Guild Wars 2

Why would any new character(other than a gold spammer) need to send hundreds and thousands of ingame mails? The answer is they don’t.

Stop the ingame mail gold spammers short. Free up system resources.

Restrict the number of ingame mails from low level characters to just a few per hour and/or add a small fee to the sending of mails. This will stop them because there is limited funds to new characters and with restrictions to only send a few mails out or per hour.

Suddenly instead of thousands of annoying ingame mails sent out, you get only a few if any at all. It also gives the powers a bunch of time to handle the few complains/reports they do get.

A good defense wins battles.

Doing the above would allow you to spend more of your valuable resources on the other gold seller problems in the chats.

Can you do direct trades or just mail things?

While leveling I’m constantly mailing items which I looted to group mates if they can use them, and they do the same to me.

If direct trading is available too then I’m fine with it. But it’s the only method of transferring an item which I have used and if it’s the only one available it should not be limited, at the very least until better group looting is implemented.

I don’t think your sending items to friends even comes close to thousands an hour does it? a limit like 20 or 30 mail per hour should handle all your gifting needs.

5 items per mail x 30 mails is 150 items an hour.

Make mail restricted until level 10, or perhaps the end of your first personal story arc.