Roechacca Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 support! ...and a bathroom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankybrit Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 How about a Mailbox AND the ability to summon a companion. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevex Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 How would the physical objects you receive in the mail get to your ship? I don't know. How do the physical objects teleport to whatever mailbox you happen to be close to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevex Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Great, then you can have a game where no one interacts with each other, talks with each other, or even sees each other. Genius. Yes because a mailbox on your ship would definitely cause all players to just sit in their ship forever. Perfect logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevex Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Honestly, why can't mail (without objects) be delievered to where ever we are, when the mail comes? I mean, come on, we can travel in hyperspace, but cant have electronic mail be delivered to our personal com-device? And money? It should be delivered directly to our bank accounts. Again, come on. Wire transfer is unheard of. Mail with objects, on the other hand, I can understand. I think when stuff is sent via mail, it should be delivered at the mail-boxes. But with an option to have it "fed-ex'ed" to our ship for a fee. Edit: I think the designers have been too mindful of how this has been done in other games, and not taken the setting into consideration when designing the mail system. As far as I remember, in SWG I could access my in-game mail from my datapad. And that made sense! I agree with you. We already accept that physical objects in the mail magically get delivered to every single mailbox, no matter which one you go to and no matter what planet you're on. So why not skip all of that mailbox crap entirely and just have everything show up on your holopad thing? Mailbox on ship would be nice, but mail on my person would be nicer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardicon Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 id be happy to be able to give my companions a gift on the ship. and seriously where is my bed. i wanted to get freaky freaky time with ashara on my ship, but no bed and i cant give her anything while we are both on the ship. ooh here is a courting gift but i have to give it to you around all these people in the space dock instead of in my nice luxurious state room on my ship that doesnt contain a really awesome vibrating waterbed. now if you can get over all of that, then yeah mail on the ship would be cool but mainly no bed, no intimate setting to give your companion courting gifts. i guess i dont sleep since i have no freaking bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_Vega Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I would definitely like a mailbox on my ship. I would also like the ability to change my crew's gear while on the ship. I would really love the ability to rip out AK-3PO's voice box though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Democratus Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Encouraging players to interact with the larger virtual world seems to be the main reason to keep mailboxes off of ships. BioWare seems to really want to encourage community. That's good enough reason for me to be okay with the current system for a while and see if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maidel Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 You might be in deep space doing battles, the time you see the planets are in dominance because of the time abstraction. It's not logical to get steady delivery into a mailbox inside your ship, because you're supposed to be moving around when in a ship. That the game abstract the time you see certain planets more than the hyperspace sequence, or the occasional space battle, does not mean you're automatically available at all times for a steady delivery of physical items, into a certain object in the ship. --- None of your posts actually follow any logic. On the one hand you are saying that sending out a companion on a mission is a 'time short cut' and in fact represents more time than is actually shown. But on the other hand you are saying that a mail box on a ship is impossible. Why cant the same 'time short cut' be implied while on a ship that the 'item in the mail' is in fact a message tellling you where the item is and in this 'time short cut' your simply fly your ship to the location and a mail man delivers it to your ship. The game has masses of abstractions - infintely large mission box (well not infinate, but it can hold multipul human sized bodies at the same time while still allowing me to run around like an olympic sprinter.) Also the game allows my companions to appear and disappear at will, the game also allows me to 'call a shuttle' while 3 levels down in a bunker and produce a full sized speeder out of my backside. All of those abstractions are quite fine in your world, yet reciving items in the mail to your ship are not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itekazzawrrlic Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 good idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neamhan Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 How would the physical objects you receive in the mail get to your ship? That's easy. C2 went and picked up any physical objects for me. He needs something to do when he's not installing more seat cushions or changing Zenith's diet so he doesn't get fat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetah Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Yeah, I too want to send/receive mail (items) from my ship. I also want the option to give gifts to my crew while on my ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nareky Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 yeh was actually thinking that lol would be nice to have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowmelt Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I agree that would be cool, its weird NPC can contact us but we can't send a simple gmail..gmail as meaning Galactic Mail lol:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuin Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I think a mailbox on the ship would be awesom... A GTN not, that will kill the interaction between players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJChaotica Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Same as how physical objects you recieve from a holocomm call? Anyway, I wish theres a mailbox and GTN on the ship. Imperial fleet is too lagging and the only place with all of these available is Dormand Kaas. The fleets seem like they lag because they don't spawn instances like worlds do, which they really should. I've seen in the 190+ range on Imperial fleet in prime time. Well, "seen" is being too polite, it's more like watching a slide show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakeIL Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethality Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Seems like a bizarro world if we can't read email from our ship. Stick a mailbox in the captains quarters please. But, they need traffic in the fleet... mail and commerce is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inune Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Great, then you can have a game where no one interacts with each other, talks with each other, or even sees each other. Genius. Yeah I'm totally with you, there's so much meaningful social interaction that goes on when I board the republic fleet, run 5 meters to the mailbox, 5 meters back to the hangar, and board my ship again without saying anything to anyone or even seeing more than the 2 other Consulars doing the exact same thing I am. Whatever would happen if we removed that in favor of the mild convenience of getting mail delivered to your ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandtrooper Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Great idea. E-mail and GTN would be nice. Sand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quip Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 How would the physical objects you receive in the mail get to your ship? You can pick them up on any planet at any time, how does that work? I can open the mail on Tatooine and look at the attachments, then fly to Korriban to get the attachments out of the box... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asavar Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I actually thought "why don't our ships have mail terminals? D:" earlier on my way to my ship. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoth-Amon Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 **** if I had a gtn and a mailbox in my ship I would be happy. Flying between planets and imperial fleet to get to the GTN is a pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToliverGrey Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 **** if I had a gtn and a mailbox in my ship I would be happy. Flying between planets and imperial fleet to get to the GTN is a pain. Plus a class trainer. And a crafting trainer specific to whatever skill you chose. And a crew skill vendor. And make it so the quests come to me on my ship rather than me having to go to planets and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sernon Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 (edited) None of your posts actually follow any logic. On the one hand you are saying that sending out a companion on a mission is a 'time short cut' and in fact represents more time than is actually shown. But on the other hand you are saying that a mail box on a ship is impossible. Why cant the same 'time short cut' be implied while on a ship that the 'item in the mail' is in fact a message tellling you where the item is and in this 'time short cut' your simply fly your ship to the location and a mail man delivers it to your ship. The game has masses of abstractions - infintely large mission box (well not infinate, but it can hold multipul human sized bodies at the same time while still allowing me to run around like an olympic sprinter.) Also the game allows my companions to appear and disappear at will, the game also allows me to 'call a shuttle' while 3 levels down in a bunker and produce a full sized speeder out of my backside. All of those abstractions are quite fine in your world, yet reciving items in the mail to your ship are not? Ask a courier to deliver a package to an object that's in no particular place at any given time, and observe how the delivery fares. You want to assume a delivery to a docked ship in a specific area at a given time, before this happens. And that's not solved by some mailbox object receiving mail during a space battle for example. As the most lazy implementation to this matter of utter convenience would see fit. --- Edited January 14, 2012 by Sernon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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