Saturated mail box

Arunei

Even looking at that screenshot, there's nothing to show that you actually earned all that in the course of 4-5 days. And if you're only in 3 trading guilds that's even fewer expired mails you'd have coming back than the 150 I mentioned if you'd been in 5 and had max listings all expire in each of them. I also included a little over 200 mails for things like items you might have bought or been sent from other players.

To get just 1k RotW boxes in only 5 days would take hours and hours of playing for those 5 days. If you average it taking an hour to get 200k AP, that's 10 boxes. To get 100 boxes, then, it would take 10 hours. 10 hours for 5 days is only 500 boxes. If we double the hours played to 20 every day for 5 days that would be 1k. Even if you can get 400k AP per hour, that would be 20 boxes, which would be 200 boxes if you played 10 hours, would would then give you the 1k in five days. But even with double AP I don't really know if it's possible to consistently hit 400k AP every hour for 10 hours.

All that being said, this isn't something the average player is going to have a problem with. Even most PvPers aren't going to be having this issue. If you pushed SUPER HARD and earned all that within 5 days then that is very impressive (and I'm jealous because it's taken me fricken years just to get to 20m for Lieutenant, but that can't be helped since I PvP so infrequently), but it's also going to be par for the course if you're PvPing that much. Changes to any given game system can't be made for the few extreme instances that might pop up from time to time, and this particular instance is one heck of an extreme. All that can really be advised is to clear your mail every hour or so to prevent yourself from being buried under a flood. With Mayhem being over now, though, it should be much less of an issue for you.

Xarc

well OK man. If you want

Marginis

That seems like a lot of mail. Do you not clean out your inbox regularly? I can't imagine my inbox stacking up more than 50 messages, and that's between logins during a very busy week. And when I'm in-game I pretty much clear the mail as soon as I get it.

Arunei

Xarc wrote: »

well OK man. If you want

It's not anything to do with what I want. I've played this game since closed beta and not a single time before now have I heard of someone getting 1k+ mails in less than a week. This isn't a problem a vast majority of players are going to face; rewards for PvP and how they're handed out shouldn't be changed because there might be a small number of people who get an excessive number of mails. As irritating as it might be, the answer to this problem simply is to clear your mail before it has a chance to pile up that much. It takes less time to clear your inbox if you only have 20 or so mail than it does to wait until you have hundreds.

redspecter23

Rewards for the Worthy through the mail is an antiquated system that ZOS should be looking to replace. They have stated there are issues with keeping things in the mail and databases. It could easily be changed to a currency that just adds to your total every time you would earn a Rewards for the Worthy. Call it Alliance Keys and put it right below Undaunted Keys on your currency tab. You can then use the keys to open boxes at your base that are essentially the same as the current rewards boxes. They could even add new things to spend the keys on over time. Mail bloat gone instantly, replaced with an account wide integer instead.

Arunei

redspecter23 wrote: »

Rewards for the Worthy through the mail is an antiquated system that ZOS should be looking to replace. They have stated there are issues with keeping things in the mail and databases. It could easily be changed to a currency that just adds to your total every time you would earn a Rewards for the Worthy. Call it Alliance Keys and put it right below Undaunted Keys on your currency tab. You can then use the keys to open boxes at your base that are essentially the same as the current rewards boxes. They could even add new things to spend the keys on over time. Mail bloat gone instantly, replaced with an account wide integer instead.

They would still need to track those keys/tokens/whatever you'd want to call them, and they'd need to add an NPC for you to spend them on. The only way to prevent that would be to make your individual items be combinable, which...makes absolutely no sense and would make each individual reward feel worthless, unless the loot from combined items contained the same amount of loot as those individual ones would have normally given.

We don't have access to ESO's code, so none of us can say if something is "easy" for them to implement. If decoupling RotW from the mail system hasn't happened yet, it's either because it's a lot harder than it sounds like, or it's less of a priority than other matters.

And for the majority of players, they don't have mail bloat from PvP. I've never even heard of people who PvP a lot having so many RotW that they have this level of stuff in their inbox. And there can still be "bloat" from other sources, like people who do numerous random daily dungeons every day, buy a lot of stuff from trade guilds, and sell a bunch of stuff themselves.

If mail is a problem ZOS has said needs fixing, they'd have to implement it from these other things that can cause a lot of mails to pile up as well, not just PvP. And it doesn't sound like it's even the rewards/items themselves that are having issues, but just the mail itself overall. Which leads us back to the solution, until ZOS comes up with one themselves (or if, honestly; look how long certain things that should have been part of the game at launch took to get added), which is to simply manage your inbox when it has fewer mails instead of letting them pile up into the hundreds.

Veinblood1965

That's nothing. I get 1000's of PVP rewards every day and I'm happy to open them.

Xarc

Arunei wrote: »

I've played this game since closed beta

This is not an argument.

You dont believe me, it's your right, the fact is i'm not lying. I 've earned AP, I've got many pvp rewards, I 've got many mails from trading guild too and furnitures.
The problem here isnt how i've got so many mails, it's how can zos change the system.

Thecompton73

Not naming names but it seems like one person is just in the thread to be a contrarian just for the pleasure of disagreeing. Seriously why would someone spend all the time arguing (poorly at that) against a simple and very valid QoL request? What would this person lose if the RftW system was changed to a currency?

SkaraMinoc

Has anyone calculated the total number of hours lost having to manually open Rewards for the Worthy? The Per Capita time spent has to be way worse than USB 1.0's non-reversible port.