You do not HAVE TO have alt's, they are useful for all the reasons you mentioned but not NECESSARY, It's just that currently there's no reason NOT to have them so everyone DOES.
I'm all for encouraging people to play with one character but as long as alts continue to be such an easy way to specialize in EVERY possible way simultaneously who will?
Your claim that a small deposit would drastically lower the player base seems unlikely as well; $10 is hardly a prohibitively vast sum, just enough to make you think twice before throwing it away. It's people being raging a$$holes in the game without consequence that makes most people quit.
OH please don't tell me we will have a paid game which isnt even completed.
But luckily devs can't charge any fee for the game even if they wanted to so stop trying.
And about these ten bucks for account - typical Yankee, all issues wants to solve with cash.
You want to make a game that has copy right issues, is still in beta a paid game? Sorry, but beta testing has it's purposes.
- Feature like working auction or market. Would eliminate need for every crafter alt for single person cause you cant trust anyone. - Allowing char to make many tents or introduce parking lots would eliminate about 90percent of alts.- Allowing faction to have many bases would eliminate lots of alts with many other problems included.everithing suggested zillion times and neglected.
JUST ONE character?
My proposed solution is to require a modest, say 10USD, deposit to register an account.
This could be sent by paypal and would be refundable, with the resultant closure of the account, at any time while the account remains in good standing.
This game cannot be paid in ANY way due of Fallout license, you can just donate, if you want do it instead of making topic to force people to pay for game
to be honest, more than half of players wouldnt be playing anymore...
If we implent your idea, this would be more like a paid beta test, people would be leaving, developers have almost no testers to test the game, the players get bored because nobody plays, they leave, FOnline dies. What's there not to understand?