Flying Solo In EVE: Growing An Alt

I already had the last subject for this post planned before CCP's marketing department announced its apparently weekly sale. But before delving into the topic of alts let's go back and look at some weekly metrics.

Average concurrent users (ACU) from Jan 12-Jan 18

First, as expected, the average concurrent user count for the week on EVE-Offline.net dropped. I was hoping the drop would only go down to 27,000 but a two thousand account drop really was in line with history once the Winter Nexus ended. Still, the ACU numbers are running approximately 10% over the same time at the beginning of 2025.

The global PLEX market from conception to last Monday

The price of PLEX on the global PLEX market remained fairly stable last week, spiking with the news of a sale on multiple character training in the New Eden Store. But the effect on the market only lasted 24-36 hours before dropping with the introduction of a 20% off PLEX sale on Saturday down to an average of just above 4.5 million ISK.

Weekly stats for 2026

Despite the ACU dropping sales of PLEX increased by 16.1%, both in amount traded and ISK spent. Converting the number of PLEX to game time shows enough PLEX was traded to keep 16,961 people playing for another month. For the month to date players have exchanged 97.6 trillion ISK for 42,148 months of game time.

Speaking of multiple character training, I finally decided to use the 90 days of MCT I purchased during a sale several months back. I am upscaling a planetary industry alt to be a little more useful. By the end of March I hope to have the character able to fly mining barges, have near max scanning skills, and fly the Gallente assault frigates decently.

The track only requires 12 days to complete

I have found with a Pioneer I can finish level 2 mining missions fairly quickly. I also often doing three of the opportunities as a level 2 mining mission usually covers the requirement to advance in the track. Add in the always available jump through three gates opportunity and my alt makes 1.5 million ISK daily when not hauling PI products out of low sec.

The track only takes 12 days to complete, so if I really wanted to I could finish the track on all three characters on the account I'm using. Or I can just concentrate on the PI alt and pour in 525,000 skill points in addition to what I learn through MCT. But the benefit of advancing through the monthly track is receiving 15 PLEX. Add in the additional 8 million ISK for each character and that totals up to between 90-100 million ISK per month. And if two characters complete two opportunities each day the total ISK earned for the month increases to 150 million ISK. Not bad for just hanging around the edge of high security space.