Quote Originally Posted by EzekielBook View Post
From WoW, add real alts. A selling point of FF is that you don't need alts to play all the classes, but from an RP standpoint, sometimes you don't want to be dancing for tips as male Lalafell, but would rather do so as a Miqo'te. And while you can create multiple characters, the game doesn't even want them to interact. You can't send items or even gil between them easily. A real alt system would let you at least pair characters up so that you can share at least some resources between them.
I'd just go for higher alt-friendliness, for both alt-characters and alt-jobs.

For reducing the handicap of having all jobs on one player, replace weekly-capped tomestone and weekly capped raid-token purchases with making a given slot buyable with non-capped tomes, so we're free to grind for alt-job gear on one character. Also, reduce uncapped gear tome costs for quicker catch-up and horizontal progression.

For better allowing for alt-characters, automatically add our alts to a portion of our friend's list, allowing us to send LS invites, mail, and everything else. However, to greatly reduce any perceptible obligation to make alt characters to use as banks, make it so any items sent from one to another of our characters causes it to be spiritbound (or otherwise not tradeable back) once taken out of the mail. This restriction will not apply to returned mail, but a cap should be placed on how many items one can have sent to other characters at a time (i.e., without their being taken out of the mail), so we're not just cycling mail through per month to open up 100+ additional inventory slots. (Should we get more inventory, in general? Yes, but we shouldn't feel obliged to circumvent XIV's inventory bloat through gimmicks.)