Eve Online Subscriptions and Specials

How much does it cost to play Eve Online? Times are tough for everyone. Why not for the Eve Online pilots too? Here is a quick list of specials and sells to look out for as you contemplate re-activating your account or signing up for a new one. Also I listed the standard game costs and links to start an account.

**Note: Specials and prices are subject to change and end without notice prices current as of this writing. Eve Simplified is not responsible for the use of any of these links or advice taken here in. See disclaimer for more information.

Free to Play

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Free to Play: In the Nov. 2016 patch there will be a limited free to play option. You will be limited to the types of skills you can train. You can only train up to 5 million skill points (around 3 to 4 months of training). Though you can continue to play after you have capped out all the free to play skills. Check out the devblog for more information.

Free to Play Referral: Using a referral link before starting a new account you will receive a skill injector for 250,000 skill points.

Old Trials

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Recall Program 7 Day Trial: (Unavailable)
Game Time: 7 Days, subscription and game purchase required afterwards. This requires an existing account that has been inactive for at least six months be in good standing with CCP. Great for trying out that latest patch or expansion feature or check out the new ship skins.

The Standard 14 Day Trial: (Unavailable)
Game Time: 14 Days, subscription and game purchase required afterwards. This is the free trial that anyone can sign up for. Remember that once you tie an email account to a 14 Day Trial offer you can't do another one or try the 21 Day trial using that email account.

The Extended 21 Day Trial: (Unavailable)
Game Time: 21 Days, subscription and game purchase required afterwards. This offer is either extended through email or from a specific link from an active player. The Buddy Program rewards players whose buddies subscribe after playing a 21 day trial account. Rewards are given to the player who extended the offer in the form of game time or other in game rewards.

30 Day Trial Account: (Unavailable)
Game Time: 30 Days, subscription and game purchase required afterwards. This is the free trial that anyone can sign up for. Remember that once you tie an email account to a Trial offer you can't start another trial using that email account. The old 14 day trial and 21 day referral trial offers have been done away with as of Feb. 23, 2015.

30 Day Referral Trial Account: (Unavailable)
Game Time: 30 Days, subscription and game purchase required afterwards. This offer is either extended through email or from a specific link from an active player. The Buddy Program rewards players whose buddies subscribes after playing a 30 day trial account. Rewards are given to the player who extended the offer in the form of game time or other in game rewards.

Special Alliance Tournament 11 Offer 30 Day Trial: (Unavailable.)
Game Time: 30 Days, subscription and game purchase required afterwards. This offer is going on during the recent Alliance Tournament 11. I don't know how long this will be going on I expect about a month. This is quite a good offer it covers 30 days of free game time that is equal to 15 dollars or a PLEX which costs 19.95.

Game

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Eve Online from CCP Basic Game: $19.95
Game Time: 1 month, $15 a month after that. This is your standard account price that can be upgraded from the two different trial options above. CCP is the name of the software developer for the game.
Subscription Bundle Prices:
1 Month: 14.95
3 Months: 12.95 a month
6 Months: 11.95 a month
12 Months: 10.95 a month

Amazon.com Starter Pack: $19.95 (Sometimes they have lower specials)
Game Time: 1 month, $15 a month after that. Make sure you read the fine print on updating your account or activating any other specials offers. Typical includes the Cerebral Accelerator.

Steam Starter Pack: $19.95 (Sometimes they have lower specials Black Friday is $1 sometimes)
Game Time: 1 month, $15 a month after that. Make sure you read the fine print on updating your account or activating any other specials offers. Typical includes the Cerebral Accelerator.

Gamestop.com Starter Pack: $19.95
Game Time: 1 month, $15 a month after that. Make sure you read the fine print on updating your account or activating any other specials offers. Typical includes the Cerebral Accelerator.

The starter packs come with an item called Cerebral Accelerator that will increase the speed of your skill training for the first few days of your account activation time depending on the type of Cerebral Accelerator that comes with the starter pack.

Specials

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Specials tend to run over a couple months various time through out the year and are typically offered to previous players through CCP and your Eve Online account.

Account Reactivation Special: $19.95
Game Time: 2 months, $15 a month after that. If you already have an account periodically, a $19.95 two month reactivation offer is extended to the account. I have seen it go out before a major patch and during the holidays. Check your inactive accounts.

Account Reactivation Special: $29.95
Game Time: 3 months, $15 a month after that. If you already have an account periodically, this $29.95 three month reactivation offer is extended to the account. I just saw this one in Feb. 2013 start appearing.

