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Suggestion: Add "Check All" feature in mailbox
ianthewizard2012
Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,142 Arc User
Sometimes on Auction House there are stuff you think their prices are good and thus want to buy them in bulk. For example, lockboxes. Currently many players post their Rusted Iron Lockboxes on Auction House for 1~6 AD each. Though being very good in price, those lockboxes are being posted individually, rather than in a large amount at once. That means if I buy 100 of those Rusted Iron Lockboxes, I will then have to delete 100 read mails one by one.
I'm not sure if there are players who are willing to stay at mailbox and perform so many clicks to delete read mails, but I guess I'm one of those who are more willing to spend precious time playing the game more rather than stand at mailbox all day long deleting tons of read mails one bye one.
So maybe we could have a new feature in mailbox to check all mails so that we can delete them all at once. Just like the "Check All" checkbox in the Messages Inbox of this forum.
From the perspective of role-playing, having this feature is also reasonable. Assuming yourself are in the game and want to get rid of your 100 read mails, you surely want to pour them all into recycle bin at once rather than throw them into the bin one by one.
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Alternatively, it can also be made so we hold down Ctrl key, and then we are able to select multiple mails. Or we select first mail and then hold down Shift key and select the last mail, then all mails are selected.
I'm not sure if there are players who are willing to stay at mailbox and perform so many clicks to delete read mails, but I guess I'm one of those who are more willing to spend precious time playing the game more rather than stand at mailbox all day long deleting tons of read mails one bye one.
So maybe we could have a new feature in mailbox to check all mails so that we can delete them all at once. Just like the "Check All" checkbox in the Messages Inbox of this forum.
From the perspective of role-playing, having this feature is also reasonable. Assuming yourself are in the game and want to get rid of your 100 read mails, you surely want to pour them all into recycle bin at once rather than throw them into the bin one by one.
== EDIT ==
Alternatively, it can also be made so we hold down Ctrl key, and then we are able to select multiple mails. Or we select first mail and then hold down Shift key and select the last mail, then all mails are selected.
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I want this feature for another reason, to safely delete mail. Ever lost 30K+ AD for no reason? I have. Incoming mail got deleted because my currently highlighted mail would not shift down when incoming mail arrives at the same exact time you try to press OK to delete.
Don't know what I'm talking about?
In your mailbox move down to 3 mails you can easily identify just by looking at them. Let's call them from top to buttom, mail 1, mail 2, mail 3. Highlight mail 2 and press the delete button but don't actually delete it. Then ask a friend to send you a mail. When you receive the mail your highlighter moves down to mail 1, now delete the mail. Congratulations, you deleted mail 1, NOT 2.
Now imagine that but with actual items and at the same time you delete mail and receive incoming mail.
I'm aware of players reported the issue which accidentally causes a wrong mail being deleted. It surely need some tweaks. Before that, when I have multiple mails to delete I always start from the last one, and when there are only 1 or 2 left I carefully make sure that no new mails come in and then I proceed.
While we're suggesting convenience features, can we get a "Collect All" button for Tradeskills?
The Seeker - 60 DC (11.5k GS)
Faithless - 60 CW (10k GS)
on a side note: I think the idea of "multi-select" has been invented ... wait, last week? last month? year? decade? century? NO ... last millennium!
Give me a break!
sometimes I wonder if a product manager of this game even tries to use it more than 1 minute a day!
might as well be that the deletion of mail with attachments is intentional so PWE has another item/money sink where things get out of the game. The interface for "are you sure you want to delete" and "there are items attached do you want to delete" is basically identical.
A thinker might have put the DEFAULT selection on the popup for mails holding items on "Cancel".
This way probably a lot of AD, ZEN items, enchants etc. are deleted everyday and have to be obtained again.
Every time right after we buy out an item, the AH refreshes the list. Isn't that burdensome to the server?
Typical.
It's cool to suggest improvements that could be made to the game, but don't start blaming other people or "the game" because of your own actions.
If players find something being not easy to use but can't make suggestions, then devs are unable to know any issue and the game can't be improved.
Due to some implementation issues, it is possible to delete a message that you did not designate for deletion, with no chance to confirm (because you already did confirm, but the message you intended was replaced by one arriving at the same time). Adding checkboxes to denote which mail to delete rather than deleting the single selected message from a list would potentially resolve this bug as well as adding a quality of life improvement.
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you still have to shift through all of them to collect stuff, so deleting them is not the main point of the "mass operations" on mail...
you could somewhat reduce the volume of mail if you could directly collect the item from AH (i.e. if you are actually interacting with the NPC in PE), but for some reason the dev choice was to always receive a mail instead of the actual item...