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People pay for seperate accounts to train new alts. This will never be introduced because CCP would lose a massive massive amount of income. Please think your ideas through, or know more about the game, before suggesting to change it in the Assembly Hall.

If your generally that experienced but still think your suggestion may be worth while, post it in the Features and Suggestions area of the forums first to see people's reactions.

Show me a game where you are allowed to train multiple characters on the same account at the same time.

The search thingy at the top of the forum is really helpful, you know. You can search for subject matter such as "training" and "account" and see just how many times this has been brought up and repeatedly shot down by the EVE community, all in one place!

All in one place!

Well considering the subject has been shot to pieces several times before on this forum by the community and not CCP might give you a hint that it is in fact not the best idea ever.

One might actually say that it is a minority of players that would like this change and the majority sees it as a bad idea.

The fact is that its never going to happen simply because CCP would lose a crap load of subscriptions. To be fair wouldn’t we all rather have CCP getting the money they need to further expand and evolve EVE the game we all love.
Do remember that when CCP had a 9% decries in subscriptions the had to fire 20% of the staff… That is one in five for those of you that didn’t listen during math class.

So in short (that’s to late now) stop posting suggestions for game changes you haven’t thought trough or just go biomass your char now.

My take on the issue is this: the most scarce resource in the game is time. Learning to manage your time is the most important skill you as a player can learn. Learn that skill. Also learn that you will never train every skill in the game: you need to specialise. Industry or Military is one basic dividing point: do you train to have 200-odd order limit on the market, or do you train to fly battleships? Do you train to fly a Widow, or fly all T1,2 & 3 cruisers? Do you become a one-pilot industrial behemoth able to churn out ships at a phenomenal rate, or fly a stealth bomber with Cyno 5 so you can take part in blowing up battleships at a phenomenal rate?

There are already options available to you to help you "win" the SP "race". Explore those options: character transfers and multiple accounts.

So, apparently, it's a fairly popular idea.

I don’t have a crystal ball, but thing it trough. If there still isn’t a bell ringing in that empty skull of yours I do suggest you take class or two in marketing, business and product development.

Well this subject might reappear frequently but so did the subject about missiles and delayed damage vs. turrets and instant damage.
The fact that a subject is aired often doesn’t make is a great subject, often it’s the other way around.
Great proposals tend to get CSM attention the first time

Let's put your suggestion in a general framework:

You want to train multiple characters per account. Why?

-- becuase your impatient, and cant be asked to stop training on your main so you can train a second character.

Reasons why this might not be supported

-- It doesn't really serve a real purpose. Since you can cross train everything it is ALWAYs quicker and more effecient to train into a new thing on your main becuase they will have support skills already. (I suppose it could allow you to play as two separate people, but then you should be using two separate accounts anyway!!!

-- Character Farming - When you could train up multiple characters simultaneously, people would just make 2 alts and train them to do stuff then just sell em on the bazarr or IRL. This would essentially devalue all characters, and really screw over current character traders (yes, there are people that earn their isk that way!). RMT'ers and previous players abused the old multi-character-training system!

-- Account Sharing - Since you could train mulitply chars on the same account, 2 or 3 people could effectivly play the same account if they all did so at different times.


Finally, you REALLY NEED TO RESEARCH YOUR IDEAS BEFORE POSTING THEM. Quit stinking up the Assembly Hall with recycled craptastic ideas, unless you can give it a new spin, and really thoroughly understand the topic. Next time, I suggest you find the answers to the following questions before polluting the forums:

-- Has this been suggested before??? (3s of research will tell you many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many times before)

-- If so, why has this been shot down? (<- OMG, we expect you to post as an informed person, please do so!).

-- Is your idea thoroughly vetted? (If its a new idea, get some player feed back... in FEATURES AND IDEAS, not assembly hall).



Finally, for your information, they used to allow mulitple characters to train at the same time, way back in early EvE. There are multiply reasons they got rid of it. You should probably be knowledgeable of why they got rid of it, and how those arguments are no longer valid, and/or how re-introducing it at this time won't cause the problems it did before.

I didn't insult you (unless being called impatient is an insult). I insulted your idea. I called it recycled, craptastic, and stinky. It is undeniably recycled. Perhaps the latter two adjectives are too much opinion, but you wouldn't be complaining if I said fantastic instead of craptastic. You're only complaining because my opinion of the idea doesn't agree with yours.

If we can move past that, I also posted a very thorough outline of why it's been shot down before, and explained what is expected of you when bring your ideas to the CSM in the future (which is what the assembly hall is for!).

My point was that we already have alternatives. We currently have three slots so that you have the option, for example, to train two market alts while focussing on combat skills for the main character. After a while you will resent the cost of replacing clones for your high-SP characters. You might decide that flying a black ops battleship on your main is enough: more SP will hurt you financially. So you spend time training the other slots in order to sell those SP that you are never going to use.

You might train a Thrasher-flying alt for RvB or Faction Warfare because you know that such a ship is viable. That alt doesn't need warp drive operation 5 or Retail 5 or Amarr Encryption Methods. So you stop training while the clone replacement isn't going to break your bank.

These are choices which have consequences. If you remove the consequences, the choices are not important any more and you break the basic model of EVE.