Multiple Characters vs. Sticking with one - Thoughts?

[Carth]

There's actually a work around for this that makes it so you can add yourself to your own friends list.

You just made my day.

[Niiro]

Incoming emergency maint and mass suspensions.

[Rocl]

Wait, it actually works to do that 3 step thing to mail stuff to alts, but SE REFUSES to add a function to mail items to our alts? So we're able to through an obscure way, so the technology exists, and the server and game is set up a way to, they just refuse to code it to make it easier to do?

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Someone needs to compile a list of artificial barriers SE has put in place and refuses to change, yet players have found workarounds to bypass these barriers.

Did they ever say it was difficult for them to do? I thought it was "lol we dont want people harassing you so you have to be online when friend requested"

[Wolfheinrich]

I decided to make myself a Lightning Fate alt and you sir have just made my day! Going to try this when I get home from work today!

There's actually a work around for this that makes it so you can add yourself to your own friends list.

From the official forums (I shit you not. Fucking blew my mind to find it there):



They don't mention this, but you will need your characters to be in the same FC/LS so that you can see them to send an invite, since search functions won't work otherwise.

I created an LS for it from my wife's account, then invited all of my alts to it. After that I ran a quick instance and logged out at the end of it. I cycled through my alts, each sending my main a friend request. Logged to my main to accept them all, and now I can mail items to myself.

[Raldo]

Is there a good instance to use? I'm trying to think of something besides dungeons/class quests, but I'm coming up blank.

[Spider-Dan]

Waking Sands?

[Raldo]

That counts as an instance? I assumed it was a zone like any other, just cordoned off so the massive initial influx of story runners wouldn't crash/lag all of the Horizon region.

[Voyage1970]

Can you send/receive tells in there? I know there are a few instances of Waking Sands due to story line (like the one where everyone is dead and the lights are off) but not sure if it's another instance or not.

[Seravi Edalborez]

It's the same pseudo-instance I'm pretty sure. First few weeks it was pretty jarring to see like a billion people in the "everybody's dead" main office getting achievements for earlier story portions.

If you have an unfinished class/job quest instance fight that'd be the only way to do it solo I think. Just log after a finished DF run of some dungeon I guess.

[Rocl]

What Seravi said. It isn't a real instance. You can send/receive tells inside. It's 'phasing' or whatever; it appears different to different people but you're still there. People are talking to Minfilia after she's captured and you see them. Just like you can watch people load up dead bodies right outside in Vesper Bay.

[Kipling]

Just tried it - Waking Sands doesn't work. I just pugged a story ifrit and logged out after we killed and that worked.

[Niiro]

Yay, no more bothering people every time I need to transfer junk to my mule.

[genuinelying]

Anyone with experience with both paladin and warrior in endgame here? I still debating which to level and commit to.

[HitomeOfBismarck]

Do not encourage this man to level any more alts. :X

Sean: go home, you're drunk!

[Kaope]

Just to make sure, even with this method you still can't transfer untradable items between characters right?

[Niiro]

No.

Also, something that occurred to me, even if you couldn't flist your alts this way a convenient way to transfer items between your own chars would be the company chest (if they ever decide to "fix" this it will be a good way I guess).

[Zirael]

Just tried it - Waking Sands doesn't work. I just pugged a story ifrit and logged out after we killed and that worked.

Do it the other way round:
- make a lv1 mule
- get mule invited to LS by someone
- do a WP/AK speedrun on main and log out after opening last chest
- log in your lv1 mule and invite your main
- log on main and accept friend invite
- profit
Of course gets more complicated if you want all mules be friends as well – you’d have to level up to get into some instance. Maybe lv10+ Behests work if you log out before clearing it?

[chaoticlogic]

The most appealing part of FFXIV (and to an extent, FFXI) is the "all-in-one" job system. I absolutely hated leveling new alts in other MMOs, and I'm kind of surprised no other MMO developer has tried to copy Square's system.

Gated content sucks but there's no way I'd go through the mind numbingly boring process of leveling a brand new character just so I can have an extra 2-3 hours worth of content every week.

This...I love being able to use a mount and having all the aetherytes at lvl 1.

[Absurde]

So it's been quite some time since this was discovered. Has anyone gotten into any trouble for it? Or heard of someone who did?
With all the new items coming in 2.2 and the 4 different retainer ventures (with unique loot) this could prove to be a good way of covering all your bases without paying an additional monthly fee.

[Seravi Edalborez]

In trouble for what? Friending your alts? They patched out the way of doing it shortly before 2.1 but anyone who did it beforehand can still do it *cough*.

Can slightly circumvent it by getting your alts in the same FC, but you run into issues with Unique items not going into company chest.