Regarding conpensation from the 6th, can we get GA* as a nontradeable that lets us activate it in the future?

the alert they put up recently is because people(?) told them the thanks gift was not longer available. Getting it as a tangible object would mean people don't have to worry about claiming/wasting active GA too early or not at all due to expiring links.

Note: They never mentioned an expiration date on the claim until yesterday's renewal.

I second this suggestion. As much as I love free GA time, I like to be able to control when I activate it, so that I'll know I'll have enough free time to use it. This week is finals for me, so I don't have the time to fully enjoy my GA.

Not to sound ungrateful for the gesture, but I know I'd be disappointed if I was given free GA time I wouldn't be around to use. Receiving it as an account locked item to activate when we're ready to sounds much better.

Yes PLEASE to this 100%. I don't like how it gets forced on me. I'd like to activate it when I want to activate it

The only problem I can see with this is that people would flock to sell the awarded GA medals.

Creating an item similar to the loyalty gold account totem seems like it would be for the best, but those would clutter people's inventories and the number of locked items is limited. : /

Agreed, being able to toggle it would be wonderful.

They did this (gave us a physical GA medal) once for... something, I can't remember... and there was a limited time in which to redeem the medal. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE free GA time and I'm always grateful when they give it to us, but I would also prefer a physical item so I could choose when to redeem it, and without the time limit. Could there be a special no trade GA medal created for gifts/rewards from staff?

Maybe a page where users can claim free GA time without activating it, and then redeem it from the same page when they're ready to use it?

The thing is, there should be a limited time to redeem it, because some people are just gonna wait until a quest-a-thon or some period where having a GA really has advantages.

The current way isn't perfect, hell no, but it feels fairer.

That would work, but to me it feels like a really roundabout way of doing things when we already have a better option with account-locked items. :c

Maybe they could make it so that account-locked items (loyalty boxes, loyalty totems & possibly GAs like this) in your vault don't have the little checkbox that lets you move items to your shops/galleries? Just the little X/ALL buttons that let you move stuff back to your inventory. I don't know how code-intensive that would be, but it seems like a much simpler way to store account-bound items without clogging up inventories.

If GA medals are being given as compensation for downtime or as a thank you for sticking with the site when the site hasn't been working right, why shouldn't players get to decide if they want to have the gold member benefits? Not all of us do. Some of us may prefer to sell the medals and use the points gained for something else, or save the medals for when they may actually benefit US (like when we need the extra pet slots because a name became available), why is that a bad thing?

I don't know if you play Flight Rising, but Hoards (inventories) have checkboxes for moving items between the main inventory and vaults. But there are some items which don't have this. They just have a button for depositing items into vault, or removing them from it.

I imagine the same kind of thing might be possible here, to allow account locked items to be moved around like you described.

@ JESSYTA I mentioned that because it always seemed like staff's to-go reason for not giving out 1 week GA medals out and instead adding bonus GA time to people's accounts.

I have nothing against getting medals instead of GA time, but the account-bound items seem like the middle ground in this situation.

@ Kisrah Wow, good catch! I do play FR, but I forgot about that little feature, haha. :'D

Haha! I wondered if you might have gotten the idea from there, but since you didn't mention it... Subconscious maybe? xD

@ Kisrah I wouldn't be surprised, hah. :'D I'd just really love a way to store account-bound items. I have a loyalty GA totem in my inventory from way back when the site wiped everyone's GAs on accident and we were given these as compensation. Would really love to move that sucker since it's taking up space and I have no plans to use it yet.

I have been thinking this exact thing the past few times it's been "here have gold account time" it kind of stresses me out lol.

I would love a week version of the "Loyalty Gold Account Totem" that way it's bound to your account and only you are able to use it. You can discard it if you want or whatever (but really, who would do that lol) and then it can't be sold and you can activate it when you are ready to. I just hope if they do decide to do this, that the "loyalty" items can be put into our vaults or something in the future so they don't take up space in our inventories if we don't want to use them right away.