Are alts necessary to operate in multiple social spheres?

Yes only my closest firends are on the alts friendlist and they know I am obviously building if that is the account I am using, so would only disturb me if it was important.

I know what you mean. What I'm saying is, why wouldn't people respect that someone sometimes doesn't want to be disturbed?

When you're in as yourself, not wanting to be disturbed, they have no way of knowing that until after they've disturbed you - at which time at least a short conversation occurs that really isn't wanted at the time.

I created an alt about 2 months after I started sl...why? I am female in sl and rl. I got so tired of guys harassing me for sex when all I wanted was to explore that I created an alt. He is male and altho I can't remember his name, he allowed me to explore until I just decided to stop being polite and tell ppl to bugger off.

I know several ppl with alts. They use them to work. Then again I know a few who use alts to start trouble too.

Lissa

I know numerous /b/tards who have secret furry alts.

Funfact of the day.

interesting maybe this is why some people ban if you stay less than a few minutes without buying.

So what she buys others stuff and redoes it as hers?

I like to think of my alts as one would the movie rating system. G, PG, R & XXX.

Tee hee. Won't tell which is which...

Yep I heard that 50% of SL females are actually guys, and also now 50% of guys are actually females trying to avoid guys. Is this why I keep bumping into other guys who can't tell a chevy small block from a powersaw

My furry is my main. My alt is human.

I made an alt for a RPG because I wanted one with a more fantasy-sounding name than just "Russ". And because I don't really want to share the friendslists of the roleplaying and not-roleplaying characters. I dislike being bothered in IMs for roleplay when I'm not in the right mood or frame of mind for it. So I don't always necessarily want the roleplayers to know when I'm online.

I have a bunch of different avatars in my inventory. Approximately half the time I'm just a regular human, and the other half a I'm a big blue horse. I have a dozen other avatars that I also occasionally wear, mostly animal or fantasy ones, and of course when I'm human my outfits change according to what I'm doing and who I'm with.

The significant thing is though, they're all still ME. I'm just the same person, playing dress-up, whether I happen to look like a horse or a dragon or an ordinary guy in jeans and All-Blacks rugby shirt, it's just still me. I just don't see the purpose (or even the how-to) of separating my different avatars to such an extent that they become separate identities with different personalities and so forth.


Thats where I think we're different. I may not LOOK the same from day to day but I always AM the same, at core. It's still the same guy sitting at the keyboard after all.

I'd say.

I have a premium account and a couple of basic accounts with no payment info supplied. Is it possible to link the alts with the premium account avatar without having to supply separate credit card information for each of the alts?

I don't believe so

PS: Necro!

I have 4 accounts.

One is primarilly used for holding funds.. my original is male actually. A third is female- this one- the second one made, because im a clothes nut, and its rp to me. The fourth has another gender neutral name, and is Nicoles 'daughter.'

About the same with my two accounts (I hate the term 'alt' for either and I think of them both as mains). Most people that know either more than in passing know both accounts.

Just out of convenience purposes (like running 2 SLs on the same machine makes neither run great) a lot of times I will stick with only the adult account. She incorporates a lot of the kid account's mannerisms though (and flips between appearing as a kid and an adult at random).

Caitlyn is the daughter of Kara Oddly, I somehow figured that would make things less confusing for people. Then I went and confused it more by sometimes having Kara be pretty close in appearance to Cait (instead of a parent). At those time, I just refer to them as packmates.

Even when Kara is practically identical to Cait there are huge differences in how I play both. Kara-as-kid is part kid/part adult. Cait is pure kid. I have no problems with leaving Kara on (in either adult or kid forms) and going afk. With Cait, I feel I should be running around all the time.

Actually, having two egos probably makes a bit less convoluted. Before creating a kid account (or having Kara be a kid sometimes) I often told kid avatars I knew that I was having WAY too much fun pretending to be an adult.

Try a mother account arguing with a child account about bedtime when it was time to log off. The people that knew both were the same person found it hilarious.

Last time I had one of my alts online with me she was suspected of being someone else's alt.... Which added to the laughs since I was standing right there. It really threw people for a loop. (^_^)

... Speaking of which...



Watch out for the white one... She has a pistol. =^-^=

I've heard that 38.5% of all statistics are complete fabrications.

I don't know if they're necessary, but they are useful for operating in multiple spheres.

Another situation is if one alt becomes a slave or prisoner who is forbidden to leave a particular sim or group of sims. When you don't feel like slave RP, you can use another alt. That also preserves the feeling of the slave alt really being trapped in their situation.

Another reason for alts is this feeling: When I create an alt, after a while I get comfortable with how it looks, particular face and overall shape, but also skin and hair. Also the name I choose generally reflects what that alt is about, or what their RP backstory is. So when I want to play a thirty-something white American guy, I'll use the John Smith alt with its ordinary human avatar. When I want to play a three-thousand-something dragon, I'll use the Blatharon Firebreath alt with its dragon avatar.

Play in RP sims works out that way too -- using a different character for, say, medieval versus futuristic sims.

I'd wager there are many SL user who don't get mad if a friend wants to do something different that doesn't involve them.

I'm a Gemini...I need alts for my other personalities! They don't do much but I really enjoy kitting them out in skins and clothes my main would never wear. I guess they are dolls to play with more than my avatar. I have my dumb blonde alt and my firey witchy red haired alt. But honestly, they are mostly to form groups or use as extras if I'm shooting some film. I feel much more comfortable as my main who is the most "me" as in RL. The others are more like costumes.

And setting Busy mode works fine for me to get things done. I can't blame getting distracted on anyone but myself!

It is nice to have the option though.

Some people do get demanding of others time, and some people feel a need to hide from that.

Some people have alts because they like to explore many themes.

I don't hide my alts, often I'll be with a friend and the mood will tell me I'm not a neko right now, I'm an usagi... so I tell them 'brb on my bunny alt' - and there I go.
- some people would just change skins/shape for that. But for me, for every skin/shape I use, I have a different avatar. And each of those avatars has her own wardrobe, AO, and sometimes different reflection of my personality.

But I do know people who use alts for different purposes and crowds.

I understand people who have alts for building. And if I had a lot of customers pestering me I might as well. But with my friends... when I'm building - I'm pestering them to come and look over my shoulder.

And I actually do have one alt that is for use on my RL resume when I'm doing something involving technology / social networking. An alt that gets no use outside of having been given a professional wardrobe.

Of course atm I've been mostly away from SL for a month and a half now... and none of my alts are getting use other than this one for forum posting.