Feeling punished for having alts...

[LaylaTsarra]

How hard it is to create a FC and put all your alts in it? I don't see how that is something that is being stopped in the least by preventing your own characters from sharing a common back, being able to friend or being able to share housing and so on. Relative to selling I've made a fortune on my main and I have only 5 retainers and refuse to get more. Haven't bothered selling seriously since 4.2. I've never used my alts retainers to sell. It's a bogus argument that is used a lot on this forum.

[Kytrin]

How hard it is to create a FC and put all your alts in it?

Well for me, that's not an option as I happen to LIKE playing with my in-game friends and being part of my FC. Even if I wasn't highly ranked enough to be able to transfer items to my alt I wouldn't do this.

As for the rest, so what if you can be any job or any race on one character? I pay for 8 spaces per server and if I want to create a totally new character concept (race/name/background) and start her in a different starting city that's my prerogative. But my life doesn't need to be made more difficult because I elect to do that. Being able to friend my alt (I only have the one) and send her resources should be the very least I should be able to do. I mean, I invested the time, effort, energy, and gil already to go through the game the hard way once. Why shouldn't I have the ability to make leveling my alt and getting her the means to have a head start an option?

I disagree that we need to have everything the OP suggested. I don't mind doing the events twice for each character, though I can see how that would get cumbersome if you have more than two or three, and I enjoy story so I don't mind that either.

But the ability to send myself stuff without having to use my FC bank or a handy friend, and the ability to make my alt a resident of my main's house are perfectly reasonable. I understand that Square removed the feature to mail or friend your alts for RMT reasons, but that was also before they grew a spine about RMT people and started allowing reporting and banning more harshly. It's past time we got that feature back.

[LaylaTsarra]

As for the rest, so what if you can be any job or any race on one character? I pay for 8 spaces per server and if I want to create a totally new character concept (race/name/background) and start her in a different starting city that's my prerogative. But my life doesn't need to be made more difficult because I elect to do that. Being able to friend my alt (I only have the one) and send her resources should be the very least I should be able to do. I mean, I invested the time, effort, energy, and gil already to go through the game the hard way once. Why shouldn't I have the ability to make leveling my alt and getting her the means to have a head start an option?

I disagree that we need to have everything the OP suggested. I don't mind doing the events twice for each character, though I can see how that would get cumbersome if you have more than two or three, and I enjoy story so I don't mind that either.

But the ability to send myself stuff without having to use my FC bank or a handy friend, and the ability to make my alt a resident of my main's house are perfectly reasonable. I understand that Square removed the feature to mail or friend your alts for RMT reasons, but that was also before they grew a spine about RMT people and started allowing reporting and banning more harshly. It's past time we got that feature back.

Totally agree.

[Sated]

How hard it is to create a FC and put all your alts in it?

That sounds terrible... I don't want to leave my hard work and friends behind to become a recluse, I want to teleport to my alt's apartment - something even a trial account can do.

[Anarnee]

How hard it is to create a FC and put all your alts in it? I don't see how that is something that is being stopped in the least by preventing your own characters from sharing a common back, being able to friend or being able to share housing and so on. Relative to selling I've made a fortune on my main and I have only 5 retainers and refuse to get more. Haven't bothered selling seriously since 4.2. I've never used my alts retainers to sell. It's a bogus argument that is used a lot on this forum.

I have done this, but no one should need to make an FC just so that they can have storage. That's silly.