[ALT] A Legitimate Thread: Same Account Sending

[KIka93]

Hello, I know what people are thinking: Why can't we send our items or gil to characters on our account through mail like we can in FFXI? I think we should be able to do that, I mean they ARE our characters, and it is OUR items. I'm not trying to sound like a condescending jerk or anything, but I can't be the only one getting annoyed with asking my friends to help me move some gil over to a character, and using the market board for this purpose is not effective/safe.

To counter any early RMT comments about this: With SE's current effectiveness with dealing with RMT and botters, this won't be a big changer, because SE allowed us to do this in ffxi when ffxi was hot with RMT and fish bots. Having a lot of gil on your character could also make it bait for hackers to come in and compromise your account (My account is one such instance despite changing my password every other week and getting a software token, so either someone hacked my account or SE's security isn't as good as what they claim, because if I change my password to random letter and number combos that have no relation to the previous passwords or future passwords, and also possess a software token to generate a password for me, then something else is going on.)

Back to my point: What is to stop people from sending money/items to their alts? What could possibly be the explanation than "We do this to battle RMT" You do EVERYTHING to battle RMT, but they are obviously winning when I get hit by 5 /tell's from RMT within the same 10 minutes, report them, and SE never responds to me or tells me to go to the Special Task Force, and the STF doesn't do a thing.


Please allow us to send items/gil to our alts on the same account.

[Zumi]

Use the fc safe works wonders.

[KIka93]

Use the fc safe works wonders.

And if your alt isn't in that FC? What then?

[Edeline]

I don't play alt chars but I would understand the need for this, well I actually made an alt once just to reach lv15 (different race with lightning's hairstyle when event came out, before I used a fantasia because we can't use special hairstyles on character creation window) and made myself some gear so I wondered that aswell when I tried to transfer those. Had to ask a friend to do it for me OR get rights to withdraw items from your FC chest on both characters.

[KIka93]

get rights to withdraw items from your FC chest on both characters.

Yes this entirely, most FC's I've been in within the last few months have no allowed anyone to withdraw anything from the chest, just deposit and nothing but. So the FC chest is not a method for lower ranking members, period.

[Edeline]

Yes this entirely, most FC's I've been in within the last few months have no allowed anyone to withdraw anything from the chest, just deposit and nothing but. So the FC chest is not a method for lower ranking members, period.

Oh just to avoid a missunderstunding, I'm not offering those as solutions. Just saying that those are only available processes to do it now, and there should be an easier method to do it. Like a server-character wide storage.

[File2ish]

Use the fc safe works wonders.

I can't do this. My main is in a different FC than my alt.

Many others can't either, even if they have the same FC on main and alt. Some FCs have the chest access limited to deposit only or restricted for gil, crystals, and at least one of the three item portions, if not all of them.

The only thing we can do at this point is either get a middle man to do the trades, or risk putting the item up for cheap so you can buy it on your alt (or in the case of gil transfer, put something up for how much you want to transfer. In which case, though it probably wouldn't happen, you may get reported for RMT if you put a single boar leather up for 200k and buy it from yourself). Neither option is very favorable.

We have a mail delivery system, but we can't send items to our own characters because we can't friend ourselves. I'm for the idea of being able to mail our own characters.

[craig_meredith2003]

i agree so bump

[Cetra]

It really is a ridiculous restriction. Have my vote.

[pageybear]

I agree with the op.