Item transfer between characters on same account

[Syanis]

I'm really pissed off on this also not being able to mail my own damned characters. I have been grinding away on crafts in hopes of pimping out other characters as they level and just found out I can't even mail my own alt on my own account. This is beyond stupidity by the devs and really just says f*** you to especially any crafter. Many crafters don't craft for markets in mmo's but for personal use and they utterly killed that aspect.

[Dudicus]

can't you just create and FC and use its bank?

[Aixa]

This could have to do with using mail to launder gil and make it a lot harder to trace or something.

[Evenshor]

I too would love it if I could send items to my alts. Yes, I know one avatar can do everything, but I enjoy having multiple, specialized characters. Freshens up gameplay a bit.

Not being able to share items between my characters -- especially stuff that one wouldn't need, but the other does, as, say, a crafter -- frustrates me. It's a smallish issue, I suppose, but right now it seems like a pointless restriction, and one that limits my enjoyment of the game. Solutions: enable friending of a player's own characters (perhaps this could be automatic, to get around both parties needing to be online), an account-wide bank vault (I like someone's suggestion of accessing it in an inn room), or allowing a retainer to send things between alts (perhaps through other retainers). The last two might help with the gold/gil-sellers problem, as you have to be a certain level to use them.

[Barrymc]

I was planning on paying for a standard subscription (instead of entry) until I found out that it's impossible to mail items to my own alts on the same server. What's the point of having alts if you can't mail them anything?

[ShackledDreams]

I was planning on paying for a standard subscription until I found out that it's impossible to mail items to my own alts.

Same here. Currently, the only incentive to paying for multiple months is that those interested in role playing can stay with their community and the rest of us can get earlier access to the veteran rewards. I don't mind waiting on the rewards and have no interest in role playing, so it's useless to have two characters on the same server.

The best fix for this would be what Thodoll suggested and allow us to send friend requests to people that are offline. Yet, those of us who would have had multiple characters will likely stick to one now as it's be a pain to relevel crafting or gathering classes. The only immediate plus would be getting all the Gil you could earn via quest rewards, but at this point, that time would be better spent selling goods on the market board (unless the economy were to tank, of course).

[Sanyani]

This is a major issue. We need account wide retainer for characters on same server, or the ability to friend our own alts offline. This must be in the first patch. You have no idea how many long term players will leave your game over this one thing.

"But you can do everything on one character" people need leave no comment. I could paint everything in my house red if I wanted to. I could have a more intelligent conversation with a guppy.

[Anzil]

I have so much support for this thread.

[Luvbunny]

So basically there is no point to sub the standard, best to just pay for the basic one, 1 character per server, since you cannot mail items between characters on the same account. Whose idea is this..... even on FFXI you can send items between characters on the same account...

[Eurkin]

This has made me Craaazyyy... If anything if they wish to keep it where you can only mail friends you should be able to add people who are offline... like your Alts... Right now I'm buddy buddy with an FC member that is my middleman... and I feel bad for asking them when I need to mail stuff to myself.. and its only for crafts and armor... > frustration... setting in!