Retainers, confirmed, you have to pay for them.

[Kayo]

second character in the same FC + FC storage = no need to buy extra retainer if you don't want it.
And if you pay 6 months in a row the standard account don't cost more than the basic account.

And yet the game was designed to conveniently make it as hard as possible to have mules. You have to jump through hoops to get something thats freely offered in every other MMO. First you need to pay the full sub to be able to create more than one character in the same server, which is fine since its still falls within the standard sub price. Then you have to either make a dummy FC (meaning your character wont get the benefit of a regular FC with actual players to do content with) or hope your current one allows you to use their bank space to transfer stuff (and the risk that comes with it).

Do you really think these restrictions are in place to fight RMT? Doubtfull, I still dont see how this makes any significant impact on RMT prevention ... nor is it working at all, obviously. I do however see, very clearly, how it was all designed as some "incentive" to buy more retainers and milk us for more money in full F2P underhanded tactics.

PS: Multi-month discounts are offered in almost every MMO with a sub ... and they all allow you to transfer items and make as many mules as you can fit in the server. Not a single one whines about the server space it would take up because at the end of the day its all just Object IDs and its slot position.

[Samburi]

I do however see, very clearly, how it was all designed as some "incentive" to buy more retainers and milk us for more money in full F2P underhanded tactics.

If that is the case then we would have 80 inventory slots, 80 retainer storage slots, 10 sell slots, stacks with max. item of 12 and every item in 4 versions (nq, +1, +2, +3)

5 grades times seven crafts = 35 inventory slots to cover everything if you want to keep them all stocked all the time instead of just buying them when you need them. It's right there in the image (as well as other images so far), Grade 1 Glamour Prism (Woodworking).

Then just buy or craft what you need instead to have stacks of prisms in your retainer you would never use?