Putting plat into your bank

[bendover]

Really, after 5+ years we still can't put platinum (currency) into your shared bank (something that holds your currency)? I'm sure this has been asked for a bunch, but what's really so difficult about adding in a little box that pops up when you open your bank where you can deposit/withdraw plat?

I probably don't TR as much as alot of people and I certainly don't make new toons often, but even when I do it's really annoying having to either do a trade or worse yet mail your plat. I could only imagine how annoying it is for others who do make new toons frequently and/or TR other toons frequently.

If you're not going to change this to allow us to put our money in it, at least change the name to the bank to something that's a little more relevant. Maybe like storage unit, holding cell, lock box, or doggy bag.

Edit: A quick edit for my poor choice of words. I meant to say shared bank. Thank you for the corrections.

[Chai]

Why is this needed? Are you wanting it to increase the plat limit accessible by any one toon on the account?

Other than that, plat weighs nothing, so its no hinderance to carry it on toons.

[bendover]

Why is this needed? Are you wanting it to increase the plat limit accessible by any one toon on the account?

Other than that, plat weighs nothing, so its no hinderance to carry it on toons.

Uhh no, I don't want to spend ten minutes at the mail box to transfer plat because no one is available for me to bother them into wasting their time because I need to move my plat.

[Chai]

Uhh no, I don't want to spend ten minutes at the mail box to transfer plat because no one is available for me to bother them into wasting their time because I need to move my plat.

I have 20+ characters on a server. It would make my life much easier if I could deposit money in a bank to make transferring funds a lot easier between them, and knowing how much I have total across all of them. I am all for this. I would even pay up to about 700 TP for the trouble it would save me.

So it WILL increase the accessible limit of plat per toon. What you are actually asking for here then is a SHARED plat storage and not single toon bank.

I can see where you are coming from. Mailing in 9999 plat increments sucks.

I wonder if the plat limit is absolute. DDO is a 32 bit client, and the max currency per toon right now is 2 to the 32nd power in copper pieces. The question here is can a shared bank store MORE than that, or would we be limited to one characters max plat level in the bank storage?

[Cam_Neely]

DDO is a 32 bit client, and the max currency per toon right now is 2 to the 32nd power in copper pieces.

Ive read into this a bit, and maybe some that knows more about computing then me can answer.

Is this really an issue that a high end game should have in 2011? Ive seen many other games, less advanced than DDO use numbers larger then 2^32.

anywho
/signed to the revised-op

[Trillea]

Why is this needed? Are you wanting it to increase the plat limit accessible by any one toon on the account?

Other than that, plat weighs nothing, so its no hinderance to carry it on toons.

I have 20+ characters on a server. It would make my life much easier if I could deposit money in a bank to make transferring funds a lot easier between them, and knowing how much I have total across all of them. I am all for this. I would even pay up to about 700 TP for the trouble it would save me.

[kernal42]

Why is this needed? Are you wanting it to increase the plat limit accessible by any one toon on the account?

Other than that, plat weighs nothing, so its no hinderance to carry it on toons.

I assume he wants to add plat to the shared bank. This would be highly useful, and has been requested often.

Adding plat to the normal bank (as bendover requests, verbatim) is certainly irrelevant.

-Kernal

[bendover]

I assume he wants to add plat to the shared bank. This would be highly useful, and has been requested often.

Adding plat to the normal bank (as bendover requests, verbatim) is certainly irrelevant.

-Kernal

Thank you for the correction, edited the OP to adjust .

[Maxson]

Why is this needed? Are you wanting it to increase the plat limit accessible by any one toon on the account?

Other than that, plat weighs nothing, so its no hinderance to carry it on toons.

transferring between toons, make it an account bank only thing.

[mws2970]

Agreed, and /signed

This would make things simpler and really isn't gamebreaking in any way I can think of.

[Waylayer]

Not disagreeing with you.

I certainly haven't played every MMO, but I can't remember any that allows you to place money in your bank (many don't even offer banks - fewer still offer any form of shared bank).

In Turbines first MMO, there were no banks AND money was EXTREMELY heavy (and I forget, perhaps took up pack space); fortunately you could buy "trade notes" (and sell them at a loss, of course).

But I digress ...

It is possible, I suppose, that bank storage of plat would have some weird interaction with the max plat per character limit; and that those ramifications would make the endeavor too tedious.

[TimoteoDeLani]

I certainly haven't played every MMO, but I can't remember any that allows you to place money in your bank (many don't even offer banks - fewer still offer any form of shared bank).

