Recipe suggestion: Craft Voucher
By
Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-07-07 05:21 in Suggestions and Ideas
Sounds like a good idea to me.
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Seems like too much (dev) resource allocation for too little benefit to me.
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That would be a very nice feature to have.
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
Seems like too much (dev) resource allocation for too little benefit to me.
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@Roderick
Sure, why not. *shrug* Though it's not that big a deal, IMHO, to just email the recipe.
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I agree it's not a big deal to email the recipe. However to email the recipe plus 3-5 pieces of salvage, 1 at a time, with the mandatory 15 sec delay between them? That's something that's been getting on my nerves more and more lately.|
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Sure, why not. *shrug* Though it's not that big a deal, IMHO, to just email the recipe.
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If they don't use the voucher system as the OP suggests, maybe they could look into a way to bundle a recipe and everything needed for it into a single mail.
That other game allows for up to 12 items in a single mail. I'm of the mind if something similar could be done here, then the amount of traffic and load on the server would overall be less.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
IO recipes can be crafted and sent to other characters, or just mailed as recipes. Costume and temp power recipes can't be "pre-crafted". If it's not too difficult, I'd like to suggest adding a "Craft Voucher" button to all costume part and temp power recipes. Clicking this button would use the same salvage and Inf as a normal crafting, but instead of giving the resulting item to the crafter, it adds a one-use voucher to your mail, allowing you to claim it at a later date or on a different character. This would allow you to easily send costume parts to new alts, and would also allow someone to stockpile temps they like (No more "Crap! My Plasmatic Taser ran out! Damn! My Portable Workbench is still recharging, I can't make a new one!", just claim the next one from your mail between fights).
Questions? Comments? /signed?
Edit to add: These possibly should create vouchers that go into your normal global mail, or at least count towards your 20 email limit, just for balance issues. Having hundreds of Resuscitators, Backup Radios and Envenomed Daggers available might cause some balance issues, but not so much if there's a limit.
@Roderick