Where was I? Right, so if you're using alts to set your main up for bi-winning, I'd say you are either (a) more interested in what ideas you can drum up on your own, or (b) crafty like a great author who reveals his opus through multiple characters.
Or just c), wanting to have a nice vacation in a different RP space. There are some freaking terrific folks out there whom I'd likely never have gotten to RP with in a more than in-passing manner if I'd been Vieve or Celeste at the time.
(Not that I'm railing against cliques or against exclusionary injustice or similar crap like that. For one, it'd be supreme irony if I bitched about people playing things close to the chest, and for two, the
last thing I want to see is everybody in the RP community ICly joining hands and singing about how they'd like to buy the cluster a Quafe. Or Starsi.)