Yea, I'm serious. I pruned my wow accounts down to 2 since I didn't expect to be playing much now that I'm enthralled by Eve again. While I'm not 100% sure what I want to do long term, I'm currently content to work toward accounts that cover themselves. Once I have that taken care of I can always leave some sleeper accounts to bake skills while I play active accounts or even go back to Wow if I need a change of scenery.Originally Posted by 'Alptraum',index.php?page=Thread&postID=188967#pos t188967
I'm rounding out my main character right now, while only 3.2 mil SP, he has enough skills to give me flexibility in playstyle. Currently he is 6 hours from being able to start training Battleships and another 2 days from bumping up to a retriever for mining. Both my combat characters are at Caldari Cruisers 2 and once they finish up some missile training they will begin to work on learning skills before the push to Battleships for them. The cargo character is working on some learning skills before she puts the 4 days into Gallente Industrial 4 and then works toward freighters; between her Iteron 3 and my mains Iteron 4 I can move cargo when I need to and she sits idle between trips when I'm mining so there is no hurry.
I created two other trial accounts and set them up to work toward being able to fly Procurers in about 14 days. It's amazing how much you can accomplish skill wise when you know exactly what you want and you can leave a character alone to train. I've really become fond of the planning feature of EveMon. You tell it your end goal in terms of skill, item or ship and it plans out the skills you need and how long they will take. It even suggests learning skills if they will lower the total training time. I plan on creating a couple more trial accounts and setting them up for specific roles. If I find I don't need them, I'm only out the ISK I spent on the skills. If I end up converting the accounts, it's only just over 2 months to Exhumers with the new character skill bonus now.
I find the style of multiboxing that you have with Eve interesting in cntrast to Wow. With wow I had to be playing and paying attention every second or I felt like I was getting behind. I could only progress on as many characters as I could play at once. I had to be there for all the grinding. With Eve, I actually feel like I'm benefiting from having other accounts when I'm not even playing them. If I feel like doing combat or some missions, my mining characters are being wasted; they're just getting better at skills and closer to being able to fly bigger ships. There is still grinding the intial ISK for gear and such, but I don't feel like I'm getting behind if I'm not playing like I did with Wow. If you add in the fact that all the end game goals are goals you set for yourself, then it feels even more liberating. The only thing that can get to me with Eve is that time delay on skills. It drove me crazy when I was playing in the begining, but having multiple accounts makes that less of an issue since you can play other characters while you train those week and month long skills.
297 days until I can fly a Titan. Should be just enough time to earn the money to build one.
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