Alt accounts

[BlueBloodedToffee]

Why are they a thing?

How do you keep track of them all?

[GuyInFreezer]

Meta aversion, fun, feels fresh and anew, incognito, trolling, ban evasion, etc.

[BBmolla]

^this is my alt

[Otolia]

It's for all the baddies to try and hide their baddiness

[ZZZX]

is it actually acceptable to make an alt that doesnt reveal it original owner, I am interested>?

[wgeurts]

I don't see why not.

[quadz08]

the mods will always know your alts

but you can keep your main hidden from the rest of the users if you want to and don't slip

you cannot in for a newbie game as an alt - and some mods, particularly of large games, will require you to out your main in order to play unless you've got a decent playing history on that alt already

[vonflare]

Meta aversion, fun, feels fresh and anew, incognito, trolling, ban evasion, etc.

Most common reason ----------> not allowed

[mastin2]

I have so many alts that I can give Faraday a run for his money.
Most of them go unused, though, because I have enough fun on the alts I DO use. (Yes I use and actively play on alts. Be paranoid if you don't see me in a game; I could always be there, either as a player already or as someone watching...waiting to come in at the opportune moment.)

[BlueBloodedToffee]

How many alts do you have?

Why do you use them?

[mastin2]

I just said I have so many alts I give Faraday a run for his money.
Meaning so many that I'd have to manually go into my email and specifically search for the Welcome To Mafiascum.net! messages I have to count them all, and even then that wouldn't get them all because I have access to hydras that nobody but me remembers (thus, I could use them as if an alt), an alt or two that was made by another person no longer around which was gifted to me, plus at least one alt which I used a different email account for. (That one, I lost the password to, though, and since--while a legitimate email address I was using--I don't remember the email address, the account is for all intensive purposes lost to the ages.)

I also have a ton of alt ideas I haven't made simply because I have so many already and don't really want to be bothered to make more than I need.
Let's just say that, dead serious, I could run a 13p game as the mod, and have every single player in the game be me. Maybe double that, though doing that would probably require tapping into hydras.

I use them because they're fun. Plus, some alts have actually pioneered aspects of my play that you'd never know were once exclusive to my alts. For instance, I used to play rather formally, but on an alt I learned to be more casual. The way I used to post was notorious for wallposting, and it was on an alt that I learned to cut it down. It'd be entirely fair to say that the me you see now is more from alts than from me as I used to be, because the better aspects of those alts bled into me. (Which is, incidentally, one of the reasons I end up stopping my usage of an alt after a while: if the alt becomes too close to me, what's the point?) Some alts have built up their own reputation rivaling my own, too, if I use them long enough.

(Also, technically speaking, this account is an alt, made on my one-year scumday. My original account was Mastin, but I deliberately switched to mastin2 for the sake of a fresh start. Mastin was a VI, mastin2 is now someone who there's no consensus on, some still seeing the VI, lots seeing a friend, some seeing a mentor, and so on.)

[Oversoul]

I used to have a lot but I forgot the passwords and names to all of them.

[saulres]

I have a couple alts I use purely for thematic reasons. Both of them have very specific self-imposed post restrictions (in addition to any PRs I might be given).

[SleepyKrew]

intensive purposes

*cringe*

[GuyInFreezer]

I have one alt and it's public.
First it was intended to try a new playstyle and later merge it later.
Now I just join as alt for fun and stuff.

[Vampirate]

I have so many alts that I can give Faraday a run for his money.
Most of them go unused, though, because I have enough fun on the alts I DO use. (Yes I use and actively play on alts. Be paranoid if you don't see me in a game; I could always be there, either as a player already or as someone watching...waiting to come in at the opportune moment.)

Can you give a link to a game your original account posted in?

[GuyInFreezer]

^this is my alt

confirm

[xRECKONERx]

you cannot in for a newbie game as an alt - and some mods, particularly of large games, will require you to out your main in order to play unless you've got a decent playing history on that alt already

this is the main issue I have

mods of games don't know what's an alt and what's not; the fact that mods DO know what's an alt and what's not creates an uneven playing field

[xRECKONERx]

also... this is why I don't even try to play on alts anymore

I outed myself by posting from the wrong account, melted down... had to shirk off a ton of shit because I tried to play shit off as my alt as LOL I AM NEWB and then proceeded to destroy the scumteam (and KK was displeased)

[Untrod Tripod]

that shit was hysterical

[sthar8]

I made an alt to play as a different gender. Then I outed myself while I was high on cough syrup. In a game that I was playing to test my ability to be nice to people I don't like. I immediately got scumread for 'lying to the town' by playing under an alt.

Experiment failed.

[droog]

i was in that gaem
scumreads for lyig were daf

[sthar8]

that whole game was daft

[DeathRowKitty]

They can be good for convincing your other personalities to take a more active role in games

or for playing games while pretending to have left the site, I guess......

[SleepyKrew]

Or for cheating!