Suggestion for dealing with alts

So I am sure there's others like myself that have alts. And we like to make gear and put said gear onto our alts for leveling. However, because moogle mail requires the character be on the friends list, it's impossible to mail items to alts.

Current work around though is having said alts in your FC and utilizing the FC chest assuming it has room. That work-around can be quite annoying, especially if the FC chest ends up full.

So here's where my suggestion comes in:

Add a new NPC to each of the cities and housing wards. These npc's would work similar to retainers except you don't summon them, they just are there. Clicking the NPC will offer 2 options: Access trade-able items and Gil Transfer.

With the first option, it would open a window similar to a retainer's item storage, except it would have only 2 tabs, an items tab and a crystals tab and the window is account bound so you can only trade items between just your characters.

The gil window works the same way, say you don't need a lot of gil on your alts and they got a few thousand or so you'd prefer to have on your main. One can put the gil on the npc and then hop on the char you want the gil to be on and all done.

In the end, it's about convenience. So please SE, do consider something like this.

I'm interested in knowing one thing....

Why alt characters?

I mean.. You can be everything in one, and even work for gear all its classes, and trust me that's enough of fun and time too.

(No, but seriously, I know of few people who likes this, and I was curious, so far only reply I obtained once was ''Because I can raid with two characters'' But that's just not valid for me...It's not like you can trade the stuff, isn't it?)

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Originally Posted by Adrian74

I'm interested in knowing one thing....

Why alt characters?

I mean.. You can be everything in one, and even work for gear all its classes, and trust me that's enough of fun and time too.

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One word :

Lockouts.

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Originally Posted by Adrian74

I'm interested in knowing one thing....

Why alt characters?

I mean.. You can be everything in one, and even work for gear all its classes, and trust me that's enough of fun and time too.

(No, but seriously, I know of few people who likes this, and I was curious, so far only reply I obtained once was ''Because I can raid with two characters'' But that's just not valid for me...It's not like you can trade the stuff, isn't it?)

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Let's say I main Bard on one character, but I like to heal on another.

I go into FCOB this week on my bard, my healer can't get any gear from FCOB because my character is locked out.

If I have an alt class, that's a healer, I can go into FCOB on my healer and get the gear for my healer, plus practice the mechanics more.

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Originally Posted by NiceShotNub

Let's say I main Bard on one character, but I like to heal on another.

I go into FCOB this week on my bard, my healer can't get any gear from FCOB because my character is locked out.

If I have an alt class, that's a healer, I can go into FCOB on my healer and get the gear for my healer, plus practice the mechanics more.

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But with the lockouts being removed, isn't the need for alts now null and void?

Well, perhaps it makes a little, little of sense now... But what about if in 3.0 (FINALLY) having some jobs at level 50-60 will help your character overall? (Having some useful high skills or traits you can share with other classes)

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Originally Posted by Adrian74

I'm interested in knowing one thing....

Why alt characters?

I mean.. You can be everything in one, and even work for gear all its classes, and trust me that's enough of fun and time too.

(No, but seriously, I know of few people who likes this, and I was curious, so far only reply I obtained once was ''Because I can raid with two characters'' But that's just not valid for me...It's not like you can trade the stuff, isn't it?)

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So many inventory slots.... So many... *rolls around in space*

Spppppaaaaaaaaceeeeeeeeee

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Originally Posted by Adrian74

I'm interested in knowing one thing....

Why alt characters?

I mean.. You can be everything in one, and even work for gear all its classes, and trust me that's enough of fun and time too.

(No, but seriously, I know of few people who likes this, and I was curious, so far only reply I obtained once was ''Because I can raid with two characters'' But that's just not valid for me...It's not like you can trade the stuff, isn't it?)

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There are a few reasons. One is multiple lockouts to play coil in. At one point in SCOB I was using my main pld, alt bard, alt blm to clear turns 6-9. It was nice playing in coil under different roles and seeing how different teams do things. Another reason is sometimes you get tired of looking at the same character all day yet you don't hate the design enough to use a fantasia. Then there is increases inventory space by having multiple alts with retainers. Also its faster getting tomestone gear for a particular class since you have multiple weekly caps. Its sad that this game doesn't have alt support just because they believe it will lessen the prevalence of RMT. Its really a poor practice on SE's part to make you pay extra to have alt characters but, not allowing you to trade with them by direct means. I get by just fine with the FC chest but I don't like relying on it.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

But with the lockouts being removed, isn't the need for alts now null and void?

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Not all lockouts are removed. I have 3 alts, what I currently use them for:

-daily Ixali, I get 12 sealant every four days instead of just 3
-daily GC turn ins, buying the old philo mat items
-currently doing DoL, getting four grade 3 thanalan soil per game day
-extra retainers, sale spots, storage space, ventures

I have an alt because sometimes I want to run around as an adoarable red head instead of my slutty brunette. It's purely a change in aesthetics for me.