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bigrat12334bigrat12334 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
The mail UI really needs to be revamped. There is hardly any control over what happens with the mail you get. You can take the items and delete it. That's pretty much it.

This is mainly in response to the recent patch that removes on exchange sell slot per 'Item Returned' mail in your inbox.

Possible new features that would very much improve the UI:

- Select multiple mails at the same time. This would allow for easy deletion of exchange spam.
- DeleteAll: Same reason as above. ( This was mentioned in a topic made earlier)

- Search Function : Find mail that may be important to you.

- Send mail to multiple people : There is a fleet function, but this does not let you tell others the news.

- Symbols in the mail list to show attachments.

- Ability to send Energy Credits?

- Ability to Ignore certain players.

Thanks for reading, and feel free to add any other ideas below.

To the Dev team, Please consider.

This is mainly in response to the recent patch that removes on exchange sell slot per 'Item Returned' mail in your inbox.
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  • afree100afree100 Member Posts: 332 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    First off, I don't have a lot of mail so this doesn't apply to me personally but just thought I would "chip in" my thoughts.

    Shift Clicking stuff (e.g. click in on one mail with shift down and then click on a mail 10 mails down (still holding shift) then all mails are selected in between the two) would be a better alternative to delete all (only because it is risky to have a button that can wipe out your mail easily (although Cryptic could just require users to type in a certain word to complete it) and also most people want to keep a few mails), problem is not many people know about it (you can do it with Windows Explorer among other programs).

    A search function would be more difficult to do for the people at Cryptic (since they are time constrained), perhaps it would be better if mails could be ordered by account name in alphabetical order.

    Send mail to multiple people - problem with this is it can lead to more spam (although the people that send spam probably use a macro or bot to do this) although this would make it easier for them. But then again Cryptic could easily make a system so that after a certain amount of people mark mail as spam then it automatically gets deleted from all other users inboxes.
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  • shailatshailat Member Posts: 478 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    The mail UI really needs to be revamped. There is hardly any control over what happens with the mail you get. You can take the items and delete it. That's pretty much it.

    This is mainly in response to the recent patch that removes on exchange sell slot per 'Item Returned' mail in your inbox.

    Possible new features that would very much improve the UI:

    - Select multiple mails at the same time. This would allow for easy deletion of exchange spam.
    - DeleteAll: Same reason as above. ( This was mentioned in a topic made earlier)

    - Search Function : Find mail that may be important to you.

    - Send mail to multiple people : There is a fleet function, but this does not let you tell others the news.

    - Symbols in the mail list to show attachments.

    - Ability to send Energy Credits?

    - Ability to Ignore certain players.

    Thanks for reading, and feel free to add any other ideas below.

    To the Dev team, Please consider.

    This is mainly in response to the recent patch that removes on exchange sell slot per 'Item Returned' mail in your inbox.

    There was a way in the past to delete messages from the inbox with out having to be logged in, you went to your forum inbox and the ingame mail was linked (if a message had items you couldnt see them, but you could view the message) and you can hit the checkmark on 1 or more messages and then hit the delete button and they will be gone,
    (off topic kinda) there was a way to also view who is on from your friends list and you could also clear (delete) people from your friends list from the main sto webpage, but that also is no more :/
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  • bigrat12334bigrat12334 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    shailat wrote: »
    There was a way in the past to delete messages from the inbox with out having to be logged in, you went to your forum inbox and the ingame mail was linked (if a message had items you couldnt see them, but you could view the message) and you can hit the checkmark on 1 or more messages and then hit the delete button and they will be gone,
    (off topic kinda) there was a way to also view who is on from your friends list and you could also clear (delete) people from your friends list from the main sto webpage, but that also is no more :/

    That would maybe be a better alternative to my suggestion, though it would be nice to have some management in game.
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