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Rosh Tarkin
Doomheim
#1 - 2014-09-15 06:35:08 UTC
Has anyone ever thought of creating a new character in order to start anew? I have played this game off and on for years. I still have the urge to create a new character and begin from the very beginning. I am not the most experienced EVE player. But I have at least dipped my toes in the water in a lot of different ponds.

Would anyone else think it would be cool to do this with a group of people? Have everyone create characters near the same time and be on the same page? Having a specific corporation for this would be interesting.

Thoughts? Am I crazy?
Derrick Miles
Death Rabbit Ky Oneida
#2 - 2014-09-15 06:39:28 UTC
I've started over several times now, and I find it very fun and challenging to start from the bottom and see how far and fast I can go.
Jason Butte
#3 - 2014-09-15 06:42:06 UTC
In the end, you're just wasting your own time, even if they do think you probably smoke crystal meth irl. Because they will never be as cool as you and me
Herr Wilkus
Aggressive Salvage Services LLC
#4 - 2014-09-15 06:47:41 UTC
Oh, there are a lot of players that do this for a challenge.

Sometimes, when you've gotten too fat and happy, individuals will just walk away and start over from scratch.

Sometimes it is a tactical move.

TEARS ninja looters learn that it is often much easier to bait mission runners when the 'bait' is a 'new' character vs someone who started in 2008. Who needs SPs when you have 4-5 Logis backing you up?

Psychotic Monk has a corporate history that crashes most Eve Clients, the hallmark of a truly prolific AWOXer.
Growing new characters is key for infiltrating the tighter security of carebear corps with high-priority targets.

and, I suppose there are other reasons as well.......
Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#5 - 2014-09-15 07:31:22 UTC
Yeah, I've done it a lot. If you create a serious spy alt, you generally need to make them completely separate from your other characters so it's usually best to play them as if they were actually new and work your way up. It's not as much fun as it seem though, after a while it's all just the same as normal with lower SP. Burn day is fun though.

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Solecist Project
#6 - 2014-09-15 11:09:41 UTC
Sometimes I wish I could do that and get away with it .........

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Grog Aftermath
Doomheim
#7 - 2014-09-15 11:20:22 UTC
Rosh Tarkin wrote:
Has anyone ever thought of creating a new character in order to start anew? I have played this game off and on for years. I still have the urge to create a new character and begin from the very beginning. I am not the most experienced EVE player. But I have at least dipped my toes in the water in a lot of different ponds.

Would anyone else think it would be cool to do this with a group of people? Have everyone create characters near the same time and be on the same page? Having a specific corporation for this would be interesting.

Thoughts? Am I crazy?



Yep, you're crazy

All you'll find is that you can't do as much as you used to.

If you got a character that has a fair few sp trained you're better off sticking with it.

Nothing to stop you training an alt, if you have more than 1 account or spare PLEX. But I suspect you would get bored quick if it's just to experience the start again. You can't play the game again like when it was new to you.
Rosh Tarkin
Doomheim
#8 - 2014-09-15 16:11:43 UTC
All good points... I guess EVE is a harder game to start new in. Especially for those with accounts that are already trained up with millions of skill points. I still have the urge to do it though.
Solecist Project
#9 - 2014-09-15 16:14:37 UTC
Rosh Tarkin wrote:
All good points... I guess EVE is a harder game to start new in. Especially for those with accounts that are already trained up with millions of skill points. I still have the urge to do it though.

Then do it.
Nothing is keeping you.

You don't need to delete the old one ...
... just pretend for yourself that it doesn't exist.


"Pretending something" is a way that makes things work ...
... and the longer one pretends something ...
... the more real it gets.


Thinking about it is of no help,
compared to just trying and finding out.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#10 - 2014-09-15 16:16:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
Rosh Tarkin wrote:
All good points... I guess EVE is a harder game to start new in. Especially for those with accounts that are already trained up with millions of skill points. I still have the urge to do it though.

Why don't you start something new with this character?

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
Charax Bouclier
Silvershield Universal
#11 - 2014-09-15 16:22:48 UTC
Grog Aftermath wrote:
Rosh Tarkin wrote:
Has anyone ever thought of creating a new character in order to start anew? I have played this game off and on for years. I still have the urge to create a new character and begin from the very beginning. I am not the most experienced EVE player. But I have at least dipped my toes in the water in a lot of different ponds.

Would anyone else think it would be cool to do this with a group of people? Have everyone create characters near the same time and be on the same page? Having a specific corporation for this would be interesting.

