Hey everyone.
I’m nearing level 50 and recently decided on a plan of action for my character that hopefully will work out. I asked my hunt leader today and have been told different opinions in the past about how to set my character(s) up so that I can be effective in each of my pursuits in the game.
How did you do it? Do you use Alts or Skill Pages? Why?
Is there anything you might do differently if you were starting from scratch today?
Thanks in advance for your replies, and especially big thanks to all of you for such a down to earth, helpful, and awesome community. I don’t use the “C” word often in games, but you guys - even with your fenceposting and “pvp” porch sitting, yall have deserved it!
Merry Chuky-Day erybody
I always say that alts are great when you are starting.
Skill pages are better when you hit lvl 50+ but that doesn’t mean you can’t use both. I for example have my hunter on my main and it has 2 skill pages, one for farming and the other was for gleambow, mi miner has 1 extra skill page for gathering and exploring but I also have an alt specialized for getting trunks and gravel.
I use both alts and skill pages. I have 10 characters, but mostly play on three mains. My hunter/gatherer, my builder/forger, and my crafter. They each have several skill pages.
My other alts I mostly use to level and craft things like charcoal, stone, and Essence. Currently I have 5 toons at lvl 50+ and the rest at various levels working toward 50.
My ultimate goal is to use them in different capacities and have more mains for mining, and regen bombing/gathering etc.
If I were to do it again, I would have made my alts sooner than I did, and I would have farmed the rock leveling to get them all to 50 sooner.
I am level 100+ with 3 full skill pages. I feel like you don’t really need an alt. Maybee if you want to farm everything and have specialized characters then I’d focus on alts, but I think it’s better to focus on one thing and for example make a big shop and sell marbles.
I used alts when starting out, it is easier to level up an alt then it is to level up extra skill pages. My main char was focused on mining, as that is where most of the exp and resources come from, My 1st alt was designed for crafting only to free up extra points for my main char in mining. After awhile as my need for other roles grew, I created more alts to fulfill those roles…
Then after some time and getting the full 5 skill pages on my main char, Then I started reducing the amount of Alts I needed. But I still use alts for some things. At the end of the line. I still use 3 alts and the 5 skill pages on my main. I do not use extra skill pages on my alts. I do 80% of my stuff on my main char with its 5 skill pages now days.
I lean single toon, many pages. But that said, I have 10 toons, many 50+. I use 3 toons regularly. Especially when I want a certain setup for inventory. Forging, crafting, building, gathering/transferring mats, mining, hunting. Multiple toons work great for this. And they work great if you like parking a toon at a gathering or mining spot… Or kitchen.
But the reason I have one very big toon (the only one with all the skill pages) is plots. Its MUCH simpler to have most of my property on a single toon, and to build up plots on that toon. And this makes protecting your mayorship easier too.
It is quicker to level an alt than it is to keep levelling past 50 to fill another skill page, but it always felt a bit like a shortcut to me.
However, there is no way I could do all the tasks I do without them, even after the skill pages were increased from 3 to 5.
Even so, I waited until I had maxed out all my skill pages on my main before I created an alt (which is how I believe it should be), this was when we only had 3 skill pages.
Now I have 4 alts, my main who is hunter/miner/gatherer, my crafter (all 5 pages are need to be able to craft every item on 1 character), my farmer and a 4th that barely gets used.
If I could ‘recycle’ my 4th for half the skill points into my other chars, I would!
I too only use one DrCyanide as i have no use for alts and like everything under one, 5 full skill pages i am able to change them however i want due to me being a high level and having more then enough skill cleanse points.
Me… ummm 6 alts, many pages. The shortest way to a full skill page is to start an alt and many character professions don’t require many levels (forging and most craft specializations for instance).
My main (miner) has:
3 mining pages, 1 for each resistance type.
A “travel” spec - max range warp ability, minimum HP, falling armor and maximum movement speed, grapples, etc. Gets places fast.
A spare page for when I mess around (bomb hunter, shovel hunter, whatever I like basically)
My hunter has:
3 hunting pages, 1 for each resistance type.
A “travel” spec - max range warp ability, minimum HP, falling armor and maximum movement speed, grapples, etc. Gets places fast.
A RR/stealth hunting page
My crafter/repairer has:
A food crafting page
A brew crafting page
A tools/weapons/machines/etc page
A utility page I haven’t decided upon yet, may need to use in order to craft some lucent gear or high end machines.
Also has all the spanner, action speed and stamina skills I can fit on him on each page
My Forger/shop owner has
Forging and crafting of tools/weapons page (and tax epic)
My Gatherer/Farmer:
Stealth Gatherer page
Farming page
My builder/lumberjack/shoveller has:
Building page
Farming/building page as I was building farms and testing layouts at the same time
Shovel page
Axe Page
As I have been typing this I am realizing just how unnecessary half these pages are and how many cubits have been spent! But hey it’s nice to have the luxury… and they are exactly that - a luxury. Each new character and each new skill page is 600 cubits after all. But I like the luxuries, I like having jump height and fall armor on my miner and I like having my hunter as optimized as possible.
Having so many skill pages is a little pain though… am I on the right skill page for the right planet? Am I going to have to change to travel spec and then wait for a 15 minute timer to get to mining on an Exo? I try to log out my miner in travel spec… but by try I mean that 90% of the time I forget,
I started out with alts like you did. But tbh I am confused all the time, never know what skills are with what alt. That is why, after a year I went to centralising all my skill pages in two main characters wishing there was a way do delete the ones I am not using and diverting the skills to those 2.
Yeah I can understand that, there were times earlier on when I couldn’t remember who was who. But now that they all have a rather specific purpose each I do not have any problems at all. Although it wouldn’t hurt to be able to remove one or two of them and move all specs into say 4 chars.
But it is nice for each to be able to carry in their inventory what is needed for each job and not have to unload, my forger for instance, of all his forge ingredients in order to go gathering/mining/whatever with ta clean/ (empty) inventory. The only one that is still a pain is my builder whenever I want to go tree chopping or soil digging.
My main character’s tabs are General Purpose miner, Shovel-Axe Gatherer, Builder/Portal Opener. I’m almost always on this char. I also have a hunter with plans to eventually do many skill pages (just 1 so far), my crafter with weapon/tech/tool tabs and 1 general purpose tab that can do most anything, my lvl 50 forger that I have never tried using, and my work in progress food/brew crafter…
Also I have a farmer. All those characters and 95% of my time is spent on my miner.
As above, 1 char, 5 maxed skill pages. I didn’t start that way though; better to have at least a couple alts, then delete some as you build up. I would like to see the skill pages become skill tabs, with the ability to rename! Pretty please!
I use an alt for Forging/Crafting/Farming on 2 skill pages. Spends 95% of the time in my home beacon.
Main does all the hunting/gathering/mining on 3 skill pages.
This setup allows less inventory swapping but I’m considering a pure builder so main doesn’t have to swap out weapons for chisels.
