Account wide profession inventory

gankdalf

Hi!

Many players have many different toons and do profession on multiple characters. Lately Ive started to do some professions on multiple toons and it didnt take me long before I got tired of moving resources, workers and tools between each char.

I therefor suggest that the profession bags are made account-wide so we dont have to move stuff back and forward all the time. Like if I have AD on one toon and need tools/workers or other things on different toons then I have to spend time mailing stuff to my self and log in and out from all my different chars. Its just tiresome. Moving AD the same way is also equally tiresome.

beckylunatic

Oh gods, do I ever wish.

gankdalf

defiantone99 said:

I say just let us put the stuff in the shared bank. While this idea sounds nice on paper, it may severely limit the amount of resources you can have by giving us 2 bags instead of multiple ones.

Add a few extra slots in the bags or make them auto expand when its full and problem is solved. I rather have 2 big bags than 10+ bags on 5 chars.

beckylunatic

Make it like the part of the currency bag that holds bounty items, etc. and just expand as needed.

I actually try to use professions quite a lot, but hate how much of my time is wasted by shuffling stuff at the mail because I ran out of blades on character A but character B still has hundreds of them, and character C has the rare task I was looking for, but character D has the tools. And if I'm Gatewaying, I can't access any of it.

forumnamesuxs

Having to use actually use mail to move items from one character to the other, on the same account, is such a big fail.
I don't even know why this is still a thing.
Same goes with AD transfering from one character to the other.

two30

This would be nice. Also, convert the bound Alchemical Research from a profession resource into a currency to keep them out of the shared bag. The Winterkill Emblems and Rings of Light are already currency.

beckylunatic

magenubbie said:

Just the same, it would be nice. The only problem would be event mats. I can understand they don't want those account-wide.

Ehhh... Lightcrafting uses a few character-bound items that are treated as currency anyway, so each needs to earn their own. That's a reasonable limitation.

All the other event crafting stuff can be mailed already, so I don't see why it would make any difference.

julianalz55

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kreatyve

People would find a way to exploit this, which is probably why it's not been implemented. I know there's reasons why professions resources aren't allowed in any vault.

two30

kreatyve said:

People would find a way to exploit this, which is probably why it's not been implemented.

Fear of exploits shouldn't and doesn't stop the developers from producing new features, content and items. The real problem is that the return-on-investment for quality-of-life improvements is very hazy.

greywynd

I just get gear for the characters when I need it for them. Most profession assets are cheap.

phoenix1021

kreatyve said:

People would find a way to exploit this, which is probably why it's not been implemented. I know there's reasons why professions resources aren't allowed in any vault.

The reason is probably that these resources are a different "kind" of item and can't fit into normal inventory slots. Just like they can't fit into your normal inventory, they can't fit into the shared bank slots.
I agree that making some things account wide would be great. It can become a nightmare to organize everything if you have many characters. Especially since there are some boxes that contain profession resources but are character bound. So you have to open them on one character then send the resources to your other characters through the mail system, 5 items at a time.

beckylunatic

phoenix1021 said:

kreatyve said:

People would find a way to exploit this, which is probably why it's not been implemented. I know there's reasons why professions resources aren't allowed in any vault.

The reason is probably that these resources are a different "kind" of item and can't fit into normal inventory slots. Just like they can't fit into your normal inventory, they can't fit into the shared bank slots.

Not true. It actually used to be possible for a guild to have profession assets in their bank for members to temporarily sign out, for example. This was patched forever ago for undisclosed reasons, and it's been impossible to transfer profession items unless by mail or player trade ever since.

micky1p00

kreatyve said:

People would find a way to exploit this, which is probably why it's not been implemented. I know there's reasons why professions resources aren't allowed in any vault.

Sorry, but this is a hypothetical excuse and not a valid reason.

Lets not get out, because a bus can run us over - instead of looking both ways when crossing the road.
Or lets never have relationships, people can cheat.
Lets not have lockboxes, they can be exploited (known historical fact).
Lets not have dungeons, they can be exploited (known historical fact).
Or Lets not make software at all, all of it can be hacked, cracked and exploited.
etc.... I think the point is clear here...

This is why in software development there are best practices, enormous verity of test types , design methodologies, and many other practices that meant to make a better, more robust and less exploitable software.
But I believe in this case, actually doing minimal testing is all that takes, or for a change actually doing something about player reported bugs - which will give minimal incentive for players to actually test, reproduce and even report them.

Look at other companies:
https://bugcrowd.com/programs
facebook
google/youtube

This game had it for free and done almost nothing with it, now most people wont even bother to report / reproduce.

wildfirede

people will eventually exploit everything in the game...so either stop new things like idk compsnions at all.....or don't and add shared AD/professions

darkstarcrash

I would love for some system that would let me access all my characters' professions resources without mailing them.

With the new stronghold crates I have non-Leadership professions running on everyone, and once a week I spend an hour mailing the resources I've accumulated to the crafter who actually uses that resource. I used to keep Leadership resources for rare tasks in the mail -- marks of gratitude, dragon scrolls, prisoners -- but I've given up on that; too much work.

kreatyve

Sorry for my slightly jaded response. But I'm sure this has been suggested in the past (I've suggested it myself) and for whatever reason the devs have, it's been shot down many a time. Last I heard, the devs had a reason, but didn't share the reason with me.