Xavier Arron
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Posted - 2004.03.17 15:06:00 -
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Edited by: Xavier Arron on 17/03/2004 15:13:37
Remove all ALTS :)
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LOL i have a reason MY SKILL POINTS and thatĘs what i bought this game with 3 chars per account.
you donĘt know if there are ppl who have spent quite a bit on there alts and maybe do use them for different things, you are going to say oh well too bad for those people?
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I use my alts to help me with market trading and hauling, as though they were trade partners. so i place my two alts in neighbouring systems so i can check the market and maybe send them off somewhere to fetch something at a good price.
This means im treating them all as valid characters even if only one of them is training skills.
if i need to take something somewhere dangerous i use an alt because there is less to loose if i have to get a new clone.
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Alts are part of the game. Get over it. Some people use their alts to do meaningful stuff in places their main characters can't be. I have one doing production, one doing mining in deep space, and one doing agents.
LOL these are exactly all the things you are not supposed to be doing with alts. If you want to play the game in a totally different style and keep the alt separate then fine, but no one does this. Using alts so you donĘt have to travel back to do agent missions or research or not risk your main char!! is NOT what alts are supposed to be used for, and spoils the game.
Add on the fact that alts are the reason there are so many griefers / exploits / scams in this game due to the fact that peeps donĘt have to "risk" there main char. Therefore is no come back, and thus most things can be done risk free.
I have a long list of grievances against alts, not to mention the peeps who have one char for combat, one for mining / corp / one for research.
Sure you can come attack me with your combat alt, disrupt my mining / research whatever but i canĘt attack your mining ops because your alt is in a different corp (i.e. you dont know who is attacking you).
I feel this also probably effects pirates abilities to "pirate" as it were because peeps are willing to just sacrifice alts, instead of have to use there main chars which probably have implants etc...
Alts in principle were a good idea. Allow peeps to play many different aspects of the game etc...
In practice I believe they have turned out to be one of the devs biggest mistakes.
Alts could be removed, just allow all skill points to be re-allocated to one character by the player.
Just my 2 isk's worth:)
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