Request: Allow TP to use bank funds

#1 - March 11, 2013, 12:48 p.m.

The Trading Post should be able to deduct funds from the account bank for purchases, and should not require the character who is making the purchases to have the funds on them.

In other words, if I buy something on the TP, the TP should first check to see if I have any money in the bank and then deduct that, and then use the funds on the specific character. It would basically be similar to a debit card. Since the TP can be accessed anywhere, it appears they already have this sort of technology (consortium? asura?) and that this sort of technology would be appropriate.

I mention this because some of us have several alts, but we want to buy gems/phat lootz/minis without having to leave a dungeon or event right in the middle to buy them. Please assist us in impulse shopping

Thanks!

John Smith

#3 - March 11, 2013, 1:52 p.m.

Storing money in the bank is set for a specific purpose, it’s supposed to be stored money for transferring or saving. I would make the argument that if we were to change that, we should just make all gold account shared all the time.

John Smith

#24 - March 12, 2013, 10:33 a.m.

Xynn.2748:
Ok check this out, I’m dedicating this to a guildie of mine:

If ANet implemented my idea (it sounds like there are good reasons not to, but if they did), you could check a box to enable “drunk mode” where it would disable the link between TP and bank.

Cognitive dissonance (or some version of it) would make that feature not work.