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Hello Capsuleers

Dual Character training came along, and it was good! CCP Xhagen is now here to talk to you more about how it's going to become even better very soon with the introduction of multiple character training.

Check out his new Dev Blog for the latest information on what's up and coming with the character training system!

I have always liked the idea of training more than one toon per account, but the clincher for me is that you can only be on one toon per account so I would rather just have second account ..... oh wait i do

Well, that was inevitable, wasn't it?


On a serious note, now that people will have yet another time-limited skill queue (per account) to keep track of, are you going to implement some clearer way to display exactly how much time is left on each multiple training payment? Yes, players could set calendar events and alerts, but it seems a bit silly that it isn't simply displayed on the account management page.

After all, the system already knows when the end-date is — it couldn't refuse renewals before the last 7 days if it didn't. So why not expose that data to the account holder?

Was just coming to ask this myself. I have a second character training and would love to see a timer on the login screen or something like that. You don't see when it runs out unless you click on the character on the login screen.

give this guy a drink on me... that was one well thought out and detailed dev blog...

Also have any of the CCP economist/s examined the effect of Multi training on PLEX prices? Since they seem to be staying rather high atm?

nice - when they will implement this?

I'm sorry but i just don't see the point in this, if it was cheaper somehow to run the accounts of your alts on one account, say like 45 days for a plex or longer then i would see a point to this, otherwise why not just have 3 separate accounts that you can then play at the same time or not as you choose, after all it actually costs the same other that that initial fee.

I wish this feature was easier to use or rather be implemented in a way to easier understand.

In my proposal, an active subcription would add 30 days of training time to an always active timer A. Which is used by a character with a flag set by the player.
Then adding skilltime by means of MCT would add to a pool B of skilltime used by the remaining character without the flag, thus just sharing the remaining days which only countdown when actually used (twice as fast if both remaining characters use it of course). Dual character training already costs the same as a subscription without benefits of logging in that characters simultaniously, so it should only be active when actually used.




Of course even simpler would be to split the subscription from trainingtime and the ability to log in a character simultaniously to others and have a single account with endless characters. Like so:

Account: free
Per activated Characterslot (used on the slot to determine which is activated: 5 bucks
Trainingtime 30 days used upon/per characterslot: 5 bucks
Ability to login an additional character simultaniously: 5 bucks

This would of course shift around the benefits per given payment for multiple characters a bit, but my predictions would see the benefit on CCP's side.

Another nice thing you could add would be the ability to stop training.

That is, right now when you try to activate a skill queue and one of the other chars are training, you get the "Buy plex for dual training" dialog. It would be nice if one of the choices were "Pause training on other char". That way you wouldn't have to log out, log into alt, log out, log back in the other alt, start training.