I treat my alts very poorly and I make sure to starve them all of food and new gear/weapons and I never perk their skills so they are really weak on top of the fact I only put attributes into the worst line for their playstyle.

4 VR 14s that get played in varying amounts, a VR1 and a couple of lowbies. I don't really have a main anymore, just depends on who needs what leveled right now.
I usually pick a 3 character "base" for a game. In this one, it is Xen. I try to stick to lore names but it doesn't always work out that way.
Xendyn Nettis for my Dunmer, Xenlin Kevian for my Altmer etc.
Exceptions are a magicka Breton NB who I was happy to get the name Xenophobia for and my Argonian Templar, Glows With Hope, who I couldn't figure out a proper Argonian name for that included Xen lol.

My one dedicated mule is Mr Bag.

They all take advantage of each others crafting skills and gold is pooled in the bank.

At any time I've got one main character for questing. Characters I leveled previously help them buy a mount and supply them with gear and sometimes stuff to deconstruct. OTOH, my questing character tends to be the one making money and gathering supplies.

Eres wrote: »

Btw, how do you name your alts? For example your storage chars? Or how do you name your characters anyway? My main is Imperial and I made him a name composed of two latin words. Now I'm trying to come up with a fitting Altmer name.

My templar is roughly named after a character in Stormlight Archive, my DK is just a play on Braveheart, and then I've got others named after real people (Lionel Richie, Charlie Furbush, and Jose Altuve).


I also find that hockey players work well for toon names:
Tuukka Rask
Anze Kopitar
Kari Lehtonen
Pekka Rinne
Jaromir Jagr
Antti Niemi
This list could go on forever.

I'm going to name one Stewart Randsome Miller Serial Lady Killer

got 2 mains, after I lvl'd my second character I play him equally often as my first one, but both are self sustaining for the most part like gold, crafting maths go into the bank and used when needed

I got 7 char made, only 2 reached en lvl, ones around lvl 40, 2 others I currently use for extra storage, but all got their own apropriate name, backgroundstory, the whole nine yards, I just cant go through all the lvl'ng anymore xd

V14 Khajiit NB is a bank alt atm since Khajiit is a terrible race.

All my characters are created equal: they have full banking rights and my crafters make gear for everyone. Likewise, they all have appropriate, lore-friendly names. Even my dedicated crafters who don't quest.

Eres wrote: »

Btw, how do you name your alts? For example your storage chars? Or how do you name your characters anyway? My main is Imperial and I made him a name composed of two latin words. Now I'm trying to come up with a fitting Altmer name.

I use lore-friendly names. Sometimes it will just be a name that sounds similar to names I've heard for NPCs of the appropriate name, sometimes I'll go to uesp.net to research naming conventions for the race and do it based on that. My main (can I still call him that if he's no longer my highest level character?) is an Imperial with a straight-up Roman name that I picked out for him long before ESO launched. Caius (a variant of Gaius) was a common first name for Roman men, and Drusus was a Roman family name that means strong.

Daveheart wrote: »

I also find that hockey players work well for toon names:
Tuukka Rask
Anze Kopitar
Kari Lehtonen
Pekka Rinne
Jaromir Jagr
Antti Niemi
This list could go on forever.

But if I hear or see any of those names, all I'd be able to think of would be hockey... I guess if you used the names of more obscure players than the ones you listed it might work for me. Actually, unless they were super obscure probably not. I'd probably still think hockey when I saw them.

How i treat my characters? I shave my dissociative identity disorder.

to get the best from the game start at least one alt for each class, and level asap at level 50; level all crafting at least at level 32, so you can enjoy full hireling and training mount for each alt.
after that, you should role play your character the way you like.

I generally have a purpose in mind when I create a character and how I treat them depends on what that is.

My 'main' is simply the one who got the most fun build: an adaption of what I usually play in TES games (a khajiit dual wield Templar with an even mix of stamina and magicka skills with most attribute points going into healing, and if you think that's bad you should see the Morrowind version).

Then I have a kind of secondary main who has a more sensible Templar healer build so I can play in groups without driving them crazy, and a nightblade because I wanted one, an Imperial dragonknight who is primarily a crafter and a mule who happens to be an argonian dragonknight. I want a sorcerer at some point too, when I can decide on a race, look, name etc.

They're all responsible for finding/earning/stealing their own weapons and armor, or my crafter makes it for them (for now, if I ever get on to high level stuff with special RNG drops I'll probably give them to whoever needs them most) and anything they don't need goes to him to be deconstructed for research or materials. If I have to choose one to get priority for something then it goes to my main, and my second Templar after that, but otherwise they're pretty equal. Except my mule of course, who was wearing his Soul Shriven rags until I was typing this and realised that makes no sense when one of the things he's holding is clothing I've found and don't currently want for another character.

Eres wrote: »

Btw, how do you name your alts? For example your storage chars? Or how do you name your characters anyway? My main is Imperial and I made him a name composed of two latin words. Now I'm trying to come up with a fitting Altmer name.

The end result varies greatly but I always give them a name which seems appropriate to me, and I aim for something lore appropriate or which can pass for it at first glance (but I have to admit that's secondary), for more 'minor' characters I'm also liable to go for something mildly amusing, if only to me.

My mule is fairly straight-forward: he's called Holds-All-Stuff (Holds-All-Things was taken). My crafter is a bit more subtle. I made him an older, heavily scarred guy which lead to a backstory about him being a (mostly) retired adventurer, and he's an Imperial so I called him Sagittam Ad Genu. Because nothing rejuvenates an old joke like a dead language.

My Templar healer (a Breton) is called Danielle Aurorel which is a name I've been using since Ultima Online, and the lastname references an even older character, and my khajiit Templar is called Danika Aurorel which is a name I used randomly in another game and find amusing ever since I found out Danica means morning star, since the lastname means dawn star (latin aurora: dawn and quenya elen: star).

My main character crafts everything for my alts.

I have chosen my alts very carefully, even my three bank mules ...

Keeps all Herbs
Keeps all Runes
Bric-a-Brac