Please have any Hirelings mail to Account vice Respective Alts

Armisael9 · March 2018

I’m sure this has been posted before but I believe this would save crafters a good amount of time depending on number of alts! Each alt takes about 2.5min of logging and unlogging loading screens. Not to mention the 24 hour reset clock creeps forward a little each day as you wait for the mail to drop. Would definitely increase my actual game time and enjoyment!

jssriot · March 2018

No.

jfc people....

Yeah, it would save time. But with game design, there is such a thing as making something too easy.

Armisael9 · March 2018

Minimizing loading screens to collect alt hireling mail isn’t exactly an easy mode game changer regarding design. Time is a valuable thing, and I’d rather spend it on quests, leveling and farming equipment in delves or pvp with guild, aka actual game activity. I’m working on 10 alts, which nets about 25-30min of loading screens.

If I had 2 toons then yeah, this wouldn’t even be an item worth mentioning. There are plenty of crafters with 8 alts and hirelings.

Feric51 · March 2018

This is why I have all my alts parked in Dreloth Ancestral Tomb. I log in, trigger the hirelings, run the urns, deposit goodies with my banker merchant, rinse, repeat. Each urn run is about 2 minutes, so at least I don't feel like I'm completely wasting a ton of time just for hirelings.

Juju_beans · March 2018

If it's such a hassle for you then get rid of your hirelings on your alts.
Then you only have one to log into and check every day.

MilwaukeeScott · March 2018

Armisael9 wrote: »

Not to mention the 24 hour reset clock creeps forward a little each day as you wait for the mail to drop.

Hirelings send mail every 12 hours. Twice a day!

Apache_Kid · March 2018

jssriot wrote: »

No.

jfc people....

Yeah, it would save time. But with game design, there is such a thing as making something too easy.

Why would you want yourself and other players to have to waste more time in loading screens... Making players log into different characters doesn't make this any more difficult, Just annoying. Less time logging in and out of characters means more time to actually play the game.

disintegr8 · March 2018

MilwaukeeScott wrote: »

Armisael9 wrote: »

Not to mention the 24 hour reset clock creeps forward a little each day as you wait for the mail to drop.

Hirelings send mail every 12 hours. Twice a day!

Only if you have the last skill point put into them but still, that 12 hours can still creep forward a little every day.

If you only have them set to 24 hour delivery and log in at the same time every day, there would be one day every now and then that you could not get them. Even with 12 hour delivery, I can only get more than one a day on weekends if I log in early enough on the first day.

I have 8 characters getting 12 hour mails. If I don't log in until 9 am on Saturday, by the time I do Saturday night and Sunday morning mails, I can end up still being on at 10.30 - 11 pm Sunday trying to get my 4th mail for the weekend. This is getting late for an old man like me when I get up at 5 am for work.

I suggest that it should be reduced like horse training was, maybe 20 hours for daily and 10 hours for twice daily. I'd even settle for 11 hours apart to get twice daily mails.

xaraan · March 2018

I'm fine with having to relog, some players just want everything made as easy as possible with as little work involved as possible. BUT, zos should work on improving load screen time and performance so it doesn't take 30-45 min just to log into all your characters.

Juju_beans · March 2018

i don't log into each of them every day. Some days I might if i'm ready to log off early.
It's not like that's my only source of mats. So I don't get to each and every alt every single day.

Armisael9 · March 2018

disintegr8 wrote: »

MilwaukeeScott wrote: »

Armisael9 wrote: »

Not to mention the 24 hour reset clock creeps forward a little each day as you wait for the mail to drop.

Hirelings send mail every 12 hours. Twice a day!

Only if you have the last skill point put into them but still, that 12 hours can still creep forward a little every day.

If you only have them set to 24 hour delivery and log in at the same time every day, there would be one day every now and then that you could not get them. Even with 12 hour delivery, I can only get more than one a day on weekends if I log in early enough on the first day.

I have 8 characters getting 12 hour mails. If I don't log in until 9 am on Saturday, by the time I do Saturday night and Sunday morning mails, I can end up still being on at 10.30 - 11 pm Sunday trying to get my 4th mail for the weekend. This is getting late for an old man like me when I get up at 5 am for work.

I suggest that it should be reduced like horse training was, maybe 20 hours for daily and 10 hours for twice daily. I'd even settle for 11 hours apart to get twice daily mails.

Great suggestion bringing the clock down to 20 hours or 10 hours (for the last skill point) to eliminate log in time creep.

Tarukmockto · March 2018

Sadly, another thing that has been suggested repeatedly since launch with no interest from ZOS. But hope springs eternal, so you never know!

CGPsaint · March 2018

I've never bothered with hirelings because I'm not interested in being tethered to my console twice per day, due to a poorly implemented feature. Just my two cents.

Nestor · March 2018

There is a reason as to why somethings are not automated. If you think about it, you would understand why this is not.

If you are not sure, here is a hint, make it too easy to gather mats, and everyone will do it and the economy will tank as mats and other items drop to less than vendor pricing. This is why there is a friction with Hireling Mails, Writs, Master Writs and the like. As long as there is a token effort, then only people who want to do these things will. Rather than anyone who wants to do some clickety clicks and have everything done.