Thoughts? Am I crazy?



Yep, you're crazy

All you'll find is that you can't do as much as you used to.

If you got a character that has a fair few sp trained you're better off sticking with it.

Nothing to stop you training an alt, if you have more than 1 account or spare PLEX. But I suspect you would get bored quick if it's just to experience the start again. You can't play the game again like when it was new to you.


There is something to be said in enjoying the challenge of playing a low SP toon and seeing how a group of friends can survive and do well with that limitation.

If a group of people are rebooting, count me in. My pilots are all sub 2M SP. XD
Yun Kuai
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2014-09-15 16:24:58 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
Sometimes I wish I could do that and get away with it .........



Ummm....your clothes seems to have gotten left behind in the cloning facility 0.o

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Petre en Thielles
Doomheim
#13 - 2014-09-15 16:28:16 UTC
Grog Aftermath wrote:

Yep, you're crazy

All you'll find is that you can't do as much as you used to.

If you got a character that has a fair few sp trained you're better off sticking with it.

Nothing to stop you training an alt, if you have more than 1 account or spare PLEX. But I suspect you would get bored quick if it's just to experience the start again. You can't play the game again like when it was new to you.


I completely disagree. Starting new characters lets me do more than I can ever do with my main(s). I am a longstanding member of a nullsec alliance. Occasionally I want to do some pirating, ransoming and less-than-savory activities, but that would absolutely ruin the reputation (and incoming ISK) with my mains. So, another character was born.

Fast forward, I wanted to try some suicide ganking, but didn't want to use my pirate, as training up a catalyst would throw off his skill plan. Another character was born. If I were to do any of those things with my mains, I would risk either upsetting my corp/alliance or inviting aggression against my corp or alliance.

The metagame and political limitations of older characters is what drives new alts, not pure number of skillpoints.
David Therman
#14 - 2014-09-15 16:32:18 UTC
This isn't specific to EvE, but IMO, starting anew is never the same. Sure, you can try a different play style, or set yourself challenges/near-impossible feats, but there isn't the buzz you get from playing a game for the first time, smothered in a bubble-wrap-like cocoon of innocence, completely unaware of any dastardly game mechanics you can use and abuse. Or is that just me?
Gregor Parud
Imperial Academy
#15 - 2014-09-15 16:33:59 UTC
I've restarted so many times some psychology student could write a thesis on it. It's refreshing somehow.
Solecist Project
#16 - 2014-09-15 16:35:20 UTC
Yun Kuai wrote:
Solecist Project wrote:
Sometimes I wish I could do that and get away with it .........



Ummm....your clothes seems to have gotten left behind in the cloning facility 0.o
What?

*Looks down on herself, examining her ...*

OMG I WAS NAKED ALL THE TIME??? :O

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2014-09-15 16:39:08 UTC

I think I am too new to EVE to start over, but I'm not sure is want to figure out again the things I did in the beginning. If starting over I think it would be better to try it with something completely different (like a new hobby or game).


Are you dealing with a personal conflict with others or is it just boredom?

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.
Toriessian
Helion Production Labs
Independent Operators Consortium
#18 - 2014-09-15 17:12:53 UTC
I started a new character to survey HS... look for new recruits that kind of thing.
I was stunned at how crappy HS was these days.

Maybe it was always that crappy and I was a noob the first time lol? I can't tell.

Every day I'm wafflin!
Martin Corwin
Doomheim
#19 - 2014-09-15 17:19:42 UTC
Yun Kuai wrote:
Solecist Project wrote:
Sometimes I wish I could do that and get away with it .........
Ummm....your clothes seems to have gotten left behind in the cloning facility 0.o
Went to say that you should look at the bottom right corner, there's at least the beginning of some clothes left. But apparently that was fixed in the last ~24h Lol
Solecist Project
#20 - 2014-09-15 17:33:09 UTC
Martin Corwin wrote:
Yun Kuai wrote:
Solecist Project wrote:
Sometimes I wish I could do that and get away with it .........
Ummm....your clothes seems to have gotten left behind in the cloning facility 0.o
Went to say that you should look at the bottom right corner, there's at least the beginning of some clothes left. But apparently that was fixed in the last ~24h Lol
One of the really nice people in Hek pointed it out to me. (:

Not that I'm publicly exposing myself .... nooooooooo........

.... I would NEVER do that ..................................................... *cough*

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
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