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[Akrasjel Lanate]

I have the same, it's wery tempting for me to start from the begining again withe a difrent char, event if i didnt finish playing the actual one. And now in EVE i have the same i would want to create one char per empire.  Need to resist.

[Ken]

Ken, I'm trying to work out whether you're asking about character monogamy: you keep being attracted and distracted by the new and the possible, and wonder whether settling down with a main for a long-term story with some serious skill training has advantages, and how people find that.

Yes, that is a fair enough summation, Matariki.  Having finally found that (I'm quite sure) with a cast of 'mains', I'm simply wondering at the experiences others have had in the same vein.

[Mathra Hiede]

When I originally got stuck into EVE I was a Caldari pilot, and as I am sure everyone can understand missioning in a drake that is litterally impossible to kill but does F***all DPS gets boring. Fast.

So I kept the char but specced into Minmatar... but got bored half way through and did Gallente too! While completely forgetting about any support skills, specialisations or anything - so he had a fair amount of SP, but in completely random and annoying areas, it took me nearly a full year to amend this and by that time I simply up'd and sold the c***.

So thus, I rolled Math'ra earlier before I sold Tuvar (So I had income, because by that time I actually figured out how to make a Raven that didn't pop when you so much as looked at it funny) and taught myself PvP by using High-sec belts around Caldari space as my preying areas.

I maintain to this day that it was the single most fun I have ever had in EVE, a low-skill pilot taking on just about anyone who went flashy to me and to my knowledge I only lost once, my most memoriable kill was when I beat a Scorpion, Drake and 3 backup frigs. Solo.

After that I didnt ever roll another char again, well I had a Mining alt I never used, sold him and then made Durtha whom I specced for Gallente/minmatar with a specific plan in mind.

So I guess I managed to control myself quite well because I always thought "I am SO fed up with this, I want to try... blasters! OR MAYBE AUTOCANNONS!" But I learnt my lesson originally, now I have a Capital Capable PvP pilot who can do some sort of stupid DPS to most targets and put even some of the most experienced pilots to shame.

In the end its what you enjoy most, but if you have ever dreamed of undocking in a Capital.... yeah, you REALLY need to stick with it, but that first time when you do it? Bwahaha... oh the joy is great.

(I still dont care that all I ever use my carrier for is a) spinning b) cyno-bitching. Its MINE )

[Hamish Grayson]

But does everyone remember Keira Alidaar, the crazy Gallente calling for Caldari genocide?

You would.

[Elsebeth Rhiannon]

I tend to be the total opposite to the OP... I very rarely restart anything, and when I do, I totally hate the new character for the first hours of play, simply for not being THE REAL ONE.  

[Makkal]

I started a trial account with Makaal Uanid, a cyberknight who was fanatically loyal to the Empire and Theology Council. This was before I found the IGS, the Summit, or any other EVE RP, so I'd just fly around in Local sometimes spouting "Glory to the Empress!" and "Death to the Heathen!"

Imagine what might have happened if some Amarr RPer had found her and recruited her to their corp?

Anyways, she ran out after two weeks (or was it 30 days?) and I gave up on EVE until June 2012. I played Makkal until November and then let the account run out for some time until I restarted her again.

I've had about half a dozen alts, but they're more a product of my playing with the character creator, thinking 'this would be a neat character' and hitting okay. I believe only two have managed to make a single post before being biomassed.

[kalaratiri]

I don't even remember the names of most of my characters. Safe to say, I've had lots.

I was very bad at committing in my younger days, and was cycling characters at something like a new one every three months.

[Ché Biko]

As I had been reading a lot about EVE, including all the lore present at the time, in the month before I subbed, I could hit the ground running, but instead, I walked casually. After a month of mostly solo play and maybe some IGS posting, my first big RP with other people was at the Malkalen Relief effort. I had no big problems finding my footing.

Ché is my first char, and the only time I stopped playing him (As in, logging into the forums or client, Ché did keep up with New Eden's news and I played him in my head) was after I fell out of love with EVE for a bit after Incarna got iced, and the sub-warp races stopped, and most of Ché's friends/aquaintances/enemies departed/vanished.

How I play him has not changed much over time, and most of the change is caused by his interactions with New Eden and other characters. Sometimes I feel like forcefully nudging him in another direction, but so far I have not done so.

I see Ché as an alternate version of me, and as a tool for philosophy. That is basicly what he started out as, anyway. He also quickly turned into my RP fix, as me and my friends are too busy for tabletop RP these days years.

[Saede Riordan]

Looking at the trail of alts, discarded mains, and support characters I've left in my wake, I'd say I've definitely been guilty of this. However, I've pretty well settled into RPing Saede for the long haul, and she's developed into a character that is tremendously fun to play.

[Steffanie Saissore]

Steff is not the first character I made when I came into EVE.  The first character I started was a Minmatar (bloodline: the one that starts with V) and I progressed her a bit, but something just wasn't clicking for me with the character.

Then one night, went through the character generator trying different race/bloodline combinations (I freely admit I was mostly interested in seeing what the clothing options were than anything else).  Somewhere in just playing around with physical looks and clothes, I found myself with a look I liked and while I considered whether or not to save it, I came up with the first sparks of an idea.  Saved the character, lurked a little bit in Summit and OOC and started to make comments and stuff.  And that's how Steff started out and her background has evolved significantly.

That said, I do keep looking at the other empires, bloodlines and backgrounds and find myself thinking "this would be neat to try", but haven't really proceeded...except to buy another subscription and create a sebbie who is the exact opposite personality-wise from myself and Steff.