Guild Wars. You can store up to 100,000 on each character, and 1,000,000 in the "shared bank" (Xunlai Storage). Trade prices for equipment is also much lower than DDO, however rare vanity items (high-end miniatures, vanity weapons, etc) can cost way way more and can only be traded for other rare items.

The lack of shared money storage is one of the ways in which I find DDO to be really clunky (another big one is the inability for the UI to scale to suit different resolutions).

[Chai]

2^32CP is larger than 100kPP or 1mPP. It ends up being 4m plat and change. Im not sure if DDO is coded in a way that only allows for that much plat, or if thats just the number the designers used because its a convenient stopping point. They would need to be able to raise that limit considerably in order for a shared bank space to be favorable.

[Gkar]

2^32CP is larger than 100kPP or 1mPP. It ends up being 4m plat and change. Im not sure if DDO is coded in a way that only allows for that much plat, or if thats just the number the designers used because its a convenient stopping point. They would need to be able to raise that limit considerably in order for a shared bank space to be favorable.

It was long ago confirmed that this was the issue. At the time they set the limit at 4.2ish mil plat the game was not so loot crazed, even the best items looted were under 50K gold (I think 32K gold may have been it) and when the first player claimed to have 1million plat in total between all characters he was called a liar until he put up a SS to prove it - and then people accused him of playing 24x7. It reminds me a lot of the memory limit in 32bit windows, or dos before that. No one ever thought we'd need a higher number.

Could they recode to eliminate that artificial limit? Sure. But any programmer will tell you changing a variable type for a numeric field that is used in calculations in dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of places in the code, is a dangerous thing.

[adamkatt]

Not disagreeing with you.

I certainly haven't played every MMO, but I can't remember any that allows you to place money in your bank (many don't even offer banks - fewer still offer any form of shared bank).

In Turbines first MMO, there were no banks AND money was EXTREMELY heavy (and I forget, perhaps took up pack space); fortunately you could buy "trade notes" (and sell them at a loss, of course).

But I digress ...

It is possible, I suppose, that bank storage of plat would have some weird interaction with the max plat per character limit; and that those ramifications would make the endeavor too tedious.

Swg let you have unlimited cash in the bank.. older mmo, go firgure..

[Milfeulle]

Swg let you have unlimited cash in the bank.. older mmo, go firgure..

not only all the MMO I have played can deposit cash, many of them have the option to withdraw a check, for easy money transfer between different account.

[Zaal]

/signed

Would also like to see a comon repository for all the other **** i end up carrying around: ingredients, collectable, gems , etc....

With so many bags on so many toons, it's a real pain in the arse to manage.

And so Turbine still makes their bread, perhaps there can be a mechanism that crunches your bags into the bank thereby defining your total bank capacity... So, if you want HUGE capacity, you 1st have to have the bag then you have to crunch it into the bank , similar to inflating the COLLAPSED PORTABLE HOLE.

You'd also still need to carry a bag that gather as you quest... same would apply for that bag... you could individually load it's content into the bank or crunch the whole thing in thereby losing it, or whatever...

Yeah, kinda dumb to destroy the bags that way but seems if there isn't a finaincial incentive to building a system (ie, you need to keep buying bags!), seems unreasonable to assume Turbine will allocate the resources to develop it.

[Timmeke123456]

You'd also still need to carry a bag that gather as you quest... same would apply for that bag... you could individually load it's content into the bank or crunch the whole thing in thereby losing it, or whatever...

All my toons have medium bags (collectable, gem & ingreds) & I have a large coll & ingred bag in my shared bank. Just before I log, I put all gathered collectables & ingreds in the large bag & put it back in shared bank so I don't have to search all toons for something..it's always sitting in shared bank..

[Dysmetria]

If you really want to put your coin in a bank, then suggest they create a new shared coin bank instead of adding the ability to put coins in the normal shared bank.

If Turbine stands to make TP off of it, then they are far more likely to implement it.

[masterzzan]

i'v played some mmo with banks that had the possibility to store money (9dragons,flyff.one more i can't recall the name but had a card animal training thingy). the best solution to holding\trading money i have seen was in flyff where the players could buy a stack-able gold token for 100m (maybe too much for ddo. could be set to 1m here) and sell it back to any npc shop for it's base price of 100m. also can store that gold token in the storage,trade or mail it.(mailing would be a bit troublesome here since the cost of mail is based on the base price,and mailing a stack of 10X1m items ,10m base price, would really cost in the ddo mail).but the shared bank should be able to hold them.