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Rated up, but hate to be the one to say it...


"PS2 Limitations"


80 seems to be the magical number that breaks the PS2. They need to add another storage location to increase inventory (ie, safe/locker/storage/satchel, etc.).

Give us a closet or something. Please. Or maybe remove furniture from the safe when we set it up in the mog house and move it to an actual mog furnishings list seperate from the safe. Granted, I've put in the 65 storage wall hanging so it would only free a handful of slots for me... but I'll take any little bit I can get at this point.


And yes, more stuff needs to be storable. At the very least, let us store the Allied and cruor sets already. I can just as easily npc the non-mage cruor pieces if I'm not planning on needing them anytime soon, but then I'd have to run out and buy them again before running out to a non-abyssea event if I needed to hop on a DD job (ie. Sea, Altana, or Aht Urghan stuff).

Raist

Edited, Sep 20th 2010 6:49pm by BDHERTZER

Oh, can the adaptation crap. This whole issue is a direct result of SE's past unwillingness to grow past sidegrades and fostering the whole situational gear spiel. To some degree, we're seeing the Empyrean armor break that mold, but hybrid jobs still don't really see themselves looking at gear with all the stats they need to perform comparably to all the swaps needed now.

Frankly, it seems like we could do 80 slots indefinitely. That in mind, as I've suggested before, we just get inventories for specific equipment slots. Doesn't need to be 80. Maybe like 10 to start, then +2 each gobbiebag. With 30 neck slots, I'd arse myself into getting every Sea gorget (RAINBOW GORGET SE!), all the buff torques, and so on. As is, I'm playing juggle fun with my moogle every time I change jobs while it's likely every slot I use has at least 3 possible items I could put into it. Throw in another category for meds/food, then another for farmed goods. Boom, people have space.

Otherwise, yes, increasing personal storage is also needed. Every R/E item should have the option. All sets should have the option (Salvage, Nyzul, Sky, Sea, AN, etc.). Let our moogles double as storage NPCs, too, so I'm not running halfway through Windurst to pick up a possible AF piece I might need on a job I don't play too often. Hell, @#%^ set restrictions entirely and just make it all individual need.

My problem is I have too many jobs that require too much gear. I've been able to get it down to where I keep about 12 slots open now, since I finally used up almost all my elemental jutsu (all I have left now are tsurara bags and my key enfeebles/stealth tools). But other jobs just require so many pieces (ie BLM and SMN).

85 BLM, SMN, SAM, MNK
81 NIN
76 WHM
60 WAR, DRK, BST
58 DRG

(note that I have 14 staves because of magian's, not much to do about that)

Working on getting all of these to 78+ to put them in cruor gear and ditching all the unneeded pieces for them...but I also have:

51 THF, DNC, BRD, RNG, RDM, PLD

There are a handful of key pieces I am just flat out reluctant to pawn (like SH+1 and Royal Cloak for starters) in case I decide I want to level one of those up. Also there's the problem that if you manage to sell them now you are practically giving them away in comparison to what they went for just 4-5 months ago.

And that's another problem....nothing is selling for anywhere near the wanted price, nor even if you cut the heck out of it. I have about 300k of stuff in then AH atm (that's 300k at reduced prices, nowhere near what they were worth just 4 months ago). I've been trying to sell about a dozen items, but they just keep coming back from the AH. I keep rotating and lowering the price... but they just aren't selling. Having 10 AH slots to list stuff might help out with inventory too... but that's another can of worms.

But regardless of whether you are able to have a productive spring cleaning, there are items that really should be storable by now. Conquest sets are storable. How long have the Allied gears been out now, and we still can't store them?

Some people may want to keep them available for whatever reason (ie level synch or other level cap restriction might kill 78+ gears). I am regularly pulling out/storing my BLM, BST, MNK, and SMN AF for certain things simply because some of their pieces are the better options at times--but I'm stuck keeping some Allied pieces in inventory. If I could store a set, I'd buy back the odd pieces I dropped to reclaim space and store the buggers until I get into a situation where I need them and take them out.

Raist

Edited, Sep 20th 2010 7:44pm by BDHERTZER

I've always thought that we should have a separate "Furnishings Menu" for putting furnishings in. I'd certainly decorate up my mog house if we had the space to do it in.

Also, I don't have big problems with my inventory, except I've lots of rare/ex stuff I've collected over the years that I can't really drop because I use it all. I also have a lot of 3/5 and 4/5 relic armour sets, which can't be stored. Really, my inventory would be a lot better if they let us store random rare/ex items, not just a few specific sets.

Uh, that would be a huge pain in the ass.

They could just give us a second gobbie bag to double our inventory.

Probably because it's not as easy as you think.

sure, they can add 10 million safes, np. However that's not what you want.

Also, priorities. Maybe it's not a high one? They've got lots of more important stuff to do, like working on chocobo racing, pankration, etc.

I'll damn well put a smelly fish in that jewelry box, tyvm!

Purpose-specific containers are a no-no, because not everyone carries around enough of that particular stuff.

So more 80-slot containers, more item set storage, etc.

I'm actually hoping they will add a new cruor-bought container with the final Abyssea DLC. Even if it means I have to go to abyssea to move stuff in and out of it.

It's easy enough if you program it into the game from the ground up.

