52 Minutes of Yoshi-P unleashed :D Here's my interview with our fearless leader

[ispano]

Tackle box has been asked/mentioned before in several previous interviews. Basically, they won't do it. Paraphrasing quite a bit, but you already have 100 inventory slots per character, not including your armoury and both initial retainers, that's a lot compared to other games which also means each character consumes a large amount of data. Currently, they're trying to look for ways to reduce that data consumption, not add more.

Yup, and to add to this, each slot (except the armoire) has to account for durability of a piece of gear, as well as spiritbond, which bumps the usage a bit as well.

[Shougun]

Yup, and to add to this, each slot (except the armoire) has to account for durability of a piece of gear, as well as spiritbond, which bumps the usage a bit as well.

Buy more space. I'm not taking "space limitations" as a response to not being able to hold fishing tackle.. That or redesign the class. Fishing effectively has an extra burden no other class has with short benefits to show for it.

つ ◕_◕ ༽つ -"suoıʇɐʇıɯıן ǝɔɐds"-

Well, guess what, they have that option in place already, but people complain about it all the time. Some people don't realize how much of a burden it really is, because they think the space would just be given to them so it's small. So, it doesn't matter if you take it as a response, it really is the reason. And it's not simply adding more space, adding more space, means more data in the database, which makes said database SLOWER.

つ ◕_◕ ༽つ -ouɐdsᴉ-

The extra space per character may not be much...but the total space across all characters IS. Even chars who don't even have Fisher unlocked need to have that space allocated to their character file on the server in reservation for if and when they DO unlock it. FFXI is a great example of what happens when the devs cave and give people a whole pile of inventory options. It now takes a solid 15s or so just to fully load up in a zone in that game. You load in and can move and interact but you can't access inventory for a good 15s or so. This is because the game is spending so much time trying to read and load up your inventory so you can readily access it. It would be worse in XIV since inventory is displayed dynamically as a UI element.

So glad all of SE's programmers take to the forums.. Also there is no reason a Fisher's tackle box needs to be loaded the second of each zone in/login, only when fishing..

つ ◕_◕ ༽つ -ɐɹǝɥʇᴉ˥-

[ispano]

Buy more space. I'm not taking "space limitations" as a response to not being able to hold fishing tackle.. That or redesign the class. Fishing effectively has an extra burden no other class has with short benefits to show for it.

つ ◕_◕ ༽つ -"suoıʇɐʇıɯıן ǝɔɐds"-

Well, guess what, they have that option in place already, but people complain about it all the time. Some people don't realize how much of a burden it really is, because they think the space would just be given to them so it's small. So, it doesn't matter if you take it as a response, it really is the reason. And it's not simply adding more space, adding more space, means more data in the database, which makes said database SLOWER.