Do they need to do something about leveling mounts and receiving mail on multiple characters?

newtinmpls · October 2017

SquareSausage wrote: »

As the OP says, spending 30 mins doing nothing but 'admin' actually keeps you way from playing, joining groups, doing quests, farming and otherwise interacting with other players which is what an MMO is all about.

I have two accounts; one with 10 characters, the other with 11.

I log onto the character I actually want to play. So while you are spending your "30 min doing nothing but 'admin'" I'm having fun, playing, doing quests, yakking in chat, searching out my treasure maps and so on.

No, none of my horses are totally maxed (been playing PC since about 2 months after PC release).

I'm not at max CP.

I'm not at max level (I think my lowest level character is 8).

But.

I think I just might be having more fun than you are.

Zinaroth · October 2017

Enslaved wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

It's a time sink. It keeps you online when you might... gasp... be doing something else. Unless they can charge you money in the cash shop for this "convenience" they have no interest in doing it.

Yeah. I could be PvPing. Or even doing dungeons on alts. Oh, jolly good times, Ill spend 30 minutes to collect mail every day. Superb solution by Zos, not lazy at all.

This is a choise you make, and the same reason I don't have many alts.

People with many alts have a lot of advantages when it comes to writs, farming stuff and spamming rewarding dailies.

It's a choise to spread your time invested over several characters and I think it is good that it inherently carries both advantages and disadvantages.

Enslaved · October 2017

Zinaroth wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

It's a time sink. It keeps you online when you might... gasp... be doing something else. Unless they can charge you money in the cash shop for this "convenience" they have no interest in doing it.

Yeah. I could be PvPing. Or even doing dungeons on alts. Oh, jolly good times, Ill spend 30 minutes to collect mail every day. Superb solution by Zos, not lazy at all.

This is a choise you make, and the same reason I don't have many alts.

People with many alts have a lot of advantages when it comes to writs, farming stuff and spamming rewarding dailies.

It's a choise to spread your time invested over several characters and I think it is good that it inherently carries both advantages and disadvantages.

On the other hand, you can deplete resources in no time if you start doing all crafting writs on all characters every day.

I tend to do enchanting and provisioning on all chars I log on, since these are only two crafting skills that will not eradicate your stacks of materials.

Zinaroth · October 2017

Enslaved wrote: »

Zinaroth wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

It's a time sink. It keeps you online when you might... gasp... be doing something else. Unless they can charge you money in the cash shop for this "convenience" they have no interest in doing it.

Yeah. I could be PvPing. Or even doing dungeons on alts. Oh, jolly good times, Ill spend 30 minutes to collect mail every day. Superb solution by Zos, not lazy at all.

This is a choise you make, and the same reason I don't have many alts.

People with many alts have a lot of advantages when it comes to writs, farming stuff and spamming rewarding dailies.

It's a choise to spread your time invested over several characters and I think it is good that it inherently carries both advantages and disadvantages.

On the other hand, you can deplete resources in no time if you start doing all crafting writs on all characters every day.

I tend to do enchanting and provisioning on all chars I log on, since these are only two crafting skills that will not eradicate your stacks of materials.

More writs means more maps/rescources. I can easily keep up four alts this way. But you might have a point.

Aldo didn't realize that this was a year old thread which got necro'd hard by Newrinmpls.

Asardes · October 2017

Zinaroth wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

Zinaroth wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

It's a time sink. It keeps you online when you might... gasp... be doing something else. Unless they can charge you money in the cash shop for this "convenience" they have no interest in doing it.

Yeah. I could be PvPing. Or even doing dungeons on alts. Oh, jolly good times, Ill spend 30 minutes to collect mail every day. Superb solution by Zos, not lazy at all.

This is a choise you make, and the same reason I don't have many alts.

People with many alts have a lot of advantages when it comes to writs, farming stuff and spamming rewarding dailies.

It's a choise to spread your time invested over several characters and I think it is good that it inherently carries both advantages and disadvantages.

On the other hand, you can deplete resources in no time if you start doing all crafting writs on all characters every day.

I tend to do enchanting and provisioning on all chars I log on, since these are only two crafting skills that will not eradicate your stacks of materials.

More writs means more maps/rescources. I can easily keep up four alts this way. But you might have a point.

