Make Housing Account Wide

[AlenyaElizabelle]

Right now, the only way to have your alt characters use the same house as your main is this:
Login, teleport, use task manager to close game before it finishes casting, log other character, friend your alt and relog to alt to accept.

There needs to be a better way than doing that. So why not if 1 of your characters get a house, all your other characters can help decorate that house automatically, even transfer ownership to main if you wanted too.

[LunaFancy]

Right now, the only way to have your alt characters use the same house as your main is this:
Login, teleport, use task manager to close game before it finishes casting, log other character, friend your alt and relog to alt to accept.

They patched that out in SB sadly.

[worldofneil]

Right now, the only way to have your alt characters use the same house as your main is this:

Unfortunately that was patched many, many years ago. It was the second time you could friend your own characters and both times SE went out of their way to patch it ASAP.

For whatever reason they really don't want us friending our own characters (retainer sales?) even years later it clearly works just fine without a problem as they also didn't remove it from anyone who did it and those people can still mail their alts and add them to their own housing.

[Jojoya]

Right now, the only way to have your alt characters use the same house as your main is this:
Login, teleport, use task manager to close game before it finishes casting, log other character, friend your alt and relog to alt to accept.

There needs to be a better way than doing that. So why not if 1 of your characters get a house, all your other characters can help decorate that house automatically, even transfer ownership to main if you wanted too.

I thought SE had fixed that exploit several years ago. Have you done it recently?

That also wouldn't help console players.

For whatever reason they really don't want us friending our own characters (retainer sales?) even years later it clearly works just fine without a problem as they also didn't remove it from anyone who did it and those people can still mail their alts and add them to their own housing.

Allowing players to friend their alts wouldn't stop retainer sales. Having the additional retainer for an extra $2/mo is a lot more convenient than trying to shuffle items between characters even if you can mail items between them.

Mail is limited to 20 attachments pending in your inbox at a time. That means a lot of headaches logging off one character, logging onto another character, sending the mail, logging out, logging back in, and retrieving the mail (then possibly repeating the process depending on how many items you needed or if they're split between multiple characters).

[worldofneil]

Allowing players to friend their alts wouldn't stop retainer sales.

Perhaps, I don't know. All we do know for sure is that SE definitely doesn't want us being able to friend our own characters and I was just offering a possible explanation as to why (both times it happened they released emergency patches within days of it becoming common knowledge, while normal bug fixes are held up and rolled into the next maintenance patch).

It doesn't appear to have broken anything for the people that did it 4 years ago (who can still benefit from it by mailing their alts and add them to their house) and I was just thinking that from SE point of view even one person who wouldn't buy an extra retainer each month is lost money for them.

I know I'd personally still continue to pay for additional retainers if this became a thing again, but I can't speak for everyone.

[Siniztor]

Perhaps, I don't know. All we do know for sure is that SE definitely doesn't want us being able to friend our own characters and I was just offering a possible explanation as to why (both times it happened they released emergency patches within days of it becoming common knowledge, while normal bug fixes are held up and rolled into the next maintenance patch).

It doesn't appear to have broken anything for the people that did it 4 years ago (who can still benefit from it by mailing their alts and add them to their house) and I was just thinking that from SE point of view even one person who wouldn't buy an extra retainer each month is lost money for them.

I know I'd personally still continue to pay for additional retainers if this became a thing again, but I can't speak for everyone.

Well if this was why then SE wouldn't allow you to have mroe then 1 char i na fc.. since you can move items between chars via fc chest... Hense alot of people having private fc's just to share items.. Most people are more intrested in letting there alts mend or use the material seller in there houses..I know for me it wouldnt stop extra retainers since i have 3 lvl 80_ alts whos retainers all look like this https://imgur.com/a/xB3UBp7

I've paid for max retainers for probly 3 1/2 years lol i pay $28.99 a month