We need an easy way to transfer between characters.
By
Another_Fan,
Posted on: 2009-10-18 14:51 in Player Questions
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Right. Nothing should change because it's always been this way.| Also, as has been mentioned, somehow, CoH has survived sans said feature for 5 years now. |
That's why we still have a 5 digit limit on trades.
That's why we don't have bases or base teleporters.
That's why brawl costs end.
That's why we have no access to the real numbers.
That's why elude is a phase type power and unyielding roots you.
Account based storage should happen. There's nothing stopping it from happening beyond developer whim.
Be well, people of CoH.
I wouldn't call it whim BillZ.
Items and such are attached to characters. Characters are attached to accounts. For an account wide "bank", something similar to a private SG needs to be attached to each account that all account characters are automatically "enrolled" into and probably accessed via the current Vault system. Of course for items this still means some upper limit on each item type (inspirations, recipe, salvage, enhancement, etc). Of course the problem with this is how much impact it will have on the marketplace as rarer and higher demand items suitable for one AT is now hoarded instead of sold off.
Of course that's only one way of doing it. The other way talked about is transferring via the mail system. Oops, forgot you disabled mail on the receiving character, to bad, mailman stole all your Netflix. 
No it's not like the devs have a solution just sitting there ready to go and they choose NOT to give it to us. It's going to be some amount of time invested into creating it. Some amount of thought has to go into it so items stored or transferred don't end up falling through the cracks or duplicated if a server disconnect hits at the wrong moment. Just saying it's nontrivial. Of course all this speculation is moot if the devs decide NOT to change their opinion that twinking characters within the same account is discouraged (because of the current limited ways it can be done today).
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
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Actually Billz I believe he was referring to the "We need" part. It's not a need, it's a want. You could say that there are people who don't feel they can trust anyone to help transfer their valuables with, and I'm sure there are tons of them. But in the end, they want to give their alt the inf from another toon that has enough to spare. They don't need to.
Change is good(Sometimes). And the minute this feature because available(If ever) I'll be using the crap out of it. But I don't need it.
I really think the only justification the devs have left for not giving us an easy way to transfer things between our alts is 'it makes people pay for second accounts.' I know that's why I got mine - because I was sick and tired of pestering my friends for swaparounds. A related issue is the ridiculously small amount of storage allowed in bases. My SG only has five live human beings in it, and there isn't enough for us. Two of us have started personal coalition SGs to use as auxiliary storage areas.
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