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Shazard
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Posted - 2009.01.03 16:56:00 -
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I don't quite undestand why CPP allows to have 3 chars per account, but still you can teach only one of them. Why then have more then one character? If I want "miner alt" why not train the one you started with instead of creating new. Anyway you can't learn faster and more with new char rather then old one.
I see only two reasons of having more then one character. One is for HardCore RolePlayers second is kind a "jump clone" you have different chars in different regions of galaxy, and you can log in one, investigate, say, market, then log another and compare market in different regions...
From skill point of view, I don't see reason to have another. Enlighten me!
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Lothris Andastar
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Posted - 2009.01.03 17:11:00 -
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Its so you can train alts with a very narrow focus in a month or so.
I for one have 2 accounts and 6 characters.
One account consists of my Missioning Character, a Cyno Alt, and another Cyno alt :P
The other is my Capship alt, a Market Alt, and a BPO Copy/Research Alt
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Chief Simpson
Minmatar
Sanitation Worker's Union of Null Sec
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Posted - 2009.01.03 18:03:00 -
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Edited by: Chief Simpson on 03/01/2009 18:04:57
Someone needs to manage the POS, sit in a station as a caretaker CEO, haul stuff to the hubs, sell the same stuff at the hubs, or provide incremental income from datacores. Each role requires some training to either start or perform well. Also, no need to hide behind an alt to ask a reasonable question. |
Jr Grae
The Bones Brigade
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Posted - 2009.01.03 18:31:00 -
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I use one just because it makes doing exploration easier and more efficient. One Character to Explore, and one for the combats in sites. I could do all this with one person, but it would then take longer to train for it and longer to run the sites as well.
I could rely on a member of my corp do perform one of those roles, but I have a very strange EVE schedule, so I need to be able to go as soon as I log on, and I would need to leave at the drop of the hat so to speak.
Thats why I use an alt.
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Carebearius Maximus
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Posted - 2009.01.03 20:38:00 -
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Sometimes, it's fun to have an alt just to **** people off in the forums. 
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Barbara Nichole
Cryogenic Consultancy
Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2009.01.03 22:52:00 -
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A lot of alts get created to use as advance scout pilots. Alt scouts are disposable and cheap. It's good practise to fly with a scout in low sec.
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
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Posted - 2009.01.03 23:57:00 -
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Jita market alt.
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Carthag Tsimpo
Caldari
Perkone
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Posted - 2009.01.04 00:22:00 -
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You sort of miss out on the part that it indeed DOES go faster training an alt for a specific task, compared to training your 'main' to do all of it.
For one, you get near 1M sp to start off with in a certain area. These of course, most often go into either combat, trade or industry/science.
Then, you also have different attributes for each of these 3 'basic career lines', where as perception & willpower mainly goes for combat related, mem & int go for industry/science and charisma is for the Traders.
You do mention one reason aswell, being in more than 'one place at the same time' for the use of market alts. There's also the possibility of going -10 on one char and staying positive on another, to let you experience more parts of the gameworld rather than being restricted to one of the other.
However, I've always liked the idea of only having 1 character and then of course, restrict people to 1 account. Although, this probably wont happen, since a) CCP like cash from multiple accounts and b) It's hard to stop people having several accounts etc.
But what's rather unique with Eve is ones reputation, and that there's only one server. If you're being an asshat, you'll be known as one. If you're a nice helpful guy, you'll gain trust. If you're a scammer, you're branded for life.
If a 1 char and 1 account only policy would be introduced now, it would make people have to re-think. Initially, it would be tons of whining that you can't do everything on your own, but, in my head, it would hopefully lead to even more interesting ways of corporation management and your friends in eve would become more important and the game would be more joyful. If this would be introduced, I'm sure CCP would focus even more on making teamwork in various tasks even easier.
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MooKids
Caldari
Dark Echo Engineering
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Posted - 2009.01.04 03:09:00 -
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 Originally by: Chribba
Jita market alt.
