Will the new mail system allow us to mail to an alt?

[RedRockCandy!]

<DIV>Since my Qeynos Conjurer cant share banks with my Freeport Crusader, will I be able to mail her items and money for the small fee?</DIV>

[Blackguard]

You can mail text to a member of the opposing city, but not items or coin. <div><strong><font color="#ffcc00">*** In-Game Mail ***</font></strong></div> <div> </div> <div>- Exchange messages with your friends via the new in-game mail system.- You can send and receive mail at mailboxes located in East Freeport and Qeynos Harbor, as well as all districts and villages.- If you have unread mail waiting for you, you will see a mail icon in your Spell Effects window.  This icon will always appear in the first slot, and mousing over it will inform you that "You have unread mail."- Members of guilds that are level 15 and higher can purchase their own mailbox through status merchants.- Clicking on a mailbox will open the Mail window, which has two tabs: Inbox and Send.- Mail will be deleted 3 days after opening it, while unread mail will be deleted after 30 days. The time remaining until deletion is shown to the right of each letter.- Letters can contain money or an item, shown below the text of the letter. You can accept these parcels by clicking the Receive Gifts button.- To reply to the sender, click on the Reply button.- You can send along one item or any amount of coin with your letter. To send money, click the Give Coin button and enter the amount you wish to send. You can change your mind by clicking Give Coin again and clearing the amount. To include an item, drag the item you wish to send from your character's inventory onto the slot in the gifts area. You can change your mind by right-clicking on the item and choosing to remove it, or by dragging and dropping it onto an open section of the screen.- You can only send gifts to another character that is a citizen of the same city you are, though you can send text-only messages to anyone.- You can have a maximum of ten messages in your Inbox that include gifts from other players. There is no limit to how many text-only messages you can have at one time.- Plain text letters cost 10c to send. Letters with gifts attached cost 50c. There is no charge to read mail that has been sent to you.- You can send messages to your friends on other servers, or to those who play EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies!    - To send mail to someone on another EQ2 server, enter the name as servername.charname   - To send mail to a friend playing EQ, enter the name as eq.servername.charname   - To send mail to a friend in SWG, enter the name as swg.servername.charname   - Players in SWG or EQ can send mail to EverQuest II players by entering the name as eq2.servername.charname</div> <div></div>

[RedRockCandy!]

<DIV>Will we ever be able to exchange items and coin with our alts in another city? Even if I have to pay a small fee it would be worth it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thank you sir.</DIV>

[Xalmat]

Don't expect it to happen anytime soon. That would ruin the Qeynos vs Freeport theme this game has going on.

[Schirf]

<P>I can see it now... </P> <P>Halflings getting letters from Stormtroopers asking if they have any advice on how to kill Jawas.</P> <P> </P>

[Ruebb]

And it would have to be a pretty steep fee, say around 40%. Otherwise it would make the fence obsolete... <div></div>

[aeio]

<span><blockquote><hr>Ruebben wrote:And it would have to be a pretty steep fee, say around 40%. Otherwise it would make the fence obsolete... <div></div><hr></blockquote>And there is no real good way to assign general value to items in the game, so I think it won't happen for quite sometime if ever... It would completely remove the need for blackmarket brokers. </span><div></div>

[Hastur Bloodwa]

<div></div> Schirf said;- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I can see it now... Halflings getting letters from Stormtroopers asking if they have any advice on how to kill Jawas. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Except no, cross city mail has no bearing on cross game server so this is irrelevent. <div></div><p>Message Edited by Hastur Bloodwake on <span class=date_text>03-18-2005</span> <span class=time_text>04:36 PM</span>

[Jgok]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Hastur Bloodwake wrote:<BR>Schirf said;-<BR>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>I can see it now...<BR>Halflings getting letters from Stormtroopers asking if they have any advice on how to kill Jawas.<BR>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Except no, cross city mail has no bearing on cross game server so this is irrelevent.<BR> <P>Message Edited by Hastur Bloodwake on <SPAN class=date_text>03-18-2005</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>04:36 PM</SPAN><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>But, you must admit, it is an amusing thought...</P> <DIV>I do agree that items should not be sent between cities via mail.</DIV>

[RedRockCandy!]

<P>Alright, I understand now that if items could be transfered over to the other city it would defeat the purpose of the black market. However, what if they made it to where you had to attune the item before you could accept it with your alt? I still dont understand why I cant give money to my alt, and since I worked up all those levels making jewelry I at least should be able to make some for my alt even if I have to attune it.</P> <P>People are going to get friends to transfer items anyway, might as well save them some trouble.</P>

[Thyri]

I would love to see being able to send things to other cities people. Maybe like the Blackmarket broker is working that there is a hidden postoffice or something like that where you pay a good fee to send it there, and also then takes some time like half a day or so...

[RedRockCandy!]

