Mailing stuff to alts

[Anyan]

Oh, for all that is good in the world YES PLS!

I'm an altoholic, and always has been. I had eleven characters in WoW, top leveled and top geared. And that was just on one server. I like making many since I write full backstories for them. The variety is enjoyable to me.

I have never played a game that is so player unfriendly in this regard. You have to add your friends separately on every character for example.

I had no idea about this when I started playing. When I saw I could have eight characters on my account I thought that, great I can make at least three to play around with and have them be different classes. Then I realized how extremely inconvenient it is because I can't add friends through a real ID thing, not send stuff between my own characters even though I've done all the work, the story is so linear, and you have to go through so much tedious stuff like collecting aether currents on each and every one.


This is one of the things that makes me take breaks since its so annoying, and takes away much of the joys one can get from a game like this. I now play two characters only but might even go down to one.

Sure you can make your own FC to be able to get things from one character to another, but what about having a FC house or go on Diadem journeys? I want to and need to be in a big FC to be able to do this.

Let's not fool ourselves here, it's about money. Or it's at least what I think.

[MugenMugetsu]

There's no excuse for not allowing us to mail stuff to our alt characters on the same server. RMT money laundering prevention is not a valid arguement as RMT are usually in groups and can trade gil amongst themselves or mail it to their RMT buddies, and they could do so so many times that it could make it just as hard to track as any other means. In FFXI it was no problem whatsoever mailing items to anyone, including alts.

Please, can a community mod relay the suggestion to the dev team to allow us to mail items to our alt characters? *fingers crossed this thread actually gets a community mod response*

[KitingGenbu]

SE, do you want to inconvenience RMT a little and upset players greatly?

No, they would never want to do that~ Which is why they limited how many friends you can add in a given day....

[Stormrider]

It is sad that houses don't come with chests. Since now you can give certain people access to your house. A housing chest to move and share amongst your friends or alts.

In an amazing awesome world. We would have housing locked to account and shared between the whole account. With a house chest that could store non trade able items. It has been a long time but I vaguely remember Aion storage was account based per server. This was at launch though.

[Kosmos992k]

Use a friend as a courier to deliver your stuff to your Alt, or talk to your FC leader about using a page of the Company Chest temporarily for transferring items en mass. The CC is also useful for transferring large amounts of since I am not aware of a limit on contribution or withdrawal.

[Ibi]

You can't really say that it "obviously hasn't hindered RMT significantly". There's no proof one way or the other. Yes they're still active, but there's no way to prove that they aren't less active than they would have been without the measures SE's taken already. RMT and all the spam and other bullshit that goes with it is just an unfortunate fact of life for a lot of games. :/

Other games don't seem to have nearly the problem that FFXIV does though.

I played five years of FFXI, followed by five years of WoW, and got less RMT-related interactions in that entire span than I get within twenty minutes of logging on to FFXIV.

[KitingGenbu]

Other games don't seem to have nearly the problem that FFXIV does though.

I played five years of FFXI, followed by five years of WoW, and got less RMT-related interactions in that entire span than I get within twenty minutes of logging on to FFXIV.

You know. XI used to have the same amount of rmt spam at one point. I wonder what they did to control it because it suddenly died off after a period. They were like really bad in XI though for a while, shouts/tells/everything.

[Ayerinn]

My GF and I made our own FC 3 weeks ago (already rank 6) - we put all of our alts in it...the convenience to freely move stuff to/from alts (via the company chest) is amazing I have been really lazy though - I need to use 5 more alts in there for storage...

[LukeStuz]

My GF and I made our own FC 3 weeks ago (already rank 6) - we put all of our alts in it...the convenience to freely move stuff to/from alts (via the company chest) is amazing I have been really lazy though - I need to use 5 more alts in there for storage...

But the issue with that is, it would mean I would have leave my really good FC to be able to do that and I don't wanna do that, yes I do have the option to transfer thanks to my leader allowing me, but it's still an issue when you are limited with space from the company chest and I personally would love a feature to allow me to transfer to my alt via other means, I personally have 8 retainers and I still would love this feature, so it wouldn't stop me from using the extra retainer feature we have, infact it more than likely that I'll keep the feature so I can store more mats that I need that I mass craft everyday

[Freyyy]

Just buy a second account, friend yourself and bam! You can now mail stuff to yourself.

Only if you pay my sub