Alt player charterers on the same server?

1. So there will be alt charterers on the same server?
2. I was under the impression that it was one charterer per servers?
3. Are housing and storage shared with your charterers, if you can have more charterers on the same server? if so, fine, that would be a good balance, at least people cant land grab everywhere with 2-to-what ever charterers, and not have 2x-to-what ever charterers storage per account.
My only issue is that, could this kinda ruin the player driven economy and player interaction system of having to make players work with each other, I understand that the artisan trees would be so in depth that it would take a lot of time to finish it, along with having limited use recipes, but I do worry about the out come down the road after launch where players would have multiple finished charterers and not need anyone to work with, but on the other hand they worked for it, they put the effort into leveling the charterers.

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GreatThodric

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Alts are a big no for me dawg. I'd rather have to delete my one and only character to check out other classes than to have the game become an alt grind fest. Only having one character means only one name and that shapes your reputation in the community. If I want someone to blacksmith me a sword. I want to ask another established player to do so instead of logging my alt. One character limit would make that character choice matter infinitely more. Don't forget that this is an RPG. Your role should matter.

Give me one MMORPG that is still alive today and has only 1 character slot. People like trying different things and limiting that is a very bad idea.
Roles mattering doesn't mean you should restrict people to a single one.

Just because all MMOs allow for alts doesn't mean that alts are a good idea. That's a non sequitur. Maybe that's why so many MMOs are dead? Your character choice kind of becomes irrelevant if everyone can play everything all the time.

I don't mind people getting to test out different playstyles to see what they like but that shouldn't inflict problems in other parts of the game. Alts undoubtedly do create problems in class-identity, faction/group-identity, individuality/distinctiveness, profession/trade needs, and subsequently server economy.

Edit: Not to mention that alts feed the meta gaming engine. Abandoning mains have become common practice just because a few numbers were changed in favor of something you don't normally play.

Edit 2: And of course you need restrictions to make roles matter. What are you talking about? Why not also just unlock all abilities to all classes, all racials and avatars to all races, all resources to all nodes, and so forth and so forth? The restriction IS what gives you choices meaning. Without them, nothing you choose has any meaning at all. And if your choices don't matter, why are you playing an RPG?
Take their node system for example. Different nodes have different resources, dungeons, mayors, node types, and enemies available. This is to make you chose where to settle and who to ally yourself with. It's designed with restrictions in mind to make those choices matter to you as a player.

Yumdyen

In order to master anything in Ashes I get the feeling you will need ALOT of time. So if there is alts the only way you could "have it all" is spend a huge amout of time. Will there be people who does this? of course. Will it be a majority? No.. I base my experience on Lineage 2 and Everquest where alts was a thing... but not nearly as all over the place as you suggest. Since AoC is not a game where one Charactar can do all.. I see no problem having options to make other charactars.

Daiska

Just putting in my personal unpopular opinion. Alts are important to me, *especially* in a game like this! It's not to cheat or spy, it's simply because I really enjoy experimenting and finding my favorite class/profession. I end up trying everything, then settling on one or two favorites that are funnest for me to play. If I spent a month on a rogue class, then started to not really "feel" it, I still wouldn't want to have to delete it to try the next. For all I know, I may like the next dozen even less and revert back to it.

Finding who I am in a game is part of the process for me, and to take away the ability to experiment would be such a bummer for me. I'd probably lose interest quickly. The many possibilities are what's drawing me to Ashes in the first place.

Minkku

Alts only made by us in game (children)?

Skuld

The reason for being able to master only one Artisan Class was to encourage player interaction. Because if you've gone full weaponsmith you can't gather high level materials yourself but have to buy them from another player.

So everyone's just gonna make an alt with a different artisan mastery and they're just gonna provide themselves with everything they need.

Or is there any reason why that wouldn't work?

bloodprophet

https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Alts

I personally will have 2 a mage and a cleric. Alts are a good thing it allows for the players to try things. Only way I see only one character working is if one character can do everything like in some other games with minimal hassle switching between specs. And hat is bad game play and glad it is not here.

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