Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
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Posted - 2013.03.27 19:07:00 -
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I would start a new account through the buddy system. And train a freighter pilot from scratch. Why waste $10 transferring the character to another account then another $10 transferring it back.
With the buddy system you can get an extended 21 day trial, then buy a PLEx and use it to activate the new account right away. You will get the 21 days from the trial plus 30 days from activation. And activating the account will mean you will not suffer from not being able to train the skills not available to trial accounts.
You used to be able to use a PLEX to activate and get a PLEX as reward on the account that sent the invitation. Now you can not, but I believe you still get a game time credit. I believe now you can either pay the sub and get a PLEX reward on the main account, OR use a PLEX to activate the buddy account and get 30 days game time added to the main account. either way you basically get 51 days training on a fully subbed account for free. Doing this to farm gifts such as at X-mas time, or to create grieving alts is considered an exploit and is not allowed.
There is also the option of using the create a sidekick offer that is currently available in which you get 90 days game time for only $24.95, less than half price of a normal subscription.
I personally have used both these methods for producing alt account with the intention of transferring the newly training alt at the end of the subscription cycle. However on both occasions I got so used to having the extra accounts and the utility it provides that I ended up keeping them active. I now have had 4 active accounts for over a year.
the thing is the potential isk income you get from multiple accounts makes it very easy to buy PLEX to sustain at least some of your alts. I generally pay for my fourth account with PLEX while paying the other three with rolling 3 month subs. 1 39.95 payment each month. This makes managing 3 acco8unts very easy. At having 4 accounts, buying a PLEX to keep the fourth account running is not hard to maintain. My 4 account fleet whether mission running, ratting or mining can make at least 100M per hour. That is only 5-6 hours a month to take care of the PLEX and I play at least 10-15 hours a week. If I played more I could easily run all 4 accounts on PLEX, but having a full time job and two pre school kids takes a lot of my time. |