Personally, I like to focus on one or maybe two characters at a time. Even when I have more fleshed out characters than that (for example, in CoH, I had about 6 such characters), I'll usually end up only playing the other alts on an as-needed basis -- to support others' scenes and such. Sometimes, I'll get bored with one of the two "mains" or their story line will peter out, in which case I'll tag in one of the alts as a main for a time or, possibly, permanently.
That said, I don't have any issue with people who want to play a lot of alts. It's your choice how many characters you want to RP on a regular basis and not really any of my business. The important things are to make sure you don't capriciously leave others' stories stranded and to not abuse your alts. In the former case, that usually means not getting too deeply involved with others' story lines, which may or may not be a problem for you. The latter case is a function of good RP: don't have your alts magically appear to solve problems for your (or others') characters, don't have them magically share knowledge, etc. For me, at least, I find it's best if my alts don't know each other at all or, if they must -- say, because they're in the same LS or FC -- they don't know each other particularly well and certainly wouldn't stick their necks out for each other.
That said, I don't have any issue with people who want to play a lot of alts. It's your choice how many characters you want to RP on a regular basis and not really any of my business. The important things are to make sure you don't capriciously leave others' stories stranded and to not abuse your alts. In the former case, that usually means not getting too deeply involved with others' story lines, which may or may not be a problem for you. The latter case is a function of good RP: don't have your alts magically appear to solve problems for your (or others') characters, don't have them magically share knowledge, etc. For me, at least, I find it's best if my alts don't know each other at all or, if they must -- say, because they're in the same LS or FC -- they don't know each other particularly well and certainly wouldn't stick their necks out for each other.
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