[EVE] Cheap eve time 90 days for £3

waterproofbob

waterproofbob

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Sorry I cocked the title up it's 90 days for £9

There is if you haven't found it yet a buddy system in eve by which you can recommend a friend they get a 21 day free trial and you get 30 days free if they play properly.
Currently on steam eve is £3. This is effectively 90days worth of eve for £9.
To do it to yourself you will need to create 3 steam accounts but it seems a pretty good deal not to. Your main will have 90 days free and you will have 51days worth on 3 chars, these can either then be used as mine is going to be as an industrial trading alt or whatever is useful to you, or you ignore them completely.

It's a bit fiddly but it is still a very cheap 3 months of eve.
 
Ronin Storm

Ronin Storm

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Wouldn't you have to buy each 21 day trial up to being a full account to qualify for the 30 day bonus to the main account?
 
Ronin Storm

Ronin Storm

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Still not sure I follow how this works.

Do I...

  1. Create a new Steam account
  2. Buy EVE on the new Steam account
  3. Send myself a buddy code for 21 days free time in EVE
  4. Create a new character in EVE under this new account
  5. Use the Steam provided code for the new account to activate my new EVE account
  6. Receive 30 days on my main account

...?
 
waterproofbob

waterproofbob

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I did it in this order.

1. Send a buddy request to an email address that isn't my primary eve one (not that I think it matters, just avoiding them pestering me later).

2. Create a new account from that invite starting the 21 day trial.

3. I bought the game in steam as a gift and sent it to myself ( you can choose to pick between sending it to a friend or any email address)/ at this point you could always just make a new steam account and befriend yourself. Or even just create a new steam account and buy the game through that. So that I only have on steam account with my account details saved I went down the first route.

4. Having created the new steam account accept the gift/start installing the game.

5. The first thing the eve installer does is to fly you auto-magically to a page where you can either link the purchase to an existing trial account or you can create a new char. Log in as the new eve account created in step 2.

et voila. Your main will gain 30 days and the alt will have 51 days.
 
Ronin Storm

Ronin Storm

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Dragon said:
Is eve good? What is it like? Like Freelancer?
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I've not played much Freelancer but I think EVE isn't really like that anyway.

I like EVE for its scope, the meta-game, the wide variety of combinations of this versus that and for being surprisingly action-consequence oriented.

I dislike EVE for the NPC combat being largely too passive and for the peculiar places where such an advanced universe would blatantly have automation for a variety of things but EVE does not offer it.

I think a slightly better comparison would be EVE with the X-series, where one might think of EVE as a multiplayer X-3 or something.

It's certainly worth a try. I can send you a buddy code if you'd like?
 
R

Rhivre

In Cryo Sleep
I am thinking about doing this once my brain is in gear today.

It would mean I could start training up a 2nd production alt, then transfer it later to my industrial account?
 
Ki!ler-Mk1

Ki!ler-Mk1

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Does this require me to already be using eve through steam?

If i got this correct, i get a buddy code from ?where?(ccp or steam?).

Create a trial account through ?where?(ccp or steam?).

Link up the trial with my main acc which is not asociated with steam.

Subscribe for £3 on the new trial account.

Do we need two instances of the game installed to run 2 chars?
 
Traxata

Traxata

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Use your existing account to send yourself a buddy account e-mail.
Create the buddy account e-mail via the link.
Use steam to pay for the 30days via an existing eve account.
 
Ki!ler-Mk1

Ki!ler-Mk1

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Traxata said:
Use your existing account to send yourself a buddy account e-mail.
Create the buddy account e-mail via the link.
Use steam to pay for the 30days via an existing eve account.
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So i give steam £3 and they give me a Cd key that i can use with the trial even though the trial(and by extension my main account) is not associated with steam?
 
waterproofbob

waterproofbob

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No you buy the game in steam.
Steam then looks to install eve. The first part of that install takes you to the eve account site where you log in to a existing eve account that is in the 21 trial period that you created from the buddy invite.
Then you have an alt with 51 days and 30 days added onto the main that sent the buddy request.
 
thatbloke

thatbloke

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So let me get this straight:

1) Get a 2nd email address. (could be the same though I guess?)
2) Send a buddy invite from your current main account to this 2nd email address.
3) Use the buddy invite received at the 2nd email address to create a new EVE account, that has a 21-day trial.
4) Buy the game for £3 on Steam.
5) The Steam client will then direct you to a website where you can associate the EVE account you just bought on Steam to an existing trial account, thereby upgrading it to a full EVE account.
6) Use this webpage to upgrade the trial account to a full account.
7) The trial account that you just created will now have its 21 days of trial time, plus 30 days you get for buying a new EVE account.
8) The trial account that was created through the buddy invite becoming a full account causes a further 30 days to be credited to the main EVE account.

I guess that is the steps needed, I'm not sure if the email needs to be different?

When you do this you will have a second full EVE account that you should be able to use with any EVE client as normal, not just through Steam.
 
Ki!ler-Mk1

Ki!ler-Mk1

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Thanks guys, only reason i was a little confused is taht i remembered that many of you iirc got into eve through steam.


The Steam client will then direct you to a website where you can associate the EVE account you just bought on Steam to an existing trial account, thereby upgrading it to a full EVE account.
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So in effect the only involvment that steam actually has is to sell the game for £3.
 
waterproofbob

waterproofbob

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Ki!ler-Mk1 said:
So in effect the only involvment that steam actually has is to sell the game for £3.
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Yes and no.

You also need to start the install in steam, never fear no installing is required. The first step of the install takes you to the page where the account is linked.

But other than that you can then uninstall steam if that is what you want.
 
Ki!ler-Mk1

Ki!ler-Mk1

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waterproofbob said:
Yes and no.

You also need to start the install in steam, never fear no installing is required. The first step of the install takes you to the page where the account is linked.
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Will i run into the "there is no space on your harddrive" error? Would be really funny imo.

But other than that you can then uninstall steam if that is what you want.
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44gb no thanks :D
 
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