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Mal Mandrake
Zeta Fleet
Joint Alliance Blue
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Posted - 2011.10.21 00:45:00 -
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Just wanted to share a few thoughts and see if discussion can emerge.
I personally choose not to have multiple accounts, but I am not against them. It may be important to have a combat pilot on one account and a money maker on another. This thread is not about having multiple accounts. It is about people running multiple instances of Eve at the same time.
Does any of the followings instances bother you, annoy you, make Eve unbalanced? Do you think this defeats the multiplayer part of the game? Or maybe you don't give a crap, and don't think it matters? Either is cool just wanting to see whats up in the community.
Neutral Repping -
Is the problem the fact that neut repping exists, or instead that one person will have 3 other accounts logged on doing the repping?
Mass mining -
How bout a guy running a couple miners and a hauler all by himself? (To be honest as an industrial guy not in an industrial corp, mining by myself a lot, I hate these guys the most.)
Scanner/SB pvp- How bout those guys who scan you down and kill you with his SB using his other account?
How about RF (Red Frog) doing freighters hauls with neutral alts in NPC corps? Don't you just want to find em and blow them up anyway?
Cyno alts - Let's face it, you need a cyno to get around out there, and it sucks trusting someone else to do it for you, I understand this one.
Thoughts?
-Mal Mandrake
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Mal Mandrake
Zeta Fleet
Joint Alliance Blue
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Posted - 2011.10.21 00:55:00 -
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non judgement wrote:People can name heaps of reasons when an alt is helpful in Eve.
If you're trying to say you're better because you don't, it's a bit silly.
Its a game people will play it how they play it. Mostly it's easier to do some things with an alt. Without alts it makes team work more important. Neither way is better than another.
Try not to make it look like you're crying because its unfair what others get away with, with more than one alt.
There was only a little bit of personal crying in my post. Specifically the part about the miners.
It is really meant to just be a discussion. Most people can at least agree that having multiple accounts in a benefit, but let me remind you that is not the purpose of the thread. It is about multiplaying, and how it affects you.
Support it, don't support it, it is all good with me. This thread isn't going to stop or change anything. I am aware of the reality in which I play.
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Mal Mandrake
Zeta Fleet
Joint Alliance Blue
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Posted - 2011.10.21 01:09:00 -
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non judgement wrote:Well I'd say that an alt helps most when you're in a corp and not many people in that corp are online (timezone issues or some other reason). If you want to move a ship and need to scout or cyno alt.
I agree that having a cyno or scout alt is almost necessary for "safe" travel. |
Mal Mandrake
Zeta Fleet
Joint Alliance Blue
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Posted - 2011.10.21 01:48:00 -
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Russell Casey wrote:I thought this was going to be another martyr complaining about EVE's lack of "solo" content.
Single player content = ship spinning, and that is enough for me.
If I wanted single player content, I'd play WoW. Or maybe try some other genre than MMO.
There are plenty of single player space games out there. |
Mal Mandrake
Zeta Fleet
Joint Alliance Blue
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Posted - 2011.10.22 02:03:00 -
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If you're not mining like this, you're wasting your time.
It is a game. By definition it is wasting time. |
Mal Mandrake
Zeta Fleet
Joint Alliance Blue
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Posted - 2011.10.22 08:05:00 -
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Quote:In PVP that make all the difference with all the neutral scouting and buffing and repping. It's not game breaking but for me that should be addressed, even if it costs a few accounts for CCP.
I have to wonder how many accounts have already been lost due to issues such as these. It is no secret that the Eve community isn't growing. When you see 40k people logged on, how many players is that really?
I'm gonna go on a limb and say maybe it IS game breaking.
The neutral scouts make gate camps only about killing the single account players. The neut repps (from multiple accounts, because it IS possible to have neut repps from actual people) make pvp about killing single account players. Or at least makes pvp risk-free for multiple account players.
How about the market? How has all these mining alts effected ore prices? This in turn effects all other prices in Eve.
We know about the big nullsec wars in the last few months... All the scandal! Isn't that really rooted in multiple accounts and botting?
Is this CCP's fault, or the players fault?
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Mal Mandrake
Zeta Fleet
Joint Alliance Blue
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Posted - 2011.10.22 10:04:00 -
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I think one of the main reasons it's so widespread is that most activities in EVE don't require you to perform a lot of actions. Take a 3D shooter, you have to be concentrated all the time so there simply isn't any opportunity to play another character at the same time, let alone three. In EVE things are far more slower and automated.
Good point. |
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