Remove email restrictions when emailing yourself
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Blue Rabbit,
Posted on: 2012-03-03 05:04 in Suggestions and Ideas
Yes.
Afraid it's WAI and won't be subject to change.
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technically it is WAI, but the timer for sending emails is more to prevent spam emails, but if your just sending yourself emails, you must want to spam email yourself? that doesnt make a lot of sends and i agree with the OP that its extremely annoying when trying to send large amounts of items to a different character
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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
Afraid it's WAI and won't be subject to change.
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Doesn't matter. Whether it's working as intended or not, doesn't mean it can't be changed.|
Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
Afraid it's WAI and won't be subject to change.
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If they could somehow code the suppression to not take effect if the recipient's global is yours or someone on your global friend's list that would be a great improvement.
I won't be holding my breath any time soon, but that doesn't mean it's a possibility.
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I wonder if it would be easier for then to code it so we could send ourselves more than one item at a time.
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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
technically it is WAI, but the timer for sending emails is more to prevent spam emails, but if your just sending yourself emails, you must want to spam email yourself? that doesnt make a lot of sends and i agree with the OP that its extremely annoying when trying to send large amounts of items to a different character
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That would be cool too. I don't know much about code, but I'd take either of the 2 options in this thread over what we have currently.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I wonder if it would be easier for then to code it so we could send ourselves more than one item at a time.
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Gods, yes, any workaround. Even telling how long the cooldown had left; '15 seconds' every time is not helpful. /Signed
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I know it's WAI, what's that got to do with it? I'm not suggesting it as a bug fix, but a QOL improvement.
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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
Afraid it's WAI and won't be subject to change.
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It's WAI because it stops RMTer from hustling their own goods around to different alts before they get deleted.
It's WAI because it stops the email server from being hammered by multiple people doing fast multiple emails.
That being said, a timer like for costume changes would be nice.
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If it's a known RMTer, why is a GM wasting time deleting their characters individually before booting them off the server and banning the account?|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
It's WAI because it stops RMTer from hustling their own goods around to different alts before they get deleted.
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| It's WAI because it stops the email server from being hammered by multiple people doing fast multiple emails. |
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Insert standard server engineer rant here.
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Originally Posted by Hopeling
There can be a middle ground between "annoyingly long delay" and "send unlimited emails and crash the server". A 3-second delay would be difficult to even notice, usually. Heck, even "3-second delay, and no more than 10 mails per 150 seconds" would be much less annoying, and have the same total server load over any meaningful length of time.
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Sure, SCR applies as always. I have a hard time believing that nothing less annoying than a 15-second delay can allow server stability, though.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Insert standard server engineer rant here.
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Yes please.|
Originally Posted by firespray
With the new catalyzed ATOs being account bound, the technology obviously exists to detect whether you're sending an email to yourself since they're account bound and they can only be emailed to your own global. Since that's the case, could we remove the restrictions on emails when they're being sent to ourselves? Specifically, the need to have something in the subject and message fields, and the 15 second delay. It's really annoying when I need to mail myself a stack of enhancements, and I keep getting the "you must wait 15 seconds between sending emails" message.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I wonder if it would be easier for then to code it so we could send ourselves more than one item at a time.
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The GM's don't know it's an RMTer until a player petitions them and they can verify it. It's there to make the RMTer life more complicated. Just like not being able to send emails until level 10, and restricting chat channels, and lower influence caps makes their lives more difficult. |
Originally Posted by Hopeling
If it's a known RMTer, why is a GM wasting time deleting their characters individually before booting them off the server and banning the account?
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The the problem with fighting RMT abuse is that the tactics have to affect everyone because anyone could be an RMTer. That means legitimate players end up living with restrictions, or flat out doing without stuff because it can easily be abused.
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I file that under limiting costume changes to 15 seconds and not allowing two capes: Seems like it couldn't hurt, but, somehow, it does.
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Originally Posted by Hopeling
Sure, SCR applies as always. I have a hard time believing that nothing less annoying than a 15-second delay can allow server stability, though.
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Agreed and why I went with WAI up there.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
I file that under limiting costume changes to 15 seconds and not allowing two capes: Seems like it couldn't hurt, but, somehow, it does.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I wonder if it would be easier for then to code it so we could send ourselves more than one item at a time.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Even telling how long the cooldown had left; '15 seconds' every time is not helpful. /Signed
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Make it so!
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I don't think there should be a limit on emailing yourself. I guess I hadn't thought of the RMTs emailing themselves, and granted, that's ... inconvenient.
But if you add up the time / difficulty to the RMTs, compared to the time / difficulty to the real players, I'm pretty sure the balance of that falls heavily on inconveniencing real players, without significantly limited RMTs.
With the new catalyzed ATOs being account bound, the technology obviously exists to detect whether you're sending an email to yourself since they're account bound and they can only be emailed to your own global. Since that's the case, could we remove the restrictions on emails when they're being sent to ourselves? Specifically, the need to have something in the subject and message fields, and the 15 second delay. It's really annoying when I need to mail myself a stack of enhancements, and I keep getting the "you must wait 15 seconds between sending emails" message.