EVE New Citizens Q&A

You may wonder why I'm starting a thread where only the new kids are supposed to post. Well...I believe they will find the answer helpful.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

So here we go.

I have characters that were subbed at one time or another. I also have characters that have only ever been PLEXed. When I add a PLEX to the non-subbed characters, I can see the days left until I'm back to Alpha. When I add a PLEX to a previously subbed character it shows me nothing.

If I don't load up thirty days of skills right away, I tend to end up adding more later and having no idea if I'm under the wire or not. It's happened a few times with characters I don't use often that I've lost up to ten days of training because it dropped to Alpha well before the training was up.

Here's the question. Is there a way to change some setting (In acct management, maybe?) to reset the character to a non-subbed state so that my time left will show up on them?

Mr Epeen

Agreed. They must do that for a reason, but I can't figure out why. I only use evemon now just to tell me how long I have left. Weird how characters having only ever been subbed or plexed making a difference in remaining time notification.

What I'm talking about, DeMicheal, is in game.

A PLEX only acct shows time left when you look at your character stats, whereas a previously subbed character shows nothing. While I could certainly log in to acct management, it's not very convenient. It would be much easier if when you were PLEXing it showed time left in game for both previously subbed and "virgin" accts..

Plus I have currently 22 characters to keep track of. That would be a lot of alt/tabing just to log in each on acct management when I'm running through them to see which are due for PLEX.

Mr Epeen

evemon says when my sub is up ingame its frustrating as it does for some of my accounts but not others :<

I've tried donating plex, or contracting it over and activating on account, neither seems to do any difference.

the whole alpha clone thing seems to have messed with that part of the code as accounts don't actually expire any more.

I have an excel file that tracks... 36 accounts, for their skill queue end dates. I know, I know its outside the game.. but it is fully automated, and can be checked within the hour.

http://eveonline-third-party-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/xmlapi/account/account_accountstatus.html
paidUntil datetime The date until which the account is currently subscribed

With a bit of VB magickry, excel can do this and do some bold highlighting, color warnings, etc.

I used to use an app for Android err.. something like TimeLeft for a countdown timer in days, but this excel thing really streamlined things up since I can mold it to my liking.

I thought that information was buried somewhere in-game and I was just missing it. Nice to know that I'm not actually blind.

My work around has always been the Neocom app for iOS. It shows a "paid until" date (along with days remaining) for each character and itt works for either PLEX or subscription. I largely live off of that app and the "paid until" date is right on the home screen, so it's always in front of me.

Clearly it's CCP coding quality at its finest. Maybe the Little Things team will get around to fixing it, in a couple years.

Until then, I use the in-game calendar or notepad apps to keep track of it in-game. I use the calendar for the actual date, and the notepad to write notes to myself about WTF I'm trying to skill up to and when to remap.

What can I say? When CCP changed to Alpha/Omega they restarted all the accts I had created over my decade in this game.

Only four of mine are newer than 2012, and only two are new accts.

Mr Epeen

geeze, so how many times did you train the learning skills

EvEmon reports days remaining.

However, multi-character training is not. That's probably an API issue.