first reason was at the time my club had a xploder (legal back then) and I was not aware of being able to turn off the notice when money was recieved and paid out, so used the alt to hold the xploder.
then it got kinda bugged so I made another
then they became free so I made 2 more LOL
Mainly they just sit there, not used much
thinking I might use one or 2 as a backup system, make my creations full perm, and drop them on the alt, all packaged up nice and neat
that way if anything happens to this account, my stuff is still intact
I use them to test poses from time to time
going to make them owner of the groups I own, so as to cover that
debated the make one premium for land but, not sure if worth it for only 512 per 9.95 per month
heh
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Rhaorth Antonelli
Registered User
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 7,425
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01-09-2008 21:17
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Isablan Neva
Mystic
Join date: 27 Nov 2004
Posts: 2,907
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01-09-2008 21:37
Simple question, ..why would you use an alternative avatar in Second Life? For the same reason you do: to stir up controversy on forums, promote an agenda, and not have it linked to your main. _____________________
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Joseph Abel
Leaves no pawprints...
Join date: 20 Aug 2006
Posts: 781
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01-09-2008 22:13
Nefarious purposes...(insert evil laugh)
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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01-09-2008 23:10
It's so good that someone has finally asked that question here. Thought it would never happen. So when you show your grandparents what you do in Second Life, they can't actually see what you do in Second Life. To keep funds separate, since SL doesn't allow one avatar to have more than one linden acount. To serve as a dummy or mannequin for various purposes like building avatars or testing clothing or animations. For taking pictures of your photogenic av. So that you can have one account in which you claim to be a 65 year old male god fearing Republican, one in which you claim to be 18 year old svelte libertine atheist, etc. So you can have a bunch of cool names. So you can run libsecondlife programs while using your normal account. In some cases this will mean you have 70 or more alts. So you can get your money's worth out of your expensive sex-having-system when you can't find someone you want to use it with you. Or can't find enough. So when the thread you worked so hard to make controversial doesn't get enough attention to suit you, you can post a variety of increasingly inflammatory contradictory viewpoints. So you can sway the outcomes of forum polls. So you post enough abuse reports to get a response from the abuse department without having to get anyone else to. For building and scripting, there are things you need to test about permissons that involve transferring objects to another avatar - you can't test it properly when you are the creator and owner, so you have to either have an alt to use or get someone else to help you. In many such cases it will be easier to do it yourself using an alt. To escape from group chat. To join more groups so you can have even more group chat. you're a bit scary.  LOL |
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Tegg Bode
FrootLoop Roo Overlord
Join date: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,707
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01-09-2008 23:38
Minions, got to have minions
Hmm handy for quiet time and privacy, reconniscance duties, extra camera when building in 3d using 2nd monitor. Holding backups of inventory and creations, landgrouping, role play, low inventory / low lag combat alt, different names, different circles of friends. _____________________
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2k Suisei
Registered User
Join date: 9 Nov 2006
Posts: 2,150
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01-10-2008 01:37
I use alts to escape the dreaded IM mode. I also don't like telling people that I'm busy and I don't like Busy mode because I like being available to those that are within my avatar's vicinity.
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Claire Silverspar
Pokes Badgers With Spoons
Join date: 31 Oct 2007
Posts: 5,375
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01-10-2008 01:40
I have only recently created an alt.
I have decided to start seriously creating things and I need her to build quietly, test perms, hold the items so that they do not get either lost in my inventory or destroyed when my inventory finally reaches it's limits and explodes.  She is unverified and has no payment info for the time being so i doubt i shall bring her onto the forums for a while - but if and when i do, I will definitely make it clear who it is, maybe change her sig or something. She is not nearly going to be as sociable as me, because she is my builder and tester, but I may drag her to the hangout occasionally, depends on whether i can be bothered logging out and in again.  I may eventually use her for roleplay but I doubt it. I like the idea of using alts for the extra groups. _____________________
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Olias Mayo
Registered User
Join date: 18 Apr 2007
Posts: 39
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01-10-2008 01:59
For the same reason you do: to stir up controversy on forums, promote an agenda, and not have it linked to your main. As it happens, I've never used an alt. If I do have something to say, people will hear it from me, Olias. Not someone else. I'm quite proud of me, I've spent a long time to be me and I will not 'abandon' me to hide behind an alternative avatar. BUT,.... saying that, I can see the use of having an alt for various purposes. As described here. Also, if people get upset at the, "I'm sorry sweetheart, but I'm busy at the moment, may I call you back?" Then that is their problem and not mine. ....Oli. |
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bilbo99 Emu
Garrett's No.1 fan
Join date: 27 Oct 2006
Posts: 3,468
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01-10-2008 02:39
As it happens, I've never used an alt. If I do have something to say, people will hear it from me, Olias. Not someone else. I'm quite proud of me, I've spent a long time to be me and I will not 'abandon' me to hide behind an alternative avatar. Thankfully Suezanne also put one at the end of the first line of her first post. It took me another two lines to climb back down from the light fitting! For the record, different persona. First and foremost. Deeding land to group and eliminating monthly tier a bonus. I could have just used different outfits but there is a clearer division with alts, separate friends lists, different lives. Multiple Personality Disorder? no, just imagination. _____________________
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Magdalena Siemens
The wild one
Join date: 28 Dec 2007
Posts: 119
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01-10-2008 04:18
Me?
