Alt's why?

[Sartori]

So, was curious why so many people play or use alts. I play quite a bit and have hard enough time taking care of my main character lol.

[AriaEnia]

Make 6 alts, put them in 1 FC, put your main character's chocobo in the stable, train your chocobo 7 times an hour.
This is what my friend does with his alts. I don't really know what else.

[AskaRay]

I have an alt...she is on Balmung since I wanted to check out the RP community. Honestly I powerleveled her just recently so she could get all those sweet summer items. Now I'm just playing through the MSQ every once in a while when I don't have anything particularly pressing to do on my main.

[Sartori]

Make 6 alts, put them in 1 FC, put your main character's chocobo in the stable, train your chocobo 7 times an hour.
This is what my friend does with his alts. I don't really know what else.

Well, that explains it

[CGMidlander]

Gear up multiple jobs with capped tomestones faster (& more flexibility for raid group as a result)

[Pomelo]

I'm considering making an alt, to try out other servers/re-live the story and for aesthetics/rp

[Meoah]

Make 6 alts, put them in 1 FC, put your main character's chocobo in the stable, train your chocobo 7 times an hour.
This is what my friend does with his alts. I don't really know what else.

You cannot do this. You get one feed for the chocobo's owner and one feed from any other character. These two may have independent cooldowns, but there are only two.

And to answer the OP, for hardcore raiders, they use alts to clear current content multiple times for loot lockouts and/or tomestone lockout.

[Chambers]

My alt was because I liked playing with another raid group, but didn't want to drop the one I was already in. Now I don't raid anymore, but I feel obligated to play both for some reason.

Mistakes were made.

[KaedrianLiang]

Multiple chars mean multiple weekly caps and lockouts, Why only have 1 char with full Esoteric gear in X amount of time, when you can have 8 characters with full esoterics in the SAME amount of time? Lots of overhead i know but i know there are a handful of players that do this with 2-3 chars on one account. Also prevents boredom.

Make 6 alts, put them in 1 FC, put your main character's chocobo in the stable, train your chocobo 7 times an hour.
This is what my friend does with his alts. I don't really know what else.

Unless it's been changed. Your chocobo can only be trained a maximum of twice per hour, once by you, and once by someone else.

Source: My FC had a regiment of keeping all FC chocobos double fed around the clock, by growing/purchasing mass krakka roots. And they could only be fed maximum twice an hour. *has had an R20 chocobo for over 6 months now*

[Sicno]

In my case it's because sometimes I come up with different ideas for characters I want to play as, and that may involve a different race, hairstyle and name. Stuff that can't be switched on-the-fly via gear sets.

There's also the scenario where you have friends playing on multiple servers, or when you're curious about how things are on other servers.