EVE New Citizens Q&A

Really? Go back and read the very first post.

If that were truly his concern, it seems unlikely that his primary question would be in regard to how to transfer isk between trials until such a time as he can accrue enough for a PLEX. He would make a trial, try some things and, when it expired, make a new trial, start over, and try some different things.

You could probably forgive someone for wanting to try a few different things across a few trials, but when they are so blatantly trying to make an end-run around the intentional limitations of trial accounts, it becomes pretty ******* obvious that they're simply grasping for a socially acceptable excuse for their exploitative behavior.

I am continually amazed by how few of you are incapable of distinguishing "in game" from "reality".

This isn't a player doing something exploitative in-game, it's an actual person exploiting an offer made by an actual business. Dude's a parasite.

His objective is to get a plex to activate his account. Without people who refuse to pay real money and insist on using plex for game time, a vast number of players would lose their income via CCP's Cash4ISK system

The amount of cash being earned is arbitrary, 2 days of Anoms will earn me close to a billion ISK if i don't mess around, spending multiple 14 day trials playing the market for petty cash only invogorates small time traders and does nothing to take away from the game.

I'd happily have non-subscribed accounts be playable with restrictions to prevent full useability (skill training, certain trading etc) if it meant more people to keep Eve alive and well. The fact i pay every month for a subscription means little to nothing in terms of REAL MONEY. I want to play the game against other people.

If Eve became F2P i'd be totally cool with that too, because all it does is open up the game to lots of new players to shoot at. Preventing multiple accounts of any type (e.g. not just trial accounts) being run from the same IP/MAC Address (Or logged in within 2/3 hours of each other to prevent account swapping) unless you PLEX would prevent most multiboxing abuse (e.g. running 10 miners and devaluing isk prices).

We're nearly 2 Decades into the Pay-2-Play game model. Valve have nailed it with DOTA2: F2P, Stimulated player market, incentives to play and spend cash... paying £10 a month doesn't make me a better person than someone who can't afford to. I'd rather spend £10 a month getting isk that represents 20hours of work from a full time farmer through a plex trade - allowing them to plex one of their multiple accounts to continue farming and stimulating the market.

TL; DR

Dry your eyes. Paying £10 a month towards Eve doesn't make you a better person than someone who doesn't.

Please can someone explain this idiot in plain and simple english, that PLEX is not generated, but payed by someone. So players, who create game content and play for free are not less usefull or parasitic as those, who pay their playtime month after month with real money. Cause at the end CCP get their money this way or another.

Funny you should mention "idiot" and "simple English" as you completely and utterly missed the point. The reply above explained the why and how.

PM me in game for a 21-day trial code. When you upgrade to the paid account, your account is activated for +30 days (for example, if you upgraded on the first day of the 21-day trial, you get 51 days of game time). When you upgrade I'll also just give you the PLEX (if you use a valid payment method) which'll give you 81 days of game time for the cost of 1.

Sounds like a recipe for colitis and/or IBS to me. I advice not eating n-th generation sharks.

No, that would have needed a hyphen ("shark-eating").

There is so much bad information in this thread.

Yes, you can totally do it, and it's really easy. Start Trial A, train Corporation Management 1. Found corporation. Route all ISK and assets to the corp. Near the end of Trail A, start Trial B. Apply B to your corp. Accept. Set CEO to B. Repeat.

Also, unless something has changed very recently, you can have two trial accounts on simultaneously from the same IP address. You just can't have them on the same machine.

edit: I'll leave the ethics discussion to others. It is highly unlikely you'll ever be banned for this practice. However, your abilities and opportunities are really dictated by your skills and you just can't train enough to do anything substantive during a trial. However, CCP continues to show favoritism to Markee Dragon by allowing him to offer 30-day trials. So do that instead of 14-day trials and avoid "over chaining" while simultaneously getting better skills towards the end of your trial period.

Protip: do not do this with criminal sec status characters. That WILL get you banned.