Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Just start 4 alpha accounts.

It's not like you pay for them.

You are not seriously. It isn't a smart way to familiarize with a game, especially, when eve online position itself like an intelligent game. Even World of Warcraft (game 7+) have option to create a particular number of characters equal to the number of different classes in game.

Well actually in that-game-we-shouldn't-pronounce (lol), you can train them as you want: just login, chose your char, exp and it's done, switch character, do the same.

In eve, having 4 char slots will be useless in less than many month, since players will only be able to train one on the four, so 4 alpha will be far more efficient (and useful) than 4 on the same account, as training time are really not the same as the game you take as comparison (and it's not even comparable). So basically, it's even a worse way to familiarize with the game, as you don't have time to really train something. That's also why most of us have alts on different accounts, unless we don't mind stopping the skill queue somewhere / paying a plex to skill on both but only use one.

But in real long terms (considering you'll need around 4-5 month to have all alpha skills on only one character), it makes sense to have 4 slots.

And I personally would also use a 4th slot on my accounts

+1

Nah, that's not true. Only one character per account can train, even in Alpha state. So if you want to try out all factions, you still need to make four accounts, or wait for months until your first alpha hits the cap and change training. And if you're that obsessive with alphas, you should be willing to just biomass the faction you liked the least to make room for the final faction.

Having four characters per account just to have all factions would be a cute idea, but it's not necessary.

wouldn't it be easier to just remove minmatar from the game?

Considering you have to log out before you can switch character anyways, you may as well just have 4 accounts. Or two.

For reference..... I use every spare slot on my accounts for industry and cyno's of some magnitude. Give me another slot I'll do even more. That's kinda broken.

It makes more sense to have 4 accounts because of eve's training limitations.

They can all train if you have four accounts. If you have 4 slots on one account, only one can trade at a time.

this of course is assuming you would be paying for more than one account in order to get a fourth character. considering your claims however, you're making more than enough isk to keep an exponentially increasing number of accounts PLEXed indefinitely. this means that not only are you not directly giving CCP money, but if you were so obliged you could single handedly crash the PLEX market with your infinite income. while being able to increase your production per PLEX by 30% could potentially be detrimental to the game, not having that extra production would not really stop you from such a conquest and as such is inconsequential in the long run. simply put, there comes a point of diminishing returns where a fourth character slot doesn't effect the game to such a degree that it can truly be a bad thing.

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