What's the advantage of a second account?

[Cdr Voorheez]

I can get hold of a second ED account in the Black Friday sale cheap and was considering it.
I am sure there are conceivable advantages if a second accnt but I can't see them. Can somebody please clarify.

 

[bitstorm]

You get to do it all again.

Join two opposing player groups, why not go infiltrate CODE.

Go exploring with one and still play with your mates in the bubble with the other.

All sorts I spose!

For a tenner I mean well why not.

 

[Cdr Voorheez]

Ahh I thought that. TY

 

[Virlomi Entreri]

As an explorer (so far, anyways), the second account would be great to keep in the bubble and do combat with friends.

Or you could be a pirate with the second one and not feel too bad about being wanted on your main account. All up to you!

 

[GregMalcolm]

Pretty much what bistorm said.

One added perk is different play styles. In my case Marlon Blake gets to be the reputable explorer. For Froggit Blake I decided he's a criminal lowlife and so I don't let him participate in honest trade or exploration. He never pays fines. Definitely makes it more of a challenge to accrue currency. So my 2 characters have polar opposite exploration scores (0% Aimless and 100% Elite)

It's quite a breath of fresh air starting back as a sidewinder again too.

 

[Macros Black]

There's a whole range of possibilities:

• 5% Wing trading (using your beacon makes arriving even faster)
• Security Escort when mining, e.g. T-9 Transporter and a Vulture
• Cargo Bank for goods you wish to store
• Rare filler, park big ship outside, small ship goes back and forth
• Missions: Handy for stolen goods
• Missions: Bad ship/Good ship. Bad ship attacks heavily armed convoy and fires Hatch breaker then takes off while escort gives chase. Good ship picks up dropped cargo while whistling "Easy"
• Send second Cmdr for Hutton Mugs
• Simul-flying 2-3 Cmdrs
• ...

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

There's a whole range of possibilities:

• 5% Wing trading (using your beacon makes arriving even faster)
• Security Escort when mining, e.g. T-9 Transporter and a Vulture
• Cargo Bank for goods you wish to store
• Rare filler, park big ship outside, small ship goes back and forth
• Missions: Handy for stolen goods
• Missions: Bad ship/Good ship. Bad ship attacks heavily armed convoy and fires Hatch breaker then takes off while escort gives chase. Good ship picks up dropped cargo while whistling "Easy"
• Send second Cmdr for Hutton Mugs
• Simul-flying 2-3 Cmdrs
• ...

You can't use to accounts at a time, unless of course you don't have 2 separate PCs but it's in the grey in the EULA I guess.

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

One of the cons definitely is that you'd have to afford all game updates twice, e.g. Horizons. If both accounts really need them, of course.

 

[Macros Black]

You can't use to accounts at a time, unless of course you don't have 2 separate PCs but it's in the grey in the EULA I guess.

Sure you can. I do it frequently with 2-3 concurrent Cmdr's. Of course a PC with some muscle is required

 

[archeolog108]

If you get this stupid mission to steal specific cargo....

You buy the cargo in one account and drop it in space, when the other account comes and scoop it up.

I did not test it.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Sure you can. I do it frequently with 2-3 concurrent Cmdr's. Of course a PC with some muscle is required

Uh, I didn't know. In EVE I used to pvp with 3 chars at once alt-tabbing between them. Might consider buying a second account then.

 

[Stulli]

For me it is an advantage to have a second account which I am using at the moment to go exploring far out again, while my main account sleeps well at a station, after a nearly 6-month journey, and waiting for Horizons.

And it was a very nice experience to build up a new account starting only with a Sidewinder and 1,000 Credits, after doing this the last time in Gamma.