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Fatal Ozilice
Gmotina
#1 - 2012-01-20 21:25:13 UTC
Hi i'm a new player and want to ask some questions Shocked

Is it legal to have 2 accounts ?

Is it legal to open them on same pc ?

Is it legal to open them on same ip different pc's ?
Fatal Ozilice
Gmotina
#2 - 2012-01-20 21:28:46 UTC
For clean forums :') i want to add more questions :)

How to improve the max. lock targets i can only lock 2 at the same time ?

I think i missed the topic on tutorials thanks for answers
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#3 - 2012-01-20 21:41:52 UTC
You can have as many accounts as you want to pay for, and you can run as many as you want on a single machine, or on multiple machines on the same IP, etc. CCP doesn't care. "Alts" are a valid game mechanic Smile

The number of targets you can lock depends on two things: your ship, and your skills. Each ship has a hard limit to the number of things it can lock, but you can never lock more than your skills allow. By default, you can lock 2 (maybe 3). Each level of Targeting increases that by 1. Once you get Targeting V, you can train Multitasking (which has a prerequisite of Targeting V), which gives you +1 per level as well. The overall maximum is 12 or 13 targets locked at once.

Locking more than 4-5 is not very useful usually, though, since it gets too much to manage. The ships that really need to lock a ton of stuff are the Logistics ships, which provide remote repairs to fleet members. They keep important people locked in order to be able to react quickly with repairs to incoming damage.

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Fatal Ozilice
Gmotina
#4 - 2012-01-20 21:45:14 UTC
Thank you :) very helpfull,
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#5 - 2012-01-20 21:47:43 UTC
No problem, welcome to Eve!

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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-01-21 07:04:00 UTC
Note that there is one limitation to the number of accounts;

You can be logged on to a single trial account on a single PC simultaneously. If you are logged onto a trial account, you can't log to any other account, paid or trial, on that PC simultaneously.

If you want to log to more than one account simultaneously, they must all be paid accounts. This is a trial account limitation put in place to make sure players do not recycle disposable trial alts continuously for scouting etc.

Beyond that, I would say a lot of EVE players have 2-3 accounts. It isn't unusual especially as these days you can pay some/all of them with PLEX if you have plenty of in-game ISK income.
Toshiro GreyHawk
#7 - 2012-01-21 09:33:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Toshiro GreyHawk
Just to mention the last part of this - which is that while you have 3 characters per account - you can only log in one character at a time per account - as you are not logging in a character - you are logging in an account. If you do log in twice, the second log in will cause the first one to log out.



As far as the technical aspects of this ...


1) Each iteration of EVE you run is called a client. Tranquility is the live server run by CCP that they all talk too.

2) Don't go out and create a whole bunch of accounts at once. Create them one at a time and see how well they work for you.

3) Different systems have different capabilities so there is no simple solution to how many clients you can run on a system. You just have to figure it out for yourself - thus the advice in #2 above.

4) Keep in mind that running ... say ... 4 clients - does not make you as capable as 4 players. It makes you as capable as one player trying to manage four ships ... Some people are going to do that better than others and some activities lend themselves better to multiboxing than others.

5) Also keep in mind the costs of managing each character you create. Each is going to need skill books, ships, etc. .


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