DEV REQUEST: Shared Retainer

With the upcoming upgrades to inventory space, I think a great idea for many of you with alts would love to have is a Shared retainer. All characters on one’s account share this “shared retainer”: therefore, making it possible to send items & gil to alts on the account. What do you guys think?

I think this will never happen because it's utterly obvious that this is simply another way of asking for a work around to allow the use of Alts as mules.

"It would put too much stress on the servers...."

Or they could just let us send mail to other characters on the same account. Seems like that would be a lot easier. It was an anti-RMT measure that hasn't impacted RMT at all, but has been causing players stress from the beginning. It's time to do away with it.

This is the only game I know of that makes it so difficult to trade items between your alts, all in the name of "Anti-RMT". I fail to see how RMT is prevented from doing anything by not allowing anyone to mail their alts. It's easy to move gil with or without the use of an FC. They are preventing nothing.

The open tab on my FC chest indeed says it's stopping nothing. Shared retainers does not sound as nice as being able to friend your alt, therefore opening all kinds of swapping opportunities. That would of course take money out of SE's pocket with the limitation of two free retainers though. Lord knows that my third retainer, originally purchased temporarily as a crystal shard farmer quickly turned into a hoarder. They like that extra income. Who wouldn't?

Well they can't just come right out and say that adding alternative characters on the same account to friend list would impact retainer subs, now can they....? This 'shared retainer' idea would impact as well....unless the share retainers were sold too!

Don't like the idea. I have 8 characters on my account and all of them have max retainers, wish SE would allow us to pay for even more, it's great when crafting as well as selling. Wouldn't like to see sharing that space with my alts.

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Originally Posted by KitingGenbu

"It would put too much stress on the servers...."

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^ this
SE also likes us paying for more retainers instead of making alts/mules. Their reasoning is as flawed as their argument about not being able to trade more than 1 mil at a time via trade.

I'd prefer they just add any other alts on the same account to your friend list so they can be sent mail. There is no RMT going on when a second account isn't involved.

If you have a house and list something that you want ot send to your alt. Go on your alt and purchase it from your main's retainer at your house.

I've got a house for my alt and main and I'm able to transfer any items or gil. When bought from the retainer you don't lose any gil transfered. No taxes

I have a private fc with 4 of my own characters as the only members... I actively play two of those characters, though. A shared retainer would be amazing. I'm not holding my breath for it, but I agree it would be nice to have.

Yeah they aren't going to add this into the game ever. They would just increase the retainer space if anything. Plus they want players to buy extra reatiners.

Storage space isn't that much of a problem. I do think people just need to retire a class once they max it out and aim toget jobs that share the same stats outta the way. For example level NIN,BRD,MCH to 60 and toss out all the lv1-59 gear they dont need anymore. Samething goes with all your DoH and DoL that share armor sets.

What about making all the retainers shared?

It would be easier to use alts that way and it would free up space on the retainer server, because there would be only 8 retainers per one account on one server. And the saved space maybe could even lead to increased inventory space or free retainers.

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Originally Posted by Archaell

What about making all the retainers shared?

It would be easier to use alts that way and it would free up space on the retainer server, because there would be only 8 retainers per one account on one server. And the saved space maybe could even lead to increased inventory space or free retainers.

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So there is this one guy with X retainers on every one of his Y characters. How do you want to merge that?
Should we have to prepare and free up any space on our retainers, which don't belong to our main? Wait, what's our "main" anyway?
Was happens to the min. 350, max. 1400 items on my "alt" (which you can't determine as well)?

No, there is no way in implementing "share all retainers with all characters" right now, without resetting every retainer.
One additional might be possible, if you ask me they could also give us another kind of service, some city-state bank, to share items with alts.

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Originally Posted by MaeIsMean

This is the only game I know of that makes it so difficult to trade items between your alts, all in the name of "Anti-RMT". I fail to see how RMT is prevented from doing anything by not allowing anyone to mail their alts. It's easy to move gil with or without the use of an FC. They are preventing nothing.

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try to play tree of savior, it has 1000 times more restrictions than ff14

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Originally Posted by Beetle

I do think people just need to retire a class once they max it out and aim toget jobs that share the same stats outta the way. For example level NIN,BRD,MCH to 60 and toss out all the lv1-59 gear they dont need anymore. Samething goes with all your DoH and DoL that share armor sets.

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Fewer pieces of job specific gear and/or more attractive shared gear pieces would help greatly. I have a crap ton of level 50+ gear I keep because I like their look, but a lot of them are job specific. If they were not so specific, I would be able to keep my favorites from the group, but since they are specific, I keep the best for each job I am interested in.

We should have a shared bank where our characters can deposit items specific to the account and any character on the account can access said items. Also, the ability to mail items to alts would be extremely helpful.

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

try to play tree of savior, it has 1000 times more restrictions than ff14

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Yeah... Tos has pretty terrible restrictions, but it is also a free to play game so the barrier for entry for new rmt accounts is incredibly low.

Also, just because another game has it worse doesn't mean it's still not a terrible plan of dealing with rmt... especially since it really does nothing whatsoever to inconvenience them.

I would much rather have an account wide chest similar to the FC chest or just be able to mail to my alts. It is obnoxious to have to bug my friends anytime I craft something for one of my alts etc.

I'd rather just have more retainer space personally.