Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Was just thinking, the other two slots on many accounts are left unused, because you can't train up more than one character at once...it's much more practical to have an entirely separate account. But what if you were able to redeem a 3nd and 3rd plex per account each month, to enable the other two to train simultaneously?

I understand there are still a few drawbacks here, like not being able to multibox with them, but you also get the added benefit of being able to let the 2nd and 3rd plexes expire without losing the functionality of the other toons.

I also imagine there would have to be a few coding tweaks to make it work, but I think it might be a good addition...?

So.. you want to train up 3 characters but dont want to pay for three accounts?

Just train them on 3 accounts then move them to your main account once they have reached the level of training you require.


Edit: Oh, and please dont use the word 'toon', it may not seem like it somethimes but we kinda would like to be somewhat more grown up than WOW.

I like this idea. Say you've bought an industry alt and moved it to your account. Then you realize the alt would really benefit from, say, a month of trade skills, but don't want to stop your main from training.

You could do it with plex now - pay two plex to transfer, one to train for a month, then two to transfer back. Five plex isn't really worth it for one month of skills though, so no one would do that. But if you didn't have to transfer, more people would be likely to do it.

The result would be people cashing in plex who wouldn't necessarily do it otherwise. Since plex are only ever created when someone buys them with actual money, this just means more money for CCP and more skilled alts for everybody.

Another good instance this would be useful, would be pos gunners, cyno characters, that are on your alt combat characters accounts, so your main can use the cynos, or you can use the pos gunners to help defend your corp/alliances poses if need be. Without having to pay 2 plex to transfer the character off of a buddy program account or something.

Even longer trained characters could benefit from this, say you want a 2-3mil sp trade alt or a basic covert ops character, but you don't want to spend all the extra money that involves creating the account and transfer the character off? Trade alts don't matter whether they are on their own account, or not training on one of your exsisting accounts.

And trust me, i have all of my accoutns filled with useful characters from cyno characters, to freighter/transportship pilots, to covert frig pilots, that allow me to have eyes were i need them, as soon as i need them, and full cyno chains whenever i need. It is quite a huge advantage, especially when you don't encumber your pvp characters with all the extra scanning skills, trade skills, etc etc, and it also allows you to have characters all over the place, without paying any extra.

The suggestion has been voiced in the CSM and other places that you PLEX up the other characters on your account to train them up. This saves having to keep creating new accounts for characters and lets you easily improve a character if you have a spare PLEX without having to reup full accounts. It also gives you access to those untrained characters constantly, as if you'd transferred them from an active account. It's apparently something they're looking into.

You see a problem?

I'll bump this thread instead of starting a new one.

I would like to train my alt for a month or two while keeping on training my main. Paying to transfer my alt into another account and then back isn't worth the cost. I would gladly pay a reasonable premium to train my alt on the same account.

The money lost from the transfer fees would be more than made up by the popularity of this feature.