Okay we're a year into HW, where's storage diversity?

[Issac]

I have to say, it's getting a little ridiculous at this point. I am seeing people leaving their FCs to make their own just for more storage.

I've been pretty patient but I'm really starting to believe that SE just wants more money. That has been discussed to death, and I'm sorry for bringing it up. But I'm just really frustrated seeing our communities being fragmented as a result.

Just a few rough ideas, off the top of my head:
1.Gearset storage using tickets like in XI.
(For those who don't know, if you collect a full set of gear, you can trade it all to an NPC and receive a ticket [not held item] for retrieval.)

2. If you buy a house, you get a storage chest with it. If you share the plot with tenants, you may give permissions to it.
(Houses are /not cheap./ This one is a no-brainer.)

3. I've seen this one a few times, but the ability to destroy gear for the purpose of adding it to a glamour book.
(Everything else stays the same, still need prisms, etc.)


Before HW, I had the bright idea of buying a third retainer to store glamour items. Now months after it has launched, I feel like I'm having a lot of issues with space management myself. I craft, so material storage has nearly doubled. I have all jobs 50+, so gear management has doubled.

For the love of our sanity, /my/ sanity, enough is enough.

[Andevom]

We're not a year into HW yet...

[Canadane]

Oh here I thought this was going to be about crafting mats or furniture.
Stop holding onto your old gearsets, for starters. If you need it again and it's not something the Armoire or Calamity Salvager has, just go farming.

[Issac]

We're not a year into HW yet...

Oh, I'm sorry for generalizing nearly 9 months as a year.

Oh here I thought this was going to be about crafting mats or furniture.
Stop holding onto your old gearsets, for starters. If you need it again and it's not something the Armoire or Calamity Salvager has, just go farming.

Well, it is about that, too.

[Nalien]

If you need it again and it's not something the Armoire or Calamity Salvager has, just go farming.

Yep, let me toss those Crystal Tower sets that I may want to Glamour one day, I can always go farm them again~

[Andevom]

Oh, I'm sorry for generalizing nearly 9 months as a year.

Apology accepted.

[FaileExperiment]

I think part of the problem is caused by the design of the game having so many unessessary items in the first place. 5 grades of every damn thing? 200 different dyes rather than just using the color picker and a generic catalyst? Another 200 materia types again separated by grade.... It goes on and on. Now on its face, it's obvious why these items are like this. But there are just so many better ways to have handled them to similar effect without needing do many individual items.

[Issac]

Apology accepted.

Don't be that guy.

[Alberel]

Honestly if there's any one storage solution we need it's that glamour log. That would pretty much solve the problem for the majority of players. Saying to toss them and farm for them again later if you need them is NOT a solution as many of the sets are almost impossible to find groups to farm for now.

I know someone will soon come along citing Yoshi's spiel about how it would take up too much memory to give us a glamour log but anyone with even the slightest understanding of how such things work would know that this is simply not true. A glamour log would take up less space on the server than a retainer per player if they implemented it efficiently. Each entry in a glamour log would just be a single bit value, where most standard equipment has to be at least a few hundred bits in size. This would be the best solution to the storage problem and it is one pretty much every major MMO release offers now.

[Sensual]

And then he said "more storage"