This
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Lothris Andastar
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Posted - 2009.01.04 03:52:00 -
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Originally by: Chribba
Jita market alt.
I prefer my Amarr market alt. More ISK to be made buying cheap Veldspar and reselling in Jita =)
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Lord Fitz
Project Amargosa
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Posted - 2009.01.04 04:36:00 -
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Extra Factory/Lab slots, extra R&D agents, be in multiple places at once (Fuel POS / attend market orders), train on a separate account but move to your primary account when you're 'done' training. Scouts, cyno alts, etc etc etc
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Carniflex
Caldari
StarHunt
Systematic-Chaos
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Posted - 2009.01.05 08:02:00 -
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Wartime hauling alt
Gatecamp suicide scout
Trade alts
R&D datacore farming alts
Shopping alts for outlaws
Missionsgrinding alts for deep 0.0 and/or outlaws
Cyno alts
etc, etc
With right alt you can almost always circumenvent the consuqences of your actions or lack of friends online.
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Dark Blood08
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Posted - 2009.01.05 10:26:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Blood08 on 05/01/2009 10:27:15
so you can play the good guy/bad guy
have your main be the good guy ..do missions and trade and make isk ..all the good stuff and then train the alt to pirate or steal or loot...sorta the darkside and the alt thats used for stealing well he can transfer the isk he makes to the main character to further increase the mains isk flow LOL
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Za Tenesne
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Posted - 2009.01.05 10:42:00 -
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so i can call you a loser here, and you wont realize im someone you consider a friend on my main.
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Dark Blood08
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Posted - 2009.01.05 10:54:00 -
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yeah...i guess you could
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Jack Winters
Kador Innovations
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Posted - 2009.01.05 18:09:00 -
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Account #1
Main Toon, Empty, Empty
Account #2
Cyno Alt, Cyno Alt, POS Gunner
Account #3
Lab Rat, Lab Rat, Hauler/Manufacturer
Account #4
RR Alt, Lab Rat, Suicide Ganker
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Kazzac Elentria
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Posted - 2009.01.05 19:19:00 -
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Extra industrial slots and datacore farming |
The Vixen
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Posted - 2009.01.05 19:30:00 -
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Originally by: Jack Winters
Account #1
Main Toon, Empty, Empty
Account #2
Cyno Alt, Cyno Alt, POS Gunner
Account #3
Lab Rat, Lab Rat, Hauler/Manufacturer
Account #4
RR Alt, Lab Rat, Suicide Ganker
I couldn't imagine having that much responsibility in an MMO.
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Jack Winters
Kador Innovations
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Posted - 2009.01.05 21:11:00 -
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Originally by: The Vixen
Originally by: Jack Winters
Account #1
Main Toon, Empty, Empty
Account #2
Cyno Alt, Cyno Alt, POS Gunner
Account #3
Lab Rat, Lab Rat, Hauler/Manufacturer
Account #4
RR Alt, Lab Rat, Suicide Ganker
I couldn't imagine having that much responsibility in an MMO.
Its simple once you get your mind around it.
I only use cyno alts if I want to go somewhere, Lab Rats stay at the station, Hauler hauls stuff from POS to the markets, RR alt is only used in some missions, and the ganker is for when I want to have some fun.
Thankfully I havent had the need to use the POS gunner yet.
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Joe Starbreaker
Starbreaker Frigateers
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Posted - 2009.01.06 00:46:00 -
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I have 3 accounts (yes, I'm addicted), bought 6 months of gametime on them as a christmas present to myself. After 6 months I will probably just transfer the other two characters, who are both specially trained, into the extra slots on Joe. Then I'll have 3 trained characters, one account.
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Harrent
Caldari
The Leathernecks
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Posted - 2009.01.06 04:57:00 -
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Edited by: Harrent on 06/01/2009 04:59:27
Edited by: Harrent on 06/01/2009 04:57:38
Originally by: Jack Winters
Account #1
Main Toon, Empty, Empty
Account #2
Cyno Alt, Cyno Alt, POS Gunner
Account #3
Lab Rat, Lab Rat, Hauler/Manufacturer
Account #4
RR Alt, Lab Rat, Suicide Ganker
60$ per month ftw. >.>.
