(edited by Makarow.3028)
Thanks for feed back.
@Dolphin
I semi-agree with you but if you readed whole text what I wrote in post, I said some of stamps/postcards would be "lootable" via open world or jumping puzzles, what would give some more activity on PvE maps. But idea about vendors is good, too.
@Linfang
Good idea! That would also "force" people to "move" their "lazy kitten s" from afking places in capital cities.
@TheBlackLeech
I see this as another good idea, that would make some more ways to get more stamps. Copies for example we could trade via trading post or with friends.
If You guys have nothing against it, I add your suggestions to main post, so everyone will be able to see your suggestions in one place.
Nice to see, that the idea that I posted likel already way over a year ago finds its way by someone else visually better shown back to the forums
kudos to that
Sadly when i posted the same idea in the past, it found absolutely no interest by anyone, not even Anet as that was at a time, where even no Mail Carrier Skins existed at that point, where i thought, Anets doesn’t seem to realize that its a great opportunity to improve thwe Mail System and also that in a way with that thery can earn money via via gemstore Special Postcard Designs and Features
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Heres my original idea about what I can remember what I suggested like over a year ago:
Postcard Features:
Create a Postcard for various reasons (categories) :
In regard of which category you choose you will be able to use one of various different for the category fitting “postcard motives” (Backgrounds).
If you unlock the Feature by Gemstore, you can use also “Animations/Sounds” that the Post Card Reader will get to hear/see at the moment of opening the Postcard Mail, which will have a different icon in the Mail Post than a normal Mail Message.
If you don’t use a Postcard Motive, you can choose also to use an Ingame Picture as Motive that will get automaticalyl resized down to the size of the Postcard and when clicking onto the Picture twice, a window will pop up for you “Picture Mode” to let you see the picture in nearly full size. Picture Mode will work like basically opening a “Photo Book”, where you will change between sent pictures like looking into a picture book, if the sender of the Mail sent more than 1 picture with the Postcard.
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I like the Idea here of collectible Postcard Sets and Stamps to give each Postcard more of a personal touch
it would be just a different type of Collection, that for once has simply nothign to do with something “ingame material”, but for once owuld be an immaterial collection with stuff, that hasn#t to do with various inventory intems that you need to collect just to progress in a collection for something ..
Just finding all over the world as rewards unlockable postcard motives, stamps, animations, font types ect. would make up easily for nice achievements based around such immaterial collections for just unlocking more and more visual and audio stuff for your Postcards, while other unique special stuff could be put also as account upgrades under the gemstore like for example having a bunch of super cute quaggans as a birthday card motive with a special funny animation and sound behind or so, then you could buy that from the Gemstore either, or could somehow rarely earn it also ingame for exampel from opening black lion chests.
really like the UI design, great job, absolutely looks like something simply, that Anet devs you take over, modify a bit and implement nearly exactly like that without having really much work
That looks really cute, I’d actually like that!
I like the idea of buying/collecting stamps with karma, new sets could come out for different maps at various times, could be great fun, especially if you got stamps for/from the specific areas of a map, I can imagine that being good fun
In fact in my personal view, the heart quests are so tedious, especially when you’ve done them over and over on different chars, it could be a brilliant replacement for them (but still counting towards map completion) for players who have already done the heart quest there at least twice
@Orpheal
Hehe, then seems we think in that same way, just a bit differently with details.
Your original idea wasn’t bad, but would be harder to add to game. For example, photo mode is not needed, it would instantly apply/change appearance like on my attached picture. About sounds. Well, the problem is, good quality sound have some "weight" in bytes, simple pictures wouldn’t be much problem because for example can create simple picture for borders of postcard and stamps and just add new pictures "inside" with each path of game. The problem with sound would be, you need to start from "zero" on each sound file. Also, a lot of players plays with muted speakers (like me, when I am outside of my home) so most of them would ignore that feature. Same with animations, they are also "heavier" than just simple .jpg files. And about album feature... hmm... I think arena.net won’t add this to game, because they need to store those messages (I know simple .txt files are around 1kb, but when you have to host 1,000,000,000 of them, suddenly they change into tons of megabytes... so...), so that are additional costs for server infrastructure(HDDs and backups of those messages).
I am not writting to say Your ideas are bad, just want to say how technically it would look to implement it to game, because I am IT technician, so I know how it look in practice.
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Added in main post some stamp samples. I am gonna add more soon. Maybe. :P
@Kitty La Boom Boom
I think making "collector album" wouldn’t be bad idea, but as I wrote 2 posts above, technically it may "devour" some power resources. :P
And we have already something called collectibles in achievements so... I doubt they’d introduce it. But still would be able to look at them like in Hero panel. They’d just need to add new section like for minis or weapon/armor skins etc.