Mail Between My Own Avatars

Is it possible to use the Moogle Mail service to send items to other avatars that you have created? I know it is possible to send items to friends but can this also apply to sending mail to your own avatars?

Nope. In early 2.0 there was a minor bug that allowed you to send a friend request to your alts while they were in a duty, but this has since been removed and is now nearly impossible to do. People who did so before still have their friended alt on their friend list.

The only other way to transfer items between characters on the same account is basically another person handing off from one to the other, or the use of a free company chest (at your own risk, if it's not "your" company).

this game lol, 10/10.

They don't want u having alt classes on same char, since they share tome/loot caps.

annnnnnd they don't want you supporting an alt character oO which is strange since it's in their best interests ($$$) to get ppl to want to upgrade to multi char accounts.

There is a good reason why you can't mail your alts. And it isn't just money (but I'm sure that plays into it). If everyone could mail their alt characters, then suddenly everyone has 320 retainer slots instead of 40. The market would stagnate. Why bother updating prices if you have 320 slots with which to sell? But when you only have 40 (the base amount without paying extra per month), each of those slots is a little more precious. You'll be more willing to move your product rather than sit on some overpriced item for weeks.

Besides, the game is designed to only use one character. One character can play all jobs/classes. I know why people make alts, due to the soldiery caps and coil cooldowns. Seems like a lot of work for so little benefit though.

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Originally Posted by dspguy

There is a good reason why you can't mail your alts. And it isn't just money (but I'm sure that plays into it). If everyone could mail their alt characters, then suddenly everyone has 320 retainer slots instead of 40. The market would stagnate. Why bother updating prices if you have 320 slots with which to sell? But when you only have 40 (the base amount without paying extra per month), each of those slots is a little more precious. You'll be more willing to move your product rather than sit on some overpriced item for weeks.

Besides, the game is designed to only use one character. One character can play all jobs/classes. I know why people make alts, due to the soldiery caps and coil cooldowns. Seems like a lot of work for so little benefit though.

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You can have all 8 chars in a free company which makes "mailing" between them extremely easy anyways so this is a terrible excuse.

There is a hard mail limit of 1mil gil per letter and a person can only have 20 items in their inbox before they have to take it out to receive more items. It's an extremely limiting system as it is. FC chest transfer is better in pretty much every way.

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Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez

There is a hard mail limit of 1mil gil per letter and a person can only have 20 items in their inbox before they have to take it out to receive more items. It's an extremely limiting system as it is. FC chest transfer is better in pretty much every way.

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The trade/mail 1mil limit is really annoying.

Had to trade someone 30mil the other week, very tedious.

If you were free to mail to alts, then people would have no reason to spend an additional $2 per month per extra retainer. Simple as that.

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Originally Posted by Kaaylryn

If you were free to mail to alts, then people would have no reason to spend an additional $2 per month per extra retainer. Simple as that.

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One of these things has nothing to do with the other, which shows how little thought you put into your one-liner reply.

If my main is a crafter but my alt is not and my alt gets ore, how am I supposed to use it on my main? This is not an issue of storage space. This is an issue of item-use efficiency.

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Originally Posted by Sessurea

they don't want you supporting an alt character oO which is strange since it's in their best interests ($$$) to get ppl to want to upgrade to multi char accounts.

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That's the strangest part about this rule. When they're charging extra money for the ability to have multiple characters on a server, it makes no sense for them not to allow people to make use of having multiple characters on the same server. :confused:

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Originally Posted by dspguy

If everyone could mail their alt characters, then suddenly everyone has 320 retainer slots instead of 40. The market would stagnate.

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I'd be really surprised if there's all that many players who use all 40 that we have now. Some do, certainly, and there's probably even a few who got extra retainers for that purpose (rather than the more common purpose of storing items). But the limit on MB slots is really only of concern to those few players who treat the Market Board itself as a primary focus of the game. I've rarely used up the 20 slots I get with one retainer, and have only a couple times resorted to selling a few things from my second retainer. Having access to more Market Board slots wouldn't change the number of items players have to sell.

Besides, if you really want access to playing the market and selling more than 40 items, you can already switch alts, selling a few things from each of them. You just need to use the character you're going to sell them from to acquire the items you want to sell.

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Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez

If my main is a crafter but my alt is not and my alt gets ore, how am I supposed to use it on my main? This is not an issue of storage space. This is an issue of item-use efficiency.

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Exactly. We need to be able to send crafting components to our crafter, and crafted items from our crafter to our other characters.

(Currently I'm in a small enough FC that I can get away with using the FC chest for this purpose, but it's impossible for players in larger, more active FCs.)

I suppose the possibility of having different characters in the same account is thought for characters that will have separate lives, not for characters that will co-operate with each other. The reason for having different characters should be other than co-operating one with the other, if there would be an advantage then it would become a better choice to have several characters, and it's not what is sought.

Another reason for several characters in the same account is the possibility of more than one family member playing with the same account and saving their progress in different characters.

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Originally Posted by JonBigwood

The reason for having different characters should be other than co-operating one with the other, if there would be an advantage then it would become a better choice to have several characters, and it's not what is sought.

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There are several obvious distinct economic advantages to having multiple characters. Here are 3: Unspoiled nodes, treasure maps, daily roulettes.

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Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez

There are several obvious distinct economic advantages to having multiple characters. Here are 3: Unspoiled nodes, treasure maps, daily roulettes.

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Thanks for the information.
Anyway I think these advantages probably are not sought by the developers, they just happen to be there.

There are people that have FC just for themselves, or maybe for themselves and their alt classes, but it's not for what FC were created. Nor for giving items between alt characters of the same player.

You can make enough gil with just one character. You would need more play time to profit from the advantages of multiple alt characters, but if someone has the time and there's the possibility, it may be worth it for him.

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Originally Posted by JonBigwood

There are people that have FC just for themselves, or maybe for themselves and their alt classes, but it's not for what FC were created.

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That's a major source of the problem. People are resorting to using FCs (which are supposed to be the game's primary social groups) to cover for what should be a basic feature of the game, the ability to transfer items. If the ability (which we're already paying them money for) were added as it should have been from the outset, then people would be free to use FCs for their intended purpose. As it is, everyone is forced into a choice of either having a real FC or else being able to coordinate your alts. That shouldn't be a choice, we should have both as long as we're paying for it.

He'll as much as I hate to say this, I would pay 2-4 more bucks a month if I could do this right here.
The ability to use my ventures and move items would be so much easier.