[dev1001] Items stackable: Which u want to stack?

[Ezikiel]

ZOMG if i have 99 jugs on nazana i would never leave abyssea i would take 20 stax of 99 pet eta biscuits and just go insane

[annewandering]

I wish that the mog sack, locker etc would have the possibility of auto sort. For crafting it would be wonderful if we could have bigger stacks. I dont know why logs couldnt be stacked. Making something like shihei takes a lot of room just to get started. Its a royal pain. I have a mule just to hold shihei materials. Just to make a few toolbags is daunting for space especially since the new abyssea gear and items takes so much room.
Making linkshells key items would be lovely. It would have to be done a bit differently or you would have all your pearls showing in the linkshell list every time you went to the selection menu. It would also have to have a delete feature both for you and for the sackholders to bust. MIght just be too much work.

[Kavik]

Since i have been crafting recently... (7 yr player just now crafting, i suck i kno ><) i wholeheartedly agree with crystals stacking to 99 and perhaps clusters to 12? i HATE having to carry around 7 or 8 inventory spaces while i'm trying to get none-stackable mats (currently goblin/moblin/bugbear masks) i end up throwing something away because i accidently fill up my inventory. Consequently, it would be nice if the afore mentioned masks could be stackable, you can stack hats in real life if you fold them properly so why not the masks?

[Kohana]

Since i have been crafting recently... (7 yr player just now crafting, i suck i kno ><) i wholeheartedly agree with crystals stacking to 99 and perhaps clusters to 12? i HATE having to carry around 7 or 8 inventory spaces while i'm trying to get none-stackable mats (currently goblin/moblin/bugbear masks) i end up throwing something away because i accidently fill up my inventory. Consequently, it would be nice if the afore mentioned masks could be stackable, you can stack hats in real life if you fold them properly so why not the masks?

lol no you don't suck. I been playing for about 10 years...and just started to level mine as well >.>
But omg yes! stacking those masks, and beetle shells, hides, etc would be soooo nice! with all the equipment needed for jobs, there seems no room for synth mats. ( I actively use 3 mage jobs, 2-3 dd jobs, and am attempting to low equip level another mage job... so umm ya ><) Between gear, trial weaps,...seals...crests... etc, having mats stack that currently do not stack would be great! (would love to finally get at least ONE craft to 60...lol)

[Alistaire]

Would it really be that hard or horrible to just make every non-rare or augmentable item stack?

[kaht]

As much as I'd love to be able to stack grimmonites (and would actually consider selling them at the AH instead of npc'ing them all), I understand why large fish can't stack. It would be impossible to maintain a large fish's size and weight if it was stackable. Still, it sure would save me a lot of inventory issues when I'm fishing in SSG if they did stack.

[GERM]

in just the opposite I think stacks of geodes should be decreased to 12.. its a lot easier to get 12 geodes and sell them on the AH then getting 15 and have to single sell each.. and buying 2 stacks for weapon upgrade is more feasable then buying 99 and selling 70+

[Seriha]

I actually think the demand for a full 99 stack of meds would be quite high. You would also be forcing players to buy your merchandise in bulk. Not to mention, you could fit way more profit onto the 7 AH slots this way. The argument of having to craft more doesn't make much sense to me. Even if you don't want to craft all 99 in one sitting, you could save up to 99 from multiple crafting sessions before selling, and in the end you make the same profits.

The market will be good initially, but you'll be looking at needing at least 45 Honey, Sage, and Distilled Water, and crystals. I don't believe people farming Honey or crystals will match up, and from the server I'm on that's about 416g per Honey while the NPC cost of Sage is around 166g. Throw in the water and the crystal at 150g and you're looking at 732g per synth. Building a stack of 99 will run you 32,940g at 45 synths. More realistically, I'm going to say you'll need 60 synths to do it, so that becomes 43,920g. Keep in mind there are NPCs that effectively ceiling the value of Echo Drops (~832g). The AH cost may exceed them from time to time, but when that number goes too far past, people will either divert to the NPCs or you'll get people buying from the NPC and relisting to make their own money for nothing.

In general, the medicine market is terribly volatile when it comes to Echo Drops, Silent Oil, and Prism Powder. It only takes one person to start a spree of undercuts. We're past the days of ToAU where imps are one of the EXP mobs of choice. People will not be chugging Echo Drops in the extreme that once you get past the initial post-patch sales, you'll be seeing more than a couple stacks a day selling. When things start selling slow, people start getting more willing to unload at a cheaper price just to recover their investment. At 10k for a stack of 12, a drop is a whopping 13g profit. Do you see people willing to pay 85k or more for a stack of drops if you want at least 100g profit per? I don't. The moment that drops to under 73k, you're losing money. You'd be better off NPCing Holy Waters at like 350g per where every HQ is a guaranteed, instant profit.

Basically you'd need to triple synth yields and third NPC resale costs for the affected to put things back into reasonable time investments. Even then, profits will be paper thin.

[Ezikiel]

if they change the stack amount on items they will also change the yield to match they have done it before

[Seriha]

Not exactly. Bolt heads were changed from 12 to 99, for example, but the synths are still 6/8/10/12. Since a lot of these are multi-skill synths, HQs are also more difficult to come by.