1. What do you think is a main character?
As others have said.. To me, it's just what it sounds like. The character you're on mostly. The one you gear up, level to 50 first, get all your achievements on, RP most on.. The character you enjoy most.Â
2. What do you think makes a character an alternate character?
I'm pretty straightforward, pretty blunt. An alternate character is one that is not your main. you still level and gear them, but only in short stints (A few days of work to a week or two, whereas a main is months of work at a time).
3. 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?
Depending on the part they want to play in your storyline. If I'm looking for someone to play my brother, I don't want someone to come along and offer an alt. I actually hate RPing with alts, because they're just.. Dead connections. I feel like we both, me and the other player, deserve more of a commitment to a good story than an alt gives.
4. Have you ever discovered that your main was paired off in one of those situations with someone's alt? They just didn't play them at all or played other characters? Did it stall out your story? What did you do?
I had a friend who had.. 8 or 9 characters in ToR, spread across two or three accounts. She had them all paired up with various characters for RP.. One with me, others with other characters of our little friends group.. And while I never felt cheated, I know the others did because she was spending most of her time on her main - The one she'd paired with me. This is also why I won't make and RP on alts. I feel like my main will suffer, if I try to dedicate any amount of RP time to an alt. Therefor, if I make a new character, it becomes my main and my own main gets pushed to the back burner. I don't do this if the old main is in any important storylines, without clearing it and arranging something first. When it's happened to me, it's easy enough to come up with an IC reason why you broke up with the absent alt, or.. Whatever.
5. What's the biggest stereotype you think of when you think of people who only have one main character?Â
xD Me. I'm that guy with one character to speak of. In WoW, I had.. Three. My very first character ever, that was stuck at level 85.. My next character, that had made 85 and was semi geared for the level but never touched once my third character was made, my main. He was th ebest geared, and the only one I had any interest on doing things with.. For all intents and purposes, the other two characters didn't exist.
6. What's the biggest stereotype you think of when you think of people who suffer alt-itis and swap characters often?
Maybe I'm not sure what you mean by stereotype. I dunno. But when I see people with a dozen alts, I just think.. Inability to commit, or to decide on what they want. The only reason to have so many characters, is because you can't do what you want with one of them.Â
7. Which are you? A single or two main characters? 5 main characters? A bunch of alts?
A single main, as I've touched on throughout. My main may change, but it'll always be one character. I'll even log into my main and idle, when I could be playing an alt, just because I don't want to miss something that might come up for said main.
8. How did you usually break up your time between your main characters? Play on demand? Always on one, demand for the other? One with one group and when they all sign off switch to the other? When I had multiple characters, the other two would be logged on per demand, never for more than ten minutes. Usually to craft something. Since XIV has all the classes in one.. I'll have one character, for the foreseeable future.
As others have said.. To me, it's just what it sounds like. The character you're on mostly. The one you gear up, level to 50 first, get all your achievements on, RP most on.. The character you enjoy most.Â
2. What do you think makes a character an alternate character?
I'm pretty straightforward, pretty blunt. An alternate character is one that is not your main. you still level and gear them, but only in short stints (A few days of work to a week or two, whereas a main is months of work at a time).
3. 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?
Depending on the part they want to play in your storyline. If I'm looking for someone to play my brother, I don't want someone to come along and offer an alt. I actually hate RPing with alts, because they're just.. Dead connections. I feel like we both, me and the other player, deserve more of a commitment to a good story than an alt gives.
4. Have you ever discovered that your main was paired off in one of those situations with someone's alt? They just didn't play them at all or played other characters? Did it stall out your story? What did you do?
I had a friend who had.. 8 or 9 characters in ToR, spread across two or three accounts. She had them all paired up with various characters for RP.. One with me, others with other characters of our little friends group.. And while I never felt cheated, I know the others did because she was spending most of her time on her main - The one she'd paired with me. This is also why I won't make and RP on alts. I feel like my main will suffer, if I try to dedicate any amount of RP time to an alt. Therefor, if I make a new character, it becomes my main and my own main gets pushed to the back burner. I don't do this if the old main is in any important storylines, without clearing it and arranging something first. When it's happened to me, it's easy enough to come up with an IC reason why you broke up with the absent alt, or.. Whatever.
5. What's the biggest stereotype you think of when you think of people who only have one main character?Â
xD Me. I'm that guy with one character to speak of. In WoW, I had.. Three. My very first character ever, that was stuck at level 85.. My next character, that had made 85 and was semi geared for the level but never touched once my third character was made, my main. He was th ebest geared, and the only one I had any interest on doing things with.. For all intents and purposes, the other two characters didn't exist.
6. What's the biggest stereotype you think of when you think of people who suffer alt-itis and swap characters often?
Maybe I'm not sure what you mean by stereotype. I dunno. But when I see people with a dozen alts, I just think.. Inability to commit, or to decide on what they want. The only reason to have so many characters, is because you can't do what you want with one of them.Â
7. Which are you? A single or two main characters? 5 main characters? A bunch of alts?
A single main, as I've touched on throughout. My main may change, but it'll always be one character. I'll even log into my main and idle, when I could be playing an alt, just because I don't want to miss something that might come up for said main.
8. How did you usually break up your time between your main characters? Play on demand? Always on one, demand for the other? One with one group and when they all sign off switch to the other? When I had multiple characters, the other two would be logged on per demand, never for more than ten minutes. Usually to craft something. Since XIV has all the classes in one.. I'll have one character, for the foreseeable future.
