Trading between alts

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Originally Posted by Angelov-Mercy

That is basically true, but sometimes the worlds are full so I keep a toon in 3 different worlds encase I can't get into one.

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*shivering intensifies*

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Originally Posted by shiroxkatsuya

Do you need alts? No. Does not mean that there is anything wrong with making some QoL improvements for alt characters. Some people like playing multiple characters. A big example i can think of would be rpers. Also hc crafters. Ect ect.

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You're absolutely right in principle and I'd like to see it too, but the fact is

1) It would cost (probably a lot) to implement
2) It can directly impact their pockets by making it less tempting to buy additional retainers

I can't see them implementing QoL feature that will cost them AND directly impact their money making.

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Originally Posted by Colino

*shivering intensifies*



You're absolutely right in principle and I'd like to see it too, but the fact is

1) It would cost (probably a lot) to implement
2) It can directly impact their pockets by making it less tempting to buy additional retainers

I can't see them implementing QoL feature that will cost them AND directly impact their money making.

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You're right, it would be a horrible business decision to do this and the higher-ups would be upset to see their profit margins being narrowed. Having to have a friend/spouse help trade items between your characters is annoying but if you can tolerate the annoyance then you probably won't ever buy the expanded storage options anyway. People claim that 2 retainers is all you need but they haven't been playing long enough or aren't interested in making gil and/or having a nice glam wardrobe.

What I ~DO~ see them doing however is add a new type of storage option and maybe add more slots to the glam dresser. People are legitimately frustrated with the glam dresser and I can see at least that having more slots in 5.0 and in interviews it has been said they are looking into it.

A couple of my wishes:

*Be able to mail items directly to characters on the same world (with or without the need to be friended).

*Be able to send some bound items to characters on the same world. This would be taking a page from XI. While not all gear/items are transferable, a huge amount of items qualify in that game. With XIV, I'm personally thinking bound furnishings. I'm sure others may have some items to add that wouldn't be game breaking.

*Be able to share a home/apartment with alts automatically

*Have a chest available either in inns or available via housing/apartments that can be shared with all characters on the world.


I can't really see them adding any of the above, but a girl can dream :/ It's really hard not to compare GW2 when thinking of this issue. They do such a fantastic job with having shared vaults, currency, materials, etc. Even XI is ahead of the game here with some of the points and that game is ancient ;)

Something from Aion that I liked was having an account wide inventory. You had 6 or 7 slots that would be shared across any and all characters you made on that server. And I think unlimited money storage.

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Originally Posted by Addicted

Because if they did allow such a thing, demand for paid retainers would plummet.

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Increasing stack size from 99 to 999 would have had more of an impact.

While people would like to be able to move things between alts, not all items that take up inventory space can be transferred - such as bound gear.

The current mail limitations (5 attachments per letter, 20 total attachments in mailbox) would keep the process limited enough where people won't be moving massive quantities around between characters easily.

Allowing mailing between alts is going to put a damper on retainer subs as much as you think.

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Originally Posted by aesteval

Allowing mailing between alts is going to put a damper on retainer subs as much as you think.

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Maybe not, but you need to also account for the cost of developing the feature, which considering they haven't done it up to now and all the server limitations/problems must be quite high. It's just highly unlikely they'd put that much time/money into it.

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Originally Posted by Addicted

Because if they did allow such a thing, demand for paid retainers would plummet.

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This seems to be the most accurate.

Not sure about any one else but in all the MMOs I have played I had a ton of alt mules. Imagine here you could have a ton of alt mules each with alt mule retainers.

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Originally Posted by Nyvara

This seems to be the most accurate.

Not sure about any one else but in all the MMOs I have played I had a ton of alt mules. Imagine here you could have a ton of alt mules each with alt mule retainers.

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Wouldn't make a difference with the mail restriction of 5 items per mail. Way too time consuming for my taste.

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Originally Posted by Aramina

Wouldn't make a difference with the mail restriction of 5 items per mail. Way too time consuming for my taste.

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The mail system is rather clunky here. Between the limits items you can send, and how slowly the server responds, it could definitely use some love.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

The mail system is rather clunky here. Between the limits items you can send, and how slowly the server responds, it could definitely use some love.

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Absolutely. It definitely feels very archaic.