PLEX Specials and Sells from CCP: Normally: $19.95 Sell Price $17.49
Game Time: 1 month or sell-able in game. A PLEX is an actual item you can buy for real money or with in-game money and use to extend your subscription time. PLEX is also sold at a discount if you buy multiples. Prices for PLEX may also vary depending on different reseller sites.
Multiple PLEX pricing from CCP:
1 PLEX for $19.95
2 PLEX for $34.99
6 PLEX for $104.97
12 PLEX for $209.94
28 PLEX for $489.86

Alternate Account Special: $24.95
Game Time: 3 months, $15 a month after that. I think this is only available to pilots who already have an active account. This has just recently started up it will probably end in a month or so but good to be on the look out for these kind of specials if your looking to active a second account.

Power of 2: $49.95
Game Time: 6 months. The Power of 2 special offer when active you will be able to create a new account with 180 days of game time for the low price of $49.95 or 3 PLEX. You need an active account to get this deal.

Eve Time Codes(ETC) or Game Time Codes(GTC): $34.99 to 19.99
Game Time: 2 months to 1 month. These Time Codes can be exchanged for PLEX and then sold in game or used to add more game time on to your account. This link will take you to CCP's list of authorized online retailers.

Account Services

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Hours for PLEX: Free with Existing Account
Game Time: 4 hours. You are given 4 hours of game time to go in game and redeem a PLEX for subscription time. Useful if you forgot to add a PLEX to your subscription or you want to buy a PLEX with your current in-game isk. Note using this option to redeem Buddy Rewards to add subscription time is prohibited.

Transfer Character: $20.00
This one is simple if you want to transfer a character to another account it costs $20.00 or you could also use a PLEX to use this service.

Multiple Character Training:$19.95 or 1 PLEX for 30 days of activation.
Adds the option to train one(or two for 2 PLEX) additional character(s), in addition to the already active training que for your main character.

Resculpt Character: 1 PLEX
If you want to redesign your characters look, maybe change the gender. Does this include a name change? I don't think so. Anyway to do this you have to use a PLEX which costs $19.95 so resculpt is the same price as transferring a character basically.

AUR:$5 for 600 AUR(Large packages are available)

Aurum (AUR) is a virtual currency that can be used in EVE to purchase items from the Noble Exchange. These items include a range of exclusive apparel that can be worn by your capsuleer or traded to others for ISK on the in-game market. Aurum can be acquired by converting PLEX into AUR, or by purchasing and converting Aurum Tokens.

So there you have it. How much does it cost to play Eve Online? Well it depends where and when you buy the game. Keep an eye out for specials especially if you have or want multiple accounts active. There is always some new special coming out.

**Note: Specials and prices are subject to change and end without notice prices current as of this writing. Eve Simplified is not responsible for the use of any of these links or advice taken here in. See disclaimer for more information.**

Video of the Week: Eve Online Ship Comparison

This is a gorgeous video that gives you a feel for just how big the ships are in Eve Online. Not much here other than visuals and a little background music. Its amazing just how big some of these ships are. Even the smallest frigates are bigger than houses.

Tip of the Week: The Cliff

Ok so you just finished up the career agent tutorials. Your ready to start flying around space and blowing things up or whatever it is you want to do. But wait you stop and think to yourself now what? Now I know some people who have at least a vague plan of what their going to do, great good for them, but most don't. Its a simple matter of you are here at point A and you want to be over there at point D. The problem is you have no clue what B and C is or where to find it or if it even exists.

Lets slow down a little bit here. You might consider doing the Sisters of Eve Epic Arc once your done with the career agent tutorials. The epic arc consists of over 50 missions around New Eden your going to fly all over Empire space. It will help you get acquainted with the UI and other regions of space. Most importantly its going to give you time to first train more skills and second think about what you want to do in Eve.

Sisters of Eve Epic Arc Guide this is a pdf guide that outlines the entire Sisters of Eve Epic Arc it is a great resource for helping you find your way through the different missions. It offers plenty of tips and hints.

So take a minute and breath yes you are in the middle of a giant sandbox but there are plenty of things left to learn run through these missions and get better acquainted with Eve Online and your goals of how you want to play.

EvE: Dust 514 Open Beta

The Open Beta for Dust 514 has started head over to https://dust514.com/ to get in game. Remember the game will be free to play when it launches and is only available on play station. I haven't played it yet but the movies look awesome.

Video of the Week: Is Eve Online worth it?

I found this video very worth my time in considering if I should play Eve Online. It is a little long ten minutes. It answers a lot of questions about is eve online player friendly? Is eve  online going to be around. If you have never played and are considering it check out this vid.

The trial will get you in game and a little time to play around.

