Is there a way to befriend an alt?

Hi everyone, hopefully there is an answer for this.

I have 2 characters on one server and would like to be able to send my alt gear, fish, whatever, but I can't befriend him with my main because we aren't online at the same time.

There's no way to do it directly. You can hand them off to a friend and retrieve them when you get on alt.

No there isn't unfortunately. To add friends both would have to be on at the same time. The game won't allow the second alt to sign in as the first shows as signed in already.

I've already seen problems with this when my internet connection goes. Often I lose internet for a few minutes at a time and when the connection comes back I try to log in again to find it sees me as already logged in due the fact I didn't log out. The only solution I've found for that is to restart my computer.

So sorry it isn't going to work.

It is impossible to friend a character linked to the same Square Enix account as they both can't be online at the same time - a requirement of friending.

If you do not have someone you trust 100% with what can be very valuable items then I would suggest considering having two Square Enix accounts, the second using the bare bones subscription allowing only one character on the realm and use them as you can run two clients on a PC.

Ok then. Thank you both for responding.

I guess I feel that if I'm paying to be able to have more than one character on a server I should be able to share items between them.

Maybe once there's housing this will be addressed somehow?

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Originally Posted by Olyvar

It is impossible to friend a character linked to the same Square Enix account as they both can't be online at the same time - a requirement of friending.

If you do not have someone you trust 100% with what can be very valuable items then I would suggest considering having two Square Enix accounts, the second using the bare bones subscription allowing only one character on the realm and use them as you can run two clients on a PC.

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In FFXI this only cost me an extra dollar. And since I'm a Mac person who plays on a PS3, it looks like I'm SOL for now.

Thank you for replying.

Maybe I shouldn't say this because SE seems to not want items exchanged between alts but if you're in a small free company, people probably don't visit the chest often. You could put an item from one character in the free company chest then switch to your alt and take the item back from the free company chest.

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Originally Posted by xRitzx

Maybe I shouldn't say this because SE seems to not want items exchanged between alts but if you're in a small free company, people probably don't visit the chest often. You could put an item from one character in the free company chest then switch to your alt and take the item back from the free company chest.

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Yup, when I had to do this (move all those pesky 1.0 items that have no use, yet weren't auto-converted to gil), I just hit up my FC leader to give me chest access for ten minutes, offloaded all my items in and then logged in with my alt to pick them up.

This is an awesome work-around!

Thank you!

Note that you can indeed befriend and trade between characters on the same Square-Enix account. You just can't do this between characters on the same service account. I have two service accounts under my Square-Enix account, and use a set of "mules" to store additional items on service account 2. It costs more per month, but it is worth it for my needs.

Edit: I just wanted to clarify the terminology before someone makes a new account, when all they have to do is add (and activate) a second service account in the Mog Station.

Edit 2: Sorry, I forgot this only works if at least one service account is for PC :(

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Originally Posted by fixitman

Note that you can indeed befriend and trade between characters on the same Square-Enix account. You just can't do this between characters on the same service account. I have two service accounts under my Square-Enix account, and use a set of "mules" to store additional items on service account 2. It costs more per month, but it is worth it for my needs.

Edit: I just wanted to clarify the terminology before someone makes a new account, when all they have to do is add (and activate) a second service account in the Mog Station.

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I was so excited to read this but when I got to the mogstation it says that this can't be done with PS3s. Ugh!

I really wish SE would fix this. If they want some association between characters before we can send mail, there should be a combination of ways to qualify: alts on our own account, people on our friends list, people in the same FC, etc. After all, they're charging us extra every month for the right to have multiple characters on the server. Not being able to directly share items between them feels like being denied what we're paying for.

Cant you just send the items between alts through the mail , I do that in other mmo's ive played.

I just wish this wasn't "working as intended" ;_; it is very tedious.

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Originally Posted by Maskedmarvel

Cant you just send the items between alts through the mail , I do that in other mmo's ive played.

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You can only send mail to your friends. So no, sadly.

Until very recently, there actually was a workaround where you could befriend your own characters and as such, mail items between them.

It involved logging out inside of an instance, switching to an alt, and then friending your other character (which was shown as "online" in the instance).

SE patched it the other day however. Can't have people being able to move items to their own characters easily now!