<DIV>It would also be cool if we could send mail to our friends in EQOA.</DIV>

[Airik]

<DIV>QUOTE: "<STRONG><FONT color=#ffcc00>*** In-Game Mail ***</FONT></STRONG> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>- Exchange messages with your friends via the new in-game mail system.<BR>- You can send and receive mail at mailboxes located in East Freeport and Qeynos Harbor, as well as all districts and villages.<BR>- If you have unread mail waiting for you, you will see a mail icon in your Spell Effects window.  This icon will always appear in the first slot, and mousing over it will inform you that "You have unread mail."<BR>- Members of guilds that are level 15 and higher can purchase their own mailbox through status merchants.<BR>- Clicking on a mailbox will open the Mail window, which has two tabs: Inbox and Send.<BR>- Mail will be deleted 3 days after opening it, while unread mail will be deleted after 30 days. The time remaining until deletion is shown to the right of each letter.<BR>- Letters can contain money or an item, shown below the text of the letter. You can accept these parcels by clicking the Receive Gifts button.<BR>- To reply to the sender, click on the Reply button.<BR>- You can send along one item or any amount of coin with your letter. To send money, click the Give Coin button and enter the amount you wish to send. You can change your mind by clicking Give Coin again and clearing the amount. To include an item, drag the item you wish to send from your character's inventory onto the slot in the gifts area. You can change your mind by right-clicking on the item and choosing to remove it, or by dragging and dropping it onto an open section of the screen.<BR>- You can only send gifts to another character that is a citizen of the same city you are, though you can send text-only messages to anyone.<BR>- You can have a maximum of ten messages in your Inbox that include gifts from other players. There is no limit to how many text-only messages you can have at one time.<BR>- Plain text letters cost 10c to send. Letters with gifts attached cost 50c. There is no charge to read mail that has been sent to you.<BR>- You can send messages to your friends on other servers, or to those who play EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies! <BR>   - To send mail to someone on another EQ2 server, enter the name as servername.charname<BR>   - To send mail to a friend playing EQ, enter the name as eq.servername.charname<BR>   - To send mail to a friend in SWG, enter the name as swg.servername.charname<BR>   - Players in SWG or EQ can send mail to EverQuest II players by entering the name as eq2.servername.charname"</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So can you mail an item from one of your other characters on  a different server as long as they are in the same city?  Would love to get items off my alts since SOE wont move them.</DIV></DIV>

[Homesli]

You can not send money or items to a character on a different server. Item mails have to be on the same server.

[Buz_Weaver]

<div></div>Can you send stuff to an Alt in the same city/alignment? <div></div><p>Message Edited by Buz_Weaver on <span class=date_text>03-20-2005</span> <span class=time_text>05:57 PM</span>

[Miral]

YES.... If a character is on the same server, and has their home in the same city (qeynos or freeport), you can send them your life's savings if you want to. Doesn't matter if the char is on same account or not.

[EvilIguana9]

Let people send items/coin to opposing cities.... The penalty of course will be that you pay 100% of the item's vendor value and 20% of the coin to get a smuggler to attempt the run, and there is a 50% chance your cargo will be intercepted by the opposing city's customs officers and impounded indefinitely.  You can attempt to bribe the opposing city guards to give it back but that has a 25% chance of you losing your bribe and getting slain with an unrecoverable shard. But the option will be there. <div></div>

[Dub]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> CLMarioMax wrote:<BR>Don't expect it to happen anytime soon. That would ruin the Qeynos vs Freeport theme this game has going on.<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>This game has no Qeynos vs Freeport theme. Its not like we can fight them.  Hell we can group with them, talk with them, and so on....The only thing this does is separate friends.

[Homesli]

<blockquote><hr>Dubel wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> CLMarioMax wrote:<BR>Don't expect it to happen anytime soon. That would ruin the Qeynos vs Freeport theme this game has going on.<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>This game has no Qeynos vs Freeport theme. Its not like we can fight them. Hell we can group with them, talk with them, and so on....The only thing this does is separate friends.<hr></blockquote>I disagree with you here. It is more of a cold war, think of Russia and USA in the way back. I could hang out with Russians and talk with them and have no personal beef but the governments were really against each other and not trusting of one another at all and trades between them were nonexsistant. You are able to do sabotage quests in game now. Which really has no effect on the game world but shows that things are being added to build up to this war. They really do show that there are different economies between cities with drops to black market vendors. Too many people see it as since there is no PvP that the cities are just a hassle and I don't think it is like that at all.Just my 2cp <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[darkshm]

Really I just want someone to mail me a lightsaber.  <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <div></div>

[jtoa]

<DIV>What happens if I try to mail a bag full of stuff?</DIV>

[Buz_Weaver]

<blockquote><hr>Miral wrote: YES.... If a character is on the same server, and has their home in the same city (qeynos or freeport), you can send them your life's savings if you want to. Doesn't matter if the char is on same account or not. <div></div> <hr></blockquote> I thought so, just wanted to confirm, thanks!

[RhunMcBuggy]

How long does it take for mail messages that have coin attached to show up in the other persons mailbox.  I sent 2 mails to my alt, same server, same city, one with coin attached one without coin.  The message without coin showed up before i switched chars, the one with coin never got to her...

[RhunMcBuggy]

<DIV>Weird, took like 10 mins, but got it eventually :smileyhappy:</DIV>

[Tomanak]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> darkshmoo wrote:<BR>Really I just want someone to mail me a lightsaber.  <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Forget the lightsaber, I just want a T-21 :smileytongue: