There is an additional modal window which will require confirmation. If not these two, then there will be another two options next to each other. We discussed this internally but hopefully the modal confirmation window is enough to prevent mistakes?



The time runs like subscription time, it does not pause if you have no two characters in training.

I dont really understand what is so hard about having multiple accounts.

Is this feature intended for players with multiple characters on one account already who dont want to pay to transfer them to a new account?

If I want to train two characters at once, i just use two accounts because that way i can dualbox them.

This seems like it will just let people not have to pay transfer fees - which doesnt make a financial sense from CCP.

It's already been said but if you can't log in both accounts, then there is no point in dual training on a single account, while paying for two accounts. The only benefit I see coming from this change is for character farmers who can now effectively manage half the accounts required to run their businesses.

There is an additional modal window which will require confirmation. If not these two, then there will be another two options next to each other. We discussed this internally but hopefully the modal confirmation window is enough to prevent mistakes?

The time runs like subscription time, it does not pause if you have no two characters in training.

Should be interesting but I don't really see the point as it's basically the same as having two accounts?

Agreed, I love the idea, as there are some toons I don't need to login at the same time, but I would love to only have 1 login to deal with when I use my multiple accounts.

This is how I believe it should be:
1 Account per person
1 Plex allows you to access any 3 characters you have on your account, if you have 5 characters on your account, only 3 will be accessible, see below.
Each additional Plex allows you to train 1 additional character and unlock 3 additional or existing characters currently on your account.
Each additional Plex allows you to login simultaneously one more character on your account.
If you have had more than 1 Plex active on the account and it expires, your training on your least skilled character will expire, and upon your next login, you will be prompted to select which characters on your account are disabled to keep you within your limit of 3 characters.
If you would like to enable a 4th character on your account, you can either delete an existing character you currently have active on your account or activate a plex.
There is no limit on how many Plex's you can have acitve on your account. Your account active time will be whenever the last active Plex was on your account.

The only thing that's stopping me getting more accounts right now is the complexity the system already has.

First off, this is one of the biggest changes to overall eve philosophy since the skill queue (and I've been here since beta).
Second, I probably won't be using this feature, but if I ever do, there's one thing I'd like to be able to see.

You said the time remaining would be visible from the account management screen. I'd like to see that information available in game. From any of your characters. At any time.

Last, I have a question. Can you activate that secondary training a second time so that you could have all 3 characters on your account training at the same time? (spend two PLEX, of course)

This is a HUGE task. Really big emphasis on how difficult this is. Not comparable in scope to what we had to do for this feature.

Will we have triple training as an option too?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQCP85FngzE

always wanted to post it for a CCP dev blog. Now I finally have a chance :)


speaking of which: why cant we use money to pay for dual training and only plex?

Go the full distance.... Increase the number of toons per account to at least 9. Allow us to login multiple characters at once.

IE: If I'm paying 2 plex's per month I should be able to login 2 toons on that account. Nothing worse than trying to make the right combo of pilots + cynos work when there are ridiculous account restrictions. IE: toon1 on account#1 with cyno. toon #2 on account #2 with carrier. toon #3 on account #1 with jump freighter. See the problem? Would be a ton easier if I could just whichever 2 toons I need.

Should be interesting but I don't really see the point as it's basically the same as having two accounts?

I suspect that a lot of the awkwardness is architechural, thus built-in and not easily to resolve.

This is limited to 2 characters at the moment. We will monitor this and can make adjustments in the future. We have to monitor what impact this might have on the PLEX market, etc.

We discussed showing the time remaining somewhere in game, but it's not really a timer we want to be showing anywhere in game. At least we were not convinced this is something players would want to see ticking down at all time. As we do not show account time remaining anywhere either.

One idea would be for users to have a single account where you would buy characters slots and pilot licenses, much like how it is in World of Tanks. Imagine all your alts under one account, one API to rule them all... But this is just me daydreaming, hopefully one day we'll get there.

We discussed showing the time remaining somewhere in game, but it's not really a timer we want to be showing anywhere in game.

At least we were not convinced this is something players would want to see ticking down at all time. As we do not show account time remaining anywhere either.

Why not?


Well, that time should be shown too. Why not? And the players would not see it "all the time", just when their character sheet is open. Even then they would not see a time ticking down, just the expiration date and time.

PLEX is fairly expensive compared to purchasing a 12-month subscription. Are there plans to allow someone to, for example, pay double the 12-month subscription cost, and thus enable dual-character training for 12 months? The same question applies for the 6-month and 3-month discounted costs. (I realize most people would rather just open a second account, and thus have 6 toons.)