been playing sl since 05 and os since around 09, as such i tend to have typically 1 per grid that i give a good hard look at. but it tends to be the same name and similar if not identical look on all grids. Ethically i would never use alts to trick someone, and anyone close to me tends to know most or all of my alts, even if i have not played them in years.

If some one have something to hide and he/she shame about it, do you think he will give you the right answer?!
No, So your statistics will be wrong, because your sample is wrong, only honest people will answer, or other will lie.

If you want to collect to understand why they have multiple accounts or alts in different name, you can't understand,
as I noticed, and met many that have alts, some want to spy others, some for privacy from being spied, or to protect him real life, some wants to cheat his partner, etc, some just like for trying to join another type of hordes and test, I remember that from MMORPG games when there is guilds and teams, they make new account to join enemies and test if they are better to stay with them, or spy, or just went bored in his old team, or for racist reasons, etc.

So some reason are good, some reasons are bad.

Me in metaverse I am very new, but I have alts one for RL name I do not use it, just I like to register my real name, one for developing, one for playing games, one for backup.

I've had an OSG AV for 13 years. I've lived on many other grids in that time. I've sent only a few of those other AVs to the pixel recycling factory. For one, I can't stand the tortured screams as they die...

There's a Luna on each grid that I have a store region on: Wolf Territories, Kitely, and Mobius. For obvious reasons. There are a couple more grids where I have friends. Then there's the Social Luna on OSgrid who represents Lunaria at events around the hypergrid. Her inventory is bare bones so that I don't crash any regions I visit and expose my creations as I travel. Sometimes several Luna's will show up at an event together (current record is 6 on Lbsa at one time, but mixing that many sisters together at one time can have unpredictable results - they tend to be competitive).There's one male alt whose only purpose is to serve as partner to any Luna as needed, but he's not happy about that, so he and Luna tend to throw verbal barbs at one another during dances. And lastly there's a completely separate female with a different name that allows me to work quietly on special projects unrelated to the stores.

One more thing worth mentioning:

If an avatar is clearly (or rather certainly) an alt of mine but not named "Jupiter Rowland", it is not "still me with a different look and name". It's a wholly separate character with an individual and fully fictional backstory and individual character traits, a wholly separate person that is not an online representation of myself.

I don't have an army of alts, for that'd be a nightmare to maintain, regardless of their identity.

See, on the one hand, when I create an avatar, that avatar needs a home somewhere. On the other hand, I don't want to set up an entire sim on each grid where I have at least one avatar, also because I don't know what to do with so much land for only one avatar. The need for parcels limits my possibilities. Also, it took me months to get the home of my current main fully furnished. Now multiply that.

Besides, I'm not the typical male virtual world user whose avatars only have one low-effort outfit and only own one set of clothes which are never changed. Avatars need a selection of outfits, also to adapt to different situations (beach, formal event, winter sim etc.). Female avatars have more outfit possibilities, even if you go 100% legal, so this results in even more outfits. And outfits mean more work again.

One backup avatar per identity is good and useful. Two would become difficult.

I have 2 because i use the second one for testing

If I had more avatars, I'd vote for myself and I wouldn't have so few votes hahahahahaha

Grid owners are petty. I said what I said. If you want a full OS experience in order to access shopping and exploration without restrictions, then you MUST have 4+ accounts due to everyone banning each other's grids

i love to make avis im so good at it and its so many grids wanna try them all if i can lol pretty much why =P

@the topic owner
why do you need this statistic?

as many times as osgrid has broken the database, a few inventories can't hurt as an iar in osgrid can quickly become worthless.

I have one Ellen Tiratzo in OSgrid, AMV, Zeta, and my original Ellen Tiratzo avatar in SL. They are all identical. Not very original eh?

There can be only ONE........
ME. Though I did create a double on another grid, that I never used, as a backup for when grids go completely down. Just for insurance and yes, it is the same name.

One, I had an alt and I broke it, I decided to store in a sim. boxed the backups of my inventory and turns out it's way faster and more efficient than another account.
The mere fact to create a whole new account makes me shiver.

Role players often make many alts to have properly named characters so we can write from different points of view with the proper character name when creating immersive ongoing stories. That's been my reason for having lots over the years. Day to day I basically use 2-3 avatars to be active in 2-3 grids that I really like and feel at home in. And no, it's not a need. It's a want and that's perfectly valid. I know some people have unfortunately used alts to grief and for other crappy reasons. But I'd like to believe the good reasons outweigh those. I think as long as you're not hurting anyone, have as many avatars as you want. Maybe they're little pieces of you. Maybe they're your peace and quiet when you need down time all to yourself. It's what it is:)

I've made five avatar IDENTITES in my metaverse trips thus far, myself and four alts. What do I mean by this? My main self exists in SL, OSgrid, Kitely and Alternate Metaverse. The alts exist in SL, OSGrid and a few in Kitely. It's complicated. I'm also in Sansar and Active Worlds 3D (as Jerom Franzic).

I decided to not send any of my alts to AMV. That is 100% myself.

It's fun to have the alts scout for places occasionally before I TP. I also use them for testing, and other exciting activities (usually as portrait props).

I have four. I created one on SL long ago, maybe in 2009. I created a second avatar when I started up my own grid a few years ago. Then I created the third one on kitely to act as an outside avatar to help me debug my own grid. And finally, I recently created an avatar, also on my own grid, to test Corrade.

The first three all look about the same, and have the same first name, the last one is very different since I may not be in total control of it as some point in the future.

I don't mind responding. I have one avatar on my home grid, which is Genesis. I also have avatars on a few other grids and all look alike and have the same name, just different Rezdays. I am rarely on any of them, though I do try to log on at least once a month to each grid. I have learned the hard way to have backups, especially everything I have that makes my avatar me. I don't Roleplay or play games with people (other than maybe Greedy ;)) so the personality you see in my avatar is me. Like it or not. I will likely create a male Avatar for creation purposes and you may see him out shopping if I am working on putting together avatars, but he won't have friends or be social with anyone. He definitely won't be running around breaking hearts. If someone wants to have dozens of avatars, that is fine with me. The only thing that annoys me is if someone has made friends with me and doesn't tell me that they are also the other 5 friends I made.

I have 6, 5 of which are for role play as I role play different characters as needed in the story line, and 1 specifically for Grid Admin work and building. Anybody doesn't like it I could care less, they don't pay my internet or my grid expenses.

I only have 3, my grid avi on vb, os avi as a backup if my grids is offline. And one on kitely for there marketplace.