Feeling punished for having alts...

[Saefinn]

As an RPer, I'd definitely like to see more stuff that shares between your characters and we tend to be more inclined to have alts, because we might write multiple characters. Whilst I get people's arguments that the beauty of FFXIV is that you can level everything on a single character, which is definitely great and this is something it has over the majority of other MMO's.

I think it only needs to be simple things for a little extra QoL for those with altitis. Like how they've put the Amaro mount behind levelling every single job to 80. I have my jobs spread out across 3 characters, if I wanted to achieve that I'd be levelling more than 1 job twice. So I've decided to not bother trying to get it.

Not that I'm saying I should be entitled because I've chosen to level multiple characters, but I see argument for doing it, because I don't see harm in it and it'd put a bit more of a level playing field between those who stick to one character and those who level alts.

At least I'd be more inclined to support:
- Shared achievements.
- Shared commendations (as arguably they're for the player, not the character, the distinction makes more sense given mentorship is tied behind it)
- Shared accommodation
- The ability to mail yourself or some kind of shared storage that doesn't involve an FC chest (I'm an FC leader, I can get away with it, at least)
- The ability to share spiritbound gear.

[Shurrikhan]

- The ability to mail yourself or some kind of shared storage that doesn't involve an FC chest (I'm an FC leader, I can get away with it, at least)
- The ability to share spiritbound gear.

Neither of these will happen so long as there's profit to be made from selling bank space via retainers.

[Saefinn]

Neither of these will happen so long as there's profit to be made from selling bank space via retainers.

Hmm, I suppose a fair point because I guess they don't want people turning their alts into mules. It was fine in FFXI when you had to pay for extra characters (because this is precisely what I did).

But where it puts me at a disadvantage and I guess others who level alts is that I've horded plenty of useful gear, furniture and mats on one character that'd be useful to another. I pay for 6 retainers too because I am such a hoarder...I mean, I still have the company chest of my own free company to bypass this (but nobody below officer level in my FC can do this), so I can still get around this or employ the use of a friend to trade stuff between characters, but I think it'd be much less awkward if they let us cut out the middle man.

[Iscah]

Neither of these will happen so long as there's profit to be made from selling bank space via retainers.

If that's the reason for not allowing sharing, I'd like to see a system (if it's possible) that lets you send items to alts at a deliberately-cripplingly-slow pace. One per week? One per month? Enough to get the really critical things passed over, but not enough to use them as storage.

[Shurrikhan]

If that's the reason for not allowing sharing, I'd like to see a system (if it's possible) that lets you send items to alts at a deliberately-cripplingly-slow pace. One per week? One per month? Enough to get the really critical things passed over, but not enough to use them as storage.

That might do it. Gimmicky, so there will probably somehow be even more complaints than when mailing to self (alts) was just not a thing, but something like that might work.

Or, heck, maybe they'd have to be spirit-bound to be sent at all, as not to be used for material storage or (effectively) gil-transfer, and must be usable by the alt to be taken out of the mailbox, at which point we could slightly increase the cap. I'm not sure.

Simply put, there probably exists some limitation that would allow for some QoL usage of alts without stepping on the toes of retainer purchases, but it will probably be severe and, again, seemingly gimmicky.