People with alts, how do you do it?
I see a lot of people with an alt account, or even multiple, my question is how do people find time to get several accounts to end game? I have been playing since the first year and I’m at <2.5m gp. Are most people with alts p2p?
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The time is never an issue as once you've gotten past the first 80 levels everything becomes sim. My main is 3.8M and my alt 1.4M. I can run thru all the dailies on both in about 30 min. Sometimes it takes longer if theres an assault battle, but I'm hopeful those will get a sim eventually.
For me my alt is a side project that I dont worry much about growth. It's just there and I can play it when done with my main.
With any account the only real time suck is guild events; TW, TB, and raids. Other than that Mods are the only real way to spend much extra time playing. Optimizing mods and farming/slicing mods can be a bit of time, but only needs done periodically.
As for P2P/F2P, my main is not a whale, but I do spend money at major meta shifts if I wasnt fully prepared. I think JKR was the most expensive around $300 since I was focusing on smugglers and was blind sided by JKR. DR and Malak I think I spend maybe $150 combined, mostly on gear for Malak since I unlocked him first run. Since that (and farming mods) allowed me to score high in arena I generally don't spend anything (maybe a $5 gear pack once a quarter) between meta shifts. Hoard and plan and try to minimize cost at meta shifts to stay with the meta.
My alt is growing F2P. I might have bought one $7 gear pack with him total, and simply because I had the money in my google survey account. I have JKR team mostly done, I lack GK because I've been leaving the alt in a ticket guild for my cluster so it doesnt do raids often. I believe I should unlock DR this time with the alt but don't have Sith trooper or anything to complete the team.
TLDR: The trick to alts is getting into the routine of dailies, not being arena focused on any except your main, and keeping any alts focused on only farming and gearing the most vital things.
Hope that helped if you plan to try an alt. It can get exhausting at times, but at those times simply stop playing the alt.
If by end game you mean to the tip of the spear then that won’t ever happen on my second account. I chug along on it, and get things whenever I get them. You just get used to being clobbered all the time, and waiting an eternity for anything. It does pretty well in GAC though. I got Kyber in division 3. But I never have enough crystals for anything meaningful, and gearing takes forever.
My first account is very much tip of the spear, but it’s stressful, and time consuming to maintain, and the devs keep making it harder to even tread water. The main reason I haven’t quit that one is because of the sunk cost fallacy. Kyrotechs definitely **** the joy out of that account. Pretty much just keep going out of habit, and in the false hope they will loosen up on a few older, more miserable gear pieces now that we have (the evil, dreaded) Kyros and (the not so bad, but way too soon) relics to gate progress.
So yeah, if you start a second account you can enjoy it f2p if you just don’t expect to make “end game” quickly or at all depending on how you define it. Just get stuff as you get it, and plug along slow and steady. You can make some decent progress without a huge daily time investment, but it will take a couple of years of consistency. Otherwise, get your credit card out, and go to town. It still won’t happen overnight.
You are not a consistent player, based upon my gameplay being daily to completion but having quit for 50% of the game's existence. That kind of answers your question. You're not even all-in on your 1st account. You're 50% in.
I enjoy the modding aspect of the game more than any. GAC is a chess game that I enjoy.