(07-29-2013, 03:07 AM)Kyatai Wrote: Someone mentioned PTCS... I was a member of that before it tanked due to, as was said, incredible difficulty in obtaining 'jobs.'With all due respect to you and to this community, people polling interest in a thread doesn't mean much when it comes to practical application. Even I'm interested, and I'm not sure it's a service I'd ever have good opportunity to utilize.
That said... the GW2 RP community is not like this one. So... I see no reason why it would fail- given it's not ALL your LS/FC does. Especially in light of the poll here.
Yes.. Moogle mail is IG, and -can- be IC. But it doesn't have to be. Hand wave that you 'actually' got that gil/package/note from the Moogle...
And encourage the RP that would occur via pure character interaction with a courier- be it shady, mysterious, singing, cheerful, dark or totally UPS like. Not sure what trading is like in FFXIV... haven't had the opportunity to trade with anyone yet... but in GW2- there WAS no trading. It had to go through the mail. Lame? yes. So we -had- to do a bit of a handwave in PTCS.... which kinda defeated the purpose, save using it as a RP device. Which... as I said... the RP community didn't seem interested in.
I think having a courier service as an IC device to promote RP interactions and networking sounds like a brilliant idea.
There's not a thing wrong with the idea on paper, but the issue of finding jobs, and requiring legwork on the part of the participants to establish relationships IC and OOC for the purpose of having consistent work is a very real issue in practice.
Additionally, the GW2 community on the whole was about as cool as this one, and that community expressed general interest in the idea of a courier service as well, especially since the carrier pigeon method already required a lot of handwaving to work (How does that bird always know exactly where I am, even underwater?).
But in the end, moogle mail and carrier pigeon are both instant and really convenient (compare to the WoW mail system), and simply pretending that the message or package was delivered by someone else entirely still doesn't stimulate courier RP on its own.
I still agree that the best thing to be done is have a courier service be attached to a larger guild concept, to give people something to fall back on, keep things from being dull between jobs, and let other guild members handle the networking aspect that the courier service requires.
