Benefits of Max-level alt characters?

[jadeharley]

I have around 32 characters (my main and 31 alts) that I've leveled up to the point of unlocking Expert Delivery for the purposes of sustainably farming gil with retainers (I pay for all 10 slots, so 320 retainers total). I decided to start leveling some of them through the MSQ with the expectation that I can get increased daily/weekly currencies, but I'm wondering if it's really worth it.

As I see it, you can use higher-level alts to gain
* Increased maximum retainer levels, which is great for gil, gc seal, and FC point yields
* More tries at wondrous tails gold tickets (fairly high time commitment per character to get even a chance at 3 with rerolls though)
* Faux hollows
* Doman enclave (lol 20k a week)
* island sanctuary (tons of upfront investment for a sort of mediocre weekly haul)
* maps every 18 hours (probably great on map releases but does require me to level fisher)
* uncapped tomestones on release of crafting materials (big money but rare)
* playing savage with friends without lockout issues (realistically only need 1 extra alt for this)
* The official rules allow one fc per server, so I could do submarines, but I don't believe this is ethical.
* custom deliveries are a fairly healthy dose of scrips each week

I'm mainly interested in gaining tradeable items/gil which are transferable to my main (via friends or armor stands), so most passive currencies (tomestones, MGP, etc) aren't really that useful. Is there anything I missed?

[Kurando]

Seems a little overkill to have so many alts, even some of the richest players in the game may only have a small number that they switch between. I don't think it's worth having so many due to the time investment of doing all those activities essentially 32 times, but hey if you have the time available to do such things; then it's your sub.

[jadeharley]

Well the idea is that I intend to play Final Fantasy XIV for a long time, so investing early in passive sources of resources is something I'm thinking a lot about!

[Remolia]

how about smurfing in pvp?

[jadeharley]

how about smurfing in pvp?

I guess this counts (even though i'm personally terrible at pvp).

Though it is notable that you don't need a high-level alt to pull this off, you only need lv30 (or up to 80 for expansion jobs) to play PVP.