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How many accounts if I want to specialize in everything?

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Aurelius Oshidashi
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#41 - 2016-05-19 20:32:18 UTC
Memphis Baas wrote:
Yeah, you need to pay the $15 per month to keep an account active. Account active means you can log into that account, and get to the character selection screen. Character selection screen shows you have 3 character slots, thus you can create 3 characters for the price of an account. 1 main, 2 alts.

The next restriction is that only 1 character can train skills per account. You can certainly train your main for 1 month, then stop the skills, log into the alt and get that training for a month, then stop that and repeat for the third alt. Doesn't cost extra.

OR, if you want to pay extra, you can "unlock" the ability to train 2 characters at the same time, for 1 month, by paying a PLEX. Your main character can continue training uninterrupted, and the PLEX activates the ability to get the alt started with skills. At the end of the month, the alt is forced to stop, and the main continues to train as normal.

So basically you get 3 characters per account, so as long as that account is active with subscription, you can have 1 main and 2 useful alts. Main is the PVP warrior, runs around shooting everyone, alts are sat in Jita and Dodixie watching prices and selling the main's loot with low tax rate.

The alts won't need more than 3 months of training each.

So, to do this same scenario with 3 accounts, you pay 3 subscriptions and you train 3 "main" characters and have 6 empty slots. And after 3 months, you get a "main" and 2 "alts" that are trained in the market, right? Same as above. But now you have to continue to pay for 3 accounts, because as soon as you stop on the 2 "alt" accounts, you can no longer log in to get to them.

EDIT:

So, for alts that don't need more than 5 M skill points that mostly sit in station watching prices or factories, use the empty slots that you have on your current account.

For "alts" that you need to fly with you, to scout the enemy or to help repair your main ship in combat, use different accounts so they can log in at the same time as your main.

SUB PRICES:

- Monthly subscription $15
- 6-month subscription $80 = $13/month
- full year subscription, $132 = $11/month
- PLEX = $21 / month (or, if you gather 1 billion ISK in-game, you can buy another player's PLEX on the market, thus technically $0 / month)
- transfer character from one account to another account so you can "park it" or start training = $20

- training instantly via skill injectors = $30 - $50 - $100 to accumulate the skill points you would otherwise get "per month" (the more points you have, the worse it is). Or, again, you can buy these for billions of ISK from other players.

- buying already-trained characters from the Character Bazaar subforum = billions of ISK, equivalent to the cost of subscription that would be required to train however many skillpoints that character has. Or whatever ISK amount you manage to negotiate with the seller.


Can't thank you enough man, great stuff.

You seem to know the math well in this regard. Would you consider the career packages of 4,99 euros a good investment when compared to buying plex, also taking into account the plex prices dropping right now, maybe even to a bottom of 600 million?
Memphis Baas
#42 - 2016-05-19 20:56:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Memphis Baas
CCP's promos are usually aimed at increasing the number of players, so if you read the fine print, whatever is offered as a discount is for creating a new account. Typically aimed at newbies.

So when you create a new account, it actually costs $20, with the account unlock and a month of game time included. So technically they are charging $5 as a processing fee to create your account, and the regular $15 / month for the first month.

So the $4.99 promo covers that $5 fee and gives you some common ships and skills and stuff. For newbies, it's probably worth it.

For existing players, even if you're still a newbie, you can get those ships / items for free if you do the tutorial / career missions. The career missions give you about 10 million ISK worth of ships and stuff, for approximately 2-3 hours work. You can get another 10 million or so from the Sisters of EVE epic mission arc, again 3 or so hours of work. Repeatable every 3 months if you haven't found something more profitable by then.

If the promos include PLEX, then obviously the value of a PLEX is $20, so you can figure out if it's worth it. Keep in mind that most of these promos are "if you create a new account", so basically you're paying $20 to create a new account, and getting a PLEX or some ships or whatever as a bonus.

There's also a Buddy Program, where you can invite a friend and if they create a subscribed account you get a PLEX. And you can buddy yourself if you want to create more accounts to play in parallel with your main.

But ultimately, all these bonuses are really to start the game, and this game is long term, at least a couple years, so when you've played that long, you've also paid several hundred dollars for your years of subscription and enjoyment of the game, so the 1 PLEX in the beginning isn't that big a deal long term. If you didn't know about the buddy program or couldn't take advantage of a promo at this time, just set your accounts up with like 6 month subscription, and cancel it around Christmas time, and it's very likely they'll have some New Year promotions and discounts and bonus ships at that time, for us loyal players to take advantage of and "resubscribe."

They don't mind having a discount or promo every now and then to keep us happy. But typically we like the game anyway, so discounts or not, most people keep their subscription going.
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