Your take on Alts

[Lunafreya]

I never got the point of anyone ever wanting to start over, honestly. I get it, you're bored and leveled everything but why do it over? It makes no sense. I'd rather keep continuing on my hours upon hours on one character, tbh. I will always have one character. You also can be any class on one character so I think alts are pretty worthless.

[bswpayton]

I never got the point of anyone .

I started all mine at the same time so , I'm not even at endgame, but I've stated reasons, a big one is their are several different races. For me I have an attachment to my characters I couldn't just fantasia them. You also have different genders, I'm a male but like a lot of guys I make female characters because they are hot, but at the same time I want a male character also and I have one. And I don't really feel like the game does a well enough job connecting each job together it seems so separate. Like your doing all of this stuff on one character and nobody knows it but you. I rather have a magic character, a warrior type, etc like the animations of a monk for instance to me don't really fit with my whm, so Id let my guy character be a monk, its just looking deeper into the game. I get many people don't care but I'm one of the ones who do and I don't figure I'm alone in this like I thought.

[Dzian]

I would level an alt if it's progress could be tied to my main character somehow.

There's no way I'd wanna do the entire msq again or fiddle around unlocking all the extra dungeons / content for a second character.

Be cool if I could create an alt get it to 60 and jump straight Into Alex creator with it for example (gear score permitting of course)

[Lan_Mantear]

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Easy enough, just create an FC that all of your alts can join, and use the Company Chest to transfer equipment and gil back and forth. From a gil perspective that is actually more convenient because all of your characters can share the same bank. You can use LS' for end game events and co-ordination.

You'll need help to initially create your FC, but that shouldn't be to hard with a couple of helpful people.

[Kosmos992k]

So I've notice and I can say for a game that charges for extra character slots which is an extra 36 $ a year for paying for more is there any way that u feel that the game is alt friendly. You have to get a friend to even send your character , items and you cant send them any gil at all. Just wondering why do you think this is the case especially with you paying extra. With a new expansion coming out where you don't have to grind out cross classes you don't want your particular character to be ,it would be the perfect time for them to be more alt friendly. Why not obviously people like to do it why not make it easier for those to build up their other character and stay in the game more. I liked swtor system you could literally send anything you wanted why cant we have this here. I love the game its just really a question out of being curious, because its not like we aren't paying extra to make these characters.

The game's central story piece is almost a solo game studded with Multi-player episodes. Because this is an MMORPG, there is no 'NewGame +' mode that let's a player restart and re-experience the story from different angles. I have several Alts and use them to replace the missing NewGame +. I also enjoy the leveling, and for me there is almost a meta game of seeing what is the best way to level everything all at once, instead of picking one class/job. How quickly and efficiently can I level up my crafters and gatherers? I get to answer that now.

[bswpayton]

The game's central story piece is almost a solo game studded with Multi-player episodes. Because this is an MMORPG, there is no 'NewGame +' mode that let's a player restart and re-experience the story from different angles. I have several Alts and use them to replace the missing NewGame +. I also enjoy the leveling, and for me there is almost a meta game of seeing what is the best way to level everything all at once, instead of picking one class/job. How quickly and efficiently can I level up my crafters and gatherers? I get to answer that now.

How i usually do it is i let the class quest kinda be like that certain alts story , even if i have to do cross class or something i will only do the acutally class quest with the one i made for that certain job. And im seeing more people like alts I just want se to throw us a bone ha

[Niwashi]

There's no way I'd wanna do the entire msq again or fiddle around unlocking all the extra dungeons / content for a second character.

Yet that's one of the big draws making people want alt characters, to be able to do the main story again.

[Chocolys]

Obviously it's not alt-friendly with the overcharging for alts, as well as no direct trading between alts. The game is clearly designed around the concept of one character fits-all with multi-classing and cross-class skills.

[bswpayton]

Obviously it's not alt-friendly with the overcharging for alts, as well as no direct trading between alts. The game is clearly designed around the concept of one character fits-all with multi-classing and cross-class skills.

yea sure it is but it def doesn't mind the extra thirty dollars, they get a year from people who have more than the one single character slot. And they also sure use alts to buff up their population numbers, and they sure don't make every item on mog station account wide. But yet it was only designed for one character I strongly disagree with that. Its like that for convenience for most players but se certainly doesn't complain about the extra money they get from alts that people who don't make them aren't giving, so why should we not get any kinda feature at all it makes no sense.

[Shurrikhan]

Having access to 7 alts per server only costs as much as 1.5 retainers, and is likely supposed to have an entirely different function (e.g. roleplaying, character story-craft).

Of course, in an ideal world even after no longer needing to hand off an item to a friend to hand it off in turn to an alt, perhaps those 7 extra characters would still mostly avoid the fate of becoming bank alts. But that would be a world after retainer revenue, and with that the desire to avoid their fees.