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    Alt support

    I will lead off that I probably have more alts than the average person, i have fun making characters and building their lore and can't afford to get fantasia everytime i feel like playing a new character, but even if you only have one or two I feel like there needs to be better support for players that have more than one character on an account.

    In between patches I've been working on some lowbies, goofing around with quests i haven't done in a while, working on MSQ, crafting, or just silly things like putting together glams and gpose, and am finding it beyond frustrating trying to get things from my main over to my alts.
    I'm a solo player and being unable to move items from character to character in game without assistance from other players is a unique problem I haven't run into in any other mmo I play.
    I'm not looking for anything that's unlikely to be implemented like a collection system (that most mmos have), but at the very least the ability to easily transfer items from character to character, something like the company chest that's tied to your account (like the legacy bank in swtor) or just simply the ability to send mail to other characters on your account. I understand why mail is locked to only those on your friends list, but perhaps having alts be auto added to friends as a way to circumvent it.

    This has been something I've been having difficulty with for a while, and where I do have alts that are on the same server in a FC together and can use the chest to move things around, as clunky as it is, I also have alts on different servers for various reasons and would like to avoid leaving them to rot until i get one caught up to support them. And I'm sure I'm not the only one that's been running into this!
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    Last edited by Sheyshen; 07-01-2025 at 02:12 AM.

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    Although the support for it is better in other MMORPGs, I understand why it's not in this one since everything is obviously designed around just having one character.

    They did make a feature recently to transfer settings between characters though, so maybe they do care about alts slightly after all.
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    Thankfully I have my main alt on my friends list so it's not an issue for me, but this is something that should have been added years ago for everyone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Asako View Post
    Thankfully I have my main alt on my friends list so it's not an issue for me, but this is something that should have been added years ago for everyone.
    How did you do this??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Square Enix, probably
    "We can't just toggle the metadata ON like those SLOPPY, unpaid modders do, that'd clip and look bad!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by LinaAkayomi View Post
    How did you do this??
    It was an old thing you could do back in HW. Open 2nd instance of the game and disconnect on your main, log in quickly to your alt and send yourself a friend request before you were technically offline. Then just log back in and accept it. You can't do it anymore because the system wont let you log in on your alt until your main one is out.

    A shame because I find myself sending myself stuff all the time. It should be able to be used for everyone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Asako View Post
    Thankfully I have my main alt on my friends list so it's not an issue for me, but this is something that should have been added years ago for everyone.

    I wish that bug was back for a little bit... I really want to get my alts on my friends list



    Edit: I didn't know it was already a thing back in HW. I was only aware of when it happened for a short time during ShB, I think it was? Meoni made a video about it back in the day, but I was already late to the party.
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    Last edited by Shistar; 07-04-2025 at 03:36 PM.

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    I’d definitely like a personal chest akin to the FC chest (along with the ability to add rooms to personal plots and auto-add alts as tenants!), but unless they put them in the major cities like the FC chests, it wouldn’t be accessible without having housing. (Unless you can put them in apartments too? Can’t remember if you can do that with the current company chest or not…)
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    Sadly the closest method is shell Free Companys at the moment. Although even that has limits such as the inability to put treasure maps in the company chest. Also can't mail stuff to yourself unless its through a 2nd account which can be used for treasure map storage.

    For the shell FC, you basically need a friend to setup an FC petition and you sign up with each of your characters into the FC. Then the FC leader relinquishes control of the FC to whichever character of yours is your primary.
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    Raraka Raka
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    I resulted to make a solo-FC with my alts to use the FC chest as shared storage, but here is my Alt wishlist:

    - Ability to have a shared bank/storage and way to transfer items (The solo FC workaround is a-ok but prevents me from joining an actual FC since I cant use the chest for myself, plus, only works with alts on the same world)
    - Ability to share SOME progression (Ex: Share dungeon unlocks, but not MSQ progress, would make roulettes more comfortable on alts)
    - Ability to have a shared glamour dresser, at least for store items
    - Ability to have emotes as account unlocks (PSO2 does this already and its great, makes emotes more valuable in the market as well)
    - Ability to Swap characters with more ease (Black desert is the perfect example of this done well)
    - Ability to check alt inventories without having to swap to them (again, BDO does this already very well), this includes currencies, and how many weekly tomes they have pending
    - Ability to use the iseach command to look for items in alts as well (iallsearch perhaps?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raraka View Post
    I resulted to make a solo-FC with my alts to use the FC chest as shared storage, but here is my Alt wishlist:

    - Ability to have a shared bank/storage and way to transfer items (The solo FC workaround is a-ok but prevents me from joining an actual FC since I cant use the chest for myself, plus, only works with alts on the same world)
    - Ability to share SOME progression (Ex: Share dungeon unlocks, but not MSQ progress, would make roulettes more comfortable on alts)
    - Ability to have a shared glamour dresser, at least for store items
    - Ability to have emotes as account unlocks (PSO2 does this already and its great, makes emotes more valuable in the market as well)
    - Ability to Swap characters with more ease (Black desert is the perfect example of this done well)
    - Ability to check alt inventories without having to swap to them (again, BDO does this already very well), this includes currencies, and how many weekly tomes they have pending
    - Ability to use the iseach command to look for items in alts as well (iallsearch perhaps?)
    I love all of these! swtor and wow both have something similar for the quest prog, shared bank and account unlocks so going back and forth between those 2 and xiv really feels like alts on this game are more of an inconvenience than just another aspect of the game.
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