EVE General Discussion

I have done alright without a alt for the past few years..

I have recently aquired one.. jsut because I want to get into bigger PvP ship more regualr and dont want to rely on blink for my income =D

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It is quite possible to play without alts. Just make friends, instead of manufacturing them

I got a second account recently but i think i'm gonna transfer the character when trained and ditch it because i'm just not using it to its potential. can always resub if i need it again.

other than that, having a hauler alt and a factional warfare alt for arcade pew pew/ISK just seems like a bonus. i'm just not that meta.

I like that.
Is it just me or i'm reading lots of good quotes, perhaps it's the lack of signatures or because i'm listening to this epic pirate music..

I think Tau is referring to researching BPOs rather than accessing R&D agents to farm datacores.

Datacore farming is worth so little now I would seriously advise you not to do it, it's a month or more of skill training that you could use more profitably elsewhere. Look up the skill Research Project Management ingame and look at the time on the prerequisites tab, that is how much time you will need to start training the skill that gives you access to more than one R&D agent.

OTOH if you really really like the idea of R&D agents, faction standing gives you access as well, so IMO you'd be better grinding faction that standing with a single corp (and it's useful in other ways as well, access to all agents of that faction, locators etc).

I don't know if you can play without a second account as I got my second account just a week or two after the first one, 7+ years ago.

It's perfectly possible to play without alts or a multibox setup. For monetary purposes it's just a matter of making enough extra profit to cover the subscription cost of the alt. For PVP it's kind of subjective. One group will tell you to never let anyone else light your cyno's. The other group will tell you only peasants light their own cynos. One group will praise you for bringing a logi alt. The other group scolds you for dividing your attention to 2 seperate clients. So it really is a matter of perspective whether or not an alt is usefull, but it's definately not needed to enjoy the game.

I would say you can do anything except move a capital ship by yourself and scout yourself.

Being able to do those two things by yourself is a great timesaver and are besides the obvious uses for multiple accounts (double amount of ships on the field in your favorite PVE/PVP scenario) the main reason people have alts.

Greed is the counterweight. You can absolutely do worthwhile stuff in EvE without an alt. I had a blast without an alt for my first two years or so. You just need to find a good corp. Hell, you don't even need to do that. you can do exploration or piracy without an alt. You can do a lot of things. Once you make enough ISK to PLEX though the question is why not start another account? Gate camping is all well and good, until you kill a hauler packed with nice stuff and your cargo hold is insufficient. Why not have a guy in a hauler cloaked in a safe spot? Sure makes life easier. Why not have a guy in a sacrificial BS that just follows you around and boost/reps you? If you can split the loot one less way... well then who needs friends?

You might find, though, that EvE isn't just about ISK. A single-account player has a lot of options in EvE.