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    Titor's Avatar
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    Titor Jaraba
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    Balmung
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    Alchemist Lv 100

    Please consider limiting the presence of alts in Ranked PvP, or put a larger barrier

    This may be a bit preemptive, but myself and some others in the PvP community currently have some concerns of level 30 alts taking up a lot of feast/ranked leaderboard spaces. Previously, even with a large barrier such as reaching level 60 to enter, there were still a plethora of alternate characters on the leaderboard. It is speculated that unless something is done to discourage or prevent alt-dominance on the leaderboard, it may be filled mostly with level 30 alts of people who already PvP a great deal.

    With level 30 being very easy to reach and jump right into rated PvP, it is very probable that one single person can easily take 4-5 slots each on the top 100 board (up to a theoretical 40 if someone is very dedicated, as that is the maximum amount of characters you can have on a service account).

    While the new pvp initiatives are great to encourage a larger participation in PvP, please consider forcing the leaderboard to be one character per account (perhaps take the highest ranked character), increasing the difficulty of the gate needed to enter rated PvP, or perhaps opening PvP rewards to be account-wide to discourage the use of alternate characters in ranked PvP.
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    Violet Flower
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    Cerberus
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    Arcanist Lv 23
    Some people make alt so they can practice other jobs while not endangering their main job rating. As there are 15 jobs already, maybe it's worth to replace Top 100 with Top 10 for every job. This will: 1) Increase overall rewards poll to 150 characters 2) Will limit dominance in Top 100 of roles with fast ques like healers 3) Will give an equal chance to get in the top to previously rarely played jobs like ninja or dark knight.

    I don't think 'one spot per acount' will fix anything, people will just buy 2nd/3rd/etc account if they really want to fill the top with alts. Rewards should be account-wide without a question.
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    Titor Jaraba
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    Alchemist Lv 100
    The cost of the base game and the sub for another account is a big enough barrier that I'm not sure if more people will do it than those that already have multiple accounts.

    I don't mind people playing alts in feast to practice, so I don't think they should be barred entirely, but just limit holding a slot in the top 100 to the highest rated character on the account, and others will not show up on the leaderboard
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