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Game time can be bought either from CCP directly, or from an [https://secure.eveonline.com/thirdpartyretailers 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.  

Just like all other player-traded items on the market, the <!--[https:-->//eve-central.com/home/quicklook.html?typeid=44992 price of PLEX]<ref group="note"name="BadCertificate" /> fluctuates with supply and demand.  

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 hubs|trade hub]] or if you intend to use it immediately (see [[#PLEX safety|below]]).  

It doesn't matter ''which'' characters are training simultaneously, as long as the simultaneous limit is not reached. For example, you could have 3 characters named Anna, Bob and Charlie on the same account. If you have one MCT queue active on that account, you can train any combination of two characters (Anna and Bob, Anna and Charlie, or Bob and Charlie) at the same time time for a period of 30 days. This provides extra flexibility if you want to train up several alternate characters. If you would like to train all three characters at once, you would have to buy an additional MCT queue.  

You can permanently delete a character (this is referred to as "biomassing") from the character selection screen. When you first select a character for biomassing, you then have to wait 10 hours (this "biomassing queue" is to prevent you from deleting the wrong character by accident). Note that you cannot biomass a character who is the [[CEO]] of a [[corporation]] - the CEO must first resign or otherwise close the corporation before they can be added to the biomassing queue. Once the 10 hours are up, you can then biomass the character (accompanied by some mechanical sounds and an appropriate scream), deleting it permanently from the game.  

* All assets (ships, modules, etc) owned by the pilot, including their [[capsule]], are transferred to their corporation and moved to the corporation's first hangar division. If the corporation does not have any offices, then the assets are destroyed.  

* All members of the corporation receive an EVE-mail message, notifying them of the character's "permanent death".  

For characters in an [[NPC Corporations|NPC corporation]], all their assets and ISK are destroyed when they are biomassed.  

While it's possible for [[CCP]] to recover biomassed characters, it is unlikely they would be able to recover or return any lost/transferred assets. If a character is "reanimated" in this way, it occasionally leaves anomalies in the character's employment history (such as showing that they left a corporation and joined it again immediately without being in another corporation, which is not possible under normal conditions). Internally, biomassed characters have their corporation set as [[Doomheim]] though cannot be searched in-game.