Lets talk about the Bait Box for fishing

[Puremallace]

Unless I am missing something the entire point of this button is to search your inventory to pick a bait right? Why is this not treated as a separate storage system akin to how armor is stored?

Why can I not just store the bait with my retainer then have the bait box search that? This thing makes zero sense and the bait only serves to take up valuable inventory space which is a constant issue in this game because the Currency tab is used for 1/50th of its actual potential.

Proposed fix in 2 steps!
1. Buy bait
2. Bait has been added to your bait box for storage

[Shadygrove]

Had you bothered to search this forum for tackle box or bait you would have found dozens of threads on this subject. It dates back to 2.0 and I, for one, am so tired of seeing it.

It isn't going to happen, drop the subject.

[Jojoya]

You know you could just buy the bait and lures when you're ready to use them instead of hoarding.

I'm much happier having generalized inventory space I can use for whatever I want than have part of that inventory space reserved for items I almost never use.

The separate inventory space for gear makes sense since this is a gear dependent game. Separate space for bait does not because it's not a fishing dependent game.

Learn to manage your inventory. I keep the dozen or so scrip baits/lures I use most frequently in my saddlebags where I can easily get to it when I'm ready to fish. Anything else I buy (or craft in the case of some lures) when I need it and discard the leftovers when I'm done. None of it is hard to get, and most of it is really cheap.

[Puremallace]

Had you bothered to search this forum for tackle box or bait you would have found dozens of threads on this subject. It dates back to 2.0 and I, for one, am so tired of seeing it.

It isn't going to happen, drop the subject.

So your saying it has been bad game design since 2.0 but that does not make it good game design. It is an unfinished feature that needs to be fixed.

[ICountFrom0]

Yup, but it aint gonna happen.

Maybe if every single question for an entire fan fest was asking about a bait box, over and over, then MAYBE they'd understand how frustrating it is...

but even then they wouldn't FIX it.

What ff14 sells, is glam, and space.

That's why you pay for retainers, for expanded saddlebags, and so forth. They WANT to fill your invintory, and make you buy more space.

[Puremallace]

Well it is worth a try since on the last few patches they have been doing clean up of super minor annoyances from the game and adding some convenience changes like wording, duty finder UI layout and also mining.

I figure since they are cleaning things up I might as well give it a shot.

[Payadopa]

Yup, but it aint gonna happen.



but even then they wouldn't FIX it.

What ff14 sells, is glam, and space.

That's why you pay for retainers, for expanded saddlebags, and so forth. They WANT to fill your invintory, and make you buy more space.

Yep. And people here love to get fleeced so much they even beg for more items in the cash shop.

I stopped hoping for a storage fix. It's monetised, people eat it up, it's gonna stay.

[Jojoya]

It is an unfinished feature that needs to be fixed.

Everything in a game is technically an unfinished feature subject to change when the developers want it to be different. That SE has stuck with the bait/lure system all this time, only supplementing it with boilies for those who don't want to have to carry all the different baits/lures for random fishing, would indicate they tend to see it as a mostly finished feature.

It's not something that needs to be fixed. Inventory management is part of most RPGs and related game types. You choose what's important for your character to keep and what they should get rid of when they run out of room.

Well it is worth a try since on the last few patches they have been doing clean up of super minor annoyances from the game and adding some convenience changes like wording, duty finder UI layout and also mining.

I figure since they are cleaning things up I might as well give it a shot.

Never hurts to ask but it also pays to do a forum search first to see if the topic has been brought up before and what the response has been. As Shadygrove has said, it's been a frequent request over the years.

Probably the best suggestion I've seen (when it comes to simplifying inventory related to fishing) is not to create a bait/tackle box but instead to remove bait as an item going into inventory and instead making it something you select from a menu attached to the fishing log once acquired. I don't see SE doing that seems they want bait and lures to be consumable items that require management (why else is there a chance for else to lose our lures?).

[DrWho2010]

with the boilies they introduced you barely even need to have specific bait in most cases.

[Frizze]

Unless I am missing something the entire point of this button is to search your inventory to pick a bait right?

Ok, ill stop you right here. You missed the point of the button. The point of that button is to allow for different baits to be used for different things. For that to work, you need to be able to switch baits. So the button is to switch baits. Nothing more.