I have three accounts for varied reasons, but mostly just cause I like game very much

LannStone wrote: »

Khenarthi wrote: »

For me it's plain altoholism, 18 characters is not enough. I have 42 characters but admittedly I tend to play main account more.

Extra storage is a nice extra but not the main reason.

You create more characters mainly just to mess around with them?

Not exactly to mess around - to develop and play out their own stories. I still regret deleting a couple of characters before buying a second account, so now when I feel like creating someone new, I have the space to do it.

LannStone wrote: »

wtlonewolf20 wrote: »

i have 30 ish accounts. i started them for storage. i kept them because i am an altoholic and i probably have a problem...

I imagine most of these are not paid accounts with the craft bag and extra bank space?

They are all purchased accounts and all have summerset dlc for jewelry writs. No I don't sub on all of them. I won't discuss how many exactly but it's less than 50%.

I got a second account when it was on special.... hoping I could get my husband to play. But he didn't. Boohoo... hugs needed.

These days I only use it if I want to test out what something looks like, or to do PvP when have to LOL because any other Level 1 would one shot me, and occasionally to sell more stuff on guild store if I have lots to sell.

I started a second awhile back for storage, but as my main became more involved with trial/pvp/etc. guilds I found that I needed the other for the kind of intense trading I'm accustomed to. Now I mail almost everything I intend to sell and in my free time at work or something I'll log on and fill more stores.

wishlist14 wrote: »

How can you do all events on all accounts without buying the expansions or chapters or dlcs needed to participate in some events?


Also it takes long enough to login and out of main account characters without having to play login on other accounts...how many hours do yall have in your day/night?

I don't do events on more than one like some other people, but it has ESO+ to get around most of the issues. I buy crowns anyway, so paying for a 2nd ESO+ isn't really a waste, I just send gifts to myself basically. Also I have a separate install (even though this isn't necessary) and launch both at the same time and just swap between them. If it's during Jubilee and I'm doing writs on both then one will be on a load screen while the other is doing writs. I don't think I could ever juggle more than two though (much like my real life juggling skills!).

Crafting - I got sick of the stupid prices for upgrading items so started a second account purely for crafting. While I have 13 characters max levelled on my main account many have been lvl'd 1-50 through skyreach, spell scar etc so they are "lite" on skill points. Figured it would be easier to lvl new characters that will only ever be crafters than find the skill points on all my other characters that are specifically set up for certain roles/play types.

So now instead of selling all the junk I pick up I mail it to my crafter for decon/levelling. In less than a month I have 3 characters doing writs and stupidly enough I get more tempers and wax from those 3 than I do from my master crafter that know 80% of all furnishings & motiffs. By Christmas should have 9 crafters up and running and never have to worry about buying mats again.

wishlist14 wrote: »

How can you do all events on all accounts without buying the expansions or chapters or dlcs needed to participate in some events?


Also it takes long enough to login and out of main account characters without having to play login on other accounts...how many hours do yall have in your day/night?

I do most of the events excluding PvP ones, and have both ESO+ and all chapters on my two accounts. While I don't have a SSD, it only takes something under a couple of minutes to log out a character on one account and log in one on the other account. I'm retired but have less time than many to spend on gaming, typically around 2-3 hours per day in several bursts.

Go ahead, my dude! Got a friend with a second account cuz he’s an altoholic and for quests/events. He seems pretty happy going between accounts. I personally only have one and really only spend most of my time on my main.

SgtWinnie wrote: »

Much like Lonewolf and Sylvermynx I have many accts. 52 currently.

15 of those have 18 toons maxed out in all 7 crafting lines. And range from cp345 -cp3600

Why? Why not. I love the game. Have been around since early 15 and much like Sylver I have the time to do so. I love the crafting aspect I have them all researching, many 9 trait and grand masters now. I get to help folks out and have some fun.
I also love chasing down those achievement points lol.

I told my wife I'd likely stop at 300 crafters...but I also told her that at 100, 150, 200...

If you play a lot having a second acct can be beneficial. But each to there own.

All I know for sure is I'm not the only one that needs to go to Altaholics anonymous.

I was going to go for 500 I dreamed of a guild that was full of just me.... or maybe have enough that I could claim that I was a statistic whenever I did something on all of them in game.

But alas there was an intervention of sorts and I was told that I could not exceed 30 by some very very concerned friends and family... so those dreams are dashed..

As I speak I'm about to reach level 50 on my 14th character, and I'll reach 18 eventually, no doubt. Even though all of my alts are mostly writs-slaves, they're not neglected, each having enough points to fulfill their role and to max crafting stuff, as well as having a set of yellow armours (except for jewelry in some cases because chromium). I mostly properly play them during events, especially Mayhem and Undaunted celebration, to break the "monotony" of my main.
However, even though there'd be multiple advantages in having more than one account as described in this thread (especially when it comes to tickets/events), getting another account is not something I'll ever do. I have no issues maxing out tickets, I don't need more writs (otherwise I'd already have 18 level 50s writ-slaves, leveling one 1-50 takes but a few hours in the worst case scenario), and as a matter of fact I don't even do writs with my 14 chars every day. Doing writs on 14 chars is already annoying enough, even with add-ons. Profitable, for sure, but annoying nonetheless - as is running around gathering resources from all the surveys. Sure, it can be done while doing other stuff because it's not exactly something that requires my full attention, so I can do writs and run around gathering treasure chests and survey nodes while getting work phone calls out of my way and such, but some days I'm so tired I can barely bring myself to log in for the daily reward.
TL;DR I'm glad I read this thread because I thought I had a bad case of altoholic-ism, but apparently others have it worse than I do, and I don't envy them one bit. I'm also grateful I can work around the whole event ticket thing by spending crowns on them should I find myself short on them. Time is money, and I'm fortunate enough to have a very good time:money exchange ratio so to say.

For me, as a new player, it was because... at the time ... when you created a character, it immediately started in the Wailing Prison. I noticed the boxes and crates that could be looted. I noticed that logging out and back in could reset them. And I noticed that some of the items could be vendered once I got out, so there was stuff I wanted to keep, even at beginning levels. As well, you could stay in WP and gain some levels, which at the time (there was no balancing of character vs enemy) was a good thing to leave WP at least at level 5 or 6.

Problem was - inventory space. And I soon realized you could not mail items to other characters on the same account.

So I started a free account, created a character, and sent stuff to that account for storage.

Now, with the game as it is now, I would not bother to have a second account if I was starting out. There is no need since the tutorial has changed. No real need for the second account - except to accumulate daily login stuff.