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Uses of EVE Plex. EVE's premium currency can be used in-game to: Buy Interstellar Kredits from other players - With Plex, players are able to invest their real money into the game and exchange them for EVE's main currency. Thanks to this, it is possible to speed up your in-game progression by making a real.
If 4 injectors doesn't yield as much ISK as however many PLEX you get for the same price, you'd make more money simply selling PLEX straight up. For example, say you pay €10.95 for your subscription (cheapest if you go for a 12-month plan) and fork out €17,99 for 4 extractors a month (cheapest extractor from the bundle of 10 is €4,50 each).
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As you’ll see in the video at the bottom of the post, Eve Online player and YouTuber Scott Manley did not actually pull out his real credit card to make a $30,000 purchase. What he spent on an. PLEX is an in-game item that can be traded for millions in ISK, and to pay for Omega Clone State game time, ship and character customization, plus MCT and more.

In order to play EVE you must have an Account, which links your real-world identity (e.g. e-mail address, payment information) to your in-game characters. You can have up to three characters per account. Your account name is never used in-game; it is only used for out-of-game interactions (e.g. logging into the game, paying for a game subscription, submitting support tickets, etc).

1Creating an account
2Subscriptions
- 2.1PLEX
3Characters
- 3.2Multiple Character Training

Creating an account

You can create an account on the EVE Online website. If you were invited to EVE by a friend (i.e. have a referral link), use it when creating your account, as you will get some free skill points (equivalent to 2-6 weeks of training time). Additionally, your friend will receive free game time or some PLEX if you subscribe to the game. If you create an alt account of your own using the Recruit-A-Friend option and then transfer a character from one of your other accounts to the newly created account, you will be able to redeem the free skill points on the transferred character.

Starter packs

Starting to play EVE is free (there is no cost to 'buying a box', and expansions to the game are also free), but you can subsequently choose to pay for a recurring subscription. Additionally, you can buy 'starter packs', which give you additional items or temporary in-game boosts. Each starter pack can only be used one time per account. Starter packs are intended to give new players a boost when starting out.

In reality, many of the items (such as ships, ship SKINs, modules, and clothing) included in these starter packs are of very limited value, as they can be bought on the in-game market for modest quantities of ISK. The only significantly valuable items included are:

Cerebral accelerators, which temporarily (usually for around 2-4 weeks) increase the speed at which a character learns skills (by boosting their attributes)
Skill extractors, which allow you to extract skill points from a character for transfer or sale to another character
Multiple Character Training Certificates, which allow more than one character on an account to train simultaneously (one additional skill queue for 30 days per certificate used)
PLEX, used to pay for game time, in-game services (such as character remodelling and transfer), buy certain items (including cosmetic items for your character, ship SKINs, and skill extractors), or can be sold for ISK
Game time (usually 30 days)

There are a number of starter packs available, the contents of which vary. When deciding whether a starter pack is worth it, compare its cost to the cost of its components (game time and PLEX are sold directly), ignoring everything that isn't on the list above. Usually, the starter packs are not worth buying, unless they are significantly discounted. Packs are sold by CCP as well as authorised third-party retailers, and include:

Naval Capsuleer Starter Pack: 220 PLEX, 2 x race-specific frigates with fittings, and a couple of cosmetic items (pilot and SKINs)
Alpha Pack: 60 PLEX, 2 x Daily Alpha Injectors, and a Kapis Edge Tristan SKIN
Meteor Pack: 1 Month of Omega subscription time, 110 PLEX, and 3 Astero SKINs from the Cell bundle
Star Pack: 1 Month of Omega subscription time, 500 PLEX, and 2 x Multiple Character Training certificates (useful for Alternate characters)
Galaxy Pack: 3 Months of Omega subscription time, 1100 PLEX, 2 x Multiple Character Training certificates (useful for Alternate characters), 5 Skill Extractors (useful for Skill trading), SOE Spectral Shift SKIN Bundle with SKINs for the Astero, Stratios, and Nestor, SOE Expeditionary cosmetic items

Subscriptions

See also: Clone States

While EVE can be played in a limited fashion for free, accessing all its gameplay aspects requires you to pay a recurring monthly subscription. The game subscription can be paid for in two ways:

Buying game time for real-life money
Buying PLEX with in-game money (ISK)

Game time can be bought either from CCP directly, or from an authorised third-party retailer. It can be paid as either a recurring payment, or by buying a 'block' of game time (e.g. 6 months) in advance, which is usually cheaper on a per-month basis. Depending on your local currency it may be worth shopping around to get the best deal on game time.

Subscriptions are paid for per account (not per character); any character on an account with an active subscription are considered to have Omega status. If your subscription runs out, you can continue to play the game (with the limitations of Alpha status), or renew your subscription to regain Omega status.

PLEX

The 'Pilot's License Extension' (PLEX) is an in-game item with a variety of uses:

Buy 30 days of (Omega) game time for 500 PLEX
Add 30 days of Multiple Character Training time for 450 PLEX
Shop in the New Eden Store
Sell it to another player for ISK

Just like all other player-traded items on the market, the price of PLEX fluctuates with supply and demand.

Acquiring PLEX

PLEX can be:

Bought from another player for ISK
Bought for real-life money from CCP (or an authorised third-party retailer)

This allows players with disposable real-world income to easily acquire large quantities of ISK, and, conversely, players with large quantities of ISK to pay for their game subscriptions with ISK instead of real-world money. It's also possible to buy PLEX with real-world money and use it to pay for game time; however, it's almost always cheaper to buy game time (with real-world money) directly instead of buying PLEX (PLEX is more versatile and therefore tends to be more expensive than straight-up game time).

Using PLEX

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The mechanics around PLEX were changed in the YC119.5 release. See also: PLEX vault Activate a PLEX. Select what to do with the PLEX. While PLEX bought in-game is a normal in-game item, PLEX bought from out-of-game sources appear in your redeeming window, and must first be redeemed (i.e. transferred) to one of the characters on that account, where it will appear as an item at that character's location (in the station's item hangar or the ship's cargo bay). It can then be moved, transported, and sold like any other in-game item. It's highly recommended that you only redeem PLEX when your character is either at a trade hub or if you intend to use it immediately (see below). Once redeemed, you can right-click on the PLEX item to add 30 days of game time, exchange it for Aurum, etc - note that these actions consume the PLEX. Alternatively, you can sell the PLEX to another player via the market (or contracts). PLEX tends to be traded almost exclusively in large trade hubs. Additionally, keep in mind that you need to have some liquid ISK to sell your PLEX, as you a

A long, long time ago..

The mechanics around PLEX were changed in the YC119.5 release.

See also: PLEX vault

Activate a PLEX.

Select what to do with the PLEX.

While PLEX bought in-game is a normal in-game item, PLEX bought from out-of-game sources appear in your redeeming window, and must first be redeemed (i.e. transferred) to one of the characters on that account, where it will appear as an item at that character's location (in the station's item hangar or the ship's cargo bay). It can then be moved, transported, and sold like any other in-game item. It's highly recommended that you only redeem PLEX when your character is either at a trade hub or if you intend to use it immediately (see below).

Once redeemed, you can right-click on the PLEX item to add 30 days of game time, exchange it for Aurum, etc - note that these actions consume the PLEX.

Alternatively, you can sell the PLEX to another player via the market (or contracts). PLEX tends to be traded almost exclusively in large trade hubs. Additionally, keep in mind that you need to have some liquid ISK to sell your PLEX, as you a

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