Eve Online.... Alts, Alts and more Alts.

Even my old "mains" are now alts.

The last patch (before today's) had an interesting interaction for my older characters. It restored my old character names. So no longer were they called Amarr Citizen or Caldari Citizen. This is not joyful for me as their original names were anything but original. I hated their original names and was glad to have them as the uniquely generic citizens. I had read in help chat that people could petition to get their names reverted but I guess CCP were getting too many petitions and decided it was better to deal with it all in one go and revert all characters back to the originals.

The 1st ever trial account has 1 character, this character is training away, he has just over 1 million SP. All the remaining skills are 3, 7 or 9 day's long, so before I know it I'll just have to check on this character once a week. As the training doesn't cost me any real world cash I might just put on a 3 day skill and still only check once a week.Given the number of accounts I'll be doing the same on I may just do them all once a week.

In my nostalgia I did find an old gameplay video of that initial character doing the old Aura voiced starter training mission.

I parked him in my main's corp with the basics for activities:

The second account has 2 characters, one like the first above in all regards including ships and gear. But the second character here only has about 650k SP. This was upped by a handy trick that increased his SP by 160k. I created two throw away alts that stopped the new player experience once they received their mini SP injectors. So once they had traded over the injector they were biomassed into oblivion. Not a bad way to gain SP for an older character. The mini skill injectors work on characters with lower than 700k SP. They say they work with characters under 750k SP but on trying a third mini injector it refused to work. The patchout today seems to have changed the SP limits for that. The upper limit on them is now a character with 1.5 Million SP.

Strange how I value some trial/free characters more than others.

Especially when considering the second character on this account. He is very very SP deficient, at only 50k SP I trained 2 skills and he is now sitting in a T1 hauler with a basic fit in an alt corp.... #lowendhaulerforlife

The next three accounts have 1 character each. All around the 1.5 Mill SP mark. They were originally my trial throwaway's. I didn't care about the long term consequences for them. I've yet to do anything besides add skills onto their queue. No idea if I'll do anything with them. They have to assets or isk.

My two old "main" accounts are in stasis, they gave no skills to train (besides one alt who needs a few skills). I am maxing out their PI storage. I may not be able to export or to see the PI density on the planets but I just turn the collectors on and then they show the density. So far they are working away and are nearly full on all the characters. A nice little payday if I get the accounts reactivated to Omega's again.

Time will tell.

That's seven accounts and 12 characters so far.

The next account was my third main, It held a character I bought but once I trained up the character I transferred it to my main account. The advent of PLEX seemed handier if I ever wanted to train him further. Which left only an alt on that account. An alt with 3 million SP and a few basic ships.

Again nothing to break the bank over.

All of the accounts including my 2 mains accounts all hold characters that I want and/or am going to keep for nostalgia. The only ones I want to use are the three misfits as I used them to break away from the normal gamplay style. That could happen again and with the three of them it might be possible to do something "more".

The last two accounts are the 60day omega pre-Alpha's that are now nearly 100% maxed out Alpha's. I wanted to use once for PVE and one for PVP. The PVP character has yet to break into faction warfare. I think the block to doing that is me/my play style and the time and effort it would need to make headway into that. Maybe I'm over thinking it. I'm pretty sure I am over thinking he overhanging never mind 'it'.

The PVE character is well placed and with the last few skills has a Gnosis for missioning in level 3's. Lvl 4's would take about 2 or more Gnosis BC's and I've yet to find a really good long term corp for that.

 

Long term I want to find that PVE corp for mission running.

I want a faction warfare home for my PVP character to learn faction warfare and PVP from that angle..   

Otherwise I have the trio of alts that I can maybe form into something mischievous.

Time, motivation and opportunity..... Not much to ask for ;-p