Crafters and Gatherers need their own inventory

[Wanzzo]

For the exact same price as the 1-character pay-per-month account, any account can have 8 characters per server, each with 2 retainers. There is no price increase. All you have to do is put down 3 months sub at a time.

For the price of a little effort, you get +200 slots, per character (+1,400 if you use all 7 extra characters), not even counting the +350/character if you unlock retainers, or the +70 or so in the chocobo bag. That is +4,340 slots right there.

The only hurdle to this is having them in your FC w/ access to the GC chest to transfer stuff.

That's why some people make their own closed FC: to use the FC chest for storage and to share itens through their chars.
But, I think this is wrong. Imagine if 50% of the players that invest their time, money and effort inside game to craft make their FC for that... we would have 1 billion "solo FC" xD And this could exclude the newcomer to the game who want to craft. "So, do I need to have more chars just for that?". This is a bit silly and a waste of time.

If they implement an inventory just for baits/gathered materials this would reduce significantly the necessity of measures like this. Also, this could encourage more people to try gathering/crafting out.

You don't need to open this "new dedicated inventory" all the time. It's more like for consulting: "how many of those I have in order to make this piece of gear that I want?" Someone that is a crafter even wouldn't need to open such inventory if in their recipe already show how many he got in his dedicated inventory.

In resume: an inventory to receive your gathered stuff. Nothing else. Those materials will be used for craftings, if you do craftings. Or you can sell them in your rentainers. If you not dedicate yourself to the gathering, so the inventory will never bother you, but it will be there "just in case".

Not everyone trust their FC compatriots. And not everyone even enter a FC to begin with... '-'

And, what type of itens could go to this inventory?
All that is tagged as a recipe material. Simple.
So, gathered stuff, itens from and for housing, etc etc could go to it.

This could even facilitate for the player telling him what itens can be or not used in a craft (by looking to which inventory the item goes).

[kaynide]

That's why some people make their own closed FC: to use the FC chest for storage and to share itens through their chars.
But, I think this is wrong. Imagine if 50% of the players that invest their time, money and effort inside game to craft make their FC for that... we would have 1 billion "solo FC" xD

If they implement an inventory just for baits/gathered materials this would reduce significantly the necessity of measures like this. Also, this could encourage more people to try gathering/crafting out.

Not everyone trust their FC compatriots. And not everyone even enter a FC to begin with... '-'

If you haven't entered an FC at all, there is no reason NOT to make a solo one, even if you eventually leave it on your main character.

If you don't trust your FC/your FC doesn't trust you to utilize the chest to move stuff for a few minutes, you might not be in the right FC for you.

It's not ideal, and that's a fair point, but it still stands as an option most people don't want to put the effort into doing.

[Wanzzo]

If you haven't entered an FC at all, there is no reason NOT to make a solo one, even if you eventually leave it on your main character.

If you don't trust your FC/your FC doesn't trust you to utilize the chest to move stuff for a few minutes, you might not be in the right FC for you.

It's not ideal, and that's a fair point, but it still stands as an option most people don't want to put the effort into doing.

yep, it's an option.

But the point is: to find a solution, not a band-aid, see?

I really think this dedicated inventory system might be a really nice solution, 'cause this will make more space even if someone who is not into gathering/crafting. Also, if we think in longevity of the game, we will receive a lot more new itens as each expansion comes, so, instead of making more spaces in the actual inventories, we could have a separated one for all crafting/gathered matts.

Oh, and about baits, they could reduce the type for each fishing method and make them as skills that we get as we level up. Not a consumable-like thing...