Is there any reason Mysterious and Treasure maps are labeled as Unique?

[Thaliss]

I did agree for Mysterious maps would be nice to stack, but for me minor convenience I don't mind as it is.
maps from questing :
Day 1 : just had time do quest got map and deciphered it
Day 2 : same, got map undeciphered in inventory
Day 3 : Did 2 maps, the quest and then the 3rd map.

I am not saying they don't have to change, I guess there are people that don't have a problem with it either way.

Maps bought with myths you can only buy 2 before having to farm Myth again. There are a some people that do farm alot.
If you can stack you go to Mordhona and then Myth farm, Spend myth rinse and repeat. Then once enough maps you go farm all your alexandrites you need.
By being so focused you would reduce alot the time to collect your alexandrites.

There will be always time sinks and the relic is one of them.

[Razzle]

I did agree for Mysterious maps would be nice to stack, but for me minor convenience I don't mind as it is.
maps from questing :
Day 1 : just had time do quest got map and deciphered it
Day 2 : same, got map undeciphered in inventory
Day 3 : Did 2 maps, the quest and then the 3rd map.

I am not saying they don't have to change, I guess there are people that don't have a problem with it either way.

Maps bought with myths you can only buy 2 before having to farm Myth again. There are a some people that do farm alot.
If you can stack you go to Mordhona and then Myth farm, Spend myth rinse and repeat. Then once enough maps you go farm all your alexandrites you need.
By being so focused you would reduce alot the time to collect your alexandrites.

There will be always time sinks and the relic is one of them.

I guess we just play different then... In 3 days I can get like five maps (not including weekend lol) from comboing the dailies plus the myths. That turns the "minor inconvenience" into not so minor (for me and my friends)...

I'm all for relic weapon taking time, but please take time in a convenient way

I don't share the opinion that the inconvenient design is to act as a time sink... It sounds a bit far fetched (?)

My guess is really that it's a left over from Treasure Maps that should be changed for the sake of convenience (At the very least on Mysterious maps only).

[Arkista]

I wish they would change this. I like to wait until I have 5-6 maps and do them all at once.

[TeganLaron]

Yeah I've never understood this. Maybe they intended it to stop people having too many? But then why make it possible to sell them?! Go check your market board and I'm sure you'll see the same names buying most of the Boarskin/Peisteskin

Yeah, no idea. Hopefully they'll think about changing this.

[Gerolan]

I wish they would remove the unique label, they already make it impossible to mail your own characters on same accoint, so the work around is FC chest, which you can't put unique items in

[LineageRazor]

I'm guessing maps are this way because SE wants folks to do "daily" activities. There was another thread a while back, complaining about daily beast-tribe quests being difficult to progress through because the OP could only play on weekends. He wanted SE to change beast tribe quests so that you earned six allowances per day (perhaps up to a maximum of seven days' worth) which you could then use however you liked whenever you have the time to do them. The dev response was pretty much, "We want players to do these activities every day."

By making maps unique, they encourage a similar behavior. Get a map every day, use a map every day - that's what SE wants folks to do. Sure, players can get around this to a degree by stockpiling maps on retainers, and collecting different types of maps, but I'm still sure that's their intent.

As to WHY SE wants folks logging on and doing stuff every day, that I can only guess. The paranoid conspiratist in me thinks it may be to encourage MMO loyalty; they don't want players playing WoW on Mon Tues Wed and FFXIV on Thurs Fri Sat, or whatever - by adding daily activities, players are encouraged to log on every day, which means they'd be less likely to spend time on other games. Less cynically, maybe they know that if folks could accumulate maps or beast quests, the vast majority of players would save up for the weekend and do them all then, creating server strain; it could be a method to keep server activity from spiking.

[Camate]

Greetings,

Currently the team does not have any plans to make it possible to stack maps at the moment, but they appreciate your suggestion and should anything change in the future we’ll be sure to let you know.

[Parz3val]

What about Atma's? Or making Atma's key items.

[Tiggy]

Unique = being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.

You need 75 (or close to it) "unique" Alexandrite maps for your Novus. SE logic.

That's just a label. It's just like the exclusive tag in FFXI. It just means you can only have one. I wouldn't get hung up on the word too much.

[necrosis]

No, you are not alone. It is not really a problem, more a question of convinience but I would also like to be able to stack them and decide on my own when I want to do them. If I had a choice, I would collect them during the week and do them all on weekend when I have more time and a head for it.

One deciphered. One in bottle on you. One in bottle on retainer #1. One in bottle on retainer #2.

Its what me and some friends are doing. Then blow through them on FRI or something.