Loot going to the mail

If you (and similar players) have trouble clearing inventory space, what makes you think you'll have such ample room in your mailbox?

Where is the next proposal after you've missed out on items because you hadn't cleared your mail in a while?

do you demand stuffs to be sent to your home for free automatically if your car is full from all the stuffs you put in it? =p

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Originally Posted by Furiea

do you demand stuffs to be sent to your home for free automatically if your car is full from all the stuffs you put in it? =p

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I would if we lived in a world where things are sent automatically to your car. Part of the reason I avoid using real world analogies in video games...

Anywho, I fail to see the cons of this QoL suggestion. Point of it is merely being a safety net in case you forget to empty your bag before or during a dgn. In addition, I believe mailbox limit is 20 letters with 4-5 attachment slots? At that point, crafter or not, player really would have no choice but to sit down and clean up.

WoW does this so obviously it's bad and doesn't belong here. /s

Never tested it, but I think you could in theory run a whole dungeon without looting anything and then the game would mail everything to you after a few hours or whenever that thing went out.

It's a good idea.

I've never ran into the issue myself (and my inventory is generally pretty full even without being an active crafter/gatherer), but no matter what, it's a good QoL feature to have.

Many mmos have a workaround when this happens, FFXIV surely needs a lot of QoL improvements.

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

I have 2 retainers completely full of crafting/gathering mats, unique glamour, tokens, materia, and all the other stuff that the game shoves onto us. I literally cannot deposit more mats, but I'm just lazy right?

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Being an Omni crafter (with 6 retainers) I can honestly say that there are lots of ways to store mats better than what you are doing. Glamour items that are inexpensive should be gone. Desynth or sell them as obviously they are easy to obtain. Crafting mats that you are holding on to that you can buy from vendors should also be gone. Any materia under tier 4 should also be gone as you wont be using them anyways because of gear caps. So either start selling the stuff on retainers or vendor if you so choose. There are plenty of ways. Also considering you have ZERO crafters at 70 tells me you are hoarding mats that you don't need. Unless you are leveling, you need to start dumping. If you are leveling crafting and gathering then you need to be efficient. Go out gather some mats for the crafter you are leveling, come back and craft what you gathered, and then sell it.

You need to plot your path to 70 on both, do a little research and see what you can craft to get to 70. Me personally, I look for the lowest material count item (lumber, leather, thread, Ingots, Nuggets, food components) then I use those items to craft other items, also with low material counts. Once im done I sell the stuff. It really IS that simple.

While I don't especially disagree with the idea, it seems like a very labour intensive solution to what shouldn't be a problem (the team are very sensitive to exploits such as duplication bugs and mailing could introduce a bunch of behaviours which will make testing exhaustively quite slow work). What I'd prefer, substantially, is a way for unclaimed items or items you cannot hold to give you a short grace period to clear a space before they drop to the floor and end up wasted. The same functionality could also help in the case of everyone passing on an item out of politeness only to find it has been destroyed because the person they expected to greed it didn't want it (or couldn't roll). XIV's treasure pool is very strict sometimes.

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Originally Posted by CorbinDallas

"I don't have enough inventory space!" cry the hoarders who insist on keeping that single animal skin/bronze ingot, despite having every crafter above 60.

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It's not hoarders, i ran into the issue when i decided i wanted to try my hand at crafting and i have three retainers...so i just dont craft.

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Originally Posted by Ayasaki128

If I remember well, the GM team can recovery the item for you, however you can use item recovery ONE TIME IN YOUR ACCOUNT.
To use this you need place a GM call, more information about it: http://support.na.square-enix.com/fa...la=1&kid=68222
Dont forget give details like: time when you get your datalog, but dropped because full inventory

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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-per-lifetime

it needs changing, no need to make it once per lifetime

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Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI

It's a good idea.

I've never ran into the issue myself (and my inventory is generally pretty full even without being an active crafter/gatherer), but no matter what, it's a good QoL feature to have.

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I thought it was a standard feature to have, I guess wow spoils me in functionality.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

If you (and similar players) have trouble clearing inventory space, what makes you think you'll have such ample room in your mailbox?

Where is the next proposal after you've missed out on items because you hadn't cleared your mail in a while?

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FFXI is too strict when it comes too being full (You can only receive 20 items or something and if you know how much different materials high end gear takes, like the 320 stuff, it is an issue.) 5 items per trade/mail is also BS with how many different materials you need for something. Also most games have a queue, even if you do not see it, it is not lost, once you clear out things it appears. FFXI and WoW both do the queue thing for mail items/letters.