A new Sugestion for HWS

HWS General Discussion
#1

Here is another sugestion: a HWS Mailbox

Wy: to help others in need, to send presents to our friends, to send\trade items with other players, and many other reasons for a mail system to exist…

How: Everything should be through HWS website or app, but to send or recive, you should be next to a device(any deco) that can be placed eider in a Base or a CV only.

System:
It should have levels, from 1 to 10;

lvl 1 - Only allowed to send 1 item\stack at a time.
lvl 2 - Only allowed to send 2 item\stack at a time.
lvl 3 - Only allowed to send 3 item\stack at a time.
lvl 4 - Only allowed to send 4 item\stack at a time.
lvl 5 - Only allowed to send 5 item\stack at a time.
lvl 6 - Only allowed to send 6 item\stack at a time.
lvl 7 - Only allowed to send 7 item\stack at a time.
lvl 8 - Only allowed to send 8 item\stack at a time.
lvl 9 - Only allowed to send 9 item\stack at a time.
lvl 10 - Only allowed to send 10 item\stack at a time.

To level the Mailbox system there should be a cost similar to Elemental Bank.

Patreon benefits

  • Pro: is allowed to have mails in his mailbox for 2 days;

  • Survivor: is allowed to have mails in his mailbox for 3 days;

  • Veteran: is allowed to have mails in his mailbox for 4 days;

  • Elite: is allowed to have mails in his mailbox for 5 days;

  • Master: is allowed to have mails in his mailbox for 5 days;

  • Meta: is allowed to have mails in his mailbox for 7 days;

  • Astral: is allowed to have mails in his mailbox for 8 days.

  • Non Patreon: is allowed to have mails in his mailbox for 1 day.

Safeguards to avoid exploits:

All the restrictions above and a cooldown betwin mails, that can be a fixed value, for example 30min, or dynamic, according to Patreon or Mailbox level.
Any of the restrictions above can and should be avaliated and changed if needed, to prevent exploits or to create a system even more appreciated.

We are in 2022 and many games already have a mailbox system, Empyrion doesn’t have it yet, but HWS can be the pioneer.:wink:
(I have no idea if a similar system is already implemented on other servers.)

Thanks for your time and for having these great servers that has brought me many hours of enjoyment. :smiley: :vulcan:

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#2

Hello Dune,
thanks for your suggestion.
It’s not new (suggested by the community / in my brain for years), so you know what that means :wink:

The exploits and workarounds.

  • We have to make sure to prevent this magic item beam feature in PvP
  • We have to make sure players are aware of the decay time. If they lose their stuff after 1 day, they get mad, we get tickets, etc.
  • We have to somehow implement a white / blacklist. Otherwise players will troll you with spoiled food all the time
  • We have to take care of volume/mass stuff to prevent the already existing tickets, that stuff dropped on the floor and vanished
  • We have to make sure the mailbox is cleared during a full wipe
  • We have to make sure mailbox isn’t working in events / instances / missions
  • We have to make sure when a RE update coming in, changing the IDs of items, that we migrate them in the respective mailbox account
    …

We will work on that once we got time and the issues above are more flattened. :v:

#3

That is aloooot of work…
I would love to help but i’m not a programer, i can only do some spreadsheets :nerd_face:
If there is anything else i can help in any form or way, i’m available.
Thanks for your time. :slightly_smiling_face: :vulcan_salute:

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