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Could EVE ever be a game played with one toon per player?

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Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#61 - 2012-08-08 05:43:54 UTC
Abel Merkabah wrote:
So I am not against multiple accounts; however, I do think neutral RR and off grid boosting, while claiming to 1v1 are kind of bullshit. But lots of things are kind of bullshit in Eve and that is what makes it beautiful, so I will cope.

Yeah, EVE is like that.

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Leisen
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#62 - 2012-08-08 07:21:16 UTC
As a person who has only one character and skills to fly supers, no it cannot (unfortunately), you have to rely on other people for too many things. Unless missions in hi-sec and pvp in RvB count.

I do train skills rather well though.
White Walker Chen
Perkone
Caldari State
#63 - 2012-08-08 07:28:08 UTC
i only have one accountBig smile
Zera Kerrigan
The 420th Token
#64 - 2012-08-08 07:29:36 UTC
I honestly can't see one good reason why you wouldn't have atleast 3 characters. Please tell me!
Shaalira D'arc
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#65 - 2012-08-08 07:42:05 UTC
Another one account player chiming in. The fact I only play with one character is wholly a personal and aesthetic choice, as I'm big on immersion. Thus far, I've had had an enjoyable time in a small w-space corp, a brief stint in RvB, and pew pewing in FW. The absence of alts has never been an issue for me. Finding a good corp means teamwork takes care of the roles alts would normally play.

Mind, I don't look down at people playing more than one account. The advantages to doing so are undeniable; more power to them. This is just my personal playstyle.

Another thing to note is that I'm perfectly content flying smaller, faster subcap ships. The need for alts is much higher for people who aspire to be cap pilots.
Zera Kerrigan
The 420th Token
#66 - 2012-08-08 07:48:50 UTC
Still no good reason to not have 3 characters.
Shaalira D'arc
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#67 - 2012-08-08 07:55:39 UTC
People don't need to justify how and why they have fun with internet spaceships.
Zera Kerrigan
The 420th Token
#68 - 2012-08-08 07:58:28 UTC
Shaalira D'arc wrote:
People don't need to justify how and why they have fun with internet spaceships.


Nha, I just wonder why you spend 12 USD/Month or so paying for a game you could play for free with almost no effort.
Shaalira D'arc
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#69 - 2012-08-08 08:11:23 UTC
Zera Kerrigan wrote:
Shaalira D'arc wrote:
People don't need to justify how and why they have fun with internet spaceships.


Nha, I just wonder why you spend 12 USD/Month or so paying for a game you could play for free with almost no effort.


Making silly billions of isk is pretty easy, even with one character. Anyone who watches the market hubs can tell you that.

I think you're just in this thread to feel superior to people. Which, admittedly, is a common phenomenon amongst posters.
Zera Kerrigan
The 420th Token
#70 - 2012-08-08 08:14:22 UTC
Ofcourse I am. I just want to simply point out how easy it is to either have a trading alt or a PI alt and get alot of extra ISK to play with.
Darius Brinn
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#71 - 2012-08-08 08:55:46 UTC
I only have one account, with two characters. Darius, and an untrained one sitting in Jita for those time I need to check a price NOW.

I've thought about getting another couple of accounts, but honestly, I find multiboxing annoying.

I admit that having a pet scout or miner/indy/trade alt sounds very convenient, but the fact that I have so little time to play discourages me from investing time in playing other toons.

So, I rely on having a weird set of skills that allow me to do practically anything in a half-assed fashion (I can pilot a Hulk, do bomber runs, trade a bit, manufacture things at a minuscule profit, run Lvl 4 missions proficiently, scan quite well and tackle at 107Km with a bonused Arazu, among many other things) while at the same time relying on friends for everything that cannot be done alone.
Hestia Mar
Calmaretto
#72 - 2012-08-08 09:53:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Hestia Mar
Zera Kerrigan wrote:
I honestly can't see one good reason why you wouldn't have atleast 3 characters. Please tell me!



Read my OP - I don't have a job!

Good enough reason I'm afraid.

I also realise that it would be impossible to enforce players only having one account, but that wasn't the question - the Q was, can EVE be played with a single account? The answer surely has to be 'yes'?

EDIT - if players are able to have multiple characters, why not make them racially fixed - no cross training to get an Ammar character into a Tengu, you have to fly a Legion...that would mean you would have to play each character in a somewhat different manner
Elinarien
Doomheim
#73 - 2012-08-08 10:20:11 UTC
I play Eve and I have one account so the answer is yes.

However, perhaps the question should have been "can one do/achieve x / y / z in Eve successfully with just one account"
Maxpie
MUSE LLP
#74 - 2012-08-09 18:11:12 UTC
Zera Kerrigan wrote:
Ofcourse I am. I just want to simply point out how easy it is to either have a trading alt or a PI alt and get alot of extra ISK to play with.


But I do that on 1 character. I don't understand why you think I should use more than one? Plus I enjoy the immersion of being 'me'. Playing additional characters just feels like a job to me. Why can't we just leave it 'to each their own'. What you enjoy or find more beneficial, I do not.

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Zera Kerrigan
The 420th Token
#75 - 2012-08-09 18:15:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Zera Kerrigan
Hestia Mar wrote:
Zera Kerrigan wrote:
I honestly can't see one good reason why you wouldn't have atleast 3 characters. Please tell me!



Read my OP - I don't have a job!

Good enough reason I'm afraid.

I also realise that it would be impossible to enforce players only having one account, but that wasn't the question - the Q was, can EVE be played with a single account? The answer surely has to be 'yes'?

EDIT - if players are able to have multiple characters, why not make them racially fixed - no cross training to get an Ammar character into a Tengu, you have to fly a Legion...that would mean you would have to play each character in a somewhat different manner


Learn to read is my only comment. There is a difference between Characters and Accounts you know.

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But I do that on 1 character. I don't understand why you think I should use more than one? Plus I enjoy the immersion of being 'me'. Playing additional characters just feels like a job to me. Why can't we just leave it 'to each their own'. What you enjoy or find more beneficial, I do not.


Because training another char for a week or something and then get free plexes for life is a dumb idea.
Liang Nuren
No Salvation
Divine Damnation
#76 - 2012-08-09 18:36:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Liang Nuren
I think it's totally possible. If I really had to, I could condense myself down to 2 (85M SP) market alts and Liang. It's not like I fly with more than one account at a time since I started frapsing anyway.

-Liang

Ed: Hilariously, one of those market alts would be my main. But Liang is the character I make PVP videos with so he'd have to sit in a station and do nothing. :|

I'm an idiot, don't mind me.
Tom Gerard
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
#77 - 2012-08-09 18:40:55 UTC
Liang Nuren wrote:
I think it's totally possible. If I really had to, I could condense myself down to 2 (85M SP) market alts and Liang. It's not like I fly with more than one account at a time since I started frapsing anyway.

-Liang

Ed: Hilariously, one of those market alts would be my main. But Liang is the character I make PVP videos with so he'd have to sit in a station and do nothing. :|


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