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Add Green PC Features to GMS (Item Lock/Unlock)

Wilhelm_Wilhelm_
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edited February 2023 in Suggestions, Feedback, and Requests
Many players like to use the "Item Guard" system to lock our valuable equipment items, which prevents them from being sold, dropped, broken down, traded away, enhanced, or altered. Unfortunately, there is no way to unlock items besides contacting Nexon Support. This is tedious for both players and support because:

1) There currently is no way to protect items without using this Item Guard feature, often restricting its use to items that are "finished" and no longer need enhancement.

2) Players simply make mistakes in locking items that they want to enhance before the lock expires, which happens surprisingly frequently.

3) Occasionally, there are patch changes or other unexpected scenarios create scenarios where a player might have a new reason to want to unlock an item. For example, in the most recent patch v.239 Neo Tokyo, the new Glowing/Bright Cubes prevent players from cubing Locked items, which is an undocumented deviation from the old Red/Black cubes that allowed cubing Locked items.



Overseas servers (KMS) already have a solution to this problem. KMS has a system known as "Green PC", added in May 2020 in KMS ver. 1.2.334, which allows players to authenticate and register a device as a "trusted PC". Among other features, Green PC comes with an enhanced Item Lock/Unlock system, that lets players freely lock and unlock their items WITHOUT having to contact support. This seems like an improvement for both players and Nexon Support, a win/win situation, that should reduce/eliminate the number of Unlock requests sent to support. Even if the security/authentication aspect of Green PC cannot be ported for technical reasons, porting the Item Lock feature of Green PC to GMS would give players a way to protect their items from accidental loss without having to contact support.

The basic feature of Locking/Unlocking items is incredibly useful to protect valuable items that are frequently swapped in the inventory, (such as Oz rings, Meso/Drop accessories, and Bossing accessories), and I think the Green PC system is a highly desired improvement/addition to the Item Guard system that we already have.