I've brought it up before, but one of the proto-MMO virtual worlds, Dreamscape, which came out in 1995, had stackable chests. Your inventory could only hold 10 items. However, those 10 items could be chests, each of which could also hold 10 items. That gave you 100 items you could hold in your personal inventory, which could be instantly accessed from sub menus.

In your home, you could put down a maximum of 256 objects per room. However, those objects could be 256 chests, again, each of which could hold 10 items. And unlike your pocket, those 10 items could be another layer of chests.

Storage was never, ever a problem in that game. (Now, organization of your virtual crap, on the other hand...)

They've reprogrammed so many things from the original game since it came out. Surely adding in another freaking layer of submenus to your storage wouldn't be as hard as adding in Level Sync, or programming lolPankration.

Why does it need to be over complicated... i dont have 80 Necks or Pants i wanna store...


Now if they could add another Gobbybag that works like a 2nd inventory i wouldn't complain but something like another Sachtel from abyssea would solve most of my storage problems.

while it sounds simple in concept, it would likely be a lot of code. Even if it didn't get the auto sort feature so you had to manually go to each section to drop neck pieces and such--it's a lot to ask of them at this point...especially when all we really need is just something like a mog closet or storage room added.

Would be nice if it could link to the safe and get the 80 slots like the satchel, but even if it was added like another mog safe with just 50 slots and a series of cheezy things to increase it would be a big help.

Raist

Being able to store rare/ex one-time-only quest rewards, like Wastebasket or Imperial Flag or Balrahn's Ring, would be super nice.

And being able to store individual pieces of Dynamis relic gear.

And a separate furnishings menu so I can actually decorate my mog house with stuff instead of a Panitiere.

It doesn't have to be a complicated solution, just some kind of relief. I'd happily stick all my rare/ex into the NPC storage, which is awkward and annoying to get to.

Yeah, it's not an issue when you only have one job, or even two or three. But when you have five or more jobs that you rotate through as needed, inventory becomes a HUGE issue. At this point, I can't add any more "main" jobs simply because I don't have the inventory space needed to hold all the gear to do them well. I've "retired" black mage - and since 90% of my gear was rare/ex that I can't store, it's still sucking up a huge amount of room.

Duelist's Chapeau +2 :D (ofcourse, that would require the +1, which requires dynamis. And since dynamis =/= abyssea, it'll fail right there...)

Even sharing gear is becoming less of an option with AF3 being job-specific. So, really, it comes down to deciding if I should go after certain pieces or not, and the obvious result of "not" is compromising the effectiveness of a job when the only thing that's stopping me is where I put the sh*t when I'm not on that job. Again, it's a problem of which the solution harms nobody.

The alternative is multi-job, "broken" gear with comparable stats that eliminates the whole situational aspect of equipment woes. However, people will obviously bitch if something they worked for is suddenly antiquated by such gear, nevermind the potential bottleneck in acquisition if such items do exist and are contested for.

So, really, for the sake of player sanity, expanding active use inventory is the wiser move and the only thing keeping it from happening is SE not doing it.

Your point is stupid. Just because some people don't have five jobs levelled and therefore do not have an issue you believe that either (a) no one should have an issue or (b) not many people should have an issue (and believe that since only a few people have the issue it is not really an issue).

This is an issue for many people (demonstrated by the responses in the thread). Many people would like to see more inventory spaces available.

I'm not exactly sure how getting more inventory spaces would be hurtful to you or anyone who plays the game.

Are you against more inventory because it would be detrimental to the game (in some as of yet unexplained manner) or because you simply don't like some of the people who have posted that they'd like more inventory and therefore you must absolutely be against this?

I assume you meant this:



But it is not the opposite of this:



The latter states that someone who doesn't have have the problem can't see why it would be a problem for some others.

While the former states that someone with the problem assumes that all others would have the problem.

All is not the same as some. Your point is still stupid.



Your argument against more inventory slots is to mule stuff? And that SE would prefer to have us spend that $1 a month for a mule? I've never had a second character on my account. My consumables are always in my satchel because I use them. Am I supposed to go to a mule to get my echo drops or shihei every time I want to use them?

The consumables, however, are not the big issue. I've been playing this game for almost seven years. I might only have five jobs leveled to 85 but I have a lot of rare/ex stuff. My storage is packed 80/80 of solely rare/ex. Are you suggesting I just toss all the stuff I've worked for over the years? Surely, I don't use all of it all of the time, but I'm not about to toss it to make space.

It would not destroy game balance or SE's wallets to up inventory from 320 (80 inventory X 4 places) to 400 (100 inventory X 4 places).

You still don't have a valid argument against more inventory space.



The idea that SE would eliminate quests to get more mule accounts is ridiculous.


Edited, Oct 12th 2010 10:34pm by Meara

If that's your definition of redundant then I'd say it's time to consult a dictionary. Unless talk like Indian in old western make more sense when chop off words.

Adding anything to a game that has been losing customers for years is utterly insane! And as we all know, they've not added anything to the game since ToAU, nor will never again. The level cap will be 75 forever!

um... idk if you guys have been paying much attention, but there's been a good bit of new players posting with newbie questions--even some converts from the WoW camp.

The game still has a lot of loyal fans, and is picking up new/returning players. Granted, nothing like when in it's prime...but they're making plenty enough money to keep going with it for a while.

Raist