There is a distinction (Destiny)

by scarab , Monday, January 12, 2015, 19:00 (3401 days ago) @ marmot 1333

between the accessibility of the vault (can you access it in combat zones?)

and the accessibility of an item in the vault.

But you are right, Ragashingo's statement could be read as always accessible items: limited to those circumstances were you can access the vault.

If the design spec stated that an alt must not be able to access gear held by another alt without without having to:

• goto settings tab
  
• select logout character
  
• wait for select character screen to load
  
• select character
  
• wait for character to load
  
• select Tower
  
• launch
  
• watch spacecraft for a bit
  
• wait in darkness for Tower to res properly
  
• run to vault
  
• enter vault
  
• goto character gear screen
  
• select weapon category and weapon to place in vault
  
• return to vault
  
• pick up other weapon
  
• quit vault
  
• goto orbit

then the spec was a bad spec.

If all that wasn't in the spec then the implementation of swapping weapons between characters was poor.