Tulber
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.07.26 00:38:00 -
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Confirming one account is both enjoyable and profitable. I've been in and out of the game for five and some years, never opened a second account, and I've "started over," more than once so I never hit the raw skillpoint heights either.
Some things in EVE lend themselves to single account play more than others. There's certainly nothing wrong with having an alt if you enjoy it. But, I agree with everyone above saying it's not necssary and certainly not something I'd push on a new player.
In the spirit of keeping on-topic here, I'll share some of my stories of newbdome and history in general.
1. My first char and ship died hilariously when I accidentally targeted a stargate and hamfingered the F1 key somehow. So a few minutes into the game I learned about what CONCORD does to criminals.
2. Six or so months into my first experience of EVE I joined a mining corp in highsec, three weeks of which made it apparent to me that mining was not the way I wanted to go. My dissapointment with mining was great enough that I biomassed that character. Excessive and wasteful, yes. Cathartic too. I was out of EVE for a while afterward.
3. A year or so later on my second character I was feeling brave and joined a pvp corp in lowsec. It was great fun, but at the time I was skint broke and lowsec was a wasteland devoid of the current exploration and faction rat riches it now enjoys. I got a mind to do a trading character on my account and a new world opened up to me.
4. I'm not sure when it was, but possibly 1-1.5 years after my basic trading alt got his first billion, I was too hooked on market pvp to log into my "main." Having been on good terms with the corp, I bid my farewell so as not to get the dishonourable discharge for inactvity. From that point on I stuck to trading like an addiction and it was lots of fun.
5. Like an addict searching for another fix, I eventually sold my second "main," character to fund more investments. I still regret doing it as he was a well crafted little pvp'er, but at the time I was playing wallet-score online and it made sense. I also felt the need to fill my account with three trade characters so freeing up the slot was part of that process.
6. A few months ago I hit a wall, got a bit bored with trading, and scaled back a touch. I debated what to do with my trio of trading characters and ended up making the rash decision to sell them all, so back to sqare one again. I took a break from EVE to let the wind get back in my sails and then rolled this guy to start the process up again. I'm not sure yet if he'll evolve back into my old trading habbits or perhaps explore something I haven't tried like exploration or wormholes, but EVE is exciting again and I'm having a good time testing the limits of a fresh faced character again.
In sum, I got my start doing stupid things, probably did a lot more stupid things with subsequent characters, but if you take one thing from my story it's that EVE isn't about sp and there's a lot of fun to be had with a few day old character when you know where to look. |