Content Suggestion Chemical Vault Rework

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Nosey | Curious

Nosey | Curious

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What does this suggestion change/add/remove:

The personal chemical vault is currently the biggest waste of Vpoints on the server. For anyone unaware, and by that I mean most people cause nobody uses it, the personal chemical vault is a Vpoint donator system. For 300 Vpoints you gain access to an ulimited chemical storage at 1 point in the foundation site, with 1 point for GOC and CI as well. There are a number of reasons this is absolutely useless, and I shall now list them:

  1. Character Locked. This is the biggest issue with the vault. It is locked to each character, unlike literally every single other inventory in the game. I asked about this and was told it was done for RP reasons, but this is completely contradictory to every other system in the server. This means that you cannot access chemicals if you store them on one character when playing on another, whereas you can access them if you just use a regular storage inventory, making the vault less attractive than just buying another box slot
  2. Lack of Access. Correct me if I'm wrong, but on the UK server there is a grand total of 3 access points to the machines, those being 1 in Foundation, 1 in CI and 1 in GOC bases. These can, of course, only be accessed by that bases faction so you cannot even get chems out when in Foundation as CI or GOC, unlike with a standard storage box. This again makes it more worthwhile to simply buy another box
  3. Subsciption Based. The chemical vault, like PAC3 or Priority Join (lmao) is on a monthly 300 Vpoint subscription. This makes it, again, worse than a storage box. If you take a break for a while, or simply wish to stop paying for a month or so, you permanently loose access to all of your chemicals.
The reasons above are examples of why the vault is underused and disliked by those of us who use it. The final question I would ask to Senior SL is this: You have access to the vault as Superadmins, and yet do you use it? the answer is probably no, and you aren't even having to pay for it. In its current state, the chemical vault is literally worse in every single way but raw storage capacity than the free or permanent storage systems currently on the server. My suggestion is fourfold to make this a more useful, and therefore more profitable, donation option

  1. Unlock the vault to all characters on the same account. This is something I am paying for with my real life money, why would I only have access to it on 1 character. I, the person paying, have multiple characters that I play on, so why would I only have access to a service I paid for on one of them.
  2. Make it permanent. Increasing the price of the vault up to 1-2k Vpoints and having it as a permenant access system, like the storage box upgrade, would make it much less of a chore to maintain, especially for players without steady income or who dont want to keep paying £3 into the server every month. In reality, most players do not play for more than 6-8 months, so a 2000 Vpoint vault would make essentially the same ammount of money per purcahase anyways.
  3. Add more access points. Ideally the vault would be accessible from the exisiting inventory access points, essentially think of a vending machine built into the side
  4. Allow players who no longer pay for the vault to extract chemicals but not able to put chemicals back in
I realise all 4 of these are unlikely to be accepted, especially the permanent one. I beg of you, please just make them account-wide. No other donation system is locked to a single character, not killscreens, not VIP, not even knives. A donation is an account wide purcahse, always has been, and I see no reason why it isnt for the vaults.

Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
Yes, by me. This suggestion is different as Metro, the person I spoke to about it and who told me they were locked for RP reasons, is no longer here. I have also made the suggestion more detailed, and as it is a number of months on from addition of the vault, I think we can safely say it is a total failure in its current state

Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
  1. You make more money
  2. People actually get to store bulk chemicals
  3. I can use the 1000+ Liters of chemicals I put into the vault on my GOC before realising a lunatic had designed it to be character locked

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
  1. Development time for a machine nobody uses
  2. If subscription is turned off you will loose passive income (you will loose no income as literally nobody currently pays for it)
  3. Allows people to use the chemical system more freely

Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
Please Please Please Please Please Please Please let me get my chems back off my GOC I just want to cook Class-F and not have to jobswitch every 5 minutes to do so I beg of you please
 
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