Feeling punished for having alts...

[Eldevern]

RIP
I will remember you fondly, game, if for no other reason than your music was amazing.

The humor was not bad either. I had the plan to return to the game when they have announced they were closing.

I left because at the time, the french community was short and I was more so-so in english than I am now.

[MsMisato]

Don't know about you, but I sell myself gear via mannequins for my alts on the same data center. Just make sure to mark it as a set so it doesn't pop on the MB. The risk is you could have someone snake the armor from you but that's only a small risk. On the flip side. you could always sell your main an Allagan tin piece for a stupid amount on the MB and just pay the city-state tax on it.


I agree about the housing being shared across characters on the same data center.

[Barraind]

I still think it's ridiculous that SE designed a housing system so wonky that people can just buy up dozens of houses by making shell FCs or whatever other methods people are using. You and others with the time/money (both gil and cash) to buy up a ton of plots can do as much sub farming and gardening as you want while other people can do exactly zero unless they have a close friend and/or FC leader that they trust.

I absolutely agree with you. I'm very vocal about that.

If I could have my main FC (which I dont even own) do all the things I want it to, or if I could do it myself in my house, or apartment (or, let's be honest, through the FC MANAGEMENT INTERFACE WINDOW THAT IS A THING THAT EXISTS IN THIS GAME AND SHOULD BE USED FOR THESE THINGS), I would do that in a heartbeat.

[Vyrerus]

If you can get your alt into the same FC as your main, and you have access to items through the company box, then you can transfer items through the company box. Obviously not the highest end solution, but that's the current way you can sell transfer items between alts, though it requires the same server.

Seeing as they won't even let you check your moogle mail on the same character when you world visit, alts on other servers and DCs won't ever be interacting at all with trading or anything.

As far as getting to skip your alt up to max level really quick and all that jazz, seems to defeat the purpose of an alt to me. I have 5 at Shadowbringers, with 3 at Savage Raiding(though I'm hiatus this tier).

There's a large portion of the playerbase that are altphobic or don't understand alts in general. This ranges from the roleplaying community looking down on RP alts to conventional players looking down on raiding alts. The feeling is the same though, you on your alt are wasting their main's time/effort. A real puzzler for me, since I mean, even if I'm playing an alt I'm still contributing just the same as I could on main, still spending my time too etc. I don't think they're ever going to put in measures to make having alts more desirable.

I would love for achievements to be shared though, but there's probably a programming reason for why they haven't done that, in addition to the idea that some players are teens or even adults sharing an account playing different characters.

[Jojoya]

My only complaint is not having alts automatically added to my friends list, or at least having the ability to manually add them.

I might have a pen pal in real life that I'll never meet face to face but I'll still be able to send that person items through the mail and delivery services. My alts should be likewise capable of being pen pals with each other even though they can't "physically" meet.

I would love for achievements to be shared though, but there's probably a programming reason for why they haven't done that, in addition to the idea that some players are teens or even adults sharing an account playing different characters.

For me alts in roleplaying games are separate "people" and so their achievements should reflect what the individual character has done, not what the player has done. Generally if you've done it on one character, it's easy enough to do on a second (and third and fourth, etc.). Just do them if you want the character to reflect the same achievement and get the same rewards.

[Videra]

Actually, there is one valid reason to have an alt that I can think of. Gearing a tank and healer at the same pace if you raid, so you can do both.

[Kytrin]

Actually, there is one valid reason to have an alt that I can think of. Gearing a tank and healer at the same pace if you raid, so you can do both.

Why are you and others so seemingly worked up about 'valid' reasons for creating an alt? Who cares why someone creates one. It does not matter in the slightest if you can do everything on one character or not. People create alts for a variety of reasons.

Personally, I played one character for a long time before I got tired of her being an au'ra and I wanted to see the story again, got burned out on the mess that was endgame crafting at the time y'know. As this was back in HW and long before new game+, I did the only thing I could and rolled up an alt! The alt became my main as I was enjoying going through the game with her, and I retired my former main for several years until Viera came out. Then I got a bolt of inspiration for a backstory there and re-invented my old character. So now I have a main and an alt I'm looking forward to taking through the revamped story with a brand new identity!

It has absolutely NOTHING to do with retainers, raiding, job leveling, or literally anything else but the fact that I enjoy story and hated HW endgame crafting back then. It's every bit as 'valid' as anything else, and honestly it's not up to you or anyone else (not even Yoshi-P) to tell us why we can and can't have alts to begin with.

More than that, those of us who DO have alts, for any reason, aren't being unreasonable in asking for a couple of concessions to make having them a little easier. Sharing a house and being able to mail stuff back and forth between your own characters will not actually break the game.

[Nedkel]

Actually, there is one valid reason to have an alt that I can think of. Gearing a tank and healer at the same pace if you raid, so you can do both.

The other one is some people may like two characters look and instead of wasting money on fantasia they switch over characters.

[SinisterJoints]

Actually, there is one valid reason to have an alt that I can think of. Gearing a tank and healer at the same pace if you raid, so you can do both.

orrrr you have a maxed character ? People need to remember, the game was around BEFORE ARR and we got to keep our characters. So, I have to disagree with you.

[LaylaTsarra]

Actually, there is one valid reason to have an alt that I can think of. Gearing a tank and healer at the same pace if you raid, so you can do both.

I have 13 reasons for having endgame alts and raiding isn't one of them. Sorry to burst your bubble but raiding isn't something that makes a lot of people happy. I could give a hoot about it personally.