Goose99
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Posted - 2011.03.12 19:20:00 -
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Originally by: Tippia
Originally by: Selinate Playing different characters on WoW and leveling them is not the same as waiting for different characters on an Eve account to train up.
Sure it is: you can only advance one character at a time.
Quote: The whole fact that you can train up any character for anything in Eve makes this pointless.
Quite the opposite: the fact that you can train any character for anything means that there is no need to train different characters in parallel. However, if you want to group or organise the skills into different characters, you can do so by using the three different "skill group slots" (i.e. characters). This incurs some loss in time and ISK when it comes to a small amount of multi-purpose skills, but has the advantage of keeping clone costs down, of optimising implant sets for specific purposes and reducing the risk of losing those sets.
Quote: The only way to make it sensible is to either let people train up characters simultaneously on Eve or to delete the other character slots.
It makes sense just fine as it is.
In other mmos you train 3x toons by spending 3x the time playing. In eve, you train 3x toons by waiting 3x the time to play. The nature of skill training is polar opposite.
Originally by: mkmin Seems like it might be able to use some kind of change, but I think being able to train 3 at the same time would defeat the purpose of having corps and friends. CCP wants you to specialize so you can rely on people who have better skills in a particular field than you do. With how easy it is to spec an alt and just train it on your own, I'm not sure how well they've succeeded, but barriers of entry are a good thing.
And, no. I don't think deleting alts is a good idea. You can spec the alts attributes for specific areas. Plus there are non-espionage advantages to having alts with different corp histories and standings.
Originally by: Selinate I never understood why CCP let us have 3 character slots per account. The only actual use I've found for it is so that I can stick an alt in Jita just to check the prices.
Imho, I agree mostly. Either they should let us train 3 characters on an account simultaneously, or they should delete the other character slots. In order to keep from making people's multiple accounts worthless, just make it so that one person can't log on to multiple characters under a single account.
^This
Dual boxing people do it to have multiple toons online at the same time, they didn't pay just to train an extra toon. It would not cost CCP any subscriptions. You get in a corp in order to fly with them, if they have to log off in order for you to log on, there's no point.
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