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Having a lot of fun with this game but..........
David_Lopan
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..... why in the hell does it take so long to mail stuff? I have never played an mmo with this problem. Other games I craft some gear for an alt, mail it to that alt, log in with that alt and presto, there it is in my mail box. In SWTOR this takes an hour, strange. I mean I could bug a guild buddy to trade with and give the stuff to my alt, but why should I have to do that. This is actually a major gripe with me as I play a ton of alts.
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Probably part of the game's anti-farming process, allows the system time to review all transactions looking for suspicious activity.
Or more simply, they may batch transfer that inforamation on a periodic basis rather than in real time to save processing power.
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I don't play the game, hence I cannot confirm or deny the issue, but it is quite common to send information in intervals to avoid heavy load. For example, a confirmation email from a system could take up to 30 minutes or an hour to send. Since SWTOR has been swarmed with players in the last couple of weeks, I think the long waiting time is in place for the exact same reason.
Hmm don't know what to tell you, as every time I have mailed mats or materials to my alts, it is rather instant.
WoW prior to (Patch 1.8, I think?) Used to be hard set at an hour, sending mail to yourself or anyone else.
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Thx for replys, it is true I have not seen or heard a single cred farmer in this game as of yet.
It used to be quite a common practice (well, EQ1 + EQ2 at least), where mail would take 1 day game-time, which was 72 Earth minutes, I believe.
I saw one. Got a whisper one time last week, and haven't seen or heard another since.
It processed in large batch que's no actuall item is transfered but data in chunks. depending on how many are in the batch que and the amount of items mailed it will take time to process if the system is taxed with overuse.
This. though I bet it's more likely the former.
Auction stuff gets emailed to you right away, and probably accounts for alot if not most most of the ingame mail, so it seems like processing resources would be the less likely conclusion.
Having a delay ensures that whoever they've hired to dig through that stuff has time to check even when there are many potentially suspicious mails at once.
A bit OT, but I wish they'd let you get mail on your ship. It IS your home, after all. If I order something from Newegg, I have them ship it home; not to some box next to a taxi service...
I figure there must be some anti-spam-gold farming reason for that, too.
Off course. Little robot gnomes carry the bits of your messages and items through the stangest places in the processor cores and damp memory caves and throuh a maze of twisty little passages connecting them, with only a familiarly looking brass lantern to guide them. Must be some adventure for them.
Did you also send credits? The way it is supposed to work is that items get sent instantly but if money is attached it will take 30 minutes.