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Folks who like me have multiple player characters would appreciate this idea.
Why not have another bank beyond the existing personal bank and the fleet bank. It would function like the fleet bank (IE different tabs) but it would be only accessable to all the characters on a single account.
The number of tabs could equal the number of character slots on the account, and it should be able to hold any non bound item, as well as energy credits.
Folks are already mailing items to themselves, and selling stuff to themselves on the exchange to transfer credits, so this would not add any new functionality, just a ton of convenience.
Right now I have an entire bank filled with food for my tribble breeding hobby, another toon has the bank that holds tribbles, another holds gear I'm not using, etc.
If my idea were put into place, then all these things could go into their own tab in the same bank. It would make it a ton easier for my VA toon to buy stuff from my LT, or to manage data samples for crafting (samples in the account wide bank should be available for crafting as they are from the personal bank now), or to breed tribbles.
Why not have another bank beyond the existing personal bank and the fleet bank. It would function like the fleet bank (IE different tabs) but it would be only accessable to all the characters on a single account.
The number of tabs could equal the number of character slots on the account, and it should be able to hold any non bound item, as well as energy credits.
Folks are already mailing items to themselves, and selling stuff to themselves on the exchange to transfer credits, so this would not add any new functionality, just a ton of convenience.
Right now I have an entire bank filled with food for my tribble breeding hobby, another toon has the bank that holds tribbles, another holds gear I'm not using, etc.
If my idea were put into place, then all these things could go into their own tab in the same bank. It would make it a ton easier for my VA toon to buy stuff from my LT, or to manage data samples for crafting (samples in the account wide bank should be available for crafting as they are from the personal bank now), or to breed tribbles.
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im tired of having to use my fleet bank to transfer items and credits to characters
there i run the risk of someone ninjaing it from me, some security with my own items would be nice
Though my poor klingon faction character has no fleet, but who cares, i don´t pvp, so no reason to play there for me.
It would have serious game changing side effects if every player didn't have access to all of their characters items. How many times have you seen the mailing/exchange instructions pop up in zone chat at Sol? There are probably players that still don't know it's possible.
Just change the bank we have now to an account wide version. A tab for each character on the account (like Six-of-Nine suggests), or labelled tabs for Food, Tribbles, Ship Weapons, Consoles etc. with more tabs available for energy credits. Labelled tabs could help balance those who have lots of characters to those who have few.
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Make it unlockable after a series of insufferably humourless Ferengi Diplomacy missions requiring cross dressing hijinks to access a desicated family members estate for one of the Memory Alpha merchants. (Plus the accolade title "Drag Mother" with a +.11001001 boost to Seduce and Confuse; only exposes in certain circumstances).
I'd love to be able to easily manage Tribbles, food, data samples, unbound items and other TRIBBLE I collect; and a shared bank would help me with Aid The Planet DXP missions right now.
I'd use it to transer credits every now and then, but with a shared bank you could just purchase it and then put it in the bank for your other characters to use anyway.
You should be able to pool common/unbound items and uncommisioned officers, but I think merits should stay with the character they were earned with. Sharing them kind of undermines their value. I could however see a "transfer fee". (Courtesy of your local branch of the Ferengi Merchants Association).
Say you really want to retrain some BOff's and don't have enough merits on one character. Transferring 1000 merits from a more accomplished character will transfer 1000, but would deduct 1100 merits. The greater the level differential between the character having and the character needing, the high the fee.
The same could apply to all the other currencies.
A credit cost for transferring bound items could help in bypassing inflated exchange prices while still retaining the value and rarity of the items.
That's the extent of my mathematical ability and I have no knowledge of game mechanics/balance so I'll stop here.
but it's not needed ATM in my opinion.
my bank is nearly always empty.
There isnt anything in this game that is worth really saving that cant be done in the space I have now.
If I want to send an item to alt, the mail is fine for me.
so for now....I'm looking for more cool things to collect....not bank space.
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I agree (and am adding my name to this). It is really hard to use a fleet bank of a fleet that is semi active (brought some people back for season 2). And I dont feel safe having anomalies sit on there when a handful of people dont use vent and I cant tell them "Dont touch Tab4 please."
Would rather have shared bank tabs that I can transfer anomalies, consoles, etc. without running the risk of being ninja'd.
Back in the early days of STO one of my friends had his currency ninja'd (to buy a bank tab) when he was trying to transfer it to another character. (We all laughed about it though)
There is also a very good example of this in a game. LOTRO has shared bank slots between all your characters. You have to buy them or have gotten them with a special edition type purchase from their website of the last expansion.
I wouldnt mind spending a couple bucks to be able to share currency and transfer anomalies/consoles.
So, at any rate, come on DEV's help our community out. It's our money and we want it now! LOL
Deiminos Deathstalker,
Captain of the USS MAGDELINA
AGREED 100% (With the request and the statement)
I like it for each character, but also the ability to add more tabs too like the fleet bank.
Or what about a storage Ship like a freighter you could hail that comes to your location that you can store items on that any of your characters could also use? Again another use for Latnum? Storage amount based on Price.
I would prefer this be an "included" feature in the game (free). Unlocked after a special Ferengi Diplo Drag Mother Gag Bag Mission Set, is ok.
I would pay a small (>200CP) amount to get this feature unlocked from the C-Store, if I had to.