I just tried to dual train in EVE and like has already been posted - it ain't free. It costs the same as activating a second account.

So using EVE as an excuse to get dual training in Dust maybe doesn't make a lot of sense (unless the argument is EVE can dual train for the cost of a second account so why can't we - and our accounts are free so...)

It always did strike me as odd to not have passive SP on our other characters since we can just make extra
PSN accounts for free. As things stand now this is encouragement to create extra PSN accounts so our alts all get passive SP. The only thing I can think of is maybe they want us to make extra PSN accounts for some reason ... Or maybe sometime in the future our Playstation accounts will not be free (as in maybe we will need to goto plus accounts which has been hinted at for the PS4).

Money plain and simple.

You can split up AUR on 1 psn account. With an Alt you have to Buy seperate AUR.

You can train as many characters as you want in dust. Create alternate accounts, they are free FYI!

You can also put passive boosters on several chars to get passive SP gain.

sure, just as long as you pay 20 bucks a month (price of a plex) to activate it.

I was under the impression that by activating passive boosters on a alt charachter on a same account works.

ie. Activate the Booster on alt char that doesen't have Active passive SP on and you get the 0.5 times or 50% of the passive SP gain that comes from the Booster. Since I seem to remember something of this sor being on the Booster descripion text.

I can't acces my PS3 right now to validate this, but this should be easy to do and confirm. Just switch the passive SP gain off of the char that has Passive booster and make note of SP ammount. And wait few minutes and log into that booster char and take a look.

i wouldnt spend a dime on my alts. But many people play their alt like a main. Some have even switched their alt into the main slot.

CCP will take every penny they can get. I had 4 toxin subbies on my mains PSN account. they wouldnt refund for AUR because it didnt make them any money. They offered to move one to a different character on that account. regardless i would have 1 toon with 2 blueprint subbies.

These are the guys who want you to grind for two weeks just to get a 5% bonus to something. All the while commercialing you every match in the warbarge to buy AURUM.

To spend cash on same PSN account or different PSN account doesen't, in my opinion, make any differece. It's money spent anyways.

I only read the first post. Sorry if someone has already said this, but you can only train two accounts on eve if you use a plex for it right? What I mean by that is you buy a plex using isk or real life money. Then instead of using the plex for more time on the account you can use it for enabling you to train 2 accounts at once. Correct me if I am wrong.

Em... alt char on same account or alt char on different account.... what's the difference? You still need to restart game to switch chars and takes about same time to do it either way.

And yes people play on those alts and also put cash onto them.

I'm actually doing this right now.
Got passive SP Booster on my main but this orange passive sp thing is on my alt. Both of them are gaining passive SP on the same time.
Aurum is also available on my alts, I put aurum on my psn account, add aurum to dust and can use this aurum from all of my 3 chracters.

IF all 3 chars would be able to passively acumulate SP, then what?

Some persieved positives:

-Marston VC proposed that players would spend more cash to get AUR on that particular PSN account.
-Makes skilling up multiple chars more convinient and faster, without going into making multipple PSN accounts.

BUT

This does not eliminate the case of where players still make multipple accounts and create 3 alts per account and leave them to lay-low and gather passive SP.

What this entails is more prevalent situation in future, where there is even more of these alt accounts that have been dormant and possibly unused dust chars that have gathered SP passively. Now in due time players would use this to short-cut SP grinding and possibly do something illegal with those accounts.

In 1 years time there would be 3 chars in a alt account that have about 8,6mil SP per char. Thats quite good start on one specialization.

Why do people keep comparing this game to Eve? It's F2P. Alts don't serve the same purpose here as they do in Eve, as they shouldn't. Also, CCP's tactics should be completely different in making money off this game when compared to Eve.

Having said that, CCP, you really should allow us to train up more than 1 character at a time on one account since we're not paying for multiple accounts.

Also, I would like to remind you that your encouragement of players (don't be coy, you are encouraging) to have more than one account to play different playstyles in Eve is part of what ruined Eve for so many..

This was a bit of a stupid maneuver on CCP's part.

They're just adding a nuisance hurdle. You can just get free emails (gmail), free PSN accounts (using those emails), and then more characters training passively at the same time.

Really, I'd like to know how to knock the guy out that's pissing stupid in CCP's coffee some days.

Because they pay and you don't. Just make another PSN.

I can sum it up.

CCP is dumb.

They took away passive on alternative slots for some unknown and unspecified reason, but it had to do with booster sales. Forgetting that free alts are just a new PSN away.

This goes up there with "We didn't realize giving 5SP/s compared to a capped 1SP per WP would lead to people afking" dumb. Anectodally, people were spending more AUR on their alts when they were on the same account.

CCP is dumb.

If you want to activate training another character in EvE (having 2 train at the same time) you must use a PLEX to activate the second character.

If you are using Real world money to buy Plex from CCP or one of the Online retailers, it is more expensive than having two accounts.

The main use I see in EvE is training up new skills that are introduced with some expansions.

Maybe CCP will introduce some sort of Booster that allows passive training on your alts. The again, why would you bother, just make another PSN account.

It would be a smart thing for CCP to do. More likely to spend money on alts if they are on the same PSN yet not gimped.