One who needs to disclose my RL identity for the purpose of promoting and selling marketing services to residents. The other one (this one) is anonymous and doesnt say anything about my RL other then my geographical location. The two look very similar. Regards Maggie (and...?) |
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Darken Spire
Do you has a flavor?
Join date: 29 Oct 2006
Posts: 34
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01-10-2008 06:13
I have alts to increase the number of super handsome and stylish avies in world.
Jump back, wanna kiss myself! |
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Maggie McArdle
FIOS hates puppies
Join date: 8 May 2006
Posts: 2,855
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01-10-2008 06:58
to hide
to escape the dreaded "you sex me" querys model clothing, poses etc role playing _____________________
There's, uh, probably a lot of things you didn't know about lindens. Another, another interesting, uh, lindenism, uh, there are only three jobs available to a linden. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps.You can bake cookies in a tree. But the third job, some call it, uh, "the show" or "the big dance," it's the profession that every linden aspires to.
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Madhu Maruti
aka Carter Denja
Join date: 6 Dec 2007
Posts: 749
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01-10-2008 07:15
My brother said: "My alt is my avatar's avatar."
I mused on this yesterday - my main, Madhu, is a lot like RL me in personality, interests, and behavior. My alt is, well, not. I'm not entirely comfortable in my alt, but my alt is really a form of role play for me, a chance to see what it's like to be someone different. Some people already use their mains this way of course! |
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Graphicguru Gustav
Accepts head scritchings!
Join date: 5 Oct 2007
Posts: 775
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Nope!
01-10-2008 07:15
No Alts here... nothing to hide from, run away from, or stalk to. If I want to have quiet time away, I mute everyone and thumb my nose in the air. If you see me, I am usually a man/cat (Neko) or a surfer dude... (now if I can only remember who Claire said her new alt is...she may be checking up on me...muahhhhh!!!!)
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Brenda Connolly
Un United Avatar
Join date: 10 Jan 2007
Posts: 25,000
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01-10-2008 08:18
My avi is me, she reacts as I do in most cases, even in RP, she behaves as I would behave in the situation wthin any confines of the Role. If I want to be alone, I ignore IM's or give a polite but firm response to that effect. I haven't been stalked, but I think I can handle that if it happens as well. All of the reasons given are good ones for having an alt, though.
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Drivin Sideways
100% recycled pixels
Join date: 30 Oct 2007
Posts: 502
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01-10-2008 08:32
(now if I can only remember who Claire said her new alt is...she may be checking up on me...muahhhhh!!!!) *raises hand* It's me. Me and my centaur ... and my monkey. _____________________
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Tex Nasworthy
Udder Disgrace
Join date: 2 Sep 2006
Posts: 1,330
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01-10-2008 08:39
Be alt that you can be. Now that's funny! |
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Claire Silverspar
Pokes Badgers With Spoons
Join date: 31 Oct 2007
Posts: 5,375
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01-10-2008 08:41
No Alts here... nothing to hide from, run away from, or stalk to. If I want to have quiet time away, I mute everyone and thumb my nose in the air. If you see me, I am usually a man/cat (Neko) or a surfer dude... (now if I can only remember who Claire said her new alt is...she may be checking up on me...muahhhhh!!!!)  /me hides behind sunglasses and a big trenchcoat and Trilby....... lol, I don't think I could pretend even If I wanted to. I'm a bloody rubbish liar and can't tell porkies to save my life. ..... Though Drivin really is my alt   _____________________
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Drivin Sideways
100% recycled pixels
Join date: 30 Oct 2007
Posts: 502
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01-10-2008 08:46
Yes, M'aam.
