Those Alts....

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

How do you manage it? I have 2 characters I invest in, and that's a lot of work even with this one, Klee, being more focused in scope as I made her to play with my friends (from irl who have characters on Aether). I've heard that some players have all character slots used or have characters throughout multiple server shards.

For those with numerous alts, how many do you have and what's your motivation behind them?

[Ranaku]

Well, mine are from a time where there was no travel between datacenters and even servers. I have like 20 alts and i guess my motivation is that i like to play sometimes different races and have different looks.

And i am to cheap to buy fantasia all the time...

[Jeeqbit]

The motivations include...

1. Raid alts if you want to help people clear raids for fun and give them full loot, you can (I've done this before and met plenty of others doing the same).
2. Splits in a static. Where a static uses alts and clears multiple times to give loot to eachother faster than intended. Your average static isn't doing this but it is technically possible if everyone is determined enough and has the time.
3. So you don't have to worry if you clear when practicing savage outside of static hours.
4. To play on data centers you can't travel to. Which used to be all data centers. Right now that is the other regions.
5. Some people have RP alts to RP as different characters or have different looks to gpose with.
6. Playing the market across multiple servers or using alts for extra retainer space without paying.
7. Actually seen a lot of people just make alts purely for fun, to re-experience the game when everything still needs unlocking or to go through the story. Less necessary now we have New Game+, but it is all still a thing. Some people like the simpler experience at the lower levels, before their hotbar fills up, believe it or not and keep repeating it. It's just like when you start a new save file of a game you've already completed. What's the point? But people do it because I talk to them in the novice network occasionally and used to know someone who did.

To maintain them I just rush through the most important things, skipping cutscenes and using all my experience to be as efficient as I possibly can. I take my time on my main character, so there isn't any point doing that on alts. If it gets overwhelming, I just stop playing/maintaining them at all for months or years until I need them again. This game is very good at allowing you to login to an old character and catch them up really fast.

Right now I would just have to login to one of my characters and get the latest tier gear, food and pots, or login to my other ones and go through Endwalker quickly, which would only take about 2 days.

[DayHealer]

How do you manage it? I have 2 characters I invest in, and that's a lot of work even with this one, Klee, being more focused in scope as I made her to play with my friends (from irl who have characters on Aether). I've heard that some players have all character slots used or have characters throughout multiple server shards.

For those with numerous alts, how many do you have and what's your motivation behind them?

Some people have too much free time in their hands.

[Chie_M]

I don't have the schedule for a static or the patience for PF any more. So now I have time for alts.

[rainichan]

Roleplay, mainly.

edit: hah, forgot the rest but we won't say how many alts I have. It's a Problem because I enjoy character creation, thinking up backstories, etc. I only really have 2 'mains' though, one is my 1.0 character and then this one, the rest are in various stages of levels.

[Toutatis]

Play different races, get additional retainers for free. Don’t need to do everything on each of them.

[Aword3213]

My alt skips all cutscenes and dialogues just to do some week 1 stuff

[NekoMataMata]

Play different races. I have an alt for every race now, except Roe and Hroth I guess. I also took the chance to stack all of those alts into one FC with the help of a friend who also stacked their alts, so we essentially have a massive amount of retainer space since we can dump anything we want from our main characters to the other's alt, then into the FC chest where it can be moved to a character's inventory or retainer.

We're also thinking of getting a large FC house on it, since it's on a different server than our mains it won't be problematic. Both of us want to upgrade to larges, but we also like our neighborhood and it would be painful to throw away all the effort we put into decorating our current houses(because all that effort glitching things into place is... well a lot of effort).

None of it was a lot of effort. I did speedrun one of the alts to EW in around 3 days time, and I had an idea in mind with that originally, but it's way too much effort to do that across every alt in the FC.

[Kaurhz]

Just different aesthetics for me, personally. I do also have some benefits being that I craft and gather quite regularly.

I would say though to an extent I regret it.