Tip of the Week: Update your Clone!

The title really says it all. If you get podded, that is your ship gets blown up and then your pod gets blown up, your clone gets destroyed. If you haven't updated your clone then your precious skill points, above your current clone level, are going to be destroyed as well. Update your clone once your skill points are above your current clone level. It's really a no brainier.

Video of the Week: Hub to Hub Trading

A lot of good video guides exist on youtube. The problem is finding them. Often times they are low trafficked and it can be hard to search for them.

This weeks Video of the Week is on Hub to Hub trading. This is a great explanation of how to search and find items to move around Eve and trade them for profit on the market place. This video is about 20 minutes long and covers a wide range of interesting market ideas. As always use your on creativity to play the game how you want.

Lessons Learned

I had just started a new character yesterday and was running around the starting system doing the tutorial missions when someone asked me to join a conversation. We chatted for a minute but ultimately it got down to: Do you want to join my corp? They claimed they were great and would love to help and had experienced skilled players to help me. I did a quick search of their corp on Eve Who. They only had like 6 people in the corp and they few people I clicked on had only been created a month ago.

So don't get me wrong I am sure they are a great fun group of people but if your looking for something a little more, I don't know, advanced or want to learn from someone that has been playing for longer than a month make sure you do your homework before you join a corp.

Come to think of it I've only been playing for a couple months myself. Hmmm strange.

Note: Names have been with held to help protect those involved

My Experience on 14 Day Trial Account

Day 1
I was ready to start my Eve Online 14 day trial account. I had browsed the Eve website, watch a couple of expansion trailers it was another MMO I knew that. I thought I could jump on play for a couple of hours and be working towards something big or so I thought. After a hour of playing around with the character creation screen and fumbling with several character names I was finally in game. The tutorials were mind numbing the in game flight controls impossible. I finally managed to get a ship and fly to the newbie system were the tutorial mission agents are. I played for a few more hours and barely managed to get through two or three missions. Frustrated I logged off.

Day 2
I start up my eve client and delete my old guy. I am pissed because it has some ridicules 9 hour timer on it. Whatever I think to myself and start a new character. I breeze through the character creation screen and get in game. I chug through the tutorial missions and keep training mining. (I always wanted a space miner.) Things are looking up, I research a few things about mining and keep going with it.

Day 3
I feel confident. I haven't been blown up by anyone. I can fly to places like asteroid belts and mine the,. I watch the other ships flying around and no one seems to hostile. I start flying out of the newbie system realizing that selling ore in the newbie system is a total rip off so I fly to the adjoining system with my little frigate cargo hold and try and make some ISK.

Day 4-5
I have what feels like tons of ships.(All from the tutorial agent missions.) A hand full of frigates and nice little industrial, eying the industrial cargo capacity, I say sign me up. I can haul all sorts of goodies in that tub and make a tidy profit. I cruise back to the newbie home base buy the industrial skill I need and smog: Industrial Skill can't train on a trial account. Again frustrated, instead of logging off I turn my attention towards my next big money making goal. Planetary Interaction. I buy the first skill Remote Sensing seems to train alright and I am off to the asteroid belt again trying to bring in some more ISK.

Day 6
After more research I find out that the only way to get PI stuff planet side is through an industrial ship which I can't fly once more all the other PI skills are not allowed on trial accounts.

Day 7
Back to the drawing board. I have only a few days left on my trial account. Unhappy with my ugly character I start a new one. Back in game, I am getting good at flying now. I blaze past the tutorials and stack up the usually assortment of frigates and unflyable industrial ships. My new goal mine the crap out of things until my trial dies. I have a long list of skills that I know about and I am training away until I sign on for a full subscription. A subscription is inevitable at this point.

Day 8
A few missions later and lots more mining in Tech 1 frigate. ISK is piling up you know couple million or so.

Day 9
More mining...

Day 10
I think again about going all out with a subscription...

Day 11
Still furiously attacking asteroids.

Day 12 - 13
I subscribe. First skill in que oh sweet, sweet industrial ships. I start looking around for a good operating base. Something low trafficked and out of the way but still within two jumps of a major trade hub. Close to several other regions. My search continues for several days but I narrow it down to several systems.

Day 14
My trial account days are over. I could care less I spent most them flying around tutorial missions confused as to what was going on. My new goals get a strong PI system up and running. Flying a big mining barge is all I care about right now. I must say at these early stages all I could think about was getting my hands on a PLEX and living for another month without being used by another MMO company for my 15 dollars a month. Was I wrong or what, the worst goal I could have set for myself was burning through the game to get a PLEX.

More on my first month in-game coming soon.