(didn't even see her lips move when I said that, didja?) _____________________
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DaQbet Kish
cautiously reckless
Join date: 22 Jan 2007
Posts: 1,064
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01-10-2008 09:11
It's so good that someone has finally asked that question here. Thought it would never happen. So when you show your grandparents what you do in Second Life, they can't actually see what you do in Second Life. To keep funds separate, since SL doesn't allow one avatar to have more than one linden acount. To serve as a dummy or mannequin for various purposes like building avatars or testing clothing or animations. For taking pictures of your photogenic av. So that you can have one account in which you claim to be a 65 year old male god fearing Republican, one in which you claim to be 18 year old svelte libertine atheist, etc. So you can have a bunch of cool names. So you can run libsecondlife programs while using your normal account. In some cases this will mean you have 70 or more alts. So you can get your money's worth out of your expensive sex-having-system when you can't find someone you want to use it with you. Or can't find enough. So when the thread you worked so hard to make controversial doesn't get enough attention to suit you, you can post a variety of increasingly inflammatory contradictory viewpoints. So you can sway the outcomes of forum polls. So you post enough abuse reports to get a response from the abuse department without having to get anyone else to. For building and scripting, there are things you need to test about permissons that involve transferring objects to another avatar - you can't test it properly when you are the creator and owner, so you have to either have an alt to use or get someone else to help you. In many such cases it will be easier to do it yourself using an alt. To escape from group chat. To join more groups so you can have even more group chat.  |
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Okiphia Anatine
Okiphia Rayna
Join date: 22 Nov 2007
Posts: 454
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01-10-2008 09:13
THought f a couple more I use my alt (This one) for
Testing permissions on objects Tiny Empires lol.. he's a Knight in the line Club Z has... lieged to a good friend ^_^ Being a guy.... sometimes..its useful or just plain more fun. Poking Okiphia Rayna when she's stuck in-world ad I cant play her _____________________
In-world, I am Okiphia Rayna. This account is an alt, and is the only account I currently have with payment info on-file due to some account cracking that took place. This is a security measure at present, and I may return to the forums as Okiphia Rayna at a later date.
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Mortus Allen
Registered User
Join date: 28 Apr 2007
Posts: 528
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01-10-2008 11:19
For me it would be merely for Role Play, besides being opposite sex, my characters can vary widely in personality, finding one name that suits all of them would be impossible. I have yet to create an alt for this reason, I have yet to decide what character to adapt to an SL role play, or if I should start a fresh one.
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Marin Mielziner
Registered User
Join date: 19 Mar 2007
Posts: 293
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01-10-2008 11:46
I have 3 alts.
Alt 1 is strictly used to hold funds and inventory for the ActUp Theatre Company. That way I can keep my personal things separate. Alt 2 is a male and was created to (don't hit me with tomatoes, please).. camp. I freely admit it's not lucrative, but he DID have a legitimate function the other night. My friend got married last week and I'm best friends with both bride and groom. I had already agreed to be maid of honor, and when the groom asked me to be best man...well my male alt stood in. I have a nice pic of me escorting myself down the aisle. Now he's back in mothballs until he's needed again. Alt 3 is created but not used. She may be for RP with my fiance's alt in the future. |
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ConductorX Nieuport
NO LONGER RELEVANT
Join date: 29 Nov 2007
Posts: 86
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01-10-2008 11:51
All the reasons stated.....
One alt is my second group member. One alt is not in my group and tests all of my scripts, security and rental boxes. Never thought of a female alt... just didn't occur to me. "G" _____________________
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Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
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01-10-2008 12:02
1: Roleplay characters: First and foremost I come here to enjoy playing multiple roles. I like being more than one person in roleplay, and sometimes may have as many as 4 characters active in one session, all interacting with the other Players. And my girls and my boys don't have to all have the same fixed name over their head. (Hard to take seriously a big, burly male named "Marybeth Sweetcheeks", or a cute chick named "Gregorovitch Manslayer".).
2: Groups: 25 groups limit isn't enough to keep up with required groups for my business ventures, let alone support groups for various content creators. Also vital for ensuring a land group never drops to one member and vanishes, taking group-owned assets with it. 3: Building assistance: Having an alt on the ground while you build can give you another camera angle on your work. 4: Permissions testing: Does my vendor work right for anyone other then me? If I set the permissions like this... will that prevent the buyer from copying and reselling it? Do these land access restrictions work to protect my skybox? 5: Quiet time: Some of my alts are not in any way associated with my business or normal social ventures. I can put on that personna when I just want some time away from the usual flurry of IM's and casual visitors. _____________________
Sorry, LL won't let me tell you where I sell my textures and where I offer my services as a sim builder. Ask me in-world.
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