Mailing stuff to alts

[Solarra]

Bixillarla : I'm sure most people know about Fantasia, every character gets one, after all.

Wanting to change your Character's appearance is not the reason most people make alts. Some people want to experience the story again, some of us just like having them, people who RP often have several.
Square charges us for them but getting things from one alt to another involves a lot of inconvenience and work-rounds, which is why we would like the option of being able to mail them.

[Youkulm]

Bixillarla : I'm sure most people know about Fantasia, every character gets one, after all.

Wanting to change your Character's appearance is not the reason most people make alts. Some people want to experience the story again, some of us just like having them, people who RP often have several.
Square charges us for them but getting things from one alt to another involves a lot of inconvenience and work-rounds, which is why we would like the option of being able to mail them.

This is also the reason I have an alt, it was to do story again. It's more fun to experience it all first hand vs going back and watching all the cutscenes.

[Kling-Klang]

Every other mmo allows this, but this doesnt.

[LaylaTsarra]

Every other mmo allows this, but this doesnt.

Some say it's because of RMT. Yeah sure, we all know how well SE is dealing with the RMT issue. Give us the ability to use our own characters the way we want.

[ArcMoon]

This is the first MMO I have played that completely isolated alt characters. I always made heavy use of alts for various reasons, including doing story again, playing as a different race/gender, and yes, some muling at times. It really helps relieve boredom for me, which I can suffer from time to time, especially when I am subject to a lot of grinding. Between the terrible wardrobe system here and lack of ability to utilize alts (zero achievements/wardrobe carry over, unable to mail to, so no crafted gear, holding space, etc.), I'm beginning to wonder if this is the game for me.

[Avidria]

This is the first MMO I have played that completely isolated alt characters. I always made heavy use of alts for various reasons, including doing story again, playing as a different race/gender, and yes, some muling at times. It really helps relieve boredom for me, which I can suffer from time to time, especially when I am subject to a lot of grinding. Between the terrible wardrobe system here and lack of ability to utilize alts (zero achievements/wardrobe carry over, unable to mail to, so no crafted gear, holding space, etc.), I'm beginning to wonder if this is the game for me.

I've been a bit of an "altoholic" in every game I've played. Had 10+ actively played characters in WoW and Swtor and cycled through enough alts in Aion that I was constantly at the 8 character max and got two full sets of armor (one on each faction) that required 5 members of each faction to get at all. Some were mostly for storage, some for gathering/crafting, several for RP, mostly different races, all so I could play through the game more than once in different ways.

Here, though, I can't mail stuff to alts, I can't share a bank with alts like I can in other games, and I have to go manually unlock every single teleport + bank + dungeon again. On one hand, that doesn't seem worth it to me. On the other, being limited to just one character is kinda boring.

This is the first game I've played where I've had this problem. I'm not at the point of considering quitting, since I love the game and there's a lot I haven't done yet, but it is a bit frustrating.

[Sylve]

Out of curiosity, What would happen if your account was hacked/stolen and the thief made a new alt and then mailed everything not bound off the main to this new alt who then traded it all off to a third party and then finally deletes the alt AND the main.

Would that cause issues in tracking down the lost/stolen stuff from the main? Since the stuff got mailed to a character that only existed for the bare minimum time to get past the opening cutscene and then trade the stuff out.

[Brill_]

This would fix the inventory problem. They could make cash shop items(like fantasia) bound to a character and other items bound to account to avoid loop holes of creating an alt to get a free fantasia.

[Exodus-E]

Or, you could mail your stuff to someone you trust (who has your alts in its friend list) to act as an intermediary for moving stuff over.