EVE General Discussion

I don't log enough hours to entertain the idea of multiple accounts, but I've always been curious, especially since it's encouraged by the game.

For the multiboxers:

What made you finally decide to make the jump?

Is the game actually more fun this way, or would you rather just have a few roommates that play?

For those who multibox to PLEX their subs, is there a "sweet spot" of accounts that is enough to raise productivity without requiring an overwhelming amount of effort to PLEX them all?

Any fun stories you want to share about managing multiple accounts? Unfortunate circumstances? Funny trolls?

I started multi boxing for PVE activities. I guess I still do. I have a high sec market/manufacture alt which provides my isk. I have this character, and one other that I use for scouting.

The only time i've used all three together was farming querious 6/10's. I had my indy alt in an orca, alt for scout/probes, and my main in "combat" ships. I wanted to farm null sec without living there so I'd day/weekend trip down, use the orca for storage of loot and extra salvage and probe ships.

It was a lot of work looking back but at the time I made a fair amount of isk from it.

Almost got caught once. A group of five or so saw me jumping out of a system in my orca, i cloaked on the other side and started slow boating away. They of course followed and began trying to de cloak me getting as close as 3-4,000 meters from me. Some how I managed to not get decloaked and after about 30 minutes they gave up. No doubt calling hacks, I would be.

Day one I started 6 accounts. I then consolidated them to two accounts like a year or so later. Now I have a character for almost every role I enjoy in Eve. Forgetting where items are and which character has them can be challenging sometimes.

The old log in screens did not help having multiple accounts by having to exit out completely. They could really make it easier to switch characters still.

Bubbling my other character is always fun

When it became apparent that the only way to beat four neutral Guardians is by using six neutral Guardians.

Multiboxing is not an option, its a requirement for anyone flying capital ships. Nuff said.

There comes a time when you realize that there is a larger eve game you have never seen. Ultimately, you always have known it was there. You started out in an Ibis... gradually you got into frigates and then destroyers and then cruisers... finally you got your battleship. You fought for a year in your battleship and ratting and doing plexes was the ultimate triumph. You expanded your industry from frigates to cruisers to indys... and as you jumped up in paygrade and as you started to see the tiers of play you begun to think... "well how many f***ing tiers are there?" Then you realized the tiers were your own abstraction layer to the game. There are no tiers in eve. There is no progression or skill levels and there is nothing that seperates you at all from the very best players that have been in it since 2003... the truth is your own understanding of the game is limited only by you. You think you need to progress so far for this or that. You think you need to join under the protection of the more powerful player to gain whatever benefit. This is a conceptual fallacy in EvE. You can have whatever you can take. There is no one in the game a player of 3 months can't take from a beta player if you know enough. You become great in this game when you realize you can do whatever the f*** you want if you take it from another player. At that point you will center yourself on what you can achieve and you will see the inherent benefit to having multiple accounts. When you master this you will see that it is really a time and efficiency equation. How many accounts can you maintain at a time for what you can put in the game given your strategem (to borrow from the Shakespearean parlance)... what is the efficiency equation for your roll and your goals... for Gogela, I have 4 characters and 2 accounts. It is the most efficient game play I can come up with for myself. I know guys who need 11. To each their own. When you decide that there is a broader game you are playing and your tastes and goals start to get out of control, that is when you need another account.

my 2 isk.

I don't get it.
About a year ago, there was a huge uproar because of the "fearless" leak and people were massprotesting out of fear that ccp might introduce "gold ammo" in the Nex. Eve is a sandbox, "no pay to win" they cried.
Yet people find it totally normal to have several accounts, since specialized alts are almost required to be successful in certain areas- and none of you seems to have a problem with that....
I mean, come on, "the alt-account is free because I plex it" is about as true as "minerals I mine are free".
Just my 2 cents.

I started when I got my first real life tattoo. It became a drug!

No really, trying different careers in Eve at the same tame made me create another account. Then I scaled it some more for industrial stuff. Having a set of toons which all are capable to scan, research, haul in freigthers and manufacture stuff and just sit in cloaks and watch wormholes and gates is pretty useful.

agreed, multiple accounts are essential. Simply put having the ability to train 2 characters at a time is the key factor. Otherwise I would be fine with 3 characters in 1 account. However training this toon for PvP related skills, that frees up my other account to work on science, industry, and trade....and still has cyno capabilities once I need them. With the added bonus that I have a good relatively safe way to make isk when I may not be able to so easily on this toon. Total I have 3 toons I use, one additional as a hauler for my indy toon. That's my personal preference though, as I am a more casual player. I think it's a matter of how you want to play, what you want to do, and how much time you want to put into all of that.

Everyone so far has made very valid points. Basically if you think you could use another toon, you probably could.

Multi-Boxing is seriously the only way to go if you are one of those "Dread" AFK Cloakers. Did you honestly think we just sit there in your system for hours on end just watching? No, we are running missions in highsec on the other box...

I started multiboxing when I found the need to be 2 places at once.