Please put a retainer bell in 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

[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.