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Should

• A new player relation called "myself" be added;

• the client automatically tag your own characters (the ones you logged in on) as "myself" relation;

• the client unconditionally allowing and accepting trade requests from characters tagged with "myself" relation;

• trading with a character that has "myself" relation would no longer feature the "agree" step. Instead, there would be a combined "propose and agree" button.

This would reduce trading items between your own (tagged as "myself") characters from 9 steps (right click trade -> switch to the other window -> accept trade request -> propose -> switch to the first window -> propose -> agree -> switch to the other window -> agree) down to 4 (right click trade -> propose and agree -> switch to the other window -> propose and agree).

Why not just shared storage? Account-wide bank. I know it's not a client solution but seems more efficient.

WildX wrote: ↑24 Apr 2025, 17:07

Why not just shared storage? Account-wide bank. I know it's not a client solution but seems more efficient.

That already exists, this is about multiple accounts.

Personally I wouldn't call it a "myself" relation, but rather a whitelist (or an allowlist, depending how much you pay attention to color...). Also why would doesn't the receiving party automatically accept it when it's on the whitelist? You can then skip the switching between windows.

The reason I don't like the "myself" is simply because I don't think players should have multiple accounts + the other account doesn't necessarily has to belong to the same player. Scamming should be carefully considerated with this feature though. Some kind of very explicit warning before adding an account to the list.

EJlol wrote: ↑25 Apr 2025, 20:05

It could be a "Trusted Trading" or just "Trusted" relation. Adding a character to the list would happen automatically, as the client knows your character's name. There would be no option to right click add someone to trusted trading. But it would be still possible to do so by assigning any other relation to them, then going to SETUP->Relations and changing it to "Trusted Trading" or "Myself" or whatever other more suitable name.

Having multiple accounts is now pretty much part of the game. I don't think this will change any time soon, but we can make it go more smoothly with features like this. Oh, and also, trusted trading could also be used among spouses.

why would doesn't the receiving party automatically accept it when it's on the whitelist?

I thought about this, and the reason is that when swapping gear I often swap lesser gear back in the same round. I guess I'll have to first implement this and see what's better. With the rules about automatic activity being as stringent as they are, you could get yourself into a hypothetical situation of making a GM your trusted trading partner and then being found to "afk bot" by passively accepting items....

Maybe rather than having this as another relation, we could have two options:

• Auto-accept trade requests from Friends
• Auto-agree on trades with Friends

I'm personally not sure why we have the step to accept the trade request at all? If you don't want to trade, does it matter whether you close the trade request popup or close the trade window?