Quote Originally Posted by syntaxlies View Post
so basically we both want materia to take up less space. i would rather it go a step further and reduce number of materia by combining some you would not. So that about sums it up.

Yes, but I'm trying to tell you that is counter-productive. Being able to combine the materia will just end up with more kinds of materia being in existence, because they cannot get rid of the materia they have already implemented in the game.