113766-request-cross-faction-mail

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It's not a new idea, but I'd like to bring it up again: please consider allowing cross-faction mail.
 
As someone who wants to experience the game with characters on both sides of the faction divide, not being able to share items and currency among all of my characters is an enthusiasm-breaking barrier.
 
I have no idea how difficult it would be to change, but I believe this would be a huge step toward getting more people to play both factions, as it would drastically reduce the debilitating feeling of starting completely from scratch.	
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			Chua sending supplies to Granok?  I do not have this dream.	
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Chua sending supplies to Granok?  I do not have this dream.
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			I only buy the dominion sold items on the AH. 	
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I only buy the dominion sold items on the AH. 
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I only buy the dominion sold items on the AH. 
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How can you tell?  (serious question)
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			If they don't want to do cross faction mail, they can always let us have an account wide bank or let us put items/money in our account inventory.	
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			If AH/CX is cross faction, can you not just put up some crap item for a ridiculous amount of money to then go and buy it with your other faction alt? I'm serious is it not a possible way to "send" currency to your other faction alt? Can you even have both factions on the same server?	
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If AH/CX is cross faction, can you not just put up some crap item for a ridiculous amount of money to then go and buy it with your other faction alt? I'm serious is it not a possible way to "send" currency to your other faction alt? Can you even have both factions on the same server?
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If AH/CX is cross faction, can you not just put up some crap item for a ridiculous amount of money to then go and buy it with your other faction alt? I'm serious is it not a possible way to "send" currency to your other faction alt? Can you even have both factions on the same server?
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Theoretically, transferring funds is possible through the AH (not the CX). However, I am asking to not have to resort to such convolutions.
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Not sure how this would work on the AH either. You always buy the cheapest available. And there's no way to see who's selling what, so you can't just search for them.
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I believe you have the AH and CX backwards.
 
On the commodities exchange, it purchases the cheapest item automatically, but on the auction house, you can choose which item you want to buy at which price. So, if I wanted to transfer 30p from Exile to Dom, my Dom character lists the item for 30p(+fees) buyout, and my Exile character buys it. Then, my Dom character is 30p richer without losing anything but an essentially worthless item.
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I used to do this kind of 'transaction' in WoW, it worked great for getting money over to another faction alt. It was also easier because I could see the name of the seller.
 
You would have to pick something that no one in their right mind would ever put on the AH, like one of the grey necklaces you get that are vendor fodder.
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Yes that's what I meant, putting something into the AH that's not that like some worthless gray item, which would not really require you to know who is selling it as there would only be one, listed for the price you listed it.
 
And yes I also used to do this in WoW in Booty Bay, didn't know it was considered an exploit here, in which case.... DON'T DO IT! :P	
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Maybe I'll have to whisper one of the devs to get confirmation that they're not going to decide it's an exploit. If it's fair game, then it's a reasonable workaround for now.
 
I'd still like the mail or account banks to be considered for the future. :)
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didn't know it was considered an exploit here, in which case.... DON'T DO IT! :P
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We really, really, really need cross-faction mail. There will be zero impact on game economy, as we already share AH/CX. There's a workaround, but it's only really a workaround for transferring items that can go through the AH, not the CX, and if you try to transfer money, you're going to take a huge cut in funds.
 
Please, pretty please, Carbine. x.x	
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We really, really, really need cross-faction mail. There will be zero impact on game economy, as we already share AH/CX. There's a workaround, but it's only really a workaround for transferring items that can go through the AH, not the CX, and if you try to transfer money, you're going to take a huge cut in funds.
 
Please, pretty please, Carbine. x.x
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Let me know if you get an answer on that Vick. I would like to know, too.
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Carbine hates alts.
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			According to BigV, who asked Carbine's CS department, using the AH to transfer funds (as I outlined earlier in this thread) is not an exploit.	
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While using the Auction is certainly an option (the only one, in fact), it is not really a good one. The Auction system eats like a 10% of the profit when your item sells. So depending on how much money you are transfering, and how much you can make in your gaming hours, you might be losing a very significant chunk of funds with the transaction. That's how I lost 60 gold when transfering 6 platinum to one of my alts. 60 gold, that's a significant ammount of cheap decor, one or two semi-expensive ones from the auction (and the most expensive in the vendor costs 25 gold) or half a top level crafted gear piece. 
 
We all know the faction divide on a meta level is complete bullcrap. There's no reason not to let us mail items between factions. Or at least an account-wide bank so we can move things and have essentially the same result without incurring currency fees.	
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As someone who wants to experience the game with characters on both sides of the faction divide, not being able to share items and currency among all of my characters is an enthusiasm-breaking barrier.
 
I have no idea how difficult it would be to change, but I believe this would be a huge step toward getting more people to play both factions, as it would drastically reduce the debilitating feeling of starting completely from scratch.
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Vick,
 
I support this. If not direct cross faction mail some ability to have a "neutral auction house" (like WoW and SWTOR ) where we can "take our chances" at least in an attempt to transfer items (to be used or sold for cash ( means to transfer money ) ) by our characters of the opposite faction on our accounts.
 
It's not "enthusiasm breaking" for me but, it would be a nice thing to have.	
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Vick,
 
I support this. If not direct cross faction mail some ability to have a "neutral auction house" (like WoW and SWTOR ) where we can "take our chances" at least in an attempt to transfer items (to be used or sold for cash ( means to transfer money ) ) by our characters of the opposite faction on our accounts.
 
It's not "enthusiasm breaking" for me but, it would be a nice thing to have.
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			Or at least (as was already suggested on a different thread), give us an account Bank option. :)	
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Vick,
 
I support this. If not direct cross faction mail some ability to have a "neutral auction house" (like WoW and SWTOR ) where we can "take our chances" at least in an attempt to transfer items (to be used or sold for cash ( means to transfer money ) ) by our characters of the opposite faction on our accounts.
 
