Hireling mails are same message every day since update XBNA

LurgidBean

Since the last XB update right before the event started, my hireling mails have had the same text/story snippet every day. Except enchanting which is progressing the story.
Blackfoot the cat has given me cookies multiple days in a row, I don't want your cat treats.
Orbinor is falling over himself thanking me for his worldly experiences and Ubrek is smashing out words on his own. (Proud of him!)

I'm probably the only person still reading them these days. But something broke. @ZOS_Kevin

Elsonso

LurgidBean wrote: »

Since the last XB update right before the event started, my hireling mails have had the same text/story snippet every day. Except enchanting which is progressing the story.
Blackfoot the cat has given me cookies multiple days in a row, I don't want your cat treats.
Orbinor is falling over himself thanking me for his worldly experiences and Ubrek is smashing out words on his own. (Proud of him!)

I'm probably the only person still reading them these days. But something broke. @ZOS_Kevin

The stories from the hirelings eventually end, and after that, they just repeat the same thing every day.

The outfitter hireling Granny/Black-foot will just send you cookies every day.
The miner hireling Ubrek will smash words for you.
The lumberjack hireling Orbinor will thank you every day.

The timing with the maintenance was just a coincidence.

Rishikesa108

Hireling feature strongly needs a restyling, but not for the stories...
If a player has maxed these skills on more than one character, and if he wants to get the maximum from these mails, he has to endure schedules incompatible with a human being . Twice a day, every 12 hours, logging in and out with all his characters. Sometimes there are mainteinances, sometimes it's lunch or dinner time, sometimes it's sleeping time or working time. The materials do not arrive in the mail if the character does not login and each character must login to get their materials. This is insane. It would be simpler if the materials arrived in the mail every 12 hours, without the need for the character to login, and then when one logs in, he gets them, such as items sold or returned back by trader guilds. We have spent lots of skill points to get these materials, why have we to endure such schedules ?

Gandalf_72

Rishikesa108 wrote: »

My suggestions:
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3) receive by ingame mail hireling items with one character, also if they are from other characters hirelings (right now I have to change all my characters to receive hireling items by ingame mail)
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Please consider Number 3, it is very important for the in-game quality of life. It is very very uncomfortable to change all chars twice a day to get hireling items from mail. I have spent a total of 15 skill points for each of my character to receive these items by mail, but it's very difficult to get them.

Rishikesa108 wrote: »

I would like all the hirelings-items to arrive automatically in the mail, without having to log in each character every 12 hours in order to receive them. Having spent 15 skill points for each character to be able to receive these items, it is not fair that I should be enslaved to having to log in all the characters at certain times, not to mention that sometimes it is not possible due to maintenance or commitments, so the items are not withdrawn. I also point out that logging in and out of characters takes a very long time and a lot of patience

Rishikesa108 wrote: »

TimeViewer wrote: »

I use Mail Companion LWC's setting had been interfering but changing it fixed the issue.

Personally I wish we could get ALL our mails just logging on one character, I waste so much time every day going through 2 accounts, the worst are days like this we have an event going on plus maintenance so I have to wait for hours then go through my chars for mail. It's needless stress on the logon servers coupled with the occasional crash to desktop while changing chars (always annoying)

This problem is underestimated. Little is said about it, maybe too few are interested in Hireling? However, I feel the problem very much, I understand very well what you have said.
It is imperative that ZOS seeks to improve the quality of life in the game, and changing Hireling's system is just that. Unnecessarily switching all the characters one after the other to receive the Hireling emails clogs the system, especially if this is done every 12 hours.

Receive by ingame mail hireling items with one character

Ideas for ESO Plus:
receive by ingame mail hireling items with one character, also if they are from other characters hirelings (right now I have to change all my characters to receive hireling items by ingame mail)

If you could have one wish in ESO...:
I would like all the hirelings-items to arrive automatically in the mail, without having to log in each character every 12 hours in order to receive them.

Hireling Mail attachments:
It is imperative that ZOS seeks to improve the quality of life in the game, and changing Hireling's system is just that. Unnecessarily switching all the characters one after the other to receive the Hireling emails clogs the system, especially if this is done every 12 hours.






@TimeViewer





Please ZOS, give the right importance and consider this request, it would be a huge improvement for ESO gameplay and a stress reduction for servers!!

katanagirl1

Having the mail sent out automatically might be a problem if the player went several days without logging in and had hirelings on many characters. That could be a lot of mail sent out at once.

I don’t mind having to switch characters to eventually get the hireling mail, but like you said there is ample opportunity to miss deliveries. Maybe another option would be that the missed mail could be held until you log on with a particular character, and the game previously gave you credit for receiving the mail if you were logged in on another character.

Okay that kinda sounds confusing but hopefully you know what I’m trying to say.

InaMoonlight

Agreed, it would be SO nice if they at least started over from the start, I used to loooove reading them, but once you've had the same text arrive every day for some four, six or seven years, it kinda turns so painful that I opted out of the mats and removed the points on my main </3


Pleeeease ZoS, Make them cycle through again and again, or, even better, also create even more cause they were brilliant engaging and hillarious!

Rishikesa108

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Having the mail sent out automatically might be a problem if the player went several days without logging in and had hirelings on many characters. That could be a lot of mail sent out at once.

I don’t mind having to switch characters to eventually get the hireling mail, but like you said there is ample opportunity to miss deliveries. Maybe another option would be that the missed mail could be held until you log on with a particular character, and the game previously gave you credit for receiving the mail if you were logged in on another character.

Okay that kinda sounds confusing but hopefully you know what I’m trying to say.

If you have more than one trading guild, you can sell up to 30/60/90 items when you are offline, then you will receive the gold when you'll log in next time. Or you can receive back the items if the time limit is over. Here the mail system works. Why shouldn't it work for hirelings when you are offline for days ? And... they could put a limit... over that limit you will lose your items. Right now you always lose your items if you don't log in every 12 hours with ALL your characters that have these hireling skills.