Trading between alts

[Sated]

Would love to be able to give items to my alts.

It's grown tiring to help traffic items from my friends to their alts, and to ask the same of them for mine when we should just be able to send items ourselves.

Because if they did allow such a thing, demand for paid retainers would plummet.

I doubt it would have any significant impact. Alts are not efficient storage, especially with how small and clunky the mail system is, plus the limit on characters.
I just want to create a new set of gear on my crafter and give it to my alt. It shouldn't be that complicated.

[YatoShishi]

I also wish our alts FINALLY could use the main characters house and other way around. I know they said they will work on that buts its been a long time now since they said it and never heard of it again )=

[Nonuel]

Because you don’t need alts, ever? Every class can be done on one character.

Some of us don't wanna tank with a Lalafell.

[Sated]

Because you don’t need alts, ever? Every class can be done on one character.

Found the fantasia distillery representative.

[Kyloran]

Thanks for your support (mostly) folks. There numerous reasons to want to trade to your alts, and I am glad that some of us see that.

[Rowde]

Because you don’t need alts, ever? Every class can be done on one character.

Depends on what your goals are.

Alts do allow you to circumvent some daily/weekly lockouts, but this mostly relevant to crafting/gathering.
The primary activities are BST tribes and Custom Deliveries.

BST tribes mostly for the one time per expansion when they add a component of BiS crafting/gathering gear to the "crafting BST tribe." Each alt you have will increase your daily yield of the item so that you can either expedite your own gear or have plenty of extras to sell on the market board. A lot of gil can be made in the first week on these items (Storm Sap this expansion for example).

Custom Deliveries are an incredibly fast/easy way to make roughly 3k - 4k red/yellow scrips, requiring a minimal amount of crafting/gathering. Yellow crafting was relevant multiple times in SB for Gyr Abanian Alchemiks and Kingcraft Demimateria.

Lastly, having at least enough alts to cover all the specialists means no more scrip waste on Soul of the Crafters.

[Colino]

Some of us don't wanna tank with a Lalafell.

Uh oh... Is that casual racism I'm spotting? D:

Thanks for your support (mostly) folks. There numerous reasons to want to trade to your alts, and I am glad that some of us see that.

I'd like to have it just because more options is always better and I don't really see the harm in it, one example for me is event items that are only equippable by the other gender. Why shouldn't I be able to send it to my alt which is female for example?

[Iscah]

And some people just like creating multiple characters.

I have my main character that does everything, then alts for replaying story and a few chosen jobs each, plus they’re fun for trying out different styles of glamours. I don’t want to transform the one character into different races repeatedly, I want four individual characters.

Being able to share items between them would be fantastic, because my main character has high-leveled crafters and a lot more gil.

(Less likely but extra-nice would be the ability to share dungeon drops, since it’s ever so frustrating when Character A ends up with the item I be been wanting to get for Character B for ages... doubly so if it looks awful on the character who did get it. )

[Skivvy]

Uh oh... Is that casual racism I'm spotting? D:

I think they probably meant it in the sense they consider it to be strange tanking with a tiny little potato. Tiny things kicking arse amuses me greatly, but I can appreciate not everyone views it the same.

[GomJabbar]

Because if they did allow such a thing, demand for paid retainers would plummet.

I don't know about that. My main is friends with 4 of my alts, yet I still pay in order to have 10 retainers.