alt question

[Sumea]

Yeah I got into leveling an alt on my server so I would have character that could level with my potential friend freely without resorting to big schlong energy destroying dungeons and not actually playing with him for most of his MSQ.

This game makes life hell for alts. It is understandable from XI design perspective: You are supposed to be one character. You should have the virtual you and that is all, and alts in XI were actually more of an family feature, you would have multiple character slots for your account and could share the account locally with your family, each family member having a local login if setup etc. That is of course gone at least from launcher setup but I feel like it is still mostly meant for other things than in, other MMO game where alts is the way of life and made easy to manage with unrestricted postal service and so on.

The game is pretty alt-unfriendly. Basically the only thing that is account wide are certain mogstation mounts, otherwise every character is 100% separate in terms of items and progression.

On the bright side this means you can (and are encouraged to) do everything on a single character. I've got hundreds of hours in and I'm still not done with everything.

for me, it is veteran rewards, even some I earned before they changed the veteran system I guess in same spirit as honoring 1.0 players, my pre order bonuses etc.
It is bit more than "just some store stuff" but usually not far off from that; such as paying 360 days of sub or collector's edition bonuses etc.