Bumping my question <.<

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.)

The next big step would be allowing to merge all counts, with one Api, one login... I thing we all share this dream!

Fly Safe o/

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

Not a fan of this for the following reason:

- CCP begins with an arbitrary limit of 1 character training per account.
- Players get multiple accounts to circumvent the limitation.
- CCP sees this and offers to remove the arbitrary limit, for a price.

This, in my opinion, is a dark shade of monetization. It isn't as bone-headed as the monocle, but it's a ****** thing to do.

If there is no longer any technical justification or community/market concerns supporting the 1 character per account training limit, simply remove it. Don't nickel and dime us to get around an arbitrary limit you've imposed on us.

Now this is straight up greed.

There has never been a valid reason posted anywhere, as to why more than one character can't be training skills at the same time on the same account. This is pure greed, pure money grubbing (someone has to buy the plex) and it's simply disgusting. There has never been any real, proven, valid, technical limitation to stop more than one character training on an account and this *new* "Feature" proves just that. They can do it, they just didn't want to do until they came up with a reason to make us pay for it.

Now this is straight up greed.

There has never been a valid reason posted anywhere, as to why more than one character can't be training skills at the same time on the same account. This is pure greed, pure money grubbing (someone has to buy the plex) and it's simply disgusting. There has never been any real, proven, valid, technical limitation to stop more than one character training on an account and this *new* "Feature" proves just that. They can do it, they just didn't want to do until they came up with a reason to make us pay for it.

I would agree, if it weren't for the introduction of second character training on a single account for a fee. Single training is fine and dandy due to any number of justifications, but once you remove that limitation by spending PLEX in game those justifications fall to the wayside and the limitation becomes arbitrary. It's little different than other MMOs which include steep XP curves, then sell bonus XP potions/implants in their online stores.

This feature should be free, or the limitation should remain in place.

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?

So, you really want to play a game, so awesome as eve is, where Devs work hard to make it better every day and is complaining about paying them for their hard work? You want them working for free as slaves? This is what I call disgusting.

The reason things are the way they are is Balance: Skill points are Time + Money. If you give training for free you just ruin the value of the product (EVE Online). In other words, having a good character becomes meaningless if everyone can get 2/3 of them for free.

And if you put your toughs strait, many players that want to get some alts, without stopping the main character training have a new option other then paying a new account, an then paying to merge the accounts when he is satisfied with it. this saves them some money. It is a good new option and will help these players allot. And this will also sounds fair to players that always wanted an alt but had no courage to do it.

This is a Win/Win Situation, this is good for CCP that sell more their product, and is good for players that want to buy it. If it starts to not give profit CCP have all rights to remove it. But I bet that the demand for this service will outcome the drop in the price of making an alt in the old way.

Fly Safe o/

I'll bring this up with the team again, since a few people are asking about this in the thread, but it's basically to do with verisimilitude or what things belong/fit in game and what things belong/fit in account management pages. So far with the exception of PLEX, there is little in game which references account management and that's intentional.

Showing things which are removed from the EVE universe in gameplay or narrative terms is something we have tried to avoid, but like I said we will discuss this and see if the PLEX section or character sheet is the right place to potentially show timers like this. There are a number of different views within the team itself, so that's one of the reasons we have held off on a timer of some kind.

Feedback like this is great though as it helps us know what you guys wants.

1. As far as i know you can turn the game time cards into PLEX, hence you can so to speak use them for this

2. Yes this annoys a lot of us doesn't it :) some day... some day

Will this new feature of 1 plex allow training alt 2 for 1/2 month then pause alt 2, and continue training alt 3 for the other 1/2 month..?????

I've read enough.
To say that your prose is well put together is true, to say that you have a valid point, no so true.
I pay for the account per year, because I work for a living. Why should I pay again for a feature that should already be built in? Slaves, really? Grow up , I'm going to guess that PLEX sales in Eve this week alone are more than you have made in your last year of wages. ( probably for me as well ) So please do not attempt to extract tears for the DEVS.

If they are going to do this , you do it completely and without punishing the collective.

Another possibility , Alliances that have amassed PLEX will now have an advantage to increase their numbers by enabling their current members to skill and stage an alt in several places. Let's see , 3 skilled toons , 5 clones = 15 locations to be posted as required by the alliance. That's a serious tactical and possible strategic gain there.

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.

Yes

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.

This is a tax for stupid people, it would be cheaper to start a new account and train that way lol.

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

You know, there's a lot of people I expect this from, but not you. You're smarter than this.