Mailing System

[lordoftheapes79]

I don't see this having any real effect, RMTs will likely just have multiple accounts running on multiple computers, sitting next to each other and just trade it off, or you can use retainers to accomplish the same thing, put a piece of animal skin for sale @ 1,000,000gil, there ya go, cash transferred. Unless you're gonna eliminate all transactions between any characters, there will always be a way around it. So all SE is really doing is tying the hands of their paying customers. This needs to go, the intentions were good, but its not gonna do the game any favors.

If you want to limit this, the only real thing you can do is limit the amount of gil that can be transferred between characters on a daily basis, but that would prevent any real expansion of the economy.

[Riastrad]

I remember my days in Phantasy Star Universe (mind numbing as it was) and thinking the "Common Box" was so text-book that I thought for sure most other mmorpgs should have it. With the "Common Box" you could transfer money and items by simply putting them into the box and any character on that account could pick them up as needed/wanted. Was very convenient for juggling multiple sets of gear as your characters could also level different classes.

In many games I make it a point to level multiple characters so that I stay up to date with rotations as patches go by. I don't learn things by talking or reading, I tend to learn on the job. Just my two cents.

[Kerabit]

Send items to your friend, and ask the friend to send em back to another character of yours.

[GungnirNova]

Just make a second service account and pay the extra 13.99 and you'll have your mule. XD

[moriandrio]

Afaik there isn't even a law that forbids the selling of game currency etc. It's something that the publisher doesn't want but that doesn't make it illegal.
If you sell your account, SE can bann you for it, but that's it. It's not so easy to handle RMTs.

[darkstarpoet1]

this rule is absolutely killing me atm. in 1.0 i did a ton of spiritbonding and converting to materia. my alt kept all my materia on it to save my inventory space on my main character. now with all materia being converted to cracked that you cannot trade to yourself(or anyone else because it's untradeable) i am sitting with an alt with hundreds of pieces of materia i need to move to my main char with no possible way to do it. if cracked mater could be traded like gear with cracked materia on it i wouldn't be as upset with this rule, but i still would not support the decision. i just see zero upside to thie rule whatsoever.

[Kyra]

. my alt kept all my materia on it to save my inventory space on my main character. now with all materia being converted to cracked that you cannot trade to yourself(or anyone else because it's untradeable) i am sitting with an alt with hundreds of pieces of materia i need to move to my main char with no possible way to do it.

Firstly im not sure how you had an alt on the same account that you was able to store your materia on, as there was no way to really do that unless you had a friend hold on to it and trade it back to your alt.

Secondly you just gave me a brief heart attack about cracked being untradeable..... I never thought of this, and ive got a mule with 100s of tier IV cracked.

Thirdly after my brief heart attack subsided lol I think it will be ok as you can just trade the cracked materia to the exchange npc with the mule and get the materia you want and then that materia will be tradeable.... I think.

Can someone confirm the materia you get from the exchange npc is tradeable?

[darkstarpoet1]

Firstly im not sure how you had an alt on the same account that you was able to store your materia on, as there was no way to really do that unless you had a friend hold on to it and trade it back to your alt.

Secondly you just gave me a brief heart attack about cracked being untradeable..... I never thought of this, and ive got a mule with 100s of tier IV cracked.

Thirdly after my brief heart attack subsided lol I think it will be ok as you can just trade that materia to the exchange npc with the mule and get the materia you want and then that materia will be tradeable.

wasn't hard. materia was able to be traded so i traded to a friend and he traded it to my alt. it was a bad work around, but it did work. with untradeable materia i can no longer do that to get it back to my main.

yes, you can trade it in towards materia of your choice , but you can't trade it in to get the darklight tokens for the alt and trade those to your main. my intentions was to trade it all over and put that towards getting full sets of darklight since the old materia was all destroyed. if i could just trade that to my main i would be a happy camper as at least the gear with the cracked materia can be traded. i just don't like the idea that i'm stuck with hundreds of pieces of materia and can't really use them for the intended purposes due to them changing it to no longer able to be traded. sure, they have a use, but not as ideal as i had hoped.

edit:

Can someone confirm the materia you get from the exchange npc is tradeable?

yes, i can confirm the materia you get can be traded. i did a few pieces testing in in p4. the materia you get from the exchange npc is regular materia. it's like what happened with the guild points from 1.0 when you were able to trade that in.

[Kyra]

but you can't trade it in to get the darklight tokens for the alt and trade those to your main. my intentions was to trade it all over and put that towards getting full sets of darklight since the old materia was all destroyed. if i could just trade that to my main i would be a happy camper as at least the gear with the cracked materia can be traded. i just don't like the idea that i'm stuck with hundreds of pieces of materia and can't really use them for the intended purposes due to them changing it to no longer able to be traded. sure, they have a use, but not as ideal as i had hoped.

Ok Well I can put your mind at rest with this image.



You cant trade cracked material to the exchange npc for tomestones anyway. Only gear with cracked on it

So don't worry about it.

[darkstarpoet1]

Ok Well I can put your mind at rest with this image.

You cant trade cracked material to the exchange npc for tomestones anyway. Only gear with cracked on it

So don't worry about it.

haha, yeah i forgot about that. i was just looking at it going omg. i was having the same minor heart attack. thanks for reminding me about that because i had completely forgotten the cracked materia couldn't be traded for tombstones and i never was able to make it on my alt due to servers always being full to test it.