Alts take away consequences and choices. With alts you can have everything only relog away. With proxy/fastrelog even closer.
That's not false, but it's not entirely true either.
First of all, as we all know proxying is against the rules and even if players can do it and get away with it, it's still not allowed and it shouldn't be done because, let's be honest, when you see an enemy cheating you will most probably get mad. Cheating ruins the game for everyone.
About alts, no one can say alting is against the rules, and we agree that "they take away choices and consequences". However (I know I won't change shit with this post, but it's always good to say what one thinks) we should ask ourselves if it's really the possibility to alt that takes away C&C, or if it's ourselves and our hunger for build perfection, productivity, etc.
I am not very active these days but when I have some time I play with a "hybrid" character I have. But that's me... I actually have nothing against powerbuilds, and even if I think "one char per player" would be great, I don't rage at anyone who would use two or three chars, but as the general tendency is to have one alt for every single activity one can think of, interaction between players is usually reduced to combat, which means, imho, that the whole idea of FOnline makes no sense, since we already have a multiplayer version of Fallout Tactics, where you can arrange everything so you won't rage about swarms, cheats, etc.
Also, levelling characters can be boring as hell. A FOnline experience which consists of spending an X amount of time in thrilling PvP combat in TC, which is the fun part (I won't say PvP is boring), but which comes after a 2X amount of time of getting ready for the battle, and a 5X or more amount of time levelling characters searching for centaurs or molerats, is imho quite lame and becomes boring soon.
I see quite a lot of "pvp apes" who play searching for total and if possible constant success ("I'd better make a new char for this or that activity"), whining about the game being dead, leaving the game because it's boring, or taking "holidays from FOnline" (holidays from a game for fuck sake!) because they feel it's more like a job, etc. But the new players I personally meet, who tend to have a "mad max wannabe" tendency, are always having fun and they enjoy doing "stupid" activities which other players consider only a chore that needs to be done in order to achieve epic ownage in the next battle.