So the ability to mail characters only on your F-List was the dev's way to try and control gil sellers. Understandable, but alas it didn't work. It does however hold people back who spend the extra money to have multiple characters on a server. So what I ask of the Dev's is if we could get this removed or adjusted. I know its not possible in time for 2.2 but maybe as a hot fix for soon after. Even if it just adds all our characters on our own account automatically to the friends list or send friend request when they are offline excluding B-Listed to keep Gil Spammers from crowding and flooding the mail server, could even charge say 25 gil per letter sent.
The Ability to mail to our other characters.
Printable View
-
03-23-2014, 12:45 AMValtheinThe Ability to mail to our other characters.
-
03-23-2014, 12:56 AMFawkes
They probably won't, because they want to sell you more retainers.
-
03-23-2014, 01:03 AMValthein
Not really in to it for the retainers, But I would like one of every race. and with a character who has almost every craft max I should be able to send my other characters crafted materia enhanced items to make say tanking easier especially if its a fresh tank and everyone else is 50 lvl synced from roulette. They pull so much Hate because the gear is still OP for someone just starting a tank class. The same for a fresh healer who gets a 50 tank thinking he's just gonna pull everything then wonders why he died and wasn't getting healed. all my characters, crafter included have 2 retainers and over half storage on both is free. I just don't need the space.
-
03-23-2014, 01:09 AMGextivIndeed, I wonder what other quality of life improvements they'll add to this "Mog Station."Quote:
Originally Posted by Fawkes
-
03-23-2014, 01:10 AMValthein
If you look at lvl 15 gear you have +3str/+3vit/+1det/+3dex/+3acc then look at a lvl 50 lvl sync gear and its like +16 down the line. throw in say a lvl 16 healer lvl 15 tank and 2 lvl 50 lvl sync dd's its almost guaranteed wipe. dd's think they are badass so pull too much healz cant keep up tank cant get agro. then rage quit, iv seen it happen lol. at least with materia HQ crafted gear it can help offset that a little.
-
03-23-2014, 01:33 AMMcshiggs
Maybe if you ask enough, they won't let you send mail to alts, but maybe pay more on the mogstation for a bag that is shared between the characters on one server, after the selling of retainers, to me it looks like any convenience feature when it comes to inventory will be sold for real money so we can pay for their hardware to make the game run.
-
03-23-2014, 02:44 AMDiadumenos^ this. pretty much put a nail in the coffin for giving SE any reason to let us make viable mules.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fawkes
-
03-23-2014, 02:53 AMBalfreid
I am pretty sure before the game went live they said they did this because "They wanted to promote only playing one character and also to help counter some RMT activity." Buuuut considering lock-outs and RMT are still rampant this really didn't do much good.
-
03-23-2014, 02:54 AMnecrosisAhh no. Its their misguided ways to stop RMT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fawkes
-
03-23-2014, 04:25 AMTeganLaron
Two threads about this in one day...
-
03-23-2014, 05:22 AMKayoReally? How so? What can mailing gil or items to another character in an account they already have full access to, do to help gold sellers? I could never really put the logic behind that. As far as I know, hackers take your account, mail out as much of your gold away to another account then make "Ssdfskjd Fgdkfn" named characters to spam us into buying the gold they just stole.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valthein
I cant even make alts ATM since im on the cheaper sub so it never really bothered me even but it never made sense.
Exactly. As soon as I read the whole MT retainer thing that alt-mailing restriction finally made sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fawkes
Its sad too, one of the ways they wouldve definitely made more money from me would be by enabling this. Part of the reason im even on the cheaper sub is because I couldnt mail between them. I figured since there is no difference anyway, I may as well have them on separate servers. Might have even gotten them a paid server transfer too. Instead they chose to decieve us into buying f2p items and now im just that much closer to not paying them anything. Who knows how many others have the cheaper sub for that very reason. -
03-23-2014, 07:33 AMValthein
yes really, that was the original reasoning behind why they didn't allow cross mail if I remember the statment right, but that fell through gil sellers are like roaches where there's one there's a million. I see nothing wrong with the 2$ charge especially for basic accounts, But the players that do pay the extra already a month should be allowed to mail back and forth. I have been wanting the ability to mail back and forth since early access as have others.
-
03-23-2014, 08:50 AMRickyWhat kind of sig is an crying anime girl? What message are you trying to send here? What is the purpose?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gextiv
-
03-23-2014, 12:01 PMGextiv1)The kind that portrays a crying anime girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ricky
2)Love, peace, and happiness.
3)To be my signature, that's its purpose. -
03-28-2014, 05:41 AMValthein
Still want to know if this is in the works or not. I like multiple characters regardless if one can level everything or not, I like one for crafting one as a tank or melee one as a range one as a caster. the one good thing about wow til they made the account wide achievements. multiple characters mail back and forth and each one used to be unique based on mounts pets and achievements. So Dev's is this something we can look forward to or no?
-
03-28-2014, 05:45 AMEnkidohBecause that was the whole idea of retainers in the first place so that players would not need to make mules (retainers were physical player npcs in 1.0 who actually stayed logged into the game in the Market Ward area, could be used to store items and even run bazaars for you).Quote:
Originally Posted by Diadumenos
Naturally this didn't work out as well as SE had hoped (the system for accessing retainer bazaars was very clunky), so SE streamlined retainers into the Market Board system in ARR. But of course FFXI fans who are used to having half a dozen mules on their account find it difficult to adjust to the different set up here in ARR. -
03-28-2014, 06:04 AMFelisOr more accountsQuote:
Originally Posted by Fawkes
-
03-28-2014, 11:00 PMFritoBandito
I'm in favor of being able to mail things to my alts.
If I can only mail things to friends, then just make it so that whatever characters are on the same account will automatically be on each others' friend lists by default.
Also, with the potential for new playable race(s) on the horizon, people are going to want to create new characters to play them (NB4 Vial of Fantasia. Not everyone will want to change existing characters), and thus will want to be able to send mail between the characters on the account.