EVE New Citizens Q&A

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CCP deliberately overcharges people who saying any and/or all of these words.


Seriously though, there already is a solution - pay for the alt training privilege by earning ISK in-game and pay with PLEX. If you can accept either this or coughing up and paying RL money, great. If not, I would suggest that this maybe isn't the game for you - instant gratification isn't always available.

Plex is what, the instruction manual for this game is bigger than a university library. My guess is Plex is a time consumption method that once paid for you have to start earning it again to payf or it again and no real game time comes in right? if so your right this game is not for me.

Show me another MMO which...

- allows you to train / gain skillpoints when you are not playing with that character.

- allows you to train / gain skillpoints on multiple characters at the same time.


1. Playing as a different faction's character doesn't really affect much beyond...
--- the style / appearance of a character
--- where you start
--- you starting skills
Any character can train up any skills, use any ships / weapons (once those skills have been trained), and can fly anywhere in the game (provided your standings are either neutral or "good"... which they start out as for all characters) without suffering any penalty or losing out on "race specific" bonuses.

2. Because only limited number of skills are needed to perform certain activities (e.g. harvesting, building, hauling, "playing" on the market) many people like to briefly train up "alt characters" for mundane activities that require them to do or go places they don't want their "main character" to do or go.

For example: I have three characters on this account.
- Fluffers here is my main and is more or less constantly training.
- Then I have another character whose "job" is to sit in a station and manipulate market orders (took only 1 month to train up).
- And then I have another character who job is to build stuff and haul (took 3 months to train up).
- I keep all of them separate from each other because Fluffers here is a DIRTY DIRTY pirate and is not welcome in high-sec space anymore... and I don't want my other characters to be "tainted" in their dealings with others by being associated with a character who is a self-styled mass murderer.


History lesson:

Once upon a time, Real Money Trading used to be a problem here in EVE. Inflation was a problem (bigger than it is today) and prices for items fluctuated and often cratered due to the massive amount of harvesting and "firesales" that were happening to facilitate RMT.

Then the DEVs got an idea. Why not offer up an 30-day gametime token that could be bought with real money and sold in-game? Players would decide how much 30 days of gametime was worth to them using in-game currency.

This token (henceforth known as PLEX) had extremely positive results.
- it offered players who earned stupid amounts of in-game currency a way to essentially play for "free"
- it offered a way for players who wanted quick cash a legitimate way to get fast in-game currency without the risk of being banned
- it did not add any additional in-game currency to the game (see: a player pays for the [potential] subscription of another in exchange for in-game currency)
- with each in-game transaction, it actually removed some in-game currency from the game through in-game market fees and taxes (cutting inflation down a bit)
- it kept money in the company's pockets


New services have been added to PLEX as the years have gone on.
Before, you could only train up one character at a time (see: you had to pause one character's training to start training on another). Now you can train up multiple characters for a short period of time (which is really the idea... because this game is a HUGE fan of forcing people to make "tradeoffs).

I also buy things without reading what they are or how they work.

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I have a $200 tablet that I bought a few years ago and never used. I can't be bothered to learn never figured out how use Microsoft's mobile UI.

It now serves as a rather decent paperweight for my many important papers and documents (wasn't "paper" supposed to be phased out by today's digital age? What happened???).

I didn't expect the immersion in this game to be as good as it is. Agreed so much with what you're saying about Eve being a nice one character game. I love being able to get in lots of different ships for different jobs, having just enough manufacturing to make the BPC's I find in exploration and after a bit of doing everything I've finally plugged in Caldari Frigate V because I hear the Kestrel is good for beginning lowsec PVP.

Just did the math real quick and assuming plex is still at or around 1 billion, you'd have to make 33 million a day to be able to play 'for free'.

I still love life in Eve without an alt but maybe that would be better for you if you have figured out a nice income in game.

You don't know true pain until you've applied a Dremel to the soft fleshy bit between thumb and forefinger.....

I just closed my alt training account. It was an account dedicated to training alts that needed longer period of training. Example: last alt trained had 88.9 millions skill points.

Of course, I have to pay $20 (or two PLEX) to transfer the alts off the account. [I used the cash option.]

I've used PLEX to train other alts with dual training. Longest was 6 months.

Of course there are deals that can be used to create alts, like Buddy Invites to yourself, and Power of Two, etc.

Meanwhile back to the topic.

OP can you imagine for a second that a few years back there was no such feature as simoltaneous training on the same account.

The we been given with that option. So CCP is doing slight progress, lets wait few more years and we could have what you are asking for

I think they x86'd the windows RT experiment. The latest surface tablets are running normal windows on I think intel atom processors. that said I like windows 8.1 on the surface pro, should be interesting to see what win10 is like, but w/e I got time.