Guild Wars 2

Alrighty, so perhaps I’m the only one that cares but I really like the mail that I received from completing heart quests. They’re one of the forms of story telling this game has and it’s a shame to see that while our personal story gets recorded into the history of our character, the smaller deeds, such as completing the hearts, get sent as mail to be deleted. I realize that we could just not delete them but I am under the impression that the mail from heart npcs can also block your character from receiving any more mail, right? Even if it wasn’t, I’d prefer to not have it in my mail box, but a separate tab under our personal story tab.

What I want to propose is to have the personal story tab have sub-tabs. A sub-tab for the actual story, a sub-tab for each expansions story (when those come about), a sub-tab for each living story and a sub-tab for small deeds such as hearts or even events that we’ve completed (which would only ever receive one entry). These would help record the lore of the things we’ve done and allow us to look back and see all that our character has done. I know that the hearts/events sub-tab might get ridiculously long… Maybe only do the hearts, I don’t know… but honestly, I don’t care if it’s super long.

In these sub-tabs is where rewards could be given and the mail from the heart npcs recorded for later viewing without cluttering up our actual mailbox that we use to interact with the trading post and other players.

Anyways, that’s my suggestion, maybe not perfect but I think it’s an interesting idea and I’d love to see the recorded history of my character, what he’s done for the living story and the hearts he’s completed etc… It’d be cool too to perhaps get a different entry for hearts based on how you completed it, to sort of customize your entries. Whether you’re a cut-throat centaur killer or just someone out there trying to bring the fallen Seraph home.

Let me know what you guys think!

i don’t mind it i think its much better then having to go back to the quest giver to pick up your reward

Amaterasu.8639:

i don’t mind it i think its much better then having to go back to the quest giver to pick up your reward

DEFINITELY not suggesting that we have to go back to get a reward… just that we not receive a mail from the heart npcs, to instead have the personal story tab on the character screen have sub-tabs, one for the personal story, one for each additional story that expansions may introduce (at some point), one for each living story and one for all of the hearts completed (which would include some information about the heart as well as the letter, tailored to how you completed the heart, and reward).

Just wanted to clarify.

Mail from heart quests doesn’t block other mail. Your inbox has a maximum number of mails it will hold from other players and the trading post, but only mail from those sources counts.

greyblue.4962:

Mail from heart quests doesn’t block other mail. Your inbox has a maximum number of mails it will hold from other players and the trading post, but only mail from those sources counts.

Ah, good to know… but I’d still like this feature. There are other reasons to do it besides that particular one.

callidus.7085:

Amaterasu.8639:

i don’t mind it i think its much better then having to go back to the quest giver to pick up your reward

DEFINITELY not suggesting that we have to go back to get a reward… just that we not receive a mail from the heart npcs, to instead have the personal story tab on the character screen have sub-tabs, one for the personal story, one for each additional story that expansions may introduce (at some point), one for each living story and one for all of the hearts completed (which would include some information about the heart as well as the letter, tailored to how you completed the heart, and reward).

Just wanted to clarify.

An interesting idea. Will it be stored on your computer or on Guild Wars 2’s side though? If you think about it, that’s a lot of info to store on their side. I’ve read that 3 million accounts have been purchased so far with at least one character per account. However most people have multiples. I have 8 myself and I’ve heard of 20 or more. But lets assume 5 average per account. That’s a guesstimated 15 millions characters the game needs to store as text info on hearts done. That’s a fair amount of text and its constantly growing as people do more hearts on alts and as new people buy the game.

Considering that Rangers can’t keep pet names stored because they decided that would require to much data space, I doubt that they will consider this unless a way around the text data storage is also proposed.

Astral Projections.7320:

callidus.7085:

Amaterasu.8639:

i don’t mind it i think its much better then having to go back to the quest giver to pick up your reward

DEFINITELY not suggesting that we have to go back to get a reward… just that we not receive a mail from the heart npcs, to instead have the personal story tab on the character screen have sub-tabs, one for the personal story, one for each additional story that expansions may introduce (at some point), one for each living story and one for all of the hearts completed (which would include some information about the heart as well as the letter, tailored to how you completed the heart, and reward).

Just wanted to clarify.

An interesting idea. Will it be stored on your computer or on Guild Wars 2’s side though? If you think about it, that’s a lot of info to store on their side. I’ve read that 3 million accounts have been purchased so far with at least one character per account. However most people have multiples. I have 8 myself and I’ve heard of 20 or more. But lets assume 5 average per account. That’s a guesstimated 15 millions characters the game needs to store as text info on hearts done. That’s a fair amount of text and its constantly growing as people do more hearts on alts and as new people buy the game.

Considering that Rangers can’t keep pet names stored because they decided that would require to much data space, I doubt that they will consider this unless a way around the text data storage is also proposed.

It would of course be stored on the server, all character information is stored there besides user settings… I don’t believe ANet would ever store anything like this client side. Or they could store the messages in the game files but only show you the ones you’ve completed (which they already track.. look at your map, they know what hearts you’ve done).

Either way, storage wouldn’t be a problem because the text is the same for everyone. Even with my idea of a custom message based on how you complete the heart (there are usually 2 – 4 ways to complete a heart, so we’ll say 3 different messages per heart) that’s 900ish (I can’t remember how many total hearts there are, just over 300) unique messages.

The same thing goes for the living story… what we all do is the same thing, really it’s just a matter of if you’ve done it or not and then they show you what you’ve done.. but in the end it’d only be a small amount of data stored because it’s not REALLY per account or per character, it’s game wide.. everyone has the same text in the end.

Also, pet names being stored is a bit different.. because that’s unique data per pet per character which certainly could become unruly.

Now, we shouldn’t really talk about implementation details… that’s not on us, we’re just people throwing up suggestions.

Indeed, this is annoying. Just give the money and don’t send mail.