More Storage Space, are your retainers and your bag full??

[Cendres]

The crafting materials really do need a revamp and I think we are getting that too (yay!). But in addition to more retainers and a mog house suggestions, a bank would be cool too. It's something I've seen in other mmos and thought was nice to have, just a place to store money and items you want to keep but don't need right away or all the time. Also banks would have to be accessible from ALL cities and be linked for convenience.

[Naylia]

IF

+1/+2 Materials are removed

THEN

Make HQ Materials less common and ensure that the crafting system balance of quality->HQ rate works with the adjusted material system

[Lahru_Hukurou]

Yeah, I don't want any +1 +2 +3 mats. But, being able to craft those items are fine by me. Its a pain for me when I do gathering, because I never have room for the stuff.

[Dubont]

Yeah, I don't want any +1 +2 +3 mats. But, being able to craft those items are fine by me. Its a pain for me when I do gathering, because I never have room for the stuff.

+1,+2 and +3 mats actually make getting HQs easier...and they make crafting easier in general. I like them...but I don't think that they should take up so much space. Mats should have a separate bag than other things...this might solve some space problems.

[Leknaat]

I personally don't mind the +1/+2 crafted stuff. (well I don't see a point in +2 - I remember having a discussion with an LS mate about how basically +1 and +3 are the only ones that matter as a +2 really didn't seem to differ much from a +1)

I WOULD NOT be sad to see the +1/+2 items gathered via DoL gone. It would do wonders for my inventory.

[Nephera]

I throw a lot of things away because of +1s and +2s and I think a lot of other people are doing it too. Especially food.

Edit: there's very little trash loot in this game, almost everything has a use in crafting in some way, so if everyone is throwing out the same stuff it tends to make the classes that can use it suffer.

[sivant]

Really, storage isn't the problem, economics is. It should be simple to trade and share. the easiest change I can think of is to allow for much larger bazzars, at least on retainers, like 40 items or so. This allows for filling bazars with those small crafting items.

also, it should be simple to sell off lots of stuff to NPC's, for example a simple sell junk button could be customizable or set, maybe anycraft only items that are not +3, or something like that.

If bazars are larger, then it makes more sense to have retainers that are seeking (which takes 2 slots, maybe fix that!!!) and a search function for seeking becomes usefull, so you could go to the wards and run a seach for who wants one of your drops.

[sivant]

another option is having a slightly less player run economy. Like for every 10 of an item sold to an npc (or maybe even discarded in the region!!!) in a town, 1 of that items may be for sale at a relevant npc (so that no matter who you sell the spice to, it will show up in the grocers, or the apothocary) This allows towns to more readily reflect player activity, giving it amore living feel as well as making sure that 10% of items junked by players are still inserted into the economy. It also acts as a barometer so you have a good idea of just what is entering the marketplace, and can encourage players to participate in the player to player economy (which is more profitable) by seeing just what is happening in the npc/player economy.

[Kiara]

Hey all,

Hvinire here, ready with another comment from illustrious development team member Komoto-san on the subject of player storage space, recipe requirements, and the evolving world of crafting:



Now your task is clear: let's see all those comments on +1/+2 items and anything else you're looking to pass along to the development team.

To: Yoshida-san (and FF 14 Development Team and Hvinire),

I think we should KEEP +1, +2, +3 HQ (High Quality) Items via crafting, for sure.

If you abolish that, all we have left is just... Normal Quality and 1 level of High Quality?? That's too simplistic.

Having +1 Items is akin to having me as the Player feel like, "OK, I got something a little bit special. It helps me get an edge during combat / crafting, etc. It's nice."

Having +2 Items imparts a little more of that positive feeling of "OK this is even better. Pretty nice, rarer, giving more of an advantage." It's something to strive for.

And then +3 is the "ultimate goal" for the best equipment you can get of that type. It's super rare, stands out and makes you feel very special (and helps with knowing this is the best advantage you can get for Combat / Crafting / Gathering etc.).

It's good to have some separation.

Eliminating that, and just having Normal Items and just 1 level of High Quality is boring, homogenizing, and leads to LESS differentiation and distinction.

Please KEEP +1, +2, +3. _(._.)_

[Seif]

Pretty much all of the items are meaningless because leves give way too much money to make crafting worthwhile. I did like +1 +2 +3 items though they were the only things in this game that gave me SLIGHT choice on how to complete something my own way.