So uh, how's the storage situation progressing? ^^;

[Rubeus]

supposedly the 80 cap was because the ps2 only had that many lines available for items in a designated slot; so furniture caps at 80 because everything else does. Which is why their "We're looking into expanding your backpack with more gobbie bag quests" recent post doesn't make ANY sense to me. If they could do that, wouldn't it be easier to use that mountain of ISP I have to buy more locker space or go give my moogle 2 or 3 items nobody even uses anymore and have more space overall? Furthermore if they did, for example, allow a 120 space backpack, my satchel and sack bring me up another 120 spaces overall (40x3). If the issue is/has been "your stuff will load too slowly" then it would make better sense to promote lockers. First of all, not a lot of people do a whole lot of AU content anymore anyway, and secondly, it's a single-source storage that wouldn't greatly increase the lag of loading. And besides, only the people who bothered to besieged or what-have-you would have the bronze pieces to keep it up, so not everyone would do it.

[Frankbrodie]

Well.. except that you can buy a stack of bronze pieces for like 20k? Right?

Go on them, 25k today on Phoenix. Still much of a muchness.

[Calatilla]

But if nobody did besieged, where would those bronze pieces come from once everyone ran out of ISP? I`m all for new storage, every update we get 2-3 new sets which are not storable via slips, why?? how hard can it be to add skirmish/delve or bayld gear to a storage slip?

I remember a post by one of the dev's a while back where someone asked for more storage slips and their response was that they didn't want to keep adding slips that would ultimately clutter up our inventory. Well guess what, these new sets you keep releasing are doing just that, because I can't store them!!!

[Umichi]

But if nobody did besieged, where would those bronze pieces come from once everyone ran out of ISP? I`m all for new storage, every update we get 2-3 new sets which are not storable via slips, why?? how hard can it be to add skirmish/delve or bayld gear to a storage slip?

I remember a post by one of the dev's a while back where someone asked for more storage slips and their response was that they didn't want to keep adding slips that would ultimately clutter up our inventory. Well guess what, these new sets you keep releasing are doing just that, because I can't store them!!!

go out get an archaic mirrior... Boom 2.5k isp

[Mirage]

But if nobody did besieged, where would those bronze pieces come from once everyone ran out of ISP?

Get your own IS from doing besieged. One single besieged and you'll have 4k IS, enough to buy 200 bronze pieces. That much will last you around 1000 days, or nearly 3 years.

[Volarione]

But if nobody did besieged, where would those bronze pieces come from once everyone ran out of ISP? I`m all for new storage, every update we get 2-3 new sets which are not storable via slips, why?? how hard can it be to add skirmish/delve or bayld gear to a storage slip?

I remember a post by one of the dev's a while back where someone asked for more storage slips and their response was that they didn't want to keep adding slips that would ultimately clutter up our inventory. Well guess what, these new sets you keep releasing are doing just that, because I can't store them!!!

I'm From siren. We take our besieged seriously here.

[Calatilla]

That post was in response to the poster above me saying why do besieged when you can just buy bronze pieces off the AH. The point I was trying to make is, if everyone had this mindset nobody would do Besieged and there wouldn't be any bronze on the AH.

[Mirage]

The mindset would quickly stop existing when there was no more bronze pieces on the AH. It's not an issue, really.

[Danita]

Can't they simply give us an additional door in the Mog House that leads to a Moogle Walk-In-Closet, which would be a zone dedicated to the sole purpose of allowing me to put gear in a single storage location? I want to be able to change from one job to another without having to zone out or look through 5 different bags, or any of that nonsense. Even better if I could tag each piece of gear with multiple markers (one for each job), so that when I press the RDM button, everything I have tagged RDM gets moved into my inventory.

If we could have nothing else but this added in a patch, that patch would be considered one of their most successful by almost everyone I know!

Edit: And who cares if this zone were a slow-loader, it would save me VAST amounts of time regardless. I would happily wait a couple minutes per trip to solve the inventory nightmare that is FFXI.

[Ethalio]

Releasing more storage slips won't solve the problem, it'll just delay the next major crash of inventory issues.
An additional 80 slots inventory for each 99 job the player has is needed to get a long-time solution.
And as Danita said: make all of them accessible only inside a special room that can be entered via MH to avoid load time problems. Dependent on the current main job only one of these bags is active at all time and functions like the normal inventory, which means you can equip directly from it.
Another solution would be a fat chocobo like inventory with at least n*80 slots (n being the number of 99 jobs the player has), although I presume searching for all the equipment can become annoying in a bag with 400+ slots.