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Personally, only reason i have two accounts is so that one can earn cash when in war.
Other than that the other slots are free as there is no point in having an alt that cant train at the same time as a main char.
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Lothris Andastar
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Posted - 2009.01.06 06:28:00 -
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Originally by: Harrent
Personally, only reason i have two accounts is so that one can earn cash when in war.
Other than that the other slots are free as there is no point in having an alt that cant train at the same time as a main char.
Um, so having say a Market alt so you dont have to travel 80 jumps to jita if you wanna check prices or change orders is "no point?"
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Venomae
Federal Defence Union
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Posted - 2009.01.06 08:00:00 -
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Originally by: Shazard
I don't quite undestand why CPP allows to have 3 chars per account, but still you can teach only one of them. Why then have more then one character? If I want "miner alt" why not train the one you started with instead of creating new. Anyway you can't learn faster and more with new char rather then old one.
I see only two reasons of having more then one character. One is for HardCore RolePlayers second is kind a "jump clone" you have different chars in different regions of galaxy, and you can log in one, investigate, say, market, then log another and compare market in different regions...
From skill point of view, I don't see reason to have another. Enlighten me!
If you really want to explore this game, you want to have many characters.
They don't need to be 80 million skillpoint monsters wich cost 50 B ISK.
If you want to be good at something, you can be good on that, but at the same time you can't be good at the other things. So with alts you can be good at many things at the same time.
And as roleplayer, it opens up many chances. You can RP a fighter character, then later you wanna relax and you switch to miner character etc.
But really, having three characters in same account is kinda pointless since you can only train one. So that's why we have multiple accounts. But of course when alt is handling the planned profession, you can transfer it to other account and start training other things.
Having alts is making this world of New Eden having more colour than it would have without them. They are filling the slots wich wouldn't be filled otherwise.
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FarosWarrior
Amarr
Sonnema
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Posted - 2009.01.06 10:55:00 -
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Originally by: Harrent
Edited by: Harrent on 06/01/2009 04:59:27
Edited by: Harrent on 06/01/2009 04:57:38
Originally by: Jack Winters
stuff
60$ per month ftw. >.>.
that OR 2.4b every 2 months
Cheers, Faros
FW's haulin' service
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Erin Kinkade
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Posted - 2009.01.06 13:53:00 -
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If you're a -10 pirate you need a hauling alt. (Being a -10 pirate without a hauling alt or at least a buddy with a hauling alt is hell)
You can get a basic hauler in about 1-2 hours of skill train time if I remember correctly. So a lot of people will stop training their main for a bit and get those skills.
However the basic hauler may not give you enough. You'll need something that requires more training to haul battlecruisers. They may also train the basic piloting skills for battleships on this character to be able to fly in battleships. In this case what can often happen is a separate account is paid for while these train and then transfered to the main account when it's done.
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nether void
Caldari
Shrapnel Industries
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Posted - 2009.01.06 23:47:00 -
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Even though I do use market alts, I wish it was 1 char 1 account. Yeah it's not feasible, but I just rather like that set up. It was sort of that way in SWG, and I loved that. People had to decide on one thing to do, and so you could specialize without competing with the whole server.
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ArsenalOfCharm
Fifth Exiled Legion
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Posted - 2009.01.07 00:28:00 -
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I have market alts that run Research with sci network 4 i can hit my high sec POS from the trade hub with a caldari character you can get advanced lab op 4 metallury 4 sci 4 research 4 and sci network 4 in like under 20 days giving you a lot of slots availible
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Layrex
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.01.07 01:13:00 -
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I'm -10 so need my alt to mine iskies.
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boutia
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Posted - 2009.01.07 04:19:00 -
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I think he is asking, why can't you continue to train your primary, when you switch to your alt on the same account. It sucks when you have to stop training your primary to train an alt unless ya have 2 accounts.
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