Really tired of the inventory excuses.

[SQBoard]

I was actually thinking about making a new post on this topic but someone beat me to it. The excuses about memory space blah blah are all absolute nonsense, when this company is willing to give you the same thing in the form of retainers for a price.

Retainer storage is not the same as inventory.
It's not a question about storage space needed either.
It's about bandwidth required to keep synchronizing the inventory data every 15 seconds so that as little data as possible is lost in the event of a crash.

Not sure but i think that 15sec interval is for your own character (on-hand inventory/alt info) and the one retainer (if you have it open) but don't quote me on that.

And it is partly a bandwidth problem, that's true.

That's why you can only open 1 retainer at a time. Which means it's the same bandwidth use whether you have 2 retainers for use or 8 (2+6 paid extra).

The bit about them trying to allow recalling all retainers at once has the caveat of " in certain areas" which i take to mean some area/instance where server load is minimal like in the inn or personal fc room maybe?

[Nekodar]

Not sure but i think that 15sec interval is for your own character (on-hand inventory/alt info) and the one retainer (if you have it open) but don't quote me on that.

My comment was about inventory really, since that's where the big problem is.

I don't mind waiting for them to fix things so that the items take up less data which would allow them to cram in more inventory space in the same bandwidth envelope.
If I go for only two free retainers, I'll just have to clean up my inventory so that it's enough...

[SQBoard]

My comment was about inventory really, since that's where the big problem is.

I don't mind waiting for them to fix things so that the items take up less data which would allow them to cram in more inventory space in the same bandwidth envelope.
If I go for only two free retainers, I'll just have to clean up my inventory so that it's enough...

I think we're going over each other's points.

You reference limited inventory due to bandwidth as bolded above and i was saying, as far as bandwidth use is concerned, you only have 1 retainer since you can open only 1 at a time.

Regardless if you have 2 or 8 total retainers available, only 1 of them uses bandwidth which SE has accounted for, but adding additional retainers would give additional inventory space without increasing bandwidth use, which is why SE is able to allow 6 additional ones for an additional fee.