Up to 4 mails per character, 8 characters per account, times however many accounts. That could end up bogging down the mail system after a while, especially if they kept being delivered to people who aren't even subscribed anymore.

That is likely the reason for them not just stacking infinitely.

However, I do wish that we could have a mail sitting in our inbox regardless of whether we were on to collect it right then, and then have one that could still have the timer counting down. That way if I collect at 8 am one day, and then not until noon the next, I could have collected the one that was put into my mailbox at 8, and the timer wouldn't get reset to noon.

Aett_Thorn wrote: »

Up to 4 mails per character, 8 characters per account, times however many accounts. That could end up bogging down the mail system after a while, especially if they kept being delivered to people who aren't even subscribed anymore.

I think there are ways of implementing this so that the email accumulation would not be a problem.

For ex, one way to be considered it is to deliver the email only when the player is logged in, as today. The difference would be that the system would make the difference between current date (sysdate) and the date of the last delivery and then call the random generator function for a number of times corresponding to the days for which the mats should be delivered. When the generation is finished, all the mats are consolidated in stacks and delivered in emails using all 6 email slots.

This way the number of emails that need to be sent will be significantly reduced, while fixing in the same time the current stupid system in place.

Now, the correct question is: is ZOS really interested in fixing the game? The players are complaining for a long time about all the stupid things and broken mechanics in the game and there is little done to fix them unless they are PvP related.

Aett_Thorn wrote: »

Up to 4 mails per character, 8 characters per account, times however many accounts. That could end up bogging down the mail system after a while, especially if they kept being delivered to people who aren't even subscribed anymore.

The easy solution is this:

Set a limit on how many hireling emails you can get. So, one days worth or two or whatever. Anything over that is dropped or not sent. There are already limits on how many emails you can get, I think, I don't get enough to hit it.

Then, the second thing that would resolve the L3 issue entirely is, just double the amount of stuff that the L2 would give us. That along with the factor that increases the chance of getting better tempers would solve this. People could log in once a day and get their stuff no matter what level their hireling is.