(08-08-2013, 04:13 AM)Koren Wrote: 1. Â What do you think is a main character?1.) A main character for me is a single character you play more than any, it's the character you level up, you get geared up, and you do most of the content on.
2. Â What do you think makes a character an alternate character?
3. Â Do people have a responsibility to make certain "mains pair with mains" if you sense an interesting relationship (friends/rivals/lovers/enemies/long-lost relatives) forming or is it okay that someone's just not going to be around at random or for long periods of time?
4. Â Have you ever discovered that your main was paired off in one of those situations with someone's alt? Â They just didn't play them at all or played other characters? Â Did it stall out your story? Â What did you do?
5. Â What's the biggest stereotype you think of when you think of people who only have one main character?
6. Â What's the biggest stereotype you think of when you think of people who suffer alt-itis and swap characters often?
7. Â Which are you? Â A single or two main characters? Â 5 main characters? Â A bunch of alts?
8. Â How did you usually break up your time between your main characters? Â Play on demand? Â Always on one, demand for the other? Â One with one group and when they all sign off switch to the other?
2.) Alts are any other character not my main.
3.) I don't personally feel that someone should be obligated or feel responsible for pairing up with me, if our characters form some kind of lasting bond I would expect that we're going to RP a lot more than just someone I know in passing, however I won't begrudge them if they have other priorities (both in game or out of game).
4.) I've actually found most people don't make lasting relationships on alts, mainly because they rarely ever stay logged in on them long enough to do so, so I can't say I've ever been in that kind of situation.
5.) There's a stereotype? I played WoW for almost a decade and I only ever played a single character, I never made an alt not even to try another class. I started during Vanilla WoW as an Orc Warlock, I ended in Cataclysm as an Orc Warlock. I prefer diverse character development you can't get if you split your time between too many characters, so I tend to prefer playing once character only.
6.) I guess see above, people with too many alts tend to have two dimension characters because they split their focus between too many concepts rather than sticking to one or two they like.
7.) Single, all the way. Especially in a game where I can play every class I want on a single character.
8.) I can't really answer this since I almost always just have one main, in WoW I had my Warlock, in TERA I had my Warrior, in SWTOR I had my Inquisitor, etc. It was never necessary for me to split my time.
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