Aldo didn't realize that this was a year old thread which got necro'd hard by Newrinmpls.

All bar clothier are a net monetary gain, if you take into account the price of materials spent: rubedite, rubedo leather and ruby ash cost 400-500 gold per writ and you get at least 600 gold from turn in, plus gold tempers, surveys and sometimes master writs. The only one that's a net monetary loss is clothier due to the 2/3 silk, and the price of that resource, but when you take into account the other rewards it's totally worth doing. I hope they make it 50% silk 50% leather since the latter is easy to get. I have huge stacks just from refining what drops from mobs in most content.

newtinmpls · October 2017

Asardes wrote: »

The only one that's a net monetary loss is clothier due to the 2/3 silk, .

Now, if I get an "ancestor silk" writ today, drop it, is there ANY chance I'll get a rubedo leather one tomorrow?

Asardes · October 2017

newtinmpls wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

The only one that's a net monetary loss is clothier due to the 2/3 silk, .

Now, if I get an "ancestor silk" writ today, drop it, is there ANY chance I'll get a rubedo leather one tomorrow?

Yes, they cycle regularly. So you can drop one and take the next day. I've noticed that each character has a different offset for writs, but the proportion should be the same.

r3ap3rsg · October 2017

newtinmpls wrote: »

SquareSausage wrote: »

As the OP says, spending 30 mins doing nothing but 'admin' actually keeps you way from playing, joining groups, doing quests, farming and otherwise interacting with other players which is what an MMO is all about.

I have two accounts; one with 10 characters, the other with 11.

I log onto the character I actually want to play. So while you are spending your "30 min doing nothing but 'admin'" I'm having fun, playing, doing quests, yakking in chat, searching out my treasure maps and so on.

No, none of my horses are totally maxed (been playing PC since about 2 months after PC release).

I'm not at max CP.

I'm not at max level (I think my lowest level character is 8).

But.

I think I just might be having more fun than you are.

I believe that is true in your case. I however enjoy completing Hardmode trials, completing Vet Dungeons in 10 minutes and PVP. I do all that on multiple characters and PVP is awful on a slow mount so ya they need to fix their ***. 180 days per character is a tad ridiculous especially times 11. I’m only asking for them to make it quicker to feed a mount I really could care less about the hirelings I’m not trying to farm Matts I’m trying to have all my characters at max potential.

Ender1310 · October 2017

Amen brother! The sheer inconvenience of this games interface made me quit for a couple of months. Having to log off and juggle inventory bank and craft plus mounts. It's a time sink. Plus every loading screen ain't equal if you know what I'm saying. They put out a report that they would not increase inventory because everyone hadn't maxed bag space and mount space. Well. This so much this. No body has time for all that.

wolfie1.0. · October 2017

From a Classical MMORPG veiwpoint I would say that if you have that many characters then, well your kind off asking for spending a LOT of time doing admin work. as a person that has a ton of characters I understand this. Clearing mail and doing mounts and writs takes up about 2 hours when you do them on 20 characters a day.

That said, in this day and age i think that there is a better way to get some of these items out of the way with less interference to actual game play.

I think that ZOS should create an interactive mobile app that allows players to do limited functions on their accounts without being logged in on your gaming machine. limited functions such as checking mail, mount training, selling in a guild store, accessing guild chat, viewing character stats, trait research, buy from the crown store, etc. you know the basic easy tasks that you theoretically can do remotely pretty easily.

r3ap3rsg · October 2017

wtlonewolf20 wrote: »

From a Classical MMORPG veiwpoint I would say that if you have that many characters then, well your kind off asking for spending a LOT of time doing admin work. as a person that has a ton of characters I understand this. Clearing mail and doing mounts and writs takes up about 2 hours when you do them on 20 characters a day.

That said, in this day and age i think that there is a better way to get some of these items out of the way with less interference to actual game play.

I think that ZOS should create an interactive mobile app that allows players to do limited functions on their accounts without being logged in on your gaming machine. limited functions such as checking mail, mount training, selling in a guild store, accessing guild chat, viewing character stats, trait research, buy from the crown store, etc. you know the basic easy tasks that you theoretically can do remotely pretty easily.

That would be a dream come true lol