I am really tired of getting returned exchange item notices....
Yes, I posted them about 4 months ago, please fix this issue...
The exchange, is not a bank for you to store things? its not an issue for them if YOU are miss using the exchange. The problem is the expectation that you have that its free storage. Seriously be glad its not like it could be, a list fee, a "AH take, and a 48 hour limit.
So...ya...This is a known bug that the exchange continuously sends useless mail notifications about items have expired on the exchange. The mail does not have any items attacked and the exchange continuously spams players with these notifications.
Don't know how you two haven't been noticing any other threads about this...
Exchange abuse is not the only reason those notices show up. I logged into my old CO account to try out the F2P thing and made the mistake of checking the mail there. I log into STO and suddenly I've got about 30 messages saying 'here's your stuff!' with nothing attached to them.
There was a thread or two around here about this very problem and most people that replied said they had nothing on the exchange. So this issue isn't just because people are abusing the exchange.
I think somebody was abusing the AH and using it as extra bankspace. Not Cryptic fault. I recieved such messages too and in all the cases I simply picked up the items and the messages never came again.
So...ya...This is a known bug that the exchange continuously sends useless mail notifications about items have expired on the exchange. The mail does not have any items attacked and the exchange continuously spams players with these notifications.
Don't know how you two haven't been noticing any other threads about this...
I have this same problem. I am spammed with about 10 mails that have nothing attached. I may have accidentally deleted them because at some point there was a change to the auction system where only the character that posted the item could claim it from the mail, and otherwise it's blank. But now it's blank for all my characters. I can't get the items back (have no idea even what they were) and I keep getting spammed every few days with 10+ messages. I guess not knowing what the items are, I don't necessarily want to lose them (maybe something good was in there), but if I'm never going to get them back, then I'd rather just be able to permanently delete them and not be spammed.
The exchange system needs to be changed back to how it was before with every character able to claim exchange items in the mail. It also used to say "exchange item expired" or something along those lines, whereas it now says "auction lot expired'.
I haven't had any issues with these sort of messages, but then again, I barely use the exchange - about 3 items a month I stick on, for prices generally at or below the lowest price, purely becuase I need the dosh and they've got da cash. Capiche? Dem Fed's don't gimme enough!
I have about 40 of these in my mailbox from auction lots that have expired over the past 60 day or so. The new format seems to be character specific, so you need to check those messages with every character to make sure they don't have an item attached to them.
Out of curiosity, has anyone checked their Tribble characters? It just occured to me that many (if not all) of these messages might be generated by characters that were copied to Tribble at some point. Since Tribble shares the same mail system with Holodeck, this might explain some of the empty messages I have in my box currently. For example, if you mail something on Tribble, only characters on Tribble will be able to see and collect the attachment. Your characters on Holodeck will also be able to see the mail, but not the attachment (which is done to prevent cross shard loot exploits). This just occurred to me as I was about to sign off for the night, so I'll check it out in game later. If anyone manages to test this before I login again, let me know if this is the cause!
In the olden days, it didn't tell you who what where when how.... It just said, You have an object returned from the exchange. I don't care if I got them back. I apologize to the people that said I was a fraud.
Well, I finally had a chance to test my theory and observed something interesting. When I logged in my Eng on Holodeck today, I saw that I received a new Auction expired e-mail on login that joined the other 30 or so messages in my mailbox. I went over to the mail console and verified that the email was empty with no attachment, then exited the game. Logged into Tribble and went over to a mail console and all of my auction house emails had mysteriously disappeared. The only mail that was left was a legitimate message I had mailed to my global. Logged out of Tribble and back to Holodeck and all the Auction emails are still gone. This makes me suspect that there is some correlation between Tribble and Holodeck as it relates to these messages.
