Something needs to be done about inventory space

[Ultimatecalibur]

The system is already there to give us more inventory, but they would not just give people one extra retainer to solve the issue. It is perfectly fine that is what an alt only dedicated to keeping that small bit of extra stuff is for, but the nature of the pay for extra space just doesn't sit right with me.

They do give you 2 for free from the start and even if all available retainers were given out for free people would still be complaining about not having enough inventory.

Retainers are also intended more for longer term storage than short term storage than as short term storage that people sometimes treat them as.

I would like to keep some of the resources I am using while leveling especially crafting. I know at least that is included in the subscription and game itself. Maybe they should reduce the amount of regents it takes or just add a separate tab for those like they have in other games. They did add one for crystals I am unsure if they use to flood the inventory. If they had why did they fix it? Why not take that and throw the crystals back into our inventories. We have tons of space already!

They did reduce the number of materials need when leveling crafting, even if not decreasing the total number of crafting materials, and in multiple ways: Crafting beast tribe dailies supply the material needed for their crafts, custom deliveries are crafted from a limited number of items purchased from nearby merchants and the Firmament crafts only have 1 craft per 10 level period and most of the materials needed are sourced from an attached zone while the single remaining material is easily crafted from easily gathered materials.

Crystals have pretty much always been a crafting currency and the crystals tab was a way to actually let players carry large amounts of them when the stack cap was 99.

[MiaShino]

They do give you 2 for free from the start and even if all available retainers were given out for free people would still be complaining about not having enough inventory.

This is silly as heck and I read this type of comment many times in this thread. I am unsure what the English word for this type of fallacy is.

If I had ten retainers I would be in a far far better place then I am now? Is that not true?

[Ultimatecalibur]

This is silly as heck and I read this type of comment many times in this thread. I am unsure what the English word for this type of fallacy is.

If I had ten retainers I would be in a far far better place then I am now? Is that not true?

Nope. The paradox is that more storage doesn't necessarily mean less storage problems. It has been a noted effect that humans tend to fill storage rather than dispose of things until they reach the limit on how much they can store at which point they choose between either expanding storage or disposal of excess items.

Even if you had 1400 retainer slots and 1000 glamour cabinet slots you would still be running into storage problems after a while.

[Deceptus]

Nope. The paradox is that more storage doesn't necessarily mean less storage problems. It has been a noted effect that humans tend to fill storage rather than dispose of things until they reach the limit on how much they can store at which point they choose between either expanding storage or disposal of excess items.

Even if you had 1400 retainer slots and 1000 glamour cabinet slots you would still be running into storage problems after a while.

Well, when the game adds 800+ gear items each expansion and only 100 glamour slots inventory bloat tends to happen.

Same when they add 80+ "Currencies" that go into your inventory each expansion.

Again, that's not even touching crafting where multiple recipes can require anywhere from 6-10 separate items each.

I will give you bait. Bait has always needed SOMETHING done for it. I think the older expansions should get condensed into maybe a couple lures when new expansions are released, that would help immensely, since they're said a "tackle box" thing is not able to be done. Maybe only have unique bait for big fish in the old zones.

You can tell the FFXIV Devs attempted to rectify this by adding Freshwater and Saltwater Boilies but then they didn't go far enough and they're pretty useless as they can't hook most fish.