Cryptic's software folks confirmed on Ten Forward Weekly that the exchange messages don't count against the cap for box limits. Ie. they shouldn't prevent any communications.
Box being full is another issue and something that could be helped with a notification pop-up or tally you can reference to tell how close you are to the cap (or if you're at it). That would also be useful for folks like myself who've saved all their community/Foundry mails for posterity (and while we're at it feature suggestions: mail export to txt file option would be great for those like me who want to hang onto their fleet/friend/community mails. It would also remove pressure to save everything for reference/feel good recollections).
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Cryptic's software folks confirmed on Ten Forward Weekly that the exchange messages don't count against the cap for box limits. Ie. they shouldn't prevent any communications.
Nevertheless, Jenica actually brought up a very good point! Fleet mail may well not count towards the mail box limit, but sales messages (the kind where you are told you won an 'auction'), still do. (Sic!) Which means Cryptic basically removed one potential overflow issue (that didn't even exist), and applied it to your mail box instead! And, to add insult to injury, I guarantee more ppl will run into a 'mailbox full' issue than ever hitting the 2 billion EC cap.
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Box being full is another issue and something that could be helped with a notification pop-up or tally you can reference to tell how close you are to the cap (or if you're at it). That would also be useful for folks like myself who've saved all their community/Foundry mails for posterity (and while we're at it feature suggestions: mail export to txt file option would be great for those like me who want to hang onto their fleet/friend/community mails. It would also remove pressure to save everything for reference/feel good recollections).
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Nevertheless, Jenica actually brought up a very good point! Fleet mail may well not count towards the mail box limit, but sales messages (the kind where you are told you won an 'auction'), still do. (Sic!) Which means Cryptic basically removed one potential overflow issue (that didn't even exist), and applied it to your mail box instead! And, to add insult to injury, I guarantee more ppl will run into a 'mailbox full' issue than ever hitting the 2 billion EC cap.