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Improvement Suggestion for Craft Hireling Mail Collection
Onigar
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The current way to collect Craft Hireling Mails requires you to log in to each character where Hireling skill points are assigned.
This was not so much of a time overhead when there were only 8 character slots and not all chars were used for Hireling mails but from today there will be 15 character slots.
At the moment I have 14 characters at max in crafting but only have the points in the first 8 for the Hirelings. I do scroll through these 8 chars, mostly 2 times a day and would like to do more chars but at the same time I want to be playing the game.
I do not believe the current implementation is practical. Just think of the game time that would be used to scroll through up to 15 characters 2 times a day (each 12 hours new Hireling mails are available). From my experience of 11 minutes for 8 chars you would use around 20 minutes for 15 characters and then x2 per day = 40 mins of gametime.
My suggestion is to add controls on to the "Character Selection Screen" that would display the status of helper mails by character.
These "controls" would be in the form of mail icons. The same as in the game on the chat window, with glow indicates new mails, no glow indicates no mails.
The icons against each character could be clickable but I think this is not necessary and could be visual only.
A master icon for ALL MAIL should be the active control.
Once the master mail icon is clicked then this would register to pull mails for all chars from the server during the next login of ANY character.
This was not so much of a time overhead when there were only 8 character slots and not all chars were used for Hireling mails but from today there will be 15 character slots.
At the moment I have 14 characters at max in crafting but only have the points in the first 8 for the Hirelings. I do scroll through these 8 chars, mostly 2 times a day and would like to do more chars but at the same time I want to be playing the game.
I do not believe the current implementation is practical. Just think of the game time that would be used to scroll through up to 15 characters 2 times a day (each 12 hours new Hireling mails are available). From my experience of 11 minutes for 8 chars you would use around 20 minutes for 15 characters and then x2 per day = 40 mins of gametime.
My suggestion is to add controls on to the "Character Selection Screen" that would display the status of helper mails by character.
These "controls" would be in the form of mail icons. The same as in the game on the chat window, with glow indicates new mails, no glow indicates no mails.
The icons against each character could be clickable but I think this is not necessary and could be visual only.
A master icon for ALL MAIL should be the active control.
Once the master mail icon is clicked then this would register to pull mails for all chars from the server during the next login of ANY character.
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RobbieRocket✭✭✭No. To carry on this idea will lead to having 15 times the mats and resources gain on one account with the same workload as having one character. If you want the gain you need to put in the time.
I would like to node 15-30 Bugloss at a time but this would not be fair.0 -
Liofa✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Yes . I think Hirelings should be a part of your house as NPCs and you can upgrade them once per character . Just put them in your house as NPC or a special mailbox that contains all the mails from Hirelings . As you said , just to collect those , it takes at least 15 minutes . Considering the long loading screens we have in ESO , it is a torture .0 -
Feanor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭RobbieRocket wrote: »No. To carry on this idea will lead to having 15 times the mats and resources gain on one account with the same workload as having one character. If you want the gain you need to put in the time.
I would like to node 15-30 Bugloss at a time but this would not be fair.
The “workload” is leveling the crafts in the first place. Collecting stuff is just tedious routine. I like the idea OP presented.Main characters: Feanor the Believer - AD Altmer mSorc - AR 50 - Flawless Conqueror (PC EU)Idril Arnanor - AD Altmer mSorc - CP 217 - Stormproof (PC NA)Other characters:Necrophilius Killgood - DC Imperial NecromancerFearscales - AD Argonian Templar - Stormproof (healer)Draco Imperialis - AD Imperial DK (tank)Cabed Naearamarth - AD Dunmer mDKValirion Willowthorne - AD Bosmer stamBladeTuruna - AD Altmer magBladeKheled Zaram - AD Redguard stamDKKibil Nala - AD Redguard stamSorc - StormproofYavanna Kémentárí - AD Breton magWardenAzog gro-Ghâsh - EP Orc stamWardenVidar Drakenblød - DC Nord mDKMarquis de Peyrac - DC Breton mSorc - StormproofRawlith Khaj'ra - AD Khajiit stamWardenTu'waccah - AD Redguard StamplarAll chars 50 @ CP 1900+. Playing and enjoying PvP with RdK mostly on PC EU.2 -
Onigar✭✭✭
The “workload” is leveling the crafts in the first place. Collecting stuff is just tedious routine. I like the idea OP presented.
Fully agree. The effort and time required to level a character to 50 in all 5 crafting lines and where the hireling passive is fully available is significant.
Add to this the fact you asign valuable skill points too into Hireling Mails then a change along the lines as I proposed would have consideraböle benefits for all players and make it much more worthwhile in adopting the Hireling mails as a daily way of collecting mats.
An individual char Farming mats is always there as an option but when 15 chars could bring in mats 2x daily this would give you more time for involvement in the game content.
In the end isn't this what is an MMO is about, I mean Game content and particularly the interactive content involving other player(s).
Lets please remove unnecessary drains on game time and allow more focus on fun things, I'm sure it will help sales
If this was a single player game I would not be here!Edited by Onigar on February 12, 2018 1:01PM0 -
Onigar✭✭✭RobbieRocket wrote: »No. To carry on this idea will lead to having 15 times the mats and resources gain on one account with the same workload as having one character. If you want the gain you need to put in the time.
I would like to node 15-30 Bugloss at a time but this would not be fair.
I think you misunderstand somewhat,
The Hireling Mails are enabled through assigning skill points into the passive for 5 of 6 of the crafting lines.
This suggestion gives no achievement or other benefits to a single character.
It is a time saving proposal.
It is purely about removing the need to log into each character in turn where Hireling mails are available.
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