Guild Wars 2

My favorite chef finally persuaded me to sit down and mail her all of my surplus gathered ingredients. Unfortunately, after the 2nd batch of 5 stacks, I started getting “Your message has been surpressed due to excessive messaging” errors when trying to mail her the food. I kept trying for 10 minutes before logging off in disgust.

Why can’t I mail stuff to a party & guild member without a mindless filter turning off my ability to send mail? Why is there no option to actually trade in person, such as most other online games have?

If you have 30+ stacks of food ingredients you’d like to give away, is there way to do it without running afoul of this filter?

You could try transferring them via the guild bank. Apart form that, nope, it’s just an annoying silly system that does nothing to get rid of spammers and such but makes life annoying for ‘legitimate’ players.

This countermeasure should not be trigger when sending messages to people who are in your friends list or same guild. If a players encounters a spammer in either group, he can easily handle the situation himself.

I assume it would be easy to modify this script to IF/THEN check for these variables.

Thanks for the tip on the guild bank, I forgot about those. (Just returned from a 9 month break)

I agree the countermeasure shouldn’t trigger when sending to friends, guild members, party members, or at least there should be SOME way of whitelisting senders. But there isn’t.

I can see the problem with your suggestion. If your account is compromised, the hacker can add anyone to your friends list (presumably the holding/pass-off account), white-list it, then still snaffle all your stuff in a few seconds anyway. Unless they’re hacking around that of course. But I digress.

While the mail suppression is as frustrating as wrangling fluffy kittens at dinner time, it can put a certain kind of brake on this action.

The guild bank is the better way to go with trusted guild mates.