Saftey deposit box..

[tweenprinc3ss]

A lot of people are worried about the upcoming changes nixing alt vaulting. I think the new system has its merits, and am excited about the new patch, however, I do see a couple problems with it that I think should be considered. One of these problems concerns players taking a break from Salem. I think everyone can sympathize with the idea that sometimes life gets hectic, and you need to take a break from things that are eating up your time, to focus on more important real life issues. This new system seems to put these players in quite a difficult position.

What I propose is the creation of bank deposit boxes in Providence. This would not be an at will bank box, allowing safe storage for anything someone wants to store, but instead would cost a flat fee for a specified period of time. The bank would have very limited space, 3-5 slots only. This storage would allow only 1 access per renting, terminating the first time the box was accessed at all. The idea is that, a player could rent this, and store the couple of valuable items they would hate to lose while away from the game, but being expensive enough, that simply using it as bank storage would be foolish. Seeing as these boxes are rented in Providence, rules could be in place so as not to allow criminals to access these boxes.

Alternatively, perhaps it would be possible to create some kind of lock out on a players account. If a player knows they dont have time to play for the next month, they could suspend their account allowing the safe storage of some items until that period has elapsed. Excited to hear your feedback and further suggestions on these ideas, and perhaps other ways to protect players who simply need to spend some time away from Salem, without losing their most valued possessions.

[JohnCarver]

Interesting idea, but this next patch does have implementation that allows for easier 'breaks' from Salem.

[tweenprinc3ss]

this next patch does have implementation that allows for easier 'breaks' from Salem.

Excellent!

[NordErdTod]

I'd simply increase the price for renting with number of slots and days with a cap for slots and no cap for days. To prevent big towns from hiding everything valuable in these deposit boxes - suggested system with the first-time opening is quite good, if to add that there will be a minimal term of when the box is unaccesible - say, 2 weeks...

Also, this storage must be account-binded, to prevent alt-using again.

[Scilly_guy]

I recently went on holiday for two weeks, at the end of my trip my appendix decided to fall apart, as it was a more complicated operation than most modern appendectomies I was in hospital for another week. I was a little worried that I might come back to find I had been raided. As it is still possible to vault stuff I logged off with the things that would be hardest to replace in my inventory. Ultimately I was more worried about losing the infrastructure I have been grinding, I know the new system will be addressing that, although will it take into account times when we are afk for more than a few days?

I think Salem is a great game for getting people to realise that actually, STUFF doesn't matter, you can replace it.

[kai]

With the new planned patch and the desire for people to always have a base to come back to, it would make sense to have at least a few items able to be kept secure with your silver in the bank. Even if this is only 2-4 slots to put those perfect items.

[Blood]

Bumping this idea because I would really love the idea of having a place where i can store the unique items i have bought/earned in this game, so if anything irl ever happens to me i know it wasn't a complete waste of money using the shop. Even if the storage only worked on store bought items would be enough. Maybe even a treasure chest we can build wander off into a swamp or lake and drop it and that way we can come back and find it or someone might find it in the meantime.

Another idea is that you put it in the vault and you deactivate your account that way the items remain there until you come back but if you log in even for a moment to say hi or try out a new feature you cant reuse the storage for a month. This fits well with your ideals of here is a nice thing if you abuse it ima taking it away from you for a long time.

i had written a big wall of text, but i don't want to devolve this into a argument about items always staying in game and always loot-able, i am simply asking that you give us a way to store GEAR/Store items in a vault in providence to use if we take a hiatus from the game even if its a temporary storage like say monthly tax to hold 20 items or so and once you cant pay for that storage or you haven't logged back in its all tossed out into the street (storage wars). Is it really such an horrible and cruel request that we be allowed to store the stuff we treasure the most?

[pistolshrimp]

Bumping this idea because I would really love the idea of having a place where i can store the unique items i have bought/earned in this game, so if anything irl ever happens to me i know it wasn't a complete waste of money using the shop. Even if the storage only worked on store bought items would be enough. Maybe even a treasure chest we can build wander off into a swamp or lake and drop it and that way we can come back and find it or someone might find it in the meantime.

Another idea is that you put it in the vault and you deactivate your account that way the items remain there until you come back but if you log in even for a moment to say hi or try out a new feature you cant reuse the storage for a month. This fits well with your ideals of here is a nice thing if you abuse it ima taking it away from you for a long time.

i had written a big wall of text, but i don't want to devolve this into a argument about items always staying in game and always loot-able, i am simply asking that you give us a way to store GEAR/Store items in a vault in providence to use if we take a hiatus from the game even if its a temporary storage like say monthly tax to hold 20 items or so and once you cant pay for that storage or you haven't logged back in its all tossed out into the street (storage wars). Is it really such an horrible and cruel request that we be allowed to store the stuff we treasure the most?

Don't leave us!

[JohnCarver]

Bumping this idea because I would really love the idea of having a place where i can store the unique items i have bought/earned in this game, so if anything irl ever happens to me i know it wasn't a complete waste of money using the shop. Even if the storage only worked on store bought items would be enough. Maybe even a treasure chest we can build wander off into a swamp or lake and drop it and that way we can come back and find it or someone might find it in the meantime.

Another idea is that you put it in the vault and you deactivate your account that way the items remain there until you come back but if you log in even for a moment to say hi or try out a new feature you cant reuse the storage for a month. This fits well with your ideals of here is a nice thing if you abuse it ima taking it away from you for a long time.

i had written a big wall of text, but i don't want to devolve this into a argument about items always staying in game and always loot-able, i am simply asking that you give us a way to store GEAR/Store items in a vault in providence to use if we take a hiatus from the game even if its a temporary storage like say monthly tax to hold 20 items or so and once you cant pay for that storage or you haven't logged back in its all tossed out into the street (storage wars). Is it really such an horrible and cruel request that we be allowed to store the stuff we treasure the most?

Bury it in a mine. Cave the mine in. Build 9000 braziers outside the mine.


This is probably pretty safe.

[Blood]

Would you at least consider allowing mines to be destroyable? but the map is linked to the node so we could say build a mine hide our treasure then destroy the mine essentially achieving the treasure chest version?