I wouldn't go as deep into it as giving the RH/LH or even CLs for that matter, further privileges. I think this should be based solely on game time for your current character thats using the mass mail option. We should really define what we feel is an acceptable number of hours, though.

100hrs is a heck of a lot for many people. Personally I tend to spend on average 12hrs a day on MR, but thats just with MR open and me popping back and forth during a working day etc, I think going by my profile that normally somehow only equates to about 3-4hrs of actual online time. I consider myself to be fairly active, too, so if we look at that as a rule of thumb you'd be saying that I would need to wait almost a month before being able to use this feature on any new character.

Seems a bit much to me. I know i've only used myself as an example there and everyones time online differs, but i'm just trying to gauge the actual feasibility of using the online hours as a marker.

Anyone else got any suggestions on a time frame?

I think based on the above, I would probably suggest something like 20hrs of actual game play time.

Well, 100 was just a number I pulled out of the air... I forget not everybody puts in massive amounts of hours in the game :S

I would say 20 or 24 would be a reasonable number.

I'd be interested what the average amount of hours put in per character is.. So we could go off a more concrete number..

I'm not sure how often we're all cross referencing the PC discussion to the original thread, but one of the users suggested something like this for this topic and I figured I'd toss it in here.

am reading the talk at PC and i have a suggestion on it how about 100 petties for 1 massmail and it can be stack according to your rank for example as gangster you will have5 mass mail stack to you then goomba will have 10 and so on.... with this you dont need more hours to let you have inifinite massmail and it will lessen more posibility of gangster spamming others.

Reply by: iGoBerserk at Jan 18, '13 13:07

That's a great idea actually... if you can get a gun in 75 petties you should be able to send a massmail in 100...

the only real issue is that you could do 100 petties rather quickly... and 100 petties wouldn't really be enough in order to not want to risk your account, you know what I mean?

You'll be willing to ditch an account that you've done 100 petties on much more quickly than you would one that you put 24 hours into..

Maybe, we could have a Wiseguy rank requirement - and then have it be 1 massmail per 100 petties... I think that would be reasonable? I'm unsure really what an appropriate ballance would be...

It doesn't have to be 100 exactly. I was just including the idea as something else to build off of.

Oh, yeah, I get that... I'm just trying to think of what a good amount would be :/

100 sounds in the neighborhood of what I would like... but maybe just a bit more?

Right lets look to get some idea of voting on this and a proper idea fleshed out.

I love mass mail to contacts, but we don't want spammers.

To avoid spammers I think any of the following safety checks would stop spammers


Minimum 100 hours playing time on master account.

100 petties before you can mass spam.

Time frame for adding people to contacts 1/2 an hour


I would be quite happy to link contacts into master accounts to be honest so you can keep friends on there if we can find a way of avoiding letting out incog people!!

So, now that all other ideas have their final summary written up. I think we should keep this simple really, though 100 petties seems like a little amount of effort, its more effort than someone using the feature to simply spam folk would go to, imo.

I suggest that we move this forward and nail down the way for it to work. I think 100 petties before the feature becomes active is fine, if anyone wants to state more reasons as to why its not then please suggest a new figure or even alternative measure to decide on when the feature becomes active.

Good timeing there Nino.. I also would see no objection to 100hrs when linked to Master accounts, that is entirely fair.

Everything sounds good to me. I think that this is simple enough, and the requirements to do it are fitting so I'm looking forward to the vote being held.

I would like to pin down an exact number before we vote. If the majority are fine with 100 hours, that's great, but we still need that voiced by people.

With the time frame we are working towards I would say set to vote with 100 hours as the minimum to kick in.

We are still saying that these hours are locked against the master account though, right?

100 hours is cool with me. Seems like a better requirement than 100 petties. Unless anyone else has any other suggestions. 

It would have to be tied to master account as opposed to the current account as I've clocked up 600 hours in 4 months so that would be at least 3 weeks of game play every time you start a new character before you can mass mail again.

Even then I can see people spamming especially after a war when people want to abuse the winners which is why I think rank is the best bet, if someone takes a demotion for BG's that is their choice and the lose mass mail along with all the other perks of rank.

I thought along with a time, we were imposing a rank requirement as well.

There is nothing stopping them spamming people individually any way!!!!

I am sure there is a report user button for spam isnt there?

If you are going to impose rank do Gangster then.

That is a day old then plus 100 hours on their master account