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Proposal Buy extra character slots on an account.
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CENTUREAN
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2011-12-09 09:44:11 UTC
I would like more than 3 character slots on my account. I need them for support alts.

FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#2 - 2011-12-09 14:22:56 UTC
I'm really curious how many alts one needs without playing them concurrently. If you have that large an infrastructure, surely you can afford the isk for one plex a month to double your character slots AND be able to run two at once?

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Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2011-12-09 16:01:57 UTC
For either $15 or one PLEX a month you can get three more character slots. As a bonus you can train one of them simultaneously with your main character.

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De'Veldrin
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2011-12-09 19:35:47 UTC
From CCP's perspective, it's a bad business decision. Why should they let you pay a one time fee to get three more slots when they can charge you $15 a month for it?

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Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2011-12-09 20:04:25 UTC
I am curious...for what purpose would you need more support alts? They cannot be logged in at the same time as your main so...yeah...

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Max Kolonko
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#6 - 2011-12-09 21:30:00 UTC
Vertisce Soritenshi wrote:
I am curious...for what purpose would you need more support alts? They cannot be logged in at the same time as your main so...yeah...


tones of purposes, CYNO lats for alliance for one. BOTTING for one.

Imagine PI Bot, that relogs every few minutes to different char and make those short time programs running

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Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2011-12-09 22:31:23 UTC
Well...either way my vote is no. Get another account and support CCP properly if you want more characters. 3 per account is enough.

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Zircon Dasher
#8 - 2011-12-09 23:33:01 UTC
Well, since he wishes to purchase this benefit:

Avg account life is 2 years iirc.

$15*24mo= $360
$360/3 slots = $120 per slot
$120+$50 convienence fee = $170


So if CCP charged a one time fee of $175 per slot it would cover the average account life plus those who go over that life. All non-refundable should the account be found to breach the EULA.

Doesnt sound like terrible thing for CCP imo.

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Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2011-12-10 07:27:24 UTC
Zircon Dasher wrote:
Well, since he wishes to purchase this benefit:

Avg account life is 2 years iirc.

$15*24mo= $360
$360/3 slots = $120 per slot
$120+$50 convienence fee = $170


So if CCP charged a one time fee of $175 per slot it would cover the average account life plus those who go over that life. All non-refundable should the account be found to breach the EULA.

Doesn't sound like terrible thing for CCP imo.


since monocle is a vanity item that does nothing, and this would do something, i think the convenience fee will be much more then $50
CENTUREAN
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2011-12-10 07:59:35 UTC  |  Edited by: CENTUREAN
A specialized character doesn't need much skill point to be effective. As eve online gets older so do the characters...yet there isn't a need to keep training the characters because they are maxed out at what they do. So the answer is to open more slots per account to grow that way.

I am getting to the point on my accounts where I have nothing left to train on the 3 characters I have on my accounts.

I have carrier pilots who depend on my cyno/etc alt to log into the game and enable them to move. All my characters are cyno-enabled. Every character I have can cyno. yet the 3 characters I have are committed to a different part of eve.

I'm not concerned about training multiple characters on an account. I'm the type of person that wants to have a couple characters in high sec/ Wormholes/ 0.0/ etc. I'm not changing the way the next person plays their game. When you have a character(s) in a high/low/0.0/wormhole corp, you are devoted to that corp and can't go from 0.0 to high sec because of commitments to you're corp/alliance.

Eventually this will happen, eventually you're eve characters, all 3 of them will become so proficient at what they do that you won't have a need to train them. There are people who will train that 1 main character to 300 million skill points, but I'd rather have (3) 100 Million skillpoint characters, after which I'd like more character slots that allow me more access to the game.

I feel each character on an account allows more access to the game. Makes my game experience better.