Alt hopping and you

[Mele]

This has been happening more than enough to make me feel the need to bring it up.

Please can we try to be more careful with our alt hops? Sometimes people don't want to know your alts. Walking west, and your alt walking in from the north is a tad too revealing.

A baddie walking in, you walking north and your alt walking in from the west, kind of blatent.

Millions of ways it's done, can we please just try not to walk into the same exact room immediately while alt hopping for your own privacy, and the ignorant bliss of your fellow players.

[Glim]

I agree, though I am sure everyone has been guilty of it at one point.

[Dalente]

I agree with Glim! I know I have!

[Sairaven]

Not that I have had alts in the same cities enough to worry about this, but I would like to play Devil's Adovcate.

Sometimes, we alt hop when someone comes in that we have a desire (or need) to RP with, or someone with whom we know we can get a group and RP with.

That being said, some subtlety might be a wise idea.

[Mele]

Oh yea, it's perfectly natural to alt hop to rp with someone. But this is what I mean.


So n so says, "Excuse me."
So n so walks north.
Before even another smote can happen, So n so's he alt walks in from the south.

I'm not talking little things, I'm like OH HAI THIS IS MAI ALT!

[Aldren]

I'd like to first agree in saying I've seen this all too much recently, and it's becoming exceeding and blatantly obvious who such and such's alt is.

My problem isn't so much with alt hopping to RP with people who you've seen log on as it is with it taking away from the mysticism that surrounds players.

I personally prefer there being some mystery behind which characters are shared by the same player, as it goes along the lines of not abusing OOC knowledge because you know which characters belong to which player.

I'm all for alt-hopping, just don't make it obvious

[Mariela]

I personally have the wait rule.

You log one character off. You give it a few minutes. Go to the bathroom, go get a drink, go do something real quick. Put a book away, get your laundry folded, read a chapter in a book.

And then relog on. Even if it's only a full minute, a lot of times it's enough of a break that it's not as obvious that you are playing Bob the Priest, and Fred the Thief.

The more you wait, the better it is.

[Nysan]

Hmm, as a person who keeps his alts known in case one of them is needed for something while I am on another alt (bugs, extensive RP, faith related, ect) I don't mind alts being known. But I do agree that the old 'exit right', 2 secs, 'other alt enters left' is a bit unsettling. In some places, maybe...maybe it can be pulled off, like the large populated areas such as Waterdeep market square. But I have seen in some odd places, like Ardeep or Settlestone, and I cannot help but do a facepalm looking at the screen...