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.

[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?

[kanjitai]

So if I want to send something to myself I will need to send to my real life friend who plans to play and he can send it to me? This just seems like a bad feature but in the last live letter they said they might change this time. Still, I think this is a bad idea.

[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.

[Kyra]

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.

Phew, that's good to know

[Noata]

I can not say the Idea is good or bad. personaly the concept of sending stuff to myself seems silly. I am a legacy player and there never was a mail system, so Its not like I had alts carrying stuff for me... i had retainers do that, they could match a players inventory.

The other thing to consider is that at most this effects people who made multiple charactesr in the beta.. that is to say at most were talking about the early 20 levels. which are not hard to get. I see the issue players are having, and I do not see how this really will stop too much RMT. I will say though that if SE tells us that its a counter measure for RMT then I am all on board. Players or people who want to profit off a game by enticing people into RMT are the worst, I would love a day when they do not exist.

[Alerith]

Question:

Wasn't there something posted about being able to log into multiple characters on the same account? One on PC and one on PS3 or something like that? Thus two of your characters can be online and friend each other.

Just something I could have sworn was on the Beta forum or something.

[darkstarpoet1]

Question:

Wasn't there something posted about being able to log into multiple characters on the same account? One on PC and one on PS3 or something like that? Thus two of your characters can be online and friend each other.

Just something I could have sworn was on the Beta forum or something.

nah, they check and only 1 char on your account can be on at once. even with things like sandbox you can play on 2 chars at once, but they have to be completely different accounts. that's why i do not see how this even slows down rmt's. each time you see 8 lala's running around farming gil that means it's 8 individual accounts and not 1 account and 7 mules. taking that into account with 8 individual accounts running around farming gil the rule put in place does nothing to stop them from trading to each other because they are not on the same account.

in other words, this does nothing to even slow down the way rmt functions at all.