Gobbiebags / inventory expansion

Greetings all, I wanted to leave a little thought here that I think would be quite interesting. As a tribute to FFXI and as a service to players in need I think it would be lovely to see X|V acquire our own "Bluffnix".

This could work in two ways to help the player:

1. Start with quests to add new inventory tabs, and have material requirements he will need to 'craft & expand' our carrying capacity
2. After inventory is at the new capacity, he can offer to expand our armoury chests, but at a cost of rarer or possibly dungeon / raid dropped items. Then create two sub-tabs per Armoury slot for: DoH + DoL & DoW + DoM. This separates our trade and battle gear neatly, and doubles our space.

I believe it would add interesting flavor to the game, give a grand applaud to long-term fans of the FFMMO history, etc.

Hope there are others that think this is neat! ;)

I like the idea, but I'm not sure it would happen with SE selling retainers and having "problems" with server limitations and inventory limits.

Not sure what the business case details would be at SE for this. FFXI also has the equivalent of pay to play retainers (alternate characters) that were heavily used for inventory expansion AND at the same time they added wave after wave of gobbie bag expansion. It's always a balancing act to optimize revenue and not do something that drives away subs.

I would settle for being able to "friend" my alts in this game and make transfer of material between them (if on the same server) easy.

I would like them to make anohter Amory tab and have it for your crafter/gather gear it a pain in the *** currently IMO...

Inventory and armory space increase shouldn't cost you an arm and leg in Gil and time like gobbiebags. Its ridiculous and there's nothing fun about it.

That being said, I LOVE interacting with gobbies. I'm more than happy to do quests for those greedy fools. Just not for increased space. Or at least not make it as time consuming and expensive. Or, if they are to be that way, then make the reward more than just more space. If a Gobbie could function as a traveling retainer, I'd gladly put time and Gil into that.

They have said frequently the reason they haven't expanded inventory is a technical one. If and when they expand inventory Im sure they will do something but until that technical issue is resolved we aren't going to see anything.

This is a neat idea but SE definitely has issues with data. I'd love to have more armory chest space..i am constantly running out and I can't even hold all my weapons in it. Perhaps if they invested in a better server for their data it could happen but right now I think they are more focused on dungeons..

If you talk to the Gobbies in ildyshire near where you turn in for materia, they are definitely up to something there. They mention they will have new things soon.... who knows...


It looked to me that they were building a shop. I guess they will probably take over or compete with rowena soon with things to sell us... maybe even gobbiebags...(i doubt but, if it comes into the game, I'd think through there)

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Originally Posted by Cherie

If you talk to the Gobbies in ildyshire near where you turn in for materia, they are definitely up to something there. They mention they will have new things soon.... who knows...


It looked to me that they were building a shop. I guess they will probably take over or compete with rowena soon with things to sell us... maybe even gobbiebags...(i doubt but, if it comes into the game, I'd think through there)

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The goblins are actually building a manufactory. The Goblin at the door tells you about it if you talk to him.

If we are to believe that inventory can not be expanded due to "server limitations" then hypothetically what if 250,000 more people subscribe to the game? Where are these supposed "server limitations" that would allow 250,000 more people to have as much inventory space as we do with the option of paying for additional storage space via paid retainers???

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Originally Posted by MugenMugetsu

If we are to believe that inventory can not be expanded due to "server limitations" then hypothetically what if 250,000 more people subscribe to the game? Where are these supposed "server limitations" that would allow 250,000 more people to have as much inventory space as we do with the option of paying for additional storage space via paid retainers???

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When they say server limitations, 95% of the time they're referring to PS3 limitations. They just don't want people hating on PS3 than they already do.

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Originally Posted by Greedalox

When they say server limitations, 95% of the time they're referring to PS3 limitations. They just don't want people hating on PS3 than they already do.

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LOL! /10char

Gobbiebags on our retainers :). It would help to be able to extend our retainer inventory slots.

Or SE can give the players free extra retrainers as part of the upcomming expansion pack? They can not add inventory, but they sure as hell can help us with some part of our inventory issues.

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Originally Posted by Laerune

Or SE can give the players free extra retrainers as part of the upcomming expansion pack? They can not add inventory, but they sure as hell can help us with some part of our inventory issues.

