Trading items between characters on the same account

VivianTheUnrede

At present it's more trouble to trade items between two characters on your own account than it is to trade with characters on other accounts. That's ridiculous.

May I suggest the following?

To freely transfer things between the accounts of two characters, the first one must be in the area that the second one was in when it last left the game.

Ah, but what do I mean by "area"? I am not quite sure how the playing field is divided below the zone level. Saying the same zone would probably make the process a bit too easy. If there are smaller subdivisions, they should be used. Or simply set a maximum distance (fairly short) between the point that the first character has reached and the point the second character left the game.

I think that would be far better than the present ridiculous dance you have to go through with the banker.

Nyladreas

VivianTheUnrede wrote: »

At present it's more trouble to trade items between two characters on your own account than it is to trade with characters on other accounts. That's ridiculous.

May I suggest the following?

To freely transfer things between the accounts of two characters, the first one must be in the area that the second one was in when it last left the game.

Ah, but what do I mean by "area"? I am not quite sure how the playing field is divided below the zone level. Saying the same zone would probably make the process a bit too easy. If there are smaller subdivisions, they should be used. Or simply set a maximum distance (fairly short) between the point that the first character has reached and the point the second character left the game.

I think that would be far better than the present ridiculous dance you have to go through with the banker.

What the hell is difficult or troubling about using a bank? Not to mention your character can just be in any city with a bank... Some people really are lazy AF.

IcyDeadPeople

What might be cool is if there was a way to have your other characters spawn as NPCs in your player housing, so you could interact with them and trade stuff.

Nyladreas

IcyDeadPeople wrote: »

What might be cool is if there was a way to have your other characters spawn as NPCs in your player housing, so you could interact with them and trade stuff.

Literally what a banker NPC already does lmao. You just gotta relog.

Although I REALLY REALLY DO like the idea of having your characters as NPCs in your houses so you still earn an awesome from me :P

jedtb16_ESO

bank...

VivianTheUnrede

NylesAdrean wrote: »

What the hell is difficult or troubling about using a bank? Not to mention your character can just be in any city with a bank... Some people really are lazy AF.

You could say that about any proposal to streamline the mechanics of the game.

Using a bank is not difficult or troublesome. It's awkward and ridiculous. And "lazy" is certainly an odd word to say about any procedure in a game that requires no more effort than mouse clicks and keyboard strokes.

Sorry for provoking your tantrum. It was amusing to read, though.

TheStealthDude

Get the banker assistant if you want further convenience. Easy.

Xvorg

VivianTheUnrede wrote: »

NylesAdrean wrote: »

What the hell is difficult or troubling about using a bank? Not to mention your character can just be in any city with a bank... Some people really are lazy AF.

You could say that about any proposal to streamline the mechanics of the game.

Using a bank is not difficult or troublesome. It's awkward and ridiculous. And "lazy" is certainly an odd word to say about any procedure in a game that requires no more effort than mouse clicks and keyboard strokes.

Sorry for provoking your tantrum. It was amusing to read, though.

So you want to overcharge the server with active characters not logged just because you want to save yourself from some clicks?

technohic

NylesAdrean wrote: »

VivianTheUnrede wrote: »

At present it's more trouble to trade items between two characters on your own account than it is to trade with characters on other accounts. That's ridiculous.

May I suggest the following?

To freely transfer things between the accounts of two characters, the first one must be in the area that the second one was in when it last left the game.

Ah, but what do I mean by "area"? I am not quite sure how the playing field is divided below the zone level. Saying the same zone would probably make the process a bit too easy. If there are smaller subdivisions, they should be used. Or simply set a maximum distance (fairly short) between the point that the first character has reached and the point the second character left the game.

I think that would be far better than the present ridiculous dance you have to go through with the banker.

What the hell is difficult or troubling about using a bank? Not to mention your character can just be in any city with a bank... Some people really are lazy AF.

It's because they do not have any inventory/bank management tools. It all gets mixed up with everything else just making it tedious to find a set you put together

ookami007

As many people have pointed out, that's what the SHARED bank is for. Anything you put in the bank is available to ALL characters.

That said, I too like having any characters that aren't presently logged in being placeable in houses... heck, I'll take ANY NPCs right now. My houses look so empty.

Danikat

I don't understand how this is different to using the bank either.

That's basically how it works - you go to the bank on character A and drop off the items. You log into character B and pick them up.

The only difference I can see with this idea is you could go to any part of the map instead of having to go to a city, but the downside is you'd have to go to the same one - at the moment if I drop items off at the bank in Wayrest I can pick them up in Ebonheart which is more convenient for me than having to make sure all my characters are in the same place when I want to transfer items between them.

starkerealm

Yeah, I'll throw my name on the pile for people who'd love to see their offline alts as house residents. Right now my banker is standing around alone.

Bouldercleave

VivianTheUnrede wrote: »

NylesAdrean wrote: »

What the hell is difficult or troubling about using a bank? Not to mention your character can just be in any city with a bank... Some people really are lazy AF.

You could say that about any proposal to streamline the mechanics of the game.

Using a bank is not difficult or troublesome. It's awkward and ridiculous. And "lazy" is certainly an odd word to say about any procedure in a game that requires no more effort than mouse clicks and keyboard strokes.

Sorry for provoking your tantrum. It was amusing to read, though.

Please explain how the bank is awkward and ridiculous. I'm not trolling, I just can't see where the problem is.

Nyladreas

VivianTheUnrede wrote: »

NylesAdrean wrote: »

What the hell is difficult or troubling about using a bank? Not to mention your character can just be in any city with a bank... Some people really are lazy AF.

You could say that about any proposal to streamline the mechanics of the game.

Using a bank is not difficult or troublesome. It's awkward and ridiculous. And "lazy" is certainly an odd word to say about any procedure in a game that requires no more effort than mouse clicks and keyboard strokes.

Sorry for provoking your tantrum. It was amusing to read, though.

Well no offence but i almost literally laughed my ass off. Or rather my stomach. Talk about amusing.

While I agree with others that some changes to the UI could improve the interaction with a bank it still doesn't change the fact that what you asked for, and the way you asked for it was utterly stupid. I'm sorry.

McI

If I make gear for a character that doesn't have access to a bank, let's say he is in the tutorial, and I wanna put gear on him that he doesn't even need...

I make the gear, and send a mail to a guildie. They hit the "return to sender" button. Then I can open the mail on the character that is in the tutorial.

It is totally unnecessary, but sometimes I like to crush some mobs in the tutorial while I am messing around. I know this isn't ideal, but is a work around.