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Mail System: Please add a small quality of life feature... its been almost 3 years...
shoogaboogaloo
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This morning, while going through the 1000+ backlogged mail messages from the auction house that don't auto-delete when you take the stuff out of them.... I got really tired of manually clicking everything so I set up my mouse to click spam while I held down the delete key. While doing this a mail message came in and it physically deleted 300,000ish AD that came in from the auction house... not sure why it is possible to delete mail messages with items and money attached to them but whatever **** happens. Now I am not too salty about the AD but it does suck that it was lost. What I want is for us as a community to say cryptic please do something about the mail system. It is clunky, out dated, and overall hindering to gameplay and offline communication.
The fact that the auction house goes through the mail instead of the player's inventory is a mess but it could be overlooked if one of the following options were put into place... like simple 2 hours jobs that any nit-wit script kiddy could have running in this game in a day's work.
1. Make a select mail message you can just easily select messages and mass delete based on selection. Like an email client. User friendliness is the first **** you learn even in high school level computer science, how this ever went un-attended to is beyond me.
2. If that is too much for you...real simple, not sure why it hasn't been done yet. Make auction house messages delete after retrieving the item. I mean even like... Ragnarok online has a "delete mail message upon receiving item" function, and the game is over 15 years old... please...
Sorry if I seem brash but honestly after years, many hours, and hundreds of dollars into this game I expect some of the simple stuff to have been ironed out by now. We were talking about and requesting a better mailing system in mod 1... YEARS ago... not acceptable
The fact that the auction house goes through the mail instead of the player's inventory is a mess but it could be overlooked if one of the following options were put into place... like simple 2 hours jobs that any nit-wit script kiddy could have running in this game in a day's work.
1. Make a select mail message you can just easily select messages and mass delete based on selection. Like an email client. User friendliness is the first **** you learn even in high school level computer science, how this ever went un-attended to is beyond me.
2. If that is too much for you...real simple, not sure why it hasn't been done yet. Make auction house messages delete after retrieving the item. I mean even like... Ragnarok online has a "delete mail message upon receiving item" function, and the game is over 15 years old... please...
Sorry if I seem brash but honestly after years, many hours, and hundreds of dollars into this game I expect some of the simple stuff to have been ironed out by now. We were talking about and requesting a better mailing system in mod 1... YEARS ago... not acceptable
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I am glad my mail does not auto delete..
I like to keep track of transactions..
I like to keep my mail.
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1. A sent items folder.
2. Custom folders.
3. The ability to toggle a setting so we only get email from the system/admins, fiends, guildmates, etc.
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They auto-delete after a week if empty.
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"This morning, while going through the 1000+ backlogged mail messages from the auction house that don't auto-delete when you take the stuff out of them"
This is the opening sentence of the main post...
Might is not always right - the powerful sometimes forget that.
The Small BandOpen Beta started in April 2013... it was around before that... mail organization has been a problem since way back then
If you play this game avidly, a week will pile up so many auction house messages its unbelievable...
Agree'd the reason I suggested faster auto delete is that I felt with their limited dev team, and track history with making any improvements towards suggested problem areas, it would be best if I offered a cheaper, easier solution that they might actually consider.
Better safe than sorry.
It was actually in May, but thats still not 3 years.
The other issue, is this is not really a Neverwinter problem. The mail system is tied to the chat server. And the chat server is global for all of Cryptic's games. So any changes or alterations made to the system will have to done in a way that will not cause issue with the other games. And such changes will most likely have to come from another team not connected with Neverwinter. So the odds of anything actually happening are fairly low.
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This doesn't really make sense. Even if they used the chat server for mail... which they don't because it doesn't handle item values that are tied to individual servers... Even if they did that does not stop them from putting a front-end UI that allows you to select and delete multiple mail messages... this is a 100% client side function they could put in with very little effort at all... The functionality is already there, its just a UI change.
You can send mail from any Cryptic game to any Cryptic game. Obviously it wont let you send items, but the mail system is still global. As far as proof of it being part of the chat system its fairly clear to anyone who has been around Cryptic games as long as you claim to be. I have seen more then a few Chat server outages, and the mail, and friends list always goes with it.
I take item and delete the mail right the way. I don't have the "accident".
I also "like" AH drop the item back to mail. Why?
1) it does not count against mail limit.
2) My secondary storage without affect my inventory limit.
e.g. I bought many stacks of scroll of identification from AH. I just keep them all in mail. When my 99 scrolls used up, I go to pick one up from the mail system (and delete that mail). For the stuff I fail to sell, I leave them in mail until other time. It again does not take my inventory/mail space.
When I think about the hundred L60 green junk I bought from AH during mod 5 to feed AE and if they all dumped into my inventory, I feel .....
Yes, there are many rooms to improve but I can deal with what I have now.
Caer Konig has two mailboxes...
But I remember having read that this is the full intent of the dev / design department - that you have to keep connected to PE.
It looks like the mail service only exists in relatively peaceful area instead of war zone.
The festival area also has mail service.
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They may factor in the possibility of the mailman be killed and all the mails will be lost in the equation. The 300K AD can be robbed.
Just have your mail sorted so that the newest shows up last instead of first. Then the newest mail does not pop up on top and accidentally get deleted, because it will go to the bottom. This sorting seems to get reset and needs to be set every time you log into the game though.
This! I can't tell you how many times I deleted something (back in the early days) that I had stored in my mailbox, because new mail came in and the empty mail I had SELECTED to delete became the next one up that still had items in it and because of that was deleted instead. There HAS to be a way to stop that from happening.
The best part is that CS REFUSES to assist in this case, even though this is due to game error, not user error.
I remember speaking with CS about this. They told me to use the blacklist feature. I drew a blank and had no idea what they were speaking of and when I asked what they mean they told me to "put them on ignore". I quickly gave up on any help from CS at that point since it looked like they never even read my complaint.
This may seem as though I am spoiled by other games, but if that is the case I am not in the wrong for holding cryptic to the same standards. There is absolutely no excuse for them lagging behind on such a simple but important detail.