In game Mail

mattachine

This is something that have bothered me for a long time.

If my mailbox in the game becomes full, I have no way of noticing that.
No message on the screen. No System generated mail that warns me.
No icon change. Nothing. The only one that do know, is the one trying to send you a mail.
If person A and person B lives in totally different time zones and doesn't play at the same time it is impossible to keep in touch. As they will not get the mails and /tells only works when both are online.

What I'm suggesting is that instead of a green flashing mail icon we get a red flashing icon when our mailbox is full. Maybe even a counter in the inbox that tells us how many mails we have out of the amount we can have (50/100 or what ever the cap is set at).

This counter should also account for the number of items attached our mail as there is a cap on that as well.

I'm used to speaking to deaf ears so I will not be surprised if this goes unnoticed or if anyone else agrees with me. I can just tell you that today I tried to get in touch with 10 friends 5 of them had full mailboxes. No other way to contact them.

So please try and add some sort of similar feature.

nimue555

I have to agree with this - it is really bad when you can't contact the person AT ALL. Worst if he or she don't know it is impossible to be contacted, do something, PLEASE!

mycroft1701

Agree with this also. At the end of the day ingame email shouldn't be so hard to implement basic features like this (sure you're not going to get full email client functionality but still it's not too much to ask for a few basic features!).

Ability to delete more than one email at a time would be helpful too - nothing beats having to open all the exchange notifications and delete them one by one!!

nimue555

OH YES - is it possible for all the exchange responses to be put into one mail - I'm selling a lot and when I have to delete 20-30 "Item sold in the exchange" I get to hate mail... I was almost tempted to report it as SPAM, but then realised all unsold items may be lost if I block it...

Honestly - I do not need to know who bought my Tribble carcasses or tribbles or WW food or boxes.

Send me mails only when the exchange sell expired.

warpangel

nimue555 wrote: »

OH YES - is it possible for all the exchange responses to be put into one mail - I'm selling a lot and when I have to delete 20-30 "Item sold in the exchange" I get to hate mail... I was almost tempted to report it as SPAM, but then realised all unsold items may be lost if I block it...

Honestly - I do not need to know who bought my Tribble carcasses or tribbles or WW food or boxes.

Send me mails only when the exchange sell expired.

Neither of these should clog our mailboxes at all.

The Exchange should have its own log tab that lists recent sales.

And IMO sales shouldn't expire at all. But if they do, there should be a tab on the Exchange for expired sales, too. With a re-list button. It's ridiculous having to go back and forth between a mail and exchange station to relist all the stuff that hasn't been sold.

mattachine

You're all right about the exchange mails, who needs to know who they sold to and why did they ever thing that was necessary in the first place?

warpangel

You may not care to keep track of the sales of tribble carcasses, but when you're dealing with items with prices up to tens or hundreds of millions, you'll want to know when they're sold.

And sales reports undoubtedly reduce the number of "My item has disappeared from the exchange and I haven't noticed any increase in my EC amount, what happened to it" -tickets the GM's have to deal with.

But spamming the reports into the mail is not the right way to do it.

mattachine

warpangel wrote: »

You may not care to keep track of the sales of tribble carcasses, but when you're dealing with items with prices up to tens or hundreds of millions, you'll want to know when they're sold.

And sales reports undoubtedly reduce the number of "My item has disappeared from the exchange and I haven't noticed any increase in my EC amount, what happened to it" -tickets the GM's have to deal with.

But spamming the reports into the mail is not the right way to do it.

The best way to handle that would be if everything relating to the Exchange is accessible through the exchange interface and isn't found in the mail. So that other then /Search/Sell/ we would also have a tab for /Log/ where everything we have sold would be listed. Kind of how the log works for the Fleet Banks.

mightybobcnc

mattachine wrote: »

The best way to handle that would be if everything relating to the Exchange is accessible through the exchange interface and isn't found in the mail. So that other then /Search/Sell/ we would also have a tab for /Log/ where everything we have sold would be listed. Kind of how the log works for the Fleet Banks.

Agreed. Ideally all exchange stuff would be in the exchange UI and never spill over into our inboxes. Sale notifications would happen there for tracking purposes, as well as many other UI improvements.


Your first post is also good. There should be a counter showing current/limit for mails and attachments. The red-flashing mail icon is also a brilliant idea. (Welcome to STO, where basic mail management tools from the early 2000s are entirely missing.)