Rendril Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 I noticed that the game doesn't notify you when you receive an item, or who it was from. I think it would be useful to have a log of sorts, which displayed items your character has given or received, perhaps something akin to the public log, which could even act as a history of the player. However, this would require substantial coding and would ask for an entire new section devoted for it. I suggest using a system already in place, the mailing system (I think this is already used for alliance invitations) Have a message sent to the receiver saying "You received <item name> from <player name>" It can be sent from something like "System" or "Inventory", even the giver's name with some word appended (it cannot be a player name since the player could then send a fake mail) Or simply, the player could receive a mail from their own account. I don't know the implementation of the item feature, but I suspect that it would require merely 1 line of code right after the the call to give the item (maybe a few more for performing the check to see if the transfer was successful) It might be obvious who the sender was for unique items, in the case of coins I think there should certainly be some information on who sent it. For example: If you were to run an event where players have an entrance fee of 1 coin, you go camping for the weekend and find 10 people applied but you only received 9 coins. It could also be applied when sending wish points or spell documents, although those come with the sender information already attached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czez Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 I don't like this suggestion, having once given an anonymous item gift to someone and wishing it would stay that way. I see the usefulness in keeping track of coins, but being able to surprise someone or to be surprised by Mur would be a lot to give up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneck Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 yeah i like the suprise part:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparrhawk Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 I can see the benefit of it but I can also see the downsides especially since silver is transfered individually if one was trading a large amount of silver for an item or a creature, whome would want 20 pms each saying one silver has been transfered to you by "insert name here" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipstickz Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Two things: Quantity button for coins, and notification switch. *waits for someone to say that coding is difficult* Kafuuka 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowseeker Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 *joins in with the coins..had to transfer too many manually to be happy* *puts up a sign saying: WHO DARES to say that is a bad idea?* *goes off yawning* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipstickz Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Yay...I had a good idea...I think :/ xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rendril Posted October 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Czez, I see the usefulness in anonymity when gifting an item and I feel the mail system can accommodate the notification as it is. If the mail were to be sent from your account but with a different name or perhaps a category added, you could see it in the outgoing messages and surpress it, thus preventing the receiver from seeing who sent it. The idea for transfering many items at a time has already been brought up, it did not occur to me that I needed to include it in my suggestion. Certainly, with mass transfer of coins getting flooded by mails would be a problem, so I would hope the mass item transfer would be in place for such a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dst Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Make an alt if you wish to remain unknown. Like a "Present Giver"... I will also like a notification system. And also a system to transfer coins by batch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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