Please put a retainer bell in the workshop

[Culfinrandir]

Yes you can, once one is lvl 22.

I think it had been discovered that the actual trigger for a second airship is to have explored Sector (?) 8. There were FCs at level 25 who still had no access but some at less than 22 who did. The ones without a second ship access hadn't been to Sector 8 whilst those with access had.

[Zhexos]

Just wanted to let you know that in a future update, we're planning to make it possible to summon your retainer from inside the workshop.

[Ayerinn]

How about just letting everyone craft from their retainer inventory...BETTER IDEA

[Valenth]

How about just letting everyone craft from their retainer inventory...BETTER IDEA

It would indeed, but from what we could tell from the last live stream, it seems the stress on the server for suddenly having to access an inventory 2 to 8 times bigger would be too much.

[Nyalia]

It would indeed, but from what we could tell from the last live stream, it seems the stress on the server for suddenly having to access an inventory 2 to 8 times bigger would be too much.

You know what would be really cool? If, while in an FC workshop, you could craft from your retainer's inventory. But ONLY while in the workshop. It's a workshop, after all, it makes sense that you'd have easier access to materials. I'd think that limitation would limit the amount of extra server stress because only a limited number of people would work from there at a given time. Also, it's two loading screens away from the nearest marketboard, so that inconvenience should reduce the traffic further.


EDIT: I mean, this feature would be nice for any sort of crafting, not just FC stuff. It would also eliminate the need for a retainer bell in there as a side effect.

[TechnoTechie]

You know what would be really cool? If, while in an FC workshop, you could craft from your retainer's inventory. But ONLY while in the workshop. It's a workshop, after all, it makes sense that you'd have easier access to materials. I'd think that limitation would limit the amount of extra server stress because only a limited number of people would work from there at a given time. Also, it's two loading screens away from the nearest marketboard, so that inconvenience should reduce the traffic further.


EDIT: I mean, this feature would be nice for any sort of crafting, not just FC stuff. It would also eliminate the need for a retainer bell in there as a side effect.

I think the thing about the retainer bell is that you often have materials for a workshop craft stored on a retainer instead of the fc chest, thus requiring you to zone out and get to a bell and zone back in to progress the ship, so I don't think it would eliminate the need for the bell entirely. Unless you were suggesting that we be able to input workshop craft materials into the interface without having it on our person -- that would be neat :O

[MistyMew]

Or, let us craft from our retainers inventories. Including FC crafts. Really silly that we have all of this retainer space but we have to go arbitrarily withdraw the items to use them. It makes sense, but this issss an MMORPG in 2015.

This 1000%

[Nymeria2x]

Or, let us craft from our retainers inventories. Including FC crafts. Really silly that we have all of this retainer space but we have to go arbitrarily withdraw the items to use them. It makes sense, but this issss an MMORPG in 2015.

I don't understand why they didn't go with this. Blizzard did this with their last expansion months before Heavensward was near completion. It was revolutionary in WOW and would be absolutely amazing in FFXIV.

[Nymeria2x]

It would indeed, but from what we could tell from the last live stream, it seems the stress on the server for suddenly having to access an inventory 2 to 8 times bigger would be too much.

The way WOW did it is that you didn't actually have access to your full inventory. When you opened your crafting recipes it simply counted the mats in your bank as well as what was in you characters inventory as one set so you could craft directly from all of your mats. It wasn't like you suddenly could pull up all of your tabs at once. You could only access it through the crafting menu.

[Nyalia]

I don't understand why they didn't go with this. Blizzard did this with their last expansion months before Heavensward was near completion. It was revolutionary in WOW and would be absolutely amazing in FFXIV.

FFXIV is not coded the same way WoW is. In FFXIV, doing that would cause severe server stress, and SE's servers are relatively low budget from what they've said. It has to do with them backing up your inventory every 5-15 seconds, and if you had access to stuff in your retainer inventories, they'd have to back that up too. That's up to 9x the server load just for having the crafting menu open, even if you had it open while you did other things.