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[Souca]

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[RobinGBrown]

I'm not sure I count as 'playing'...

I do have a current account but it's mostly just to improve a character. I will try and get in there again but I need to open my mining accounts to do that.

[Zzyzxx71]

User: Zzyzxx71
Characters: Britare, Bibbz, Bristante
Experience: 13 mil, 13 mil, 10 mil.
Interest: You name it. Taking over the known universe. Currently building up my coffers for more low sec PVP.
Playtime: Weekdays 7pm EST, Weekends vary

[Souca]

I'm not sure I count as 'playing'...

I do have a current account but it's mostly just to improve a character. I will try and get in there again but I need to open my mining accounts to do that.

I've been playing around with using trial accounts as sleepers for skill training. I'll try and put a guid together this weekend, but if you have some ISK to blow, you can hit the 1.6 million SP mark ( when they stop doubling your SP per hour ) in well under the 3 weeks you get on a buddy trial. If you let them go for another month you can get pretty deep into the skill trees if you specialize.

If you need some ISK or something to start out, let me know, I can help set you up.

- Souca -

[Alptraum]

I have 4 trial accounts + 1 other ex-wower coming over to eve with me in the next couple of weeks.

[Souca]

I have 4 trial accounts + 1 other ex-wower coming over to eve with me in the next couple of weeks.

Nice. What are you looking to do? The 21 day buddy program is really nice. Even with the restrictions on some skills, I've been getting better at figuring out how to maximize the 1.6 mil SP training bonus. If you have an idea of what you are aiming for, I might be able to give some reccomendations on training strats etc. Also would like to get an idea if there are going to be enough of us to try for a small region of space if we ally with some other corps.

- Souca -

[RobinGBrown]

Okeydokey I'll do it, I'll reopen my main mining character this week. I have my own corporation 'Clone Arrangers' (see the multiboxing pun in there?) so people would be welcome to join that if they like (although I'll need to change around the permissions a bit, as I don't want any eneny spies grabbing all my phat lewt!

Look for Tatiana Starr later this week and add her to your buddy list.

She'll be working towards an Orca this month while doing mining and she's got about 10mil SP IIRC?

I can't remember where she's stationed but it's probably near Rens and I've got too much stuff to easily move it around (no freighter pilots yet...) so I won't be able to fly across the galaxy to team up, sorry.

[Souca]

Okeydokey I'll do it, I'll reopen my main mining character this week. I have my own corporation 'Clone Arrangers' (see the multiboxing pun in there?) so people would be welcome to join that if they like (although I'll need to change around the permissions a bit, as I don't want any eneny spies grabbing all my phat lewt!

Look for Tatiana Starr later this week and add her to your buddy list.

She'll be working towards an Orca this month while doing mining and she's got about 10mil SP IIRC?

I can't remember where she's stationed but it's probably near Rens and I've got too much stuff to easily move it around (no freighter pilots yet...) so I won't be able to fly across the galaxy to team up, sorry.

I've got a corp as well. Alcoholics Anonymous, almost 6 years old. i Was thinking we might want to start an alliance or something since I think people will likely have their own corps.

As for moving stuff, I might head your way; would need to look at the maps. I'm in Essence right now mostly working out of Droselory (0.5). Either way, I'm only 2 weeks from a freighter on my hauling character.

Wow, an Orca. That's on my list of ships to work toward, but I'm over two months out on my main character. Not sure if I could get there faster with a new char. I'll need to look into that.

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[Alptraum]

other then 30 days free time with the buddy system what else do we get out of it? its faster training time till a certain point right? then each account returns to normal.

Im looking at a mining quadbox setup I think to get the isk coming in so my 4 toons will work like this

Toon-a (Miner in a hulk), Toon-b (Orca hauler/mining command/hanger ship) Toon-c (Raven BS - Muscle for mining ops - current main)

Toon-d (miner in a hulk)

my current main already has advanced mining and bs skills, so once I get some Isk I could very reasonably make that toon also into a hulk miner so I could have 3 hulks chewing up roids well the Orca was worrying about all the ore.

I'd like to develope my characters towards research/mining/shipbuilding as that's serious crafting to me, something we didnt really get out of Wow sadly enough.

I have 4 trial accounts + 1 other ex-wower coming over to eve with me in the next couple of weeks.

Nice. What are you looking to do? The 21 day buddy program is really nice. Even with the restrictions on some skills, I've been getting better at figuring out how to maximize the 1.6 mil SP training bonus. If you have an idea of what you are aiming for, I might be able to give some reccomendations on training strats etc. Also would like to get an idea if there are going to be enough of us to try for a small region of space if we ally with some other corps.

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[Souca]

Buddy gets you a 21 day trial instead of a 14 day trial and 30 days credit on the referring account. It's $19.95 to convert from trial to normal account versus $14.95 a month after that. The training bonus applies to all new characters. The first 1.6 million skill points train at twice the speed.

Hulks are about a month out on new characters if you optimize it. Trial accounts can't train Mining Barge or Exhumers, so you have to train all the prereqs during the trial period. I have the math at work, but I believe this works out to about 18 or so days. Mining Barge 5 and Industry 5 are the two time sink skills, weighing in at 22 days and 15 days before the training bonus. Additionally, you will go over 1.6 million to hit Exhumers 3, so the last part will get a little slow. There might be a way around it though since the way they worded it makes me think that you lose the bonus on the first skill you train after you go over 1.6 million, so if you start a long skill at 1.59 mil you might be able to keep the bonus.

Orca is a much longer route. I have plotted it out in EveMon on a fresh toon, but EveMon gives me 63 day off of trials on their way to Hulks. It weighs out at 2.6 mil SP, so that last 1 million will be normal speed.

Not trying to rain on your parade, but just think that you will have a while to wait on having the three new characters ready. I'm planning on converting my trials once they get to a Procurer (they don't have cruisers and I don't want to manage 1 minute timers and small cargo holds) and will start mining with them at that point. Until then I have other accounts I'm playing. I think the strat for Eve is to have twice as many accounts as you can play effectively at once. That way you always have a set you can play while the other is cooking skills. At least thats my strat.

I think the path you are looking at is good. Hope I didn't seem too down on it above, I just see Hulk and Orca and see a month and it makes me leery. You have an idea what region you will be mining in? I might be able to help out as you are training up by hauling and/or protection. I'm about 2-3 days out from battleships on my two protection characters and my hauler is a day from an Iteron 4 and my main already has battleships and the Iteron 4.

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