jesus clay makes this game seem like you have to no life and have millions of alts. OP you really only need enough alts as YOU need. Im my time here I've had one social character which was my "main" who had all the skills i needed to enjoy myself in this game along with various combat alts around in different towns. I didn't care to min max **** as it's not required at all. Tailoring for example. Heff and others do it extremely cheap. Focus on what YOU want too do in this game. If you do what clay poorly suggest then you are going to burn out with ***** of alts doing ***** like he does. He also made up a ***** load of imaginary character types.
Bottom line like meow said, if you have a secure town then have your "Main" there for crafting and such and get a combat alt to hunt and explore if thats what you want to do. Have fun and if one day you think that you would like a new character doing a certain job then focus on that.