Playing with an Alt

[Doji Naetaru]

Hello guys, I just wished to share this.

How many of us do we have alts? That is alternative characters that we play with but do not use them in the forum?

I have one and play with it on my free time.
However, I try to play rather "rp-wise" and thus I spend character points to level up only the 4 "class skills". When a skill is needed on a job, I simply equip the one to have it raised to the quota.

I find it pretty hard to reach to every place in the game.
I play a Shosuro actor (Etiquette, Stealth, Art, Seduction) and I have found that there isn't an item that will help me gain Sailing, Horsemanship and Hunting at least to 1.
Thus I am stuck into the Scorpion-Crane-Crab-Phoenix lands trying to find a way to gain an item with a prerequisite to my class skills.
So my question is this.

Is there anyone out there that shares the same "philosophy" regarding his character? Regarding casual gaming that is.
(Yes, I am aware of courtiers with Kyujutsu and Spellcrafting with higher score than their Courtier skill )

[Kakita Ren]

I have an alt that I made purely to see how quickly I could get to level 20 in all the skills. He has jumped Clans from Lion to Spider to Scorpion.

The answer is level 74 btw, but maybe quicker if I joined the spider a second time.

[Daigotsu Thrakhath]

I've got an alt as a sort of "what if Thrakhath was a good little Unicorn" thing. He's enlightened and everything!

[Ikoma Buretto]

Tangential to your query, playing "rp-wise" in the sense that you do not even put 5 points into the "travel" skills is a self-imposed limit that will, naturally, prevent you form reaching all the places in the game.

[sprinkles]

i don't have an alt but my brother plays so i log into his account in the middle of the night and gift myself.

[Bayushi Haruka]

I actually have two side characters, nothing to do with the war or self gifting or votes or any of that silly stuff. Just curious little experiments. I mean I used to also have a tainted one as well, but I abandoned her for other things.
I didn't enjoy playing Tenshi in ee so for now I've got:

Iuchi Ouwashi - Something I'd like to play after Haruka (depending on if she's still alive and all that. I could still bring her back in but let her take a back seat for a while and only appear for major political events.)

And my other idea
Doji Kyoko - Doji magistrate (haven't done much with her in ages though, again another idea I'd love to explore via rp.)

[sprinkles]

Haruka will live forever! I promise.

[Soshi Kiso]

*gives Sprinkles a special cookie*

[Doji Naetaru]

Nov 3, 2011 13:41:15 GMT -5 Ikoma Buretto said:

Tangential to your query, playing "rp-wise" in the sense that you do not even put 5 points into the "travel" skills is a self-imposed limit that will, naturally, prevent you form reaching all the places in the game.

True, that's why I try to acquire the skills via items. For example, I cannot visit most of the Crab lands without my Foxwife beside me!

[Asahina Yukihime]

I can't play without a sheet >.o
So I have an alt for almost everything I RP here. All of them have levels between 70-90 and they don't get as much attention as the main char.

About playing RPing. I'm proud to have 0 ranks in things like Stealth or Seduction and few other low skills. I usually don't do clicking stuff that my char wouldn't do in a RP (and Yuki have looots of restrictions). I don't mind if I can't go to Shadowlands, I wouldn't even if I could (too scary ) (But I can find my way there is I MUST, for a higher reason).