As a player: alts start fresh with experience for the purposes of the Newbie queue, but also can't play as a newbie (this makes playing in newbie games on a fresh alt fairly difficult, the only way is to replace into newbe slots). When playing in other queues, any experience requirements are set by the game moderator, who can enforce whatever rules about alts they like. The most common rule I see is to require players to privately disclose their main to the moderator. In your case, disclosing your main is unlikely to be an issue.In post 157, Umlaut wrote:What are the rules regarding experience requirements (particularly mod experience requirements) and alts? I'm considering using this account over my original (Ümläüt) from now on, but don't want to lose my accumulated experience.
EDIT: Related question: be honest, how much of a pain in the ass is my primary account name for everyone else?
As a moderator, in the past, list mods have generally been fine with granting the game moderation powers (the things that let you create the game thread, create PTs, edit posts, etc.) to an alt (especially in the case of a mod hydra; IIRC mod hydras became popular before player hydras did, as it makes moderating a game that needs a large moderation team much easier). I can't remember offhand whether you /in to mod with the alt, or whether you /in to mod with the main but ask the list mods to give the mod powers to the alt. That's a detail that's fairly easy to adjust for, anyway (and I doubt there'd be much interest in enforcing a specific process).