People did mention mail. but also:
Every house should come with a mailbox (or even make it also an upgrade like more mailbox storage with each level) where people can leave you items while you are away or offline.
#Item Mailbox
clever comet
twilit pebble
for the idea.
I see a potential problem or a challenge that should be addressed before/with this feature goes live.
House (the inside part), that will be linked to the mailbox, can be "teleported" to a different building by the house owner or evicted out by the building owner. What would happen to the items in the mailbox in this case?
- If they will be teleported to the closest recovery box, this might be abuse-able in the same way as "deconstructing a building" is right now.
- If they will be teleported with the house, for free, this will for sure be abused to teleport items
- If they will be teleported with the house, but not for free, someone might try to grief another player by spamming easy-to-get items
surreal wasp
I think this could plug into my https://discord.com/channels/558439686083969035/1391992543431884911 idea well. If you are at their house you can deposit the mail yourself at their home. But otherwise you throw it in the Post Office to be delivered. Only now instead of needing to be picked up at the Post Office it can be automatically delivered to your house instead. It also closes the exploits I think since if you move houses, the mail could just go into the local post office to be redelivered instead of teleporting.
lucid tulip
Mailbox would be nice. Probably could leave a letter in there, in case you're trying to contact someone. We're not gonna know someone's discord information, so having an ingame method to contact that person when they're offline's a neat solution.