To alt or not to alt?

[MadNomad]

And loss of health and energy can make you eat more, which is not a very bad thing.

because it fucks up your ability to get stats for a veeeery long time

dont listen to this guy! raising all stats on one character especially with the beggining trash food will fuck you up for eternity!

[MagicManICT]

raising all stats on one character especially with the beggining trash food will fuck you up for eternity!

Hardly. There is a limit to how much food you can eat and maintain a reasonable level of character growth, though. For the character's that "work the hardest"--miners and such--there can be almost no avoiding this issue. You just have to be stuck eating at a lower bonus level.

[ErdTod]

I don't like alts, and I would prefer playing without them, but when you meet the world full of alts, you kinda have to use it otherwise you might fall back too much and open PvP will punish that.

[Agame]

I don't like alts, and I would prefer playing without them, but when you meet the world full of alts, you kinda have to use it otherwise you might fall back too much and open PvP will punish that.

Man, if in real life you see a madmen yelling threats and 4 letter words to everyone with a gun in his hand, what do you do? Stand up and face him or take cover and talk later with some friends about how this world gets full of murderous madmen and authorities should not let them free?

Well, make the same choices in HnH and you won't have to get your own gun to wave around at everybody in the street. Like you do not in real.

This is a virtual world. Consequences for stupid behavior here are way less dire than in real world. But people are the same, their education, soul, intelligence are also the same in real or in virtual. I can not believe those who take pleasure in hurting others in virtual do not take the same pleasure in real. Avoid aggressive retards and you will be fine, in virtual just like in real. Don't fight them or the other people would not be able to differentiate between you and them.

Just my 2 cents about trying to compete with open PvP people.

[ErdTod]

@Agame
Just like that madmen might come to your doors and start banging and pissing on it, here you can be harassed as well - might be not in a deadly way, but lots of inconvenience are quite easily achievable, including using alts (actually, mostly using alts). So you'll have to choose - either do something, or ignore, hoping that if you don't play the game with them, they'll get bored and will go away, stopping banging and pissing on your doors.

[Ysh]

I have never played a game where having alts was not optimal way of playing. It is no different here.

[MagicManICT]

This is a virtual world. Consequences for stupid behavior here are way less dire than in real world. But people are the same, their education, soul, intelligence are also the same in real or in virtual. I can not believe those who take pleasure in hurting others in virtual do not take the same pleasure in real. Avoid aggressive retards and you will be fine, in virtual just like in real.

The difference is just like it was 200 years ago: you don't have cops to call to deal with your problems. Learn to deal with them yourself. If you don't confront and subdue the madman, then he's just going to persist in being a bother.

You're right that there are no major consequences, but consequences still exist. People still get emotionally invested into a game, consciously or not. The great thing about a game is you can take on roles you couldn't take on in life. Be the bad guy for a little bit. Be the hero. Be a farmer or craftsman. The only restraint is your own decisions about what morality should or shouldn't be in a game.

[shaka_adim]

I have an alt for hard labor since terraforming and mining is a pain in the ass to do with one char. So when my alt is doing his designed work I can forage or craft. This way I don't to stare at the hourglasses. Hard to tell for me if using alts is good or bad. Probably using 10 is bad, but running 2 or 3 chars with different roles kind of add to the roleplay aspect.

[Pupsi]

I think even satiation forcing you to have alt xD

[Granger]

I have an alt for hard labor since terraforming and mining is a pain in the ass to do with one char. So when my alt is doing his designed work I can forage or craft. This way I don't to stare at the hourglasses. Hard to tell for me if using alts is good or bad.

I guess you'll notice in the deeper levels that AFK mining isn't a good idea anymore.