When fully spooled up, me. I have run, and keep characters on with potential plans to use, a maximum of 112 accounts at once, regularly before broadcasting was banned, and at intervals since.
I’m more making the point that simple scale and incoming DPS doesn’t limit what people can and will multibox if it’s legal to do, and generates at least linear increases in reward with linear increase in box numbers, and often, rewards scale better than flatly linear overall because that’s how you theoretically encourage people to be social.
No, but rewards that scale well with more characters participating, either in speed of clearance or which allegedly require more than x are the traditional game design method of making people play together.
But obviously in EVE that’s making players get more alts instead of playing together, so what exactly is your point?
Here’s a more important question for you: name one thing on which you spend your massive ISK income that’s not merely rolling it over into making even more ISK. Just one. And it can’t be a cop-out example like “buying skills for my characters” that’s a constant across the entire player base.
Right, I’m sure the person repeatedly losing multi-billion-ISK ships to high-sec ganks is doing “dedicated PvP toon” stuff.
Collecting is investing. You’re not consuming your wealth when growing it, but adding to it.
The corpse example is the only one I can reasonably accept. So, 112 accounts just so you can grow a meat locker full of the fruits of someone else’s labor? Sounds like a great use of time. When you stop playing this game, will you look back and think “what a great time I’ve had!” because a number in a menu had 13 figures in it?
I will accept that I ain’t always making good choices with what I do in space.
Other one is sort of investing, but in other people. One of the things I’ve done is toss ships or isk to newbies in group content (mostly incursions on this character) that I am taking part in.
Once again, that’s a very shallow example. “I spend the money I make from multi-boxing PvE to provide gear to players who are doing the PvE with me” isn’t an example of spending money on something that’s not done for the purpose of making more money.
You have 112 accounts and multi-box what I assume to be high-end PvE content, likely putting you into the top 0.1% of the game’s earners, rivaled only by other extreme multi-boxers and large-group leaders with access to taxation income. And yet the most interesting thing you’re spending your money on is corpses, which can’t even be a significant expenditure because there just aren’t that many available for sale at any given time?
Are you content with the extent of your EVE accomplishments? Do you receive adequate fulfillment from your gameplay? Not trying to attack, just genuinely curious.
Some of that providing gear is funding PVP ops weekly for a few years, back in 2015-2017, though not primarily on this character and that was before I cut back a fair bit with RL taking 60-100 hours for work for a few years. Some of it is newbies in pve. Once it was funding the opfor skirmish guys for 2 NEO teams (Mostly cube tho).
I’ve done a lot more than what shows up on this character, but I like him as a “face” since his primary purpose is mostly pro-social and he’s not tied to anything I really need to worry about people being mad at me for.
You do you, I guess. Personally I can’t even imagine playing like that. I’d literally go insane.
I’ll definitely be quoting this in the future when discussing similar topics; 3% of massive multi-boxing income spent on anything remotely resembling “fun.”
And 3% is still “hey, let’s go grab a set of lightly blinged HACs and do something dumb and fun on me” for a friday, while I spend 20-60 minutes a day making isk.
But it was boxing in the past, as you’ve kind of made it clear. Otherwise there’s no need to bring up 112 accounts since no one needs that many for market stuff without botting:
So you could cut your grind time by 97% and still afford that same suicidal PvP run. Instead of multi-boxing for 30 days, you could make do with just 1 day. More realistically you can cut it by 90% and still make plenty of reserve income.
I just don’t see this style of gaming as rational.
I know this wasnt directed to me but that is the same mentality that a lot of people have for various types of gameplay that doesnt seem rational to them either. I say to each his own on that one.
