Quote Originally Posted by HadesNight View Post
Allowing alts to get added to the friends lists of characters created on the same server/same service account.
This would be fantastic, but unfortunately it looks unlikely to ever happen. There's been two cases, years apart, where there were ways to ways to friend your alts... and both times SE have patched the game the pretty quickly to stop that.

They've never officially said why they won't let us friend our alts, but those that did it confirmed they could add their alts to their houses and it worked exactly like you'd expect the friend list to work. Given that SE said years ago you'd be able to add your alts to your houses this would seem like the easiest way to do that, but they've never said more on that topic either...

Maybe it causes problems behind the scenes (unlikely as I don't believe they ever cleaned up the friend lists of anyone that did it?) or maybe it's some sort of RMT prevention (also probably unlikely since it's widely known they create fake FCs and use the company chest to trade items) or maybe they just don't want to cut into the sales of extra retainers... (which I don't think it really would as it'd be way too inconvenient to have to constantly logout/mail 5 items at a time).

But sadly we can only speculate as to the why, even though it clearly could work and they add extra steps in to make sure we can't.