Hi all,
How would you feel about preventing items being sent to inactive players? This mainly relates to Guilds using inacitve players as additional backpack storage.
Hoof;
I had to say NO to this Hoof. Those 'inactive' members of guilds have payed for the BP storage with FSP and have stayed members of their guilds. Active or Inactive that is their collective prerogative. The only time that I would feel it would be appropriate for Technical Support to step into this area of the game is if someone is using multiple accounts, in clear violation of your company's ToC.
I actually can't believe this has come up as being a 'problem'. You cows should be trying to get rid of the issues involved in members being locked into dead guilds. ie. They posses guild tagged items and can not leave due to the guild store being full and all the other active or inactive member's Back Packs are full!!! Now THAT is a problem.
I've seen too many 'help me' posts on that last BP issue, I mentioned.
People that complain about inactive accounts should really be more creative. There is more than one way to fill a BP, but only one way to take things out of an inactive account BP. While this line of thinking is mean... maybe even spiteful in some cases. It is not breaking any rules and does not require a fix by HCS. Once the BP is full of non-tagged gear the only reason to keep the account around in a guild is out of respect and hope that they will one day return.
I know it is hard for some to imagine, but in-game friendships amongst guildmates are often as complex and real as friendships out in the real world. Anyone that reads this post and says that inactive guildmates should not be allowed to share their BP space with their guild... has probably not had any meaningful allegiance to a guild or their associated guildmates.
This 'topic of concern' sounds more of in-game political innuendo to my minds eye than an actual point of order to be meaningfully considered.
There are lots of small guilds that have not put as much time collectively into the game and their memberships may not be as loyal as described above and they would love to just have one more way to mess with more well established guilds.
Established guilds are in this way a minority. And in all fairness to you Hoof, you should seek to protect the minority of players in the game. You and the other developers are very much so the Kings and Queens of the realm of Fallen Sword. While the majority seeks to take from the well established minority, a truly benevolent leader seeks to foster positive growth from the majority to eventually have them join those in the more well established minority.
In conclusion, taking from someone, active or inactive in society, has never made anyone better off. It happens everyday all over the world in 'real life'! Yet the majority in those societies are none better off and the minority members in those societies are made that much worse off for all their effort. I can not support taking the privileges from inactive members as they may return and have other issues from having their liberties arrested in their absence. It is ultimately your call sir.
Sincerely,