A consern about space efficieny since stormblood is not getting enough space increase

[Lycieus]

You dont even need the free trial for alts if you pay the higher price. I am able to create more than enough alts but managing your inventory through alts is quite annoying. First you have to go through parts of the story again and have to get to 15 (?) or something to even get the retainers. After that you need someone or the FC chest to exchange your items since its not possible to befriend your Alt and thus you cant sent them post.

If you need another person to exchange the items this makes it really not convenient enough. Either because that person is not on when you need the items from your alt or its just way to slow in general. Maybe this could be something for items that you rarely need.

I for example own a personal FC. There is only a rl friend in it and my alt character. To have her in the FC I needed another person that invited me when I was on that alt character. It is a lot easier to exchange items since you can just put those items in the FC chest but its still annoying since you need to write down what the Alt has and you need to relog a lot.

Why should this be necessary?

[Ama_Hamada]

Why should this be necessary?

It shouldn't and as I explain, alts is a huge time sink anyway, so much so I stopped doing it. You can only trade 5 items at a time and now you are effectively doubling the time you spent looking in retainers unless you can effectively lower materiel use to 200 (my inventory and alt) but then you are going to have a few spaces used for currency you are about to use, so on so ofc you need some materials on retainers. So pulling from retainer + dealing with 5 item trades is just too much of an unnecessary time sink. Sure I put up with it for bigger profit margins on 1-2 mil sales but 200-400k (current 4 star gear and weapons now) it is simply not worth dealing with, at that price.

[Alleo]

Why should this be necessary?

As Ama said it shouldnt, but at least right now its the only way to really trade with you alt characters. Also my answer was more to show that you theoretically can do it but thats its quite time consuming and annoying.