It's not "enthusiasm breaking" for me but, it would be a nice thing to have.
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			I would very much support this. I already have exile characters created in anticipation of the upcoming MegaServer, but even after that happens, I know it would be hard for me to really enjoy those characters without the ability to transfer stuff between them and my already-established Dom characters. Even now, I don't play them at all because it sucks starting from scratch.	
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I only buy the dominion sold items on the AH. 
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			I support this, they did it in SWtoR and it worked well. I agree with "Tankanidis" alts were never in the picture because it had to be "HARDCORE BABY!" epic fail!	
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			I am completely down with anything that can help me support my alts.	
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			In an MMORPG where people can create characters of both factions on the same server (and indeed are encouraged to with 12 character slots) and the AH/CX is cross-faction, barring some technical limitation, there's no reason to not allow sending mail to cross-faction alts.	
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I am completely down with anything that can help me support my alts.
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Wow...with a list of alts that long, I can't blame you! :D
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			Might fudge the lines on logic on why a draken might send his aurin girlfriend a plushie (or 3 tonnes of leather and ore?) but all the mail is done by protostar anyways so....why not?	
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Vick,
 
You think 12 alts is a long list?  I will have 24 ( I play on 4 servers ). ;)	
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Vick,
 
You think 12 alts is a long list?  I will have 24 ( I play on 4 servers ). ;)
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			Resurrecting this post! Please make this happen????	
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			            Star Wars allows cross faction mailing. Even have a major quest line that requires and alt on opposite side to obtain an item (low level alt 15 or so). So I vote yes on xfaction mail :)	
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			  I think this was one more little straw that Carbine thought people wanted but were wrong. Haven't played GW2 for I long time but their account wide storage was brilliant. Paying for respec amps and dyeing I think was a bit of a *cupcake* move also. At least 1-49.	
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            Star Wars allows cross faction mailing. Even have a major quest line that requires and alt on opposite side to obtain an item (low level alt 15 or so). So I vote yes on xfaction mail :)
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I don't know when it become possible, but couple years ago when I was losing my life in World of Warcraft I wasn't able to buy my own items of the neutral AH, always got error message "this auction item belongs to you" or something like this.
 
So you have to have 2 accounts or bring a friend with you.
 
I vote for account wide (at least server wide (but thanks to Megasuperduperservers we gonna have one)) bank storage. For Eldan sake, what Protostar thinks about? Give us fabkit for storage! I want to access my bank... for money.	
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Megasuperduperservers
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I vote for account wide (at least server wide (but thanks to Megasuperduperservers we gonna have one)) bank storage. For Eldan sake, what Protostar thinks about? Give us fabkit for storage! I want to access my bank... for money.
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Yeah, I agree with Naunet, I do not want the account-wide functions as a FABkit.
 
The number of plug slots available on the housing plots is limited enough as it is.	
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The auction house and commodity exchange are both cross faction, so there is a work around to no cross faction mail, craft/buy the gear on a main put it on the auction house at a high enough price that someone won't snatch it while you log over to the alt. Buy the gear off the AH on an alt and walla basically same as cross faction mail minus the buyer/seller fee. For plat you could do the same thing need more plat on a lowbie dominion toon have a bunch of plat on an exile toon? Real simple put an item up for a crazy price on the AH 5 plat or however much you need for some terrible armor/weapon/schematic on the dominion toon and then buy it on the exile toon walla minus the buyer/seller fee you just transfered plat to your cross faction alt. Alternatively for plat though you'll take a bigger hit would be to buy credd on our main then sell it on your alt, the credd method though loses a lot more gold/plat overall then just using the AH though. In my opinion with cross faction AH/Commodity exchange cross faction mail isn't that huge of a need. It's simple enough for a player to transfer plat/items to an alt using the auction house. Especially considering that one can post an item logout/login to their alt in under a minute to buy the items it's a pretty effective way to transfer items you just need to make sure to set the price high enough so that people looking for underpriced items on the AH don't snatch your stuff up. 
 
Also though to the larger point I guess considering the fact that the auction house/CX are cross faction it doesn't make much sense why mail isn't. 
 
TLDR: Auction House/CX are cross faction you can utilize this to transfer items between factions to alts by simply utilizing it correctly and putting the items you want to transfer at a high enough price so it doesn't get snatched while you log off /on to the other toon. Seeing as though Auction House/CX are cross faction, there is absolutely no reason mail should not be as well as it has absolutely no lore/economical impact on the game. 	
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			Mach, there have been a number of comments in this thread and others as to why using the auction house as a workaround isn't really acceptable. It's extremely inconvenient, forces you to take huge losses when trying to transfer plat, and doesn't work with anything you have to sell via the CX (amps, mats, dyes, etc).	
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 Seeing as though Auction House/CX are cross faction, there is absolutely no reason mail should not be as well as it has absolutely no lore/economical impact on the game. 
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			The more people we get to /sign this, the better. Hopefully Carbine will take notice that we really really really want cross faction bank/inventory/mail. Any one of the three would be awesome.	
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The more people we get to /sign this, the better. Hopefully Carbine will take notice that we really really really want cross faction bank/inventory/mail. Any one of the three would be awesome.
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I'll /sign for an account dropbox for non-soulbound items.
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That and non-faction specific items.
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That and non-faction specific items.
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			I am sure the gold sellers would love this idea, since they wont need to create an account on each side to spam mailers out.	
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I am sure the gold sellers would love this idea, since they wont need to create an account on each side to spam mailers out.
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I haven't seen a gold seller mail in over a month. Don't think it's an issue now.
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