Quote Originally Posted by savageink View Post
Just make a modern bank with all of it's storage capabilities but have that same bank be accessed by the retainers from where ever you summon them. No separate inventories.
Quote Originally Posted by Ama_Hamada View Post
I can understand people not seeing this an issue if they only have 1 retainer to deal with most of the time. However when you are crafting and going retainer to retainer moving items a lot, the long load times (the time you wait for retainer to come to bell and the menu load time) add up quickly and can cause frustrations on how much time is wasted on the slow retainers.
But having the retainers serve as the interface isn't the real issue there. It's having each one have a separate inventory that causes it. If we had a single unified bank inventory, which we accessed by talking to a retainer (any of them), then we wouldn't be going from one to another for that. Sure the larger total inventory might take longer to load, but if we only had to wait for it once rather than over and over again, it wouldn't be nearly so frustrating.

The only time we'd be going from one retainer to another is when assigning and collecting ventures, or when putting items up for sale (if the later isn't moved off of the retainers to the MB), and for those we wouldn't need to load the bank inventory.