So... no luck on the Tribble theory. All of my empty mails are back now, showing no items on any character. The problems appear to have started after Season 3 was released and is incredibly annoying. I guess I have just been lucky not to glitch up until this point? I've only got about ~40 of these messages, but I've found forum threads where some people have 300 of them! :eek:
To: Starfleet Personnel Dept. Heads, local SB/STRSHP
Stardate: 87732.16
Priority: 5
Re: Starfleet Postal Service Targeted Acquisition-Retention Deployment
In accordance with the groundbreaking study published by the Betazoid Utilization Laboratories' Social Heuristics Team, the Federation Council has approved the expansion of the Starfleet Postal Service by 20%. These new positions are to be filled on a priority basis based on the B.U.L.S.H.T. recommendations in Section 25:31 sub A. These criteria, highlighted by the Learned Ostracism Social Exclusion Rating index, show that certain species are prone to systemic under-utilization. The species that placed highest on the L.O.S.E.R. indexes, the Pakleds, require special consideration to reverse this trend. The Starfleet Postal Service has been selected as the host organization to validate the B.U.L.S.H.T. L.O.S.E.R. hypothesis due to the relative benign nature of SPS's work. Positions are to be filled as soon as possible. All documentation regarding these L.O.S.E.R.s must reference this program (ex., Dirk Khrapstayn, Postal T.A.R.D.)
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The exchange, is not a bank for you to store things? its not an issue for them if YOU are miss using the exchange. The problem is the expectation that you have that its free storage. Seriously be glad its not like it could be, a list fee, a "AH take, and a 48 hour limit.
:rolleyes:
They're not going to "fix" something that isn't broken. If you don't want to recieve those notices then stop using the exchange for storage.
Don't know how you two haven't been noticing any other threads about this...
There was a thread or two around here about this very problem and most people that replied said they had nothing on the exchange. So this issue isn't just because people are abusing the exchange.
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I'll post this photo again tomorrow.
Did not know that, actually. But does it fix the bug where no item is EVER returned?
They ARE returned. You just can't see them from regular mail window, you have to access mail from the ESD console.
No, I've checked at ESD, and no items are attached to them...
Well that's a bug then indeed. Never happened to me before.
I have this same problem. I am spammed with about 10 mails that have nothing attached. I may have accidentally deleted them because at some point there was a change to the auction system where only the character that posted the item could claim it from the mail, and otherwise it's blank. But now it's blank for all my characters. I can't get the items back (have no idea even what they were) and I keep getting spammed every few days with 10+ messages. I guess not knowing what the items are, I don't necessarily want to lose them (maybe something good was in there), but if I'm never going to get them back, then I'd rather just be able to permanently delete them and not be spammed.
The exchange system needs to be changed back to how it was before with every character able to claim exchange items in the mail. It also used to say "exchange item expired" or something along those lines, whereas it now says "auction lot expired'.
I continually have mail that is empty to one character and full to another.
I hate this because for every friggin mail thing, I have to log out and log in and check the mail with every one of my 6 alts.
If they are going to make it character specific
1) Say what character in the mail
AND/OR
2) Have a switch character button.
I'll stop.
Out of curiosity, has anyone checked their Tribble characters? It just occured to me that many (if not all) of these messages might be generated by characters that were copied to Tribble at some point. Since Tribble shares the same mail system with Holodeck, this might explain some of the empty messages I have in my box currently. For example, if you mail something on Tribble, only characters on Tribble will be able to see and collect the attachment. Your characters on Holodeck will also be able to see the mail, but not the attachment (which is done to prevent cross shard loot exploits). This just occurred to me as I was about to sign off for the night, so I'll check it out in game later. If anyone manages to test this before I login again, let me know if this is the cause!
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Guess the Season 2-3 transition didn't go as I would have hoped. I have not used the exchange since that time.
By the Great Bird, MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!
delete them from the website - they come back
delete them from each character - they come back
this is very frakking stupid, just fix it already.
in our fleet everyone has at least 1 stuck email that will not delete so its not an isolated event.
I think I know what the problem is...
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