Debate: Alts or Multiple characters

[Erik Arkay/Evinyatar]

First of...tell us a little bit about yourself. Do you have alts in the guild, in other guilds, is your BoC character an alt? Etc..

I personally have one UO character I play most of the time....Erik. I have a commoner called Evinyatar who's a member of BoC as well and that's it. I hardly play Evinyatar and I fully realise he's a lesser character for those reasons.


My take on it is that extremely few people are able to pull off more then one character. It takes a lot of effort to really flesh out a character and start giving it a personality that's perceived as such by others. Too often these 'alts' are shallow characters with not enough playtime or effort invested to make them unique. I believe that they lessen the overall RP experience with the abundance of shallow characters. On the other side there are quite a few interesting characters who're going to waste because they're playing on their other characters, which is a shame.

Another note is the lack of Guild Commitment, with capitals. I may be old school, but I still believe that joining a guild is a commitment. I'm no longer in command but I know very well how much effort it takes to run a guild like BoC. Members receive a lot from BoC and that would not be possible if not for the people who show the commitment refusing to have a gazillion alts floating around and simply log in where the action is. I think that's a bit shallow and once again, does not help the overall RP atmosphere.

I'd like to say I'm a 100% dedicated member of BoC....Who else can say that? Come on, I know you're out there, step up! Who's here to help build the greatest guild in history and who's here just for the ride?

[Erik Arkay/Evinyatar]

Add-on:

This is also one of the biggest reasons that a citizen element is difficult to get underway and the church often misses credibility....Too many citizes/churchies are alts....I find that all the characters with not enough time and effort invested contribute very little in most cases.

[Raiden Morana]

Hmmm... I may be the best or worst person for this depending on your point of view

I play:

Raiden Morana, Grenadier Corporal - Trusty old Raiden, my main character - gone from bright eyed recruit to Grenadier Corporal with plenty of Gahs, Hars and ctrl-s's along the way!

Amon Jarl, Covian Citizen - My first UO character and risen through the civilian system to the rank of Citizen. Still fleshing him out in terms of personality - but a very helpful sort of chap.

Perun, Junior Scout - *smiles evily* Unfortunately she doesn't get a great deal of game time but she maybe has the most exciting personality of my characters. She is definately damaged goods.

Sallust - Get's hardly any game time and has noooo real personality development. Was part of the ECTC a while back before Khae & Jessica took a break and not really used him since except to keep my other characters in scrolls and poison.

I did, dare I say it have another alt in a rival guild for a very brief period earlier this last year but he is a blue again now and never gets used.

Sooo... I dunno. I understand what Erik says about shallow characters and the difficulties alts bring when they cant sustain areas of the guild i.e. church + civvies etc. - Sallust is a point in fact and Perun too in terms of game time but I think her "character" is worth having her around here and there.

However I like to think Amon has been good for the civilian side of things and I love "playing" Raiden

EDIT: I like to think that at least 3 of my four characters add to BoC and the Covian culture and also show how committed to the cause I am

[Khaelieth]

I've got two characters, which I think I split the time equally between.

Khae: Well, most of you know Khae and know how he is

Lil'alure: My drow. When I want to be vicious, sadistic or generally nasty, I play Lil'alure. Which is about 50% of the time. His personality is well fleshed out, and usually with a hidden agenda within a hidden agenda, which causes mildly erratic behaviour at times. Some people think Lil'alure is a girl when he's hooded, due to people paying more attention to name than anything else. Currently, Lil is a member of F^L.

Declan Innes: My oldest surviving character and the second I created. He's a mule and in BoC, but for no specific reason. I never use him for anything but crafting.

Tyron: Used to be active on him, a few might have seen him.

Valandil: My pacifist druid! Never play him.

[Jack Sinist (•̪●)]

I don't have any mains anymore as I more or less focused on UD on Hybrid. But I have had about 5 Unique characters, 3 at the same time.

I've always been loyal to BoC and only had one character till the day when the Baron went to Yew and my character followed him. And I had fun in the new guild, although most of the people that went from BoC returned, I didn't. But I still loved BoC so I made this character, now he was mainly to be like an event character but I had fun playing something completely different from John, so I let him live.

I later got a chance to have a good position in UD (Although somewhere around there I helped that blond guy start CDPL up but anyway) so I took it.


Its not really hard to play several completely different characters if you just put your mind on it and go in for it. I mean, surely that's what RP is about, pretending to be someone your not. If you have a hard time role playing two characters differently, is your first character really different from yourself in real life?


I might act like it, but I'm really not a 7ft retard. Or a stuck up smart ass either. 


But like I said, I was dedicated till I either get kicked out or lead out. (I was even dedicated to Grd once )

[Mela Arkay]

Teagan, Flina & Mela.

Are the only actual characters I really play. I have crafters but I use them when really needed.

You know full well Mr.Arkay I'm capable of alting quite easily because im used to it.

[Jack Sinist (•̪●)]

Split persona can do that.

Ahhaha, maybe I am a smart ass.

[Axiana]

I have two characters currently in BoC, Eve and just recently Axiana a commoner.

I wanted to experience both the army and citizenship, and enjoy trying to make them dissimilar to each other.

[Averion]

Where,...do i start!?

Edward O'shea: My first character in RP terms. He was active for about a month befor i stopped playing UO.

Keldon: Had a bit of trouble on him.

S'ilar S'adow: I didn't really like his personality or the way he turned out.

AVERION!!: Everyones favourite quarter Orc. Ya know it's true!

Gralsnek: Full orc and recruit guardsman, Nifty with a mace

Spike Milligan: My insane character, active on him.

If there's any i missed i'm sure Mela can fill us in

[Samuel West]

I have so many alts i can't remeber which is which though i only realy play on Richard now

[Octiovus]

I have five characters in BoC, but two of them are little more than around for administrative and equipment reasons. The other three I play regularly, and I'd like to think that Tiberius, Octiovus, and Sir Hugo were all quite varied and well developed characters. While I concur not a lot of people can really pull off more than one character (which generally tends to be modelled on their own personality) convincingly, people like variety and that's what keeps a lot of people playing UO.

[Odenetheus]

I play Odenetheus and Trelos (Maestro of CDPL.), and Hikage no Kumo. I think I do a pretty good job at keeping them unique.

[Khaelieth]

I only have problems with one sort of characters. Horny 14 year olds who create "Half-succubus, half-drow sex fiend women." Even Veldrin has more of an idea about how women act than they do!

[Jenifer Feather]

I play Jenifer Feather.. at least 90% of the time.. You all know Jen and all know her personality.

I also have a character called Dylan Freewater, i use him for when i don't want to die easily and do some damage >.< He is a fully developed (in my eyes) character in that i know all the details about him and he acts completely differnt to Jen.

I agree it is difficult to play multiple characters, but not impossible... and i agree that it is hard to fully play one character if you have many... but that doesnt stop them being fully developed characters.

[Gregor Eason]

I've had one or two BoC alts in the past, but they've never flourished.

Its pretty much just been Eason..
Can't really split myself that well 

And since I joined BoC (November 2004), I don't think I've joined any other Guilds. I was thrown into Command right from the beginning, so all my efforts were invested in Cove. I have left UO to play other games, however, and to level up in RL