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Why aren't there mailboxes in all the cities/maps?
roroown
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Having to go back to Protector's Enclave every time can be annoying, what's the point of having it in one place in particular?
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Likewise with the bank.
There is a mailbox in Caer Konig and sometimes one in seasonal event places (like the Winter Festival just gone), but mostly it is a mechanism to keep the player base visiting the main town regularly so it does not become a ghost town. At least there is a mailbox right next to where you enter PE. It would be *really* annoying if we had to, say, run all the way up to the one near Knoxy each time.
Maybe there should be one in Rothe Valley, but that is more farmland/countryside than a town.
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Great Question!
The answer is, we will! Or rather, we'll dispatch our hired hands to do it for us. This is a perfect new task to add to the Leadership profession: "Deliver packages to [insert zone here]" which can easily be scaled by level and zone. A new rare task that gives you appropriately leveled rewards including between 200-800 AD (It has to be at least a difficult as collecting taxes). Even better if it is not a rare task.
They really should implement it, I would be happy to make some different zones my home, I hate the guts out of protectors enclave, crowded, tiny, suffocating! never a main city hub was so tiny and so lacking in different places for people to hang out. see Millenium city from Champions online, THAT'S a great city! PE is just a glorified piece of village and I hate it.
The difference is that goods come to the merchants - the mail couriers would need to cross some rather hostile countryside on a regular basis to make their round.
It doesn't excuse the lack of delivery within the city limits, though.
(And I'd love to see mailboxes in all zones, btw).
And the Summer Festival, erm, city.
Also you have to swith your preferences to "Not looking for party / invisible" while you're there, and then once you"re back to your gameplay zone, switch again to your normal settings.
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PE, Caer Konig, the Winter and Summer celebrations are safe locations and have Permanent Mailbox locations.
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Moist von Lipwig would do it (with the proper incentives, of course).
I understand your point but not the game logic....
It would be better to have a better way to keep folks coming back...
I would love to see a magical portable mailbox item of some kind though. Once a toon puts it down, everyone can access their mail for x amount of time before it disappears.
Well, there could be postmen here and there, like the one next to the auction house in PE...also a Post office location by itself or something equivalent.
That's not really the best argument, imo. If we go that road, why not..."as, so you sent me mail through X town eh? Now wait a few days/weeks/month to get it", as opposed to instantly...cause we need reality, no room for magic in a fantasy setting... :P Also possibility with a dice roll for your mail to either never arrive or get horribly late cause someone didnt do their job well, as was and still is the case with some national mailing services in countries all over the world, in our, super modern times. If you can get it in a second, you can def get it safe too.
Fact - this is not a reality emulation matter, but rather one of player convenience, like other stuff done today in MMO's that actually did good to the playability. And it would be convenient to have emailing services as handy as possible. Now, I understand, PE not looking as a ghost town, but they can always force you go there through missions, rewards, maybe if you want to make a guild stuff like that, I don't see why basic functions have to be through cities.
One solution might be the guild housing, or your housing(not sure about personalhousing, if its just a small house and not a stronghold). A second solution would be to have some magic item permanently with you to travel back to PE(not scrolls, these can eat up valuable bag space). Also the postmen I mentioned earlier. Possibly many other solutions too, they're creative people.
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