CCP allows players to have 3 characters per account.
Only one character per account can be online, so in most cases only a single character will regularly undock.
This allows countless opportunities for the evasion of repercussions within EVE.
I consider scout alts, scam alts, troll alts (etc) to be brutally overpowered as they allow you to mask your true affiliation and identity.

If someone scams you on an account that never undocks, you can never have your revenge.
Heck they can even biomass the character and make a new one for exactly the same purpose.
Think about what EVE would be like if you could only have one account. Everything anyone ever did or wrote would be on a character that undocks, so if you didn't like the, you could grief them at a later date (a common theme within EVE).

Would this make the game better or worse?

Think about what EVE would be like if you could only have one account.

Would this make the game better or worse?

people would have to train all the skills they wanted on one character

CCP allows players to have 3 characters per account.
Only one character per account can be online, so in most cases only a single character will regularly undock.
This allows countless opportunities for the evasion of repercussions within EVE.
I consider scout alts, scam alts, troll alts (etc) to be brutally overpowered as they allow you to mask your true affiliation and identity.

If someone scams you on an account that never undocks, you can never have your revenge.
Heck they can even biomass the character and make a new one for exactly the same purpose.
Think about what EVE would be like if you could only have one character per account. Everything anyone ever did or wrote would be on a character that undocks, so if you didn't like the, you could grief them at a later date (a common theme within EVE).

Would this make the game better or worse?

A lot worse - logistics for 0.0 would become a nightmare for a start, people would have to train all the skills they wanted on one character = new players couldn't focus their skill training as much, so would then have a valid point about older players having an unfair advantage.

We had this discussion several times already.
Yes, NPC corp alts are so powerful that they have regrettably become a necessity for every player.
What we need is an encouragement to have "menial" tasks done by actual corp members and not outsource all vulnerable logistics and infrastructure to npc corps.

I have always been in favor of a "transaction" tax whenever you transfer money in between characters.
This tax could be at zero if both characters are in the same corp, very low if they are in the same alliance and rather high if one or both of them are in an npc corp.
Sec status should largely affect the transaction tax...if a sec 5.0 industrialist alt sends large amounts of money to his sec -9.9 pirate main, it is money laundry after all and concord shouldn't like that.

Yea and individual players in a permanent war alliance, should be charged 50 million ISK per day each for it's upkeep.

I think you're on to something here.

Your point?

Should cops be able to ticket ALL YOUR CARS because it's an unfair advantage if you only drive one of them?

I consider scout alts, scam alts, troll alts (etc) to be brutally overpowered as they allow you to mask your true affiliation and identity.

Why did you post that on a throwaway alt?

I'll dec the next one who uses words as overpowered, nerf etc etc....... HTFU and play eve.....

Each character is a different persona. On one of them you can be a pirating ******* - on the other you can be a friendly market trader or industrialist. It allows some flexibility with a players reputation that allows them to have some peace and quiet.

We had this discussion several times already.
Yes, NPC corp alts are so powerful that they have regrettably become a necessity for every player.
What we need is an encouragement to have "menial" tasks done by actual corp members and not outsource all vulnerable logistics and infrastructure to npc corps.

I have always been in favor of a "transaction" tax whenever you transfer money in between characters.
This tax could be at zero if both characters are in the same corp, very low if they are in the same alliance and rather high if one or both of them are in an npc corp.
Sec status should largely affect the transaction tax...if a sec 5.0 industrialist alt sends large amounts of money to his sec -9.9 pirate main, it is money laundry after all and concord shouldn't like that.

I think CCP should give us 5 slots for characters on each account.

I NEED MOAR SLOTS! :P

I was told I would have to cope with the consequence of any action I take in this game. Why is it not the case as long as you use an alt?

Each of your alts has its own list of consequences to deal with. You have to deal with all of them individually. Merging them is up to you.

so would then have a valid point about older players having an unfair advantage.

CCP allows players to have 3 characters per account.
Only one character per account can be online, so in most cases only a single character will regularly undock.
This allows countless opportunities for the evasion of repercussions within EVE.
I consider scout alts, scam alts, troll alts (etc) to be brutally overpowered as they allow you to mask your true affiliation and identity.

If someone scams you on an account that never undocks, you can never have your revenge.
Heck they can even biomass the character and make a new one for exactly the same purpose.
Think about what EVE would be like if you could only have one character per account. Everything anyone ever did or wrote would be on a character that undocks, so if you didn't like the, you could grief them at a later date (a common theme within EVE).

Would this make the game better or worse?

The only way this would work is if CCP reduced the sub cost. If thats not happening and they take away 2 characters from my account, my subscription just lost a ton of value. It's no longer worth the 15 bucks a month we pay. I cant think of any MMO that only allows you one character slot. It's just too limiting. ESPECIALLY a pay to play MMO.

I think people would skirt around the tax by space trading valuable items. Abandon a frigate full of Morphite at a safe spot.
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I think people would skirt around the tax by space trading valuable items. Abandon a frigate full of Morphite at a safe spot.

That'd create some pretty awesome gameplay. Crime reporters scoping out back system cash handovers between industrialists and pirates, thieves trying to scoop the loot for themselves, maybe a bit of blackmail.

make new alt, gank, biomass your character

All I read was:
"Almost everyone else copes with the rules and mechanics of Eve. But I don't, so want CCP to change it around me."

I'll dec the next one who uses words as overpowered, nerf etc etc....... HTFU and play eve.....

I was told I would have to cope with the consequence of any action I take in this game. Why is it not the case as long as you use an alt?

Terrible solution to a non issue. Seems to me the only problem here is that you are having trouble controlling your personal feelings toward people who have slighted you. Eve is hard, so HTFU. Deception, trickery, scamming, and theft, are all encouraged, so why would CCP act in a fashion that not only makes those more difficult, but heavily penalizes the vast majority of their subscribers, most of which who take no part in said activities?

I'd compare this to banning the wearing of boots, because of weasel stomping day. This thread must have been written while OP was high on ALL the drugs.

Everything anyone ever did or wrote would be on a character that undocks, so if you didn't like the, you could grief them at a later date (a common theme within EVE).

That would be a lot easier to have with one character per account.