Eve Online is an MMO-RTS. Would you want to play Age of Empires with a single villager?

The average is 1.2 accounts per player.

Would only having a single character actually spoil the game for you,

Source?

Almost always when young people ask for advice about growing up, the advice is to get a job.

I used to have a 3 jobs, but since I lost some of my jobs I've had to juggle finances cos I dont even have one job, which got me thinking as to whether life could be lived with only one job per person, rather than some people having more than one job. I know things would be less convenient - for example affording food and any luxury at all, but I wonder if restricting people to single job would level the playing field a bit?

Would only having a single job actually spoil life for you, or would it in fact increase the enjoyment? Help me decide, so that when/if I get another job, I can decide whether to buy Mcdonalds or keep eating off other peoples plates at restaraunts..

An eve survey listed that in the eve data base.

Do you have a link to it? If they finally got their thumbs out and tried to produce some kind of real stat, that would be sweet.

I am pretty sure that was about number of characters per account, not number of accounts per person.

Having multiple accounts gives a player a tremendous edge, in particular if you diversify the character skilling and get involved in a number of "projects" at once. I can honestly say that I make about 10 times more ISK with 2 accounts than I would with 1 account on a daily basis. The applications of having a second account go far beyond scout alts.
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What's a toon?

Not entirely correct. I made more with 2 accounts then a lot of people with 3 , 4 or even 7 accounts.Currently i have 4 accounts and make less then when i only had 2 accounts 2 years ago , it depends what the characters on the account are for and what you are doing in general as a way of income.

You can make as much isk with 1 account as with multiple depending on how you make your isk.Having a 2nd account just makes it a bit easier in certain areas.

Cyno alt , scout alt , trade alt to be able to compare 2 regions at the same time etc.But saying the more accounts you have the more isk you by definition make is totally wrong.

Another benefit - Players must rely on other players instead of having swarms of single-minded hulks.

Yeah getting stuck with the boring duties would suck badly if you only had one account. Ill second the scalability of multiple accounts in terms of isk generation over multiple avenues. Some suit themselves better to more accounts while some less. I know Id be bored out of my tree if I had to only run one account now.

Its not something enforceable and I though I think even from an RP perspective itd add a huge volume of depth and accountability to a person its just not feasible to do. Thered be no more scamming alts, pirating would be the only thing you could do and sec status would mean something again as well as a LOT of other things. What would be lost instantly are spies and corporate espionage as a whole with API requirements as well as cyno alts for capital toons. So tbh a vast majority of the nefarious actions that CCP encourages would be broken right off the bat if they could enforce it somehow.

Player turnover would be higher as youd be stuck in your character more and a bad decision, like real life, would follow you around forever. So someone just out for the lolz of something wouldnt stick around after the funny aspect has worn off and they cant do anything with the toon for whatever reason and being locked out of content due to actions in game.

Sure it could.

It would just be impossible to enforce.

There is a restriction in place that prevents a trial account and subscribed account from being logged on at the same time on the same pc. They could easily extend that to subscribed accounts.

I don't know about you, but I have four devices able to play EVE in this room aloneGǪ

GǪso even if they tried to cut down on multiboxing (which they wouldn't for the reasons you list), they still wouldn't be able to enforce one character per player: it would have to be one character per IP, which would restrict multi-player households and any other networked with a shared external address (and which would only inconvenience people in networks who want to play without actually stopping those who want to run multiple charactersGǪ so we're back to square one).

lol at all these people in here who don't have friends and have to use alts
how does it suck playing alone in this vast universe?

Sure it could.

It would just be impossible to enforce.

I'm a one character kind of guy. I made a second account and can hardly bring myself to play it. I'll probably get rid of if soon in fact.

I find it much more fun, immersive and interesting to play on 1 character. Sure, I actually need friends to do certain things, but to me, it is a small price to pay for the unique experience of having my character represent 'me' in this galaxy. No other game that I have played comes this close to that feeling. I personally believe Eve would be a much better game if it were somehow possible to limit things to 1 character per person.

Agreed.

All these tactics of using alts for things is cheating, IMO.

You can't be in more than one place at once. Why should your avatar?

I don't think it's cheating - that's my own opinion, obviously.

I bought a second account with the 'power of two' offer earlier this year.

Poor soul is going rusty from lack of use.

My original account is enough for me.

I played with one account for a couple years and made a second account merely to free this one from any 'Isk generating duties' so that I may play as fast or slow (most often very slow) as I'd like.

I think EVE could work just fine as a 1-account-per-person game provided there was some redesign done for some features... I've little to no interest in flying supercapitals but I imagine it'd be extremely aggrevating without at least some changes. But as has already been indicated, it's not technically feasible.

Hardly, it just means that pirates, Awoxers, scammers and that would gain a reputation.

So I am not against multiple accounts; however, I do think neutral RR and off grid boosting, while claiming to 1v1 are kind of bullshit. But lots of things are kind of bullshit in Eve and that is what makes it beautiful, so I will cope.

People don't need to justify how and why they have fun with internet spaceships.

Nha, I just wonder why you spend 12 USD/Month or so paying for a game you could play for free with almost no effort.

I honestly can't see one good reason why you wouldn't have atleast 3 characters. Please tell me!

Ofcourse I am. I just want to simply point out how easy it is to either have a trading alt or a PI alt and get alot of extra ISK to play with.

Read my OP - I don't have a job!

Good enough reason I'm afraid.

I also realise that it would be impossible to enforce players only having one account, but that wasn't the question - the Q was, can EVE be played with a single account? The answer surely has to be 'yes'?

EDIT - if players are able to have multiple characters, why not make them racially fixed - no cross training to get an Ammar character into a Tengu, you have to fly a Legion...that would mean you would have to play each character in a somewhat different manner

But I do that on 1 character. I don't understand why you think I should use more than one? Plus I enjoy the immersion of being 'me'. Playing additional characters just feels like a job to me. Why can't we just leave it 'to each their own'. What you enjoy or find more beneficial, I do not.

I think it's totally possible. If I really had to, I could condense myself down to 2 (85M SP) market alts and Liang. It's not like I fly with more than one account at a time since I started frapsing anyway.

-Liang

Ed: Hilariously, one of those market alts would be my main. But Liang is the character I make PVP videos with so he'd have to sit in a station and do nothing. :|