Storage issues.... still... (not again, I mean still, because SE hasn't done much)

[nyheen]

You don't play on Xbox, do you?

used to long ago but use the pc now since xbox with the red ring of death + beieged problem is a pain to deal with. other then that load times was never a problem.

Wait, people still have a 56k modem.... SERIOUSLY????? WTF!?!?!?

go move in a rural area and see if you can get some high speed internet. because mostly your only option are Dial up or satellite.

[Aselin]

used to long ago but use the pc now since xbox with the red ring of death + beieged problem is a pain to deal with. other then that load times was never a problem.



go move in a rural area and see if you can get some high speed internet. because mostly your only option are Dial up or satellite.

I have a friend who lives in a small town in South Dakota. No more than 2000 people in his town. Fastest internet service he can get is 3Mbps DSL. And, it's unreliable as the speeds will drop to somewhere around 256kbps during peak usage according to him.

But, even satellite would be better than dial-up. It isn't quite fast but at least it's still technically broadband internet.

If they are worried about increasing load times when increasing character storage, they should either drop support for 56k dial-up connections (and PS2 support) or implement a server-side storage that can be accessible at any time by the player when in town.

It would be similar to how the auction house and delivery box system are separate servers themselves connected to the actual World servers. Sure, loading items from such a system would be slower just as accessing items from Delivery Box is now, but such a system would never be limited by the client's hardware as it'll just load a preset maximum of items into memory. And, to access more items just shift to another page or "table" of items. It can list maybe a maximum of 80 items into memory before listing another 80. And, there shouldn't technically be any maximum limit to what you can store as it'll be server-side. If they can implement a separate server for such a system like they do now for Delivery Box and Auction House, it should hopefully side-step a lot of the issues we have currently.

As someone on the FFXIAH forum mentioned, it'll be the equivalent of a "bank" for the players which surprises me that an MMO such as FFXI doesn't have one.

So, in other words:

Character -> Key item with unique access to server-side storage -> Server-side storage (Unlimited)

Server-side storage (Unlimited) -> List 80 items maximum per page -> Character retrieves from or stores to server-side storage

It would make server transfers a bit more complicated though as the data would have to be transferred/moved from one server to the next.

[nyheen]

I have a friend who lives in a small town in South Dakota. No more than 2000 people in his town. Fastest internet service he can get is 3Mbps DSL. And, it's unreliable as the speeds will drop to somewhere around 256kbps during peak usage according to him.

But, even satellite would be better than dial-up. It isn't quite fast but at least it's still technically broadband internet.

it took over 2 years in my area to get dsl.(2Mbps). now dial or satellite? when it comes to online games dial would be the best because of the low ping, only down side is the slow download speed,
now with satellite.. it sucks lot with the high ping rate, and on top of that most to all satellites got that dumb Fair Access Policy so mostly you will be caped at dial speeds if you download over 700MB a day. maybe it changed now but it still around that and it was over priced, but other then that download speed is faster.

so before i just used both. dial up to play games, satellite to download my updates o.o

[Vold]

Here we go with the broadband/56k debate. You know, back when this game was in development and release, it was a pretty smart decision to go with the dial up connection cap. But this is 2013. It's basically been like 12 years since they made the 56k decision. I can't believe cutting off dial up users will hurt them any more than cutting off PS2 FFXI users across the globe outside of Japan. If 14 can go BB only, so can FFXI. Just throwing that out there.

I know all too well what it's like getting the shaft because of my location. It's a miracle that I have DSL at all out here, though I might as well not have it at all now that most of my neighborhood is oversubscribed to our DSL boxes, and not a frick was given by AT&T since they can't just install their crap Uverse here so we can be oversubscribed to that instead. A 56k connection would actually be superior for me right now when it comes to FFXI.

[FrankReynolds]

There aren't really any popular time popped NMs any more. What exactly is the point of the cap now? I mean this company puts out forum posts saying "We only expect a few extremely well geared organized groups to be able to complete this new content we just sold you, but you are all going to pay for it..." and then they are worried that the 3% of the world population who are still stuck on dial up might experience longer load times in between zones? WTF?

[Kristal]

Additionally, they are also looking into a new item storage feature, which is separate from your Gobbiebag and Mog Safe and will hold a large amount of items in exchange for not being able to check it constantly while you are out adventuring. As this involves implementing a totally new system, it will take some time to get this ready, but we will first be looking into the Gobbiebag expansion that we can implement somewhat quicker.

Will this be... the Mog Shed?

[saevel]

I could totally go for an inventory pool in the MH that has 200+ capacity but is only check-able when your inside your MH.

[BobbinT]

I could totally go for an inventory pool in the MH that has 200+ capacity but is only check-able when your inside your MH.

We actually have that. It's called Mog porter. lol

and frankly... could use an overhaul so browsing through it doesn't feel cumbersome and take too many tickets for the cost of spaces. 14 ticket = 14 space wasted. ;D

[FrankReynolds]

I could totally go for an inventory pool in the MH that has 200+ capacity but is only check-able when your inside your MH.

... And doesn't require purchase of some external device and or 10 million gil worth of junk items.

[Kristal]

I could totally go for an inventory pool in the MH that has 200+ capacity but is only check-able when your inside your MH.

I think the limit of 80+80 still applies, so any new container would be capped at 80. Although the number of containers could be limitless (within reason). Unless ofcourse the devs are actually working on a way to fit 100 items in containers (and thus support 100+100 items in memory), which would be damn cool. (+60 inventory on person alone, with another +60 in moghouse. We'd be satisfied for at least a week!)