Major Trant
Red Federation
RvB - RED Federation
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Posted - 2012.06.08 16:26:00 -
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I normally run with two account, but recently I sent myself a buddy invite and set up a third account. I got 21 days free game time on the new account and paid for another 60 days, but got a free Plex redeemed on my main account which covered 30 of those days. In addition, my new account received a Celebral Accellerator which I sold for 320M Isk, almost the price of a Plex at the time.
So in effect those 81 days of training time cost me virtually nothing, but I ended up with a Charon pilot whom I then transfered into one of my alt slots on this account and shut down the new account.
I don't use my Charon pilot very often but when I do she is incredibly useful and has made me a lot of money on some big trade deals that needed a Charon hauling capability. Not to mention just moving my own gear when it was time to move house.
Of course I could have trained my main character up to fly a Charon, but there is no way I would put this character into a Charon while I'm in one of the RvB corps. In addition I've been pretty mobile on this character and lived in both low and null for periods. The only practical way to operate a Charon on this char would be to drop corp each time I wanted to use it and then clone jump to where ever I parked the thing.
My third slot is taken up with a low skill pilot that can operate a Bestower and a Noctis (about a day of training). She supports my mission runner on my second account. On my second account, I have the mission runner who can also manufacture, then two alts. One is a CEO sitting/price checker alt. The other I allocated just under 900K skill points to, just enough to keep him within the free clone upgrade cost. He can pilot a Bestower and Noctis, all the T1 Frigs and some of the T1 Cruisers, run prototype cloaking device and light a Cyno. I use him to support this character and he was particularly useful in null scouting out gates. If I lost him, even when podded, it was for the cost of a T1 fitted slasher and sometimes a cloak. I could light a cyno with him for my corps mates JF and then just leave him on his own outside the station while the cyno timer ticked down without anyone having to undock carriers to protect him.
If we had ten alt slots I could fill them! They are vital.
I don't want to be able to train on multiple alts at the same time. Whilst it sounds nice for me, the problem is that everyone else would get the same benefit and the competition in every area of specilization would triple. No thanks. |