will get you banned from EVE

The buddy account offer is supposed to get new business for CCP by attracting your friends to the game, not to supply a player with a non paying alt. Its called a BUDDY system and specifically refers to your friends information.

That said, small manipulations of this seem to be overlooked by CCP. Constant abuse of the BUDDY system however will risk a banning.

To those who point to the terms and conditions and suggest it may authorize this, remember this is CCP we are dealing with and they reserve the right to ban you for any reason. Stealing money from CCPs pocket (in that you dont pay for a hauler account using the buddy abuse method) may well be sufficient reason.

The T+C do not, for example, suggest that rolling buddy accounts for suicide will lead to a ban, but it will.

SKUNK

Well you are right in one respect in that CCPs stated policy is that the RECYCLING of the alt is what is bannable.

If you click the biomass button on the character select screen, the pop up box that appears says RECYCLE CHARACTER? By creating a new buddy account and plexing it, no characters are ever reclycled - so the logical analysis is that you are not breaking the rules on -10 alt abuse.

However, this is an incorrect tanalysis . CCP will treat any "abuse" of the buddy system (whereby they make no actual profit from an account creation) as a bannable offence. You will be treated as if you have recyled that -10 alt, even though you didnt do it. I have heard of individuals this has happened to even though they were following the strict letter of the law laid down by CCP.

So I would advise caution in your plan, though strictly speaking it contravenes no stated policy.

SKUNK

Double Standards.. in EvE... you shock me

SKUNK

what are you talking about?

if he sends himself a BUDDY INVITE, the alt gets 21 days of trial time (wherein he CANNOT log in both accounts on the same machine). If he PLEXes the alt straightaway, he'll have 51 (yes, fifty-one) days of "free" gametime on that alt. The "trial restrictions" are lifted immediately on the trial account upon a logout/login cycle.