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Tacobake
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-11-20 03:10:53 UTC
Man I was excited that we get three characters per account until I learned you can only level skills on one of them. A quick web browse, people seem happy about having three slots I was wondering what people do with their extra characters. I can see maybe one character could be used for piracy, with possible minimal skill investment, as an example.
Karn Dulake
Doomheim
#2 - 2012-11-20 03:12:36 UTC
Main

Trader


Backstabbing thief
I dont normally troll, but when i do i do it on General Discussion.
Sooval Naari
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-11-20 03:16:51 UTC
it only takes about 2 weeks to get the PI skills up to about 4. If you dont mind juggling 15 planets every few days its good income.
Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-11-20 03:18:22 UTC
Tacobake wrote:
Man I was excited that we get three characters per account until I learned you can only level skills on one of them. A quick web browse, people seem happy about having three slots I was wondering what people do with their extra characters. I can see maybe one character could be used for piracy, with possible minimal skill investment, as an example.


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SmilingVagrant
Doomheim
#5 - 2012-11-20 03:19:40 UTC
Account 1
Slot 1. me!
Slot 2. Cyno alt
Slot 3. Cyno alt

Account 2:
Slot 1. Carrier pilot
Slot 2. Jita trade alt.
Slot 3. nothing yet.
Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-11-20 03:28:02 UTC
SmilingVagrant wrote:
Account 1
Slot 1. me!
Slot 2. Cyno alt
Slot 3. Cyno alt

Account 2:
Slot 1. Carrier pilot
Slot 2. Jita trade alt.
Slot 3. nothing yet.


I went with this:

Account 1:
Me
Scammer
Scammer

Account 2:
Suicide ganking me
Scammer
Scammer

Account 3:
Capital thief
Scammer
Scammer

Account 4:
Not even sure what the hell this guy is aupposed to be.
Cyno alt
Cyno alt

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Benny Ohu
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2012-11-20 03:30:04 UTC
Things like industrial characters take a short time to train. I just started one with a two-month skillplan; after that I'll make another character and do it again. These characters won't ever need to undock, so there's no point training other skills. I won't train industry on my main (or the other character on my second account) because Benny's on a perception/intelligence neural remap and a new character can easily switch to a memory/intelligence remap to optimise training time.

While I can't have multiple characters training on one account, I can have multiple characters running multiple production slots on one account.

What I'm aiming for is one account with Benny on it and a couple of short-plan alts, and a second with my 'main alt' and two short-plan alts.
YuuKnow
The Scope
#8 - 2012-11-20 03:30:59 UTC
I bought a few accounts to train up some useful skills in alts (scanning, PI, etc) and then transfer them into my main accounts to later close the alt accounts.

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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#9 - 2012-11-20 03:48:48 UTC
Account 1:
Me
My high-sec, carebearing alter ego
(empty)

Account 2: (now offline)
Cyno Alt
Trader
Hauler

How did you Veterans start?
Oraac Ensor
#10 - 2012-11-20 04:12:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Oraac Ensor
Try the search button - already threads on this.

Anyway, here's my take:

Main: Explorer - armour tanking drone/hybrid/laser user

Secondary: Miner/Missioner - shield tanking missile/drone user.

Tertiary: Trader/PI
Dr Kev
Tashi Delek Construction
#11 - 2012-11-20 04:12:40 UTC
Account 1
Leadership / hauler
There but spare

Account 2
Miner / PVE / indy
Forum alt
Lance Rossiter
CHAINS Corp
#12 - 2012-11-20 04:29:09 UTC
I thought about making one so I could check the market in another region live, but I haven't gone through with it yet. I don't tend to make alts in games.
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#13 - 2012-11-20 04:29:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Andski
Account 1
This character (main/glorified cyno alt)

Account 2
Archon pilot
PI alt I haven't used in over a year
Contract alt and alt corp CEO

Account 3
Do-everything PvP guy

Account 4
Nyx pilot (merging with another account once its titan skills are golden)

Account 5 (intermittently subbed)
3 builder characters

Account 6 (power of two)
Character I'm training to sell

Twitter: @EVEAndski

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Grumpymunky
Monkey Steals The Peach
#14 - 2012-11-20 05:59:23 UTC
All these character slot lists, and not a single monkey.
What the chimp is wrong with you people?

Post with your monkey.

Thread locked due to lack of pants.
Alice Saki
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#15 - 2012-11-20 08:37:45 UTC
Acc 1

Pvp Pilot
Empty
Empty

Acc 2

Pvp Pilot
Empty
Empty

Acc 3

Links Pilot
Empty
Empty

FREEZE! Drop the LIKES AND WALK AWAY! - Currenly rebuilding gaming machine, I will Return.
Pohbis
Neo T.E.C.H.
#16 - 2012-11-20 09:01:06 UTC
There are a variety of alts with minimal SP investment that you can train to enhance your EVE experience, depending on your interests.

Trader ~ 1.5-2M SP

Barge Miner ~ 2M SP

Cyno Char ~ 500K SP

FW Alt ~ 1.5-2M SP

Production Alt ~ 1.5-2M SP

Indy Hauler ~ 300K SP

Scout ~ 200K SP

... and the list goes on. For anywhere between a week to a months worth of training, you get a lot of options.
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2012-11-20 09:10:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Vera Algaert
Main (subcaps, carrier, dread) - 69.5m SP
Forum alt - no training
empty

High-sec Mission alt - 39m SP
Scout (probing, covert ops, covert cyno) - 9m SP
Hauler (freighter, covert transport, cyno) - 7m SP

Fleet Booster (command ships, t3s, Orca) - 42.5m SP
Scout (probing, covert ops, cyno) - 7.5m SP
Trader (trading, jumpfreighter) - 18m SP

0.0 Mission alt (Tengu) - 23m SP
Supercarrier pilot (in training) - 11m SP
empty

As you see I tend to have one high SP character and 2 low SP specialized alts per account - which is of course a result of the training restriction. 5 of my characters were bought at some point.

.
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#18 - 2012-11-20 10:17:02 UTC
Mallak Azaria wrote:


I went with this:

Account 1:
Me
Scammer
Scammer

Account 2:
Suicide ganking me
Scammer
Scammer

Account 3:
Capital thief
Scammer
Scammer



And that folks is why we ask for full API's when we recruit...