Materia Stacking (Inventory Killer)

[Chrees]

Should just stack everything minus U/U and armor stuff

in fact! let us sell multiple items at once to NPC!

Whoa there cowboy, don't get too crazy! You're askin' for an awful lot there.

This multiple item sellin' you whippersnappers are talkin' 'bout sounds mighty dangerous!

[KamikazeMan]

No same gear cant be stacked... what if you have 1 hauby with +50 worth of stats on materia and another hauby with +15 stats of materia?

Like I said. The same gear should be stacked. Same duribility, same stats. Not gear with materia added to it. Adding a materia to gear makes it different, thus not being the same anymore.

[Thanos]

Whoa there cowboy, don't get too crazy! You're askin' for an awful lot there.

This multiple item sellin' you whippersnappers are talkin' 'bout sounds mighty dangerous!

I know right? Then again I enjoy selling all my walnut mask from spamming carpenter 1 by 1 with some nice UI server lag.

[AuctionGirl]

This is a real issue with inventory space. Please dev team, look at this. Stacking of the same materia with the same attributes would really be helpful.

[Rukkirii]

The dev. team is working to make it possible to stack materia that share the same value (as AuctionGirl's example stated, STR+15 materias would stack). This should be useful to help alleviate concerns related to inventory space and materia.

[Reinheart]

Would be best if they can just move it to it's own category imo but it's a start

[ChiefCurrahee]

And get rid of multiple types per tier.

If you get a tier IV materia it should have one value. not 4.

[Eldaena]

And get rid of multiple types per tier.

If you get a tier IV materia it should have one value. not 4.

They unfortunately could not do that now, though. Since people have been using variants on gear, own variants, etc. Unless we went through another round of dated gear/dated materia they won't be able to get rid of the variants.

[Antipika]

Would be best if they can just move it to it's own category imo but it's a start

Wouldn't be realistic, because it would simply mean adding over 1000+ inventory slots. When -you- see "just a category", internally it's most likely extra line of code, for each item within that category.

Right now we have 200 slots + crystals + currencies.

Now, each single materia type got 4 grades, and within these 4 grades you have ~4 different values. Which gives ~16 different tier per materia. How many different materia do we have? Too lazy to search now, but something around 80 I'd say.

80*16=1280

So by granting materias their own category, you directly enable players to own 1280 extra different items on top of the 200 + crystals + currencies they already have.

I just hardly doubt that the current XIV will be able to manage that. If it was possible without any issue, then we would already have an even bigger inventory.

The best solution for now is to be able to stack them, as long as they have the same value.

[Jinko]

The dev. team is working to make it possible to stack materia that share the same value (as AuctionGirl's example stated, STR+15 materias would stack). This should be useful to help alleviate concerns related to inventory space and materia.

Why don't the dev team just have 2 version of Materia per Tier, NQ and HQ

They unfortunately could not do that now, though. Since people have been using variants on gear, own variants, etc. Unless we went through another round of dated gear/dated materia they won't be able to get rid of the variants.

I don't see how it would effect gear, Materia could be changed in the database without making old dated version.