Mail ideas/Suggestions

[Teri]

My idea would be the ability to pay a sum to change your mailbox number in a set time period (something like 50k riln every 6 months or something.)

[Pendulum]

My idea would be the ability to pay a sum to change your mailbox number in a set time period (something like 50k riln every 6 months or something.)

What happens when someone sends something to this closed mailbox number, though? Or to any mailbox number that hasn't been assigned currently to any character ever? Does it just vanish? If someone acquires the number down the road randomly through character creation, do they also acquire whatever items were accidently sent to that number?

[Teri]

My idea would be the ability to pay a sum to change your mailbox number in a set time period (something like 50k riln every 6 months or something.)

What happens when someone sends something to this closed mailbox number, though? Or to any mailbox number that hasn't been assigned currently to any character ever? Does it just vanish? If someone acquires the number down the road randomly through character creation, do they also acquire whatever items were accidently sent to that number?

Currently you can send mail to retired/shelved characters, so that would be plenty of the considerations to discuss. That would be a suggestion of a pause on mail to those characters, thinking on it. And the name being registered to the mail to avoid mixups in cases of changes.

[Frisbee]

My suggestion would be to be able to customise signatures. So when you use the sign command, it would append whatever you've set your custom signature to your letter, instead of the standard 'X, mailbox #1234.'

[Onasaki]

Why do we need to change a random set of numbers that is attached to our character? That seems silly. Why would a random set of numbers need to be changed?

Unless someone can give a compelling reason as to why this mailbox number changing idea is useful (outside of y'know, hiding from people you hate, which personally I think is even worse), I don't see any reason to give us the option to change our mailbox numbers. The number literally means nothing, and is just a code set by the game to give you a mailbox.

There's also you know, just don't sign a letter with 'sign'. Use the ^ ^ to write a proper signature.

That being said, I'd really like it if we could get an alert when a COD has been paid. At the moment, you literally never find out until you walk into the post office and check. There's no "You should swing by the post office" message at all.

[Navi]

My phone number is a random set of numbers assigned to me randomly, similar to how mailbox numbers are assigned. Some folk may even have P.O.Boxes that they can pick up and drop on a whim. I'm sure there are more than a few people here who have had to change their number due to various situations. There's no doubt that some folk would use it to their advantage, some how, but as you said, it's a random set of numbers assigned randomly, with very little influence on the mechanics of the game. I don't think anyone is supporting this ability because they hate someone or someones.