Warfare & Tactics

Oh I see. This whole discussion is based on how you think the game should be played, and not how it has been designed to be played.

Just another player who wants his playstyle to become the accepted norm.

LOL

It is DESIGNED to be played with three characters maximum because THAT'S HOW MANY AN ACCOUNT LETS YOU USE

Why do you think there is no fourth fifth or sixth character slot option? No multibox option built in? LOL

I can't even take you seriously any more man for real. At least Crosi has some idea what he is talking about

This whole adapt thing is getting old.

I didn't get into this game thinking the epitome of gameplay would be managing alts and I highly doubt anybody else did/does. It would be wasteful to focus on all this pretty NPE just to have people finally realise what they are playing and flipping the table over.

Not to divert subject of the discussion - just another of countless PoVs on the alt links matter.

Discussing this further will obviously yield no further arguments beyond the parallels drawn to dogs piloting link ships.

Links should get weapon timers to force them of stations and gates, that much is certain.

But it's still tear inducing that a whole class is delegated to "let me log my link alt". Same goes for probing alts. At least hauling has a proven dedicated 3rd party gameplay/community (red-frog,pushx,etc).

So by your reasoning, a game designed for multiboxing could only be a single subscription for as many characters as your computer can physically run at once?

Your reasoning is absurd here. One word, businessmodel.

CCP designed the game, CCP allows alts. That should be all that needs to be said, however, i know you are just arguing to save face on this topic and demonstrate that even simpletons can exhibit extraordinary dialectical stamina. So i will elaborate.

The game is designed with multiple accounts in mind as per the drop down account selection each time you load a client, or if you use the launcher, in the launcher. it even remembers the ones you have used previously, as though it expects you to use them again.

If CCP wanted to prevent you using multiple accounts they could. It is not possible, for example, to run multiple trial accounts or even a trail account and a paid for account at the same time. Yet somehow running multiple paid for accounts is possible.

This all suggests deliberate design choices to me.

I could go on but ill save some for my retort to whatever sperg you are about to conjure up

if it was a better game before the ship sailed, how do you explain the ship sailing?

Ships sail for a reason.

Any balance complaint that starts with "as a solo account vs 2 accounts" is invalid by definition.

This is the thing. Nobody can stop anyone from buying as many accounts as they want, even in other games. If ccp logs machine id, users can use a cheap second box. If they use ip, users can proxy. And so on.

The difference is that in eve, training is passive. There's a reason most games don't use passive training and this is that reason.
Of course in a game where training an alt takes nothing of your own time (or even wallet if you're rich irl or rich in eve) people will collect alts and want to use them. Which is fine normally, but in eve you actually gain a lot more from multi boxing than you would in other games and in many cases for no extra difficulty (links).

So many people have started multi boxing and among those people it is the "norm" to have several accounts. When the reality is that the system was CLEARLY designed for <4 characters per player, one open at a time. But because it's so easy to alt and provides so much benefit for so little work on the players end, they rationalize that what they are doing is normal. And to anyone with a brain it clearly is not. In fact if ccp were to announce their system is designed for multi boxing I think a huge portion of their players would either unsub or for a few more special snowflakes, they would open their second account. I'm certain ccp has more to lose with multi boxing though.

What proof do you have that the game was designed with multiple accounts in mind? Are all your accounts on the same email with the same login? Pretty sure you are blowing some serious unsustainable smoke at this point. You have ZERO proof of anything you're saying and the system clearly is designed for ONE ACTIVE CHARACTER per user.

And your garbage about trial accounts is completely lies, I've seen it and tried it myself in the past.

All my accounts are on the same email yes, and all account names are on a drop down list when i open the client. I dont use the launcher, but im pretty sure they are in a drop down list there too.

As for one active character per account, thats actually a business model decision which should be pretty obvious to anyone who isnt just posting the same terrible arguments on a game forum time and again.


Lets be open though and clear about whats happening here. Im really enjoying your artistic parody of someone who is always wrong on the internet. Its like you have all the details perfectly wrong. all facts ignored, not a single correct statement, not even a rational conclusion in any of your posts.

This is art, bravo!

Been using the same email since 2008.

And actually, the fact is that you can run a single character per account. But there are no design limitations on how many paid accounts you can run.

Certain account usage restrictions do apply. You cannot run more than 1 trial account at once. Or run a trial account while a paid account is running and visa versa.

If the game was intended to be run as a single account, why do i have a drop down account selection box with lots of account names that the game remembers for me so i dont have to type them?