Mailbox / Delivery System NEEDED !

[Jinko]

Send 100s of items At once!? I don't think that's such a good idea.

Yea I thought someone would take that out of context.

If you played FF11 you would know what I mean (maybe you do) that if I sent 8 items to player A, I couldn't send 8 items to Player B until Player A had taken his items off his moogle.

It was a completely ridiculous situation.

I hate to keep bringing up WoW (I'm guna start looking like a fanboy before long) but you could send as many items as you wanted with a maximum of 20 items per letter/parcel (call it what you will), obviously the more items you send the more it cost and the more money is removed from the server, so although you may not think its such a great idea it actually is, because there are very few gil sinks in this game at the moment.

[Hiemdall]

Japanese programming is not as advanced as Western programming, although granted some of the programmers working on XIV may have been educated in the West (though I severely doubt that, due to Japan's industrial culture favoring locally-taught students).

My point is that I think Square Enix needs to consider bringing in developers who are experienced with MMOs from the West or elsewhere. Possibly Korea.

This makes no since at all. Programming is programming. FFXIV uses the Crystal Tools game engine. I'm assuming the core is in C with all plugins written in C++ and other languages.

The server related issues he mentioned probably does have to do with using old servers, and how many server requests are made to do simple things like change gear. My guess is that will go away, and they will upgrade the servers.

They also launched with too many worlds.

[Veasna]

The groundworks for the mail/delivery box should already be in place as it was said by Tanaka that we would get one at the first patch of 2011. Then the whole lead shift came and Yoshi said he would take from Tanaka what he considered most important and work with that. Never would have thought that its now almost may, we still don't have a mailbox and im still spending hours trading stuff back and forth every day.

[Leelya]

He wanted to assure you that of course this is being looked into, but it will take time to implement because it is difficult to execute without improving the server-related issues first.

Not to put words in your mouth, but it seems as though you guys are currently working to resolve poor coding before adding additional functionality.

[Sykora727]

I cant stress this enough, and theres been countless topics & posts about the lack of this functionality.
It's no wonder i have 5 characters with no 10 retainers, wich are almost full of items.

What pains me is to wait for someone i trust in my LS to hold some items for me while i log into my other character & pick up those items.

Besides my ls members arnt always online when i am.
And the 2nd option...to sell my stuff to my own characters are too risky.

Please for the love of ...anything, consider adding this feature soon.
Either as a mailbox or a Delivery NPC.

Update:
KK... why the hell cant i change the actual topic title?
Any rep/mod wanna fix this please? (Updated: Thank You!)

As much as I agree that we could use a mailbox function, there needs to be boundaries with it so that people aren't constantly getting 1000 eggs and selling them for 500 gil each and messing up the economy, for example.

Unique items shouldn't be watered down so easily. Of course, these "mutilators of the system" will have to pay for the extra accounts eventually anyway...

[Petdo]

I came up with the idea why they don't implement this system... yet.
Implement this mail system need another "system" to send/receive/store mails that circulate in system..I must say it's a big load.
And from my point of view, they "Didn't" design this system at first place because they didn't plan to implement AH at first place too. ( as you can see in other MMO, the item you buy/bid from AH, you can get it via mail system. )

So..No design, then no mail system, then no server to operate this task.

Why they buy the time with some excuse like server issue?
Answer is simple... YOU PLAYING THIS GAME FOR FREE!

Why SE have to invest in Server/System and get more cost for the game that can't generate income yet.

Conclusion;
I think SE added this feature in their fix list but.. set it to very low priority :P

[Grimm]

Or maybe they know how to use them properly, and someone that has no idea of what are the problems involved shouldn't just assume that he knows better?

Or maybe you assume many people know little about something and you ASSUME SE knows everything? The fact is older out dated games have no problems doing this so either the software or server it's self sucks end of story. ORRR rather than saying they don't want to put it they will just say it's very hard to do. Considering they say it's hard to do many things other and older games do I think it's a mixture of all 3.

[derekx]

It's extremely fun to see some people that think they can hypotesize on how the servers work without having even given a look at the code (or having no real knowledge of the engine and of game development in general).

True enough, but it is fair to say that their persistent server work is interesting from a few stand points.

[derekx]

The groundworks for the mail/delivery box should already be in place as it was said by Tanaka that we would get one at the first patch of 2011. Then the whole lead shift came and Yoshi said he would take from Tanaka what he considered most important and work with that. Never would have thought that its now almost may, we still don't have a mailbox and im still spending hours trading stuff back and forth every day.

Just because there was a system in development does not mean that it now is the best time to implement it. First, consider that we don't know to what extent it was fleshed out or the completion status. Also, if there is to be many fundamental changes to core game systems it may just be a time sink that needs completely reworked later.

On another note, the dev team has to be careful spending a lot of time on temporary compromises (or quick fixes) because of how judgmental players and critics are. Everything they implement needs to be polished and rock solid.

Edit: Maybe having to plan around future console technical details is really complicating things. That is something other MMO's do not have to deal with. On-line console functionality can be quite proprietary (working out details with Xbox live/PSN).

[Reika]

I play Rift this pass weekend they give a weekend free 3days and i enjoy it very much but still not my type of game. I don't understand how a game like rift who just came out can be great even the pvp is pretty good unlock wow with "BOA cheat". I hope SE can fix all the issue with the servers.

It came out great because it is a near-complete copy of WoW, which has had years of success.