Feeling punished for having alts...

[Barraind]

Will its true that you only can 3 specialisations active at each, you have the possibility to change them if needed and lets be honest how often you do that?

Depends on the patch cycle.

I've had to switch a few times to make housing stuff / orch rolls recently, because they made those specialist locked again for no real reason (and its probably the reason ruby weapon orch roll sells for up to 100x the cost of the faded scroll). It takes about as long to switch around specializations as it does to go through the process of getting mats to a crafter alt in a different FC (which requires an additional alt to mule things back and forth).

I dont have alts because I want to have alts, I have alts because I have to have alt FC's with houses to do as much gardening (AND buying a few friends houses so i can use their gardens) and sub/ship voyaging as I want to do. (And to get weekly capped beast tribe mats and custom delivery fueled scrip mats for the .3 crafting/gathering gear)

If you told me I could pay gil to buy an instanced area I could crossbreed 20+ plots of crops on, I'd plop down tens of millions on it in a heartbeat. If I could do the same to let 1 FC have 8/16/24/64/ect active voyage slots, I'd do that too.