How many retainers you pay for?

[Kuzonoha]

Four extra.

I like having open bag slots and having retainers collect junk for me. I'm leveling all of my crafts too so it helps to have storage for the grind.

That said, it sucks having to pay extra for something I shouldn't have to pay for. Servers can't be that restricted if we have a million players on Balmung and Gilgamesh.

[Enthy]

None. The inventory limitations are frustrating, but I refuse to pay for retainers when SE deliberately floods our regular inventories with Quest Items (books, alexander parts, pennies, gobtwine, unidentified tomestones, the list goes on and on)

I have also not bought a single thing off of the mog station.

[AlphaFox]

Only pay for 2 but I am also stretching myself at the time with that. Originally was heavy into crafting but I just cant keep up and find it kinda boring now. Had it arranged for 1 with materia and glamours, 1 for wood/metals/ore, 1 for cloth, leather and alch, and 1 for misc like tokens, beast tribe stuff and more glamour. Need more space but refusing to pay for more.

[Moonlite]

One of the interesting things I have seen a few people say is FC sharing. Would be nice if accounts had a shared chest and could just use extra space on alts. I wonder how hard it would be to have that storage option. I understand we are getting more space but not at launch. So it could easily be 4.1 or later if they don't announce a specific date at fan fest.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

I pay for all six extra.

3 combat, 2 miner, 2 botany, 1 fisher. The primary reason is for materials acquisition. I prefer to have some materials on hand and then send the retainers our to restock while I"m doing other stuff.

[Derio]

2 extra. I pay every 6 months. Like many others I use them mainly for storage

[Kosmos992k]

I did pay for one extra retainer for a few months but currently I don't pay for any. Leveling crafting and alt jobs and housing took a lot of inventory space but after getting rid of most ARR materials, low level gear and some furniture that is now available on vendors I now have a comfortable 25 free bag slots. One of my retainers is for glamours and unique unobtainable gear and the other is for rare dyes, tokens, few crafting materials, festive consumables like fireworks, furniture, orchestrion roll drops, gardening items, pigments, retired chocobos and feeds. The stuff in this game really takes a lot of space lol.

For those putting furniture on a retainer - specifically indoor furniture. Stop it, stop it now!!!

Seriously, purchase an apartment and use it like a storage locker for furniture. No monthly fee...

The FC chamber works the same way.

So, if you already own an actual house, you can store unused indoor furniture without using your inventory or retainer inventory, and without a monthly fee.

Though I use 3 paid retainers as well, I keep a lot of stuff...

[Reinha]

For those putting furniture on a retainer - specifically indoor furniture. Stop it, stop it now!!!

Seriously, purchase an apartment and use it like a storage locker for furniture. No monthly fee...

The FC chamber works the same way.

So, if you already own an actual house, you can store unused indoor furniture without using your inventory or retainer inventory, and without a monthly fee.

Though I use 3 paid retainers as well, I keep a lot of stuff...

I'm already using an apartment as a storehouse... More and more seasonal items keep on coming.

[AreciaRhi]

I only pay for one extra because I left my solo free company to play with friends.

[NarikoStar]

My 'main account'
Legacy subscription -
All retainers unlocked (paying additional for 6)

Main character
-8 retainers (constantly full)
Breakdown works like this:

• (2) retainers for BTN/FSH materials + Leather,cloth,regeants etc 1 is ARR materials, other is Heavensward materials
• (2) retainers for MNR/Bone materials + gemstones, ingots, ash etc 1 is ARR mats, other is Heavensward mats.
• (2) retainers for glamour
• (2) retainers for future desynth items, GC turn ins, weekly clear items, 1.0 "Dated items" presents, fireworks, misc items for quests, potions, food.
  

**My "Alt" character (60) on main account
Full 8 retainers
Storage works in a simliar matter to above, although 2 of them are used stricktly for housing items


On Main service account total 16 retainers actively being used for storage


My -second- service account
Normal Subscription -

4 retainers total (paying additional for 2)

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In the above instances my Main character actively runs out of space on a weekly basis....

In regards to...

For those putting furniture on a retainer - specifically indoor furniture. Stop it, stop it now!!!

Across all my service accounts I personally own two FCs, a medium and a large (both FC chest storage being utilized) 5 private rooms in said FCs, 2 apartments, one small private house and 3 'additional' characters with default character inventory being used as storage for excess furniture. For some it still just -isn't- enough.

Mind you, I realize this is a bit extreme and I would consider myself an outlier in the model. I averagely buy 10-20 (sometimes more) of each event item regularly so I have the freedom to fill a room with piassas if I so desire.

To each their own play how you want to, please bring us more inventory / housing space in 4.0! I kindly look forward to it!