Concurrent Skill Training

The debate over whether or not training more than one character at a time on the same account should be a feature has been around since the beginning of EVE back in '03.  Up until just this past year, most vets have been strongly opposed to any ideas or proposals which advocate more than one character training at a time.  Most of the proposals and suggestions usually come from newbies to the game (I submitted one myself two years ago) and are usually shot down quickly with the likes of...

"If you want to train a second character at the same time, start a second account."

 "No other game lets you do that, so why should EVE?"

"Training more than one character would make it too easy for botters and scammers to train alts for sale or as specialized ISK farmers."

This attitude seems to have changed somewhat for whatever reason.  There is a proposal in the Assembly Hall forum - [Proposal] skill training for 2 characters on one account - that, even though it has only 25 supports so far, it has almost NO negative replies and of those that don't support it, the opposition isn't vehement while the arguments for it are good and sound.  It is one of the first proposals that I've read that suggests paying for the privilege and it seems to have very few negative aspects to it.

I added my support to the proposal but with some changes and limitations proposed...

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I definitely agree that there should be some way to train more than one character on an account at the same time. The OP's suggestion is just as good as any I've read and has the advantage of both giving the players a wanted feature and putting more money in the CCP coffers. As far as this being a micro-transaction - HOGWASH. It's simply additional subscription fees. And since you still can only play with one character at a time, those who have two or more accounts so that they can play two or more characters simultaneously, would still keep those other accounts. I happen to have three accounts and I guarantee that I would be using this on all three accounts, at least to train a second character on each. The third would be as necessity dictated.

I would prefer though, that the price was a bit lower than a full sub price, and with the option of using PLEX as payment as well as the standard sub payment method...

• Option #1 - Standard Payment Method (NOTE - Using this option you cannot use 3, 6, or 12 month plans except with only one character training and/or using PLEX for the others.):
1. 1 Month/1 Character Training = $14.95
2. 1 Month/2 Characters Training = $24.95
3. 1 Month/3 Characters Training = $31.95
• Option #2 - PLEX Payment Method (NOTE - Since PLEX costs more - #34.99/2 - than standard monthly subs, the benefit is seen in the training times):
1. 1 PLEX applied to an account = Add 1 month sub time to account OR 1 month training on both 2nd & 3rd character OR 6 weeks training on 2nd character.
2. 2 PLEX applied to an account = Add 2 months sub time to account OR Add 1 month sub time to account AND 1 month training on 2nd & 3rd character OR 2 months training on 2nd & 3rd character OR 3 months training on 2nd character.

In addition, training times would not be at the full 100% for all characters training...

• 1st Character always trains at 100%.
• 2nd character trains at 75%.
• 3rd character trains at 50%.

In the skill queue, you would designate the status of the character as 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. This could be changed and switched at any time so that no character is locked into a slower training rate.

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Those are my thoughts on this.  This is a feature that I think is long past due in EVE and shouldn't be all that hard to implement.  If this subject interests you (and it should if you play EVE), go read the proposal and support it or state your reasons against it.  I'd like to know what you all think.  You CAN leave comments here too folks.  Just use the comment link below.

~~~ Spyke