RMT retainers and how they deliberately hold back progress

[YovelaLindswood]

The marketboard - Limiting the number of trades you can make to the number of retainers you bought is crazy. It may sound like a good counter to rmt buts but in fact it doesn't help anyone more than rmt bots. Dedicated crafters may hit 60-80 trades by flipping items and having long term trades up but only the bots can reach 200 trades being fed mb data. I get the rp of having your retainers sell things but its just an archaic system in its implementation. Theres no reason we're limited to 20 trades or why accessing my bank removes my trades from the market. The way its implemented just adds up micro inconveniences over time designed to make people eventually cave to buy that extra retainer.

Tackle boxes - The tackle box lets you conveniently swap baits without going into your inventory but why isn't it just a separate inventory for baits? While it doesn't affect every player there are a lot of people that like the fishing collection who are overflowing with baits. Its another thing designed to clutter your inventory and make you buy more bank space.

I could go on and on about the various inventory items that could fill the currency tab like ex totems or araid coins or the pay to win advantages of ventures but I feel like i've gotten my point across. While I don't necessarily think all of these in a vacuum are bad but combined it paints a picture of deliberate design to squeeze a couple extra bucks out of its playerbase and deliberately hindering actual player convenience.

[YovelaLindswood]

We all know its actually the golden goose Belan Wonderland 2 electric boogaloo.

[AmiableApkallu]

The tackle box lets you conveniently swap baits without going into your inventory but why isn't it just a separate inventory for baits?

The reasons to have separate kinds of inventory — armoury vs. chocobo saddlebag vs. tackle box vs. … — are (1) for immersion/role play and (2) to artificially restrict the player in some way.

The resources it would take SE to provide 100 general-purpose inventory slots that you can use any way you please ought to be roughly the same as the resources it would take to provide 10 tackle box slots, 20 chocobo saddlebag slots, 30 armory slots, and 40 general-purpose slots.

The former is far more flexible and what players should be asking for.

[YovelaLindswood]

The reasons to have separate kinds of inventory — armoury vs. chocobo saddlebag vs. tackle box vs. … — are (1) for immersion/role play and (2) to artificially restrict the player in some way.

The resources it would take SE to provide 100 general-purpose inventory slots that you can use any way you please ought to be roughly the same as the resources it would take to provide 10 tackle box slots, 20 chocobo saddlebag slots, 30 armory slots, and 40 general-purpose slots.

The former is far more flexible and what players should be asking for.

Either is still maybe 1mB at most per character of data storage depending on the size (which i'd argue doesn't need to be above 10 since that covers common baits and current big fish bait). Which is being very generous given the file size of any character in an mmo should maybe be 400ish mB (wow private servers as reference. IDK how awful SE's data storage method is). All that really changes is where that data is entered on your character spreadsheet. Given the only players who have extra data entered are the ones whose inventory currently has fewer slots available than the tacklebox i'd argue its an entirely negligible ammount of resources.