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oh they can add inventory, make no mistake about this. They claim they cant because of how often the game saves would add more stress to the servers.....we dont need the game to auto save as often as it does. see they could change things around but they choose not to. a shared friend/block list would save some right there. but alas this is their game they have to decide if what they do helps or hurts it. ofcourse there are ways around the limitation of the inventory with the saves. have the extra inventory more like the retainers meaning it isnt open unless we access it.simple as open, drop stuff in, close

not that I'm against having a free retainer mind you that would be great. but saying they cannot add inventory is a fallacy. it really is just a matter of if they are given the go ahead to adjust the save rate then to add, if they could give us different types of inventory such as say a tackle box for the fish and bait/lures we have. and perhaps a collection pail for miner and botonist(these could be a limites access thing meaning once you close them they are not being accessed so basically the same as above)
the possibilities are there. it really is a matter of if they want to impliment them

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Originally Posted by Belhi

The goblins are actually building a manufactory. The Goblin at the door tells you about it if you talk to him.

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Yea, thats what I was talking about. What do you think they are manufacturing, cars?

They are making stuff to mass produce....IE they are probably making things to sell us. Ildy is the hub city, it's where all the rewards get handed out...

Sorry, I'm not sure if you are agreeing with me or disagreeing... But yes, I spoke to the NPC, how else would I have come up with what I said.

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Originally Posted by Cherie

If you talk to the Gobbies in ildyshire near where you turn in for materia

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What I really want is for them to make more use of the gigantic key items tab. There's so many items that should belong there, like catalysts and such.

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Originally Posted by DWolfwood

What I really want is for them to make more use of the gigantic key items tab. There's so many items that should belong there, like catalysts and such.

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yeah , dont forget the books from alex , the coins items from tribes,trial extreme items , the !$!%&ing prisms (i hate it with passion ) , and more...

the truth is that SE is adding more and more currency or items that u need to keep , while knowing we have inventory issues...and i wonder WHY?

palace of the dead , the new moogle tribes , new trial , the new void ark raid , and who knows...

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Originally Posted by WinterLuna

I like the idea, but I'm not sure it would happen with SE selling retainers

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fixed it for you.

If they won't give us more inventory anytime soon, at least give us much fatter FC chests...

The FC chest size is tiny.. Our FC has about 40 people and it's constantly overflowing.. I would hate to see what the FC chests of bigger FC's are like.

Finally, another option would be to give us a "crafting bag" sort of system (such as how GW2 did it, and probably many other MMO's).
Give us a completely separate bag and allow all of our crafting materials to be stored in that..

Lack of inventory space really puts me off playing some nights when I get home. I just get frustrated and go do something else. Or I just have my retainer sell things or discard them thereby prejudicing the community helping aspect of this being an MMO.

A few thoughts

1. There should be a way to craft with mats saved in the retainers or chests. Just like in pretty much every other MMO out there...

2. There are too many currency items!

I've forgotten what upgrades what. The item help doesn't help at all. It just tries to crack a joke instead of saying what gear the item is used for. This must be crazy confusing for newer players who weren't around when content was released in stages.

But that aside, there should be a way for either
a) using the physical currency item to convert it into nothing so that it appears in the Currency tab.
b) allowing us to give the currency item to the relevant store NPC to hold on to


3. Crafters and Gatherers should not even be part of the "Armoury" chest.

4. Given a lot of gear isn't convertible or sellable or tradeable why not just have your current raid gear consumed and saved to your Job Crystal itself. That way the armoury chest can just be for glamour and funs.

I never bought the server limitations excuse. They can't give us more inventory because of limitations, but we can buy all the retainers we want. Something doesn't add up. The solution is very simple. Let us mail stuff to our alts.

The reason we have retainers is due to the fact they don't allow players to use other characters as bank alts directly due to imposed restrictions on trading to characters on the same account. So, they added retainers, which act as the bank alts we are all used to from other games. However, what they should really be doing is let us sacrifice other character slots for more retainers instead of having to pay for essentially characters 9-16 out of pocket on the sub. I've been furiously trying to reduce my inventory so I can ditch the third retainer and get my sub back to where it's supposed to be.

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Originally Posted by Brill_

I never bought the server limitations excuse. They can't give us more inventory because of limitations, but we can buy all the retainers we want.

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Walk-around inventory is limited because they have to make regular back-ups of it in case of loss of connection or server crash, so we don't lose our data. If the amount of character data is too high, the stress on the server caused by the back-up process may result in bigger problems occurring. They are committed to increasing inventory at some point but it is a technical hurdle to overcome.