A too little inventory

[YanDere]

I have my 2 retainers full 175/175 slots, and my inventory is full, I can't get more retainers and I need a lot of slots because I'm starting my crafting classes (I'm lv17 weaver and lv14 leatherworker), do you have any suggestions? Every time I run dungeons I pass every loot I don't really need, but I have 1/4 set of slots with equipments I need, 3 sets full of crafting materials (1 set full of 99ish stacks of Moko Grass, Leather, Hard leather, Hempen Yarn, Cotton Yarn, Cock Feather and so on) and the few empty slots always get filled in 2-3 crafts, so I always have to craft 2 objects-discard them-craft another 2...
I don't really know where to put my stuff.

[Estellios]

Get rid of most of your low level materials. Get rid of anything that you aren't going to use anytime in the near future (example: cooking materials if you have no intention of leveling cooking at all within the next, like... week).

Anything you can buy really cheap from any of the Guild supply NPCs and Tradecraft Supplier NPCs should be gotten rid of and just bought whenever you need it, IMO. You can check out xivdb or just check the guilds themselves to see what they carry.

You will likely never need those mats again and in the rare chance you do you can just grab what you need from NPC and quickly make it.

[Selah]

I'm another player who is having some problem keeping the inventory organized. It really does fill up fast, once you get into crafting. (Much like real life that way...)

So is there any way to make more characters and use them and their retainers for storage, passing items back and forth as needed? My web searches on this topic lead me to suspect that the answer is "no", unless you use an external friend as a go-between. But, am I missing something obvious?

Another idea: when we finally get housing, will the houses have closets? That would be a very welcome perk of getting a personal space.

[Xystic]

So is there any way to make more characters and use them and their retainers for storage, passing items back and forth as needed?

Although I have not tested this yet, you might be able to mail it to yourself. However to do it freely I would say it would have to be thru a FC bank.

Another idea: when we finally get housing, will the houses have closets? That would be a very welcome perk of getting a personal space.

No, the developers have stated that the FC housing will not have such features. It was one of the questions asked to the developers and if I recall correctly it had something to do with space/data usage issues.

[Selah]

Although I have not tested this yet, you might be able to mail it to yourself. However to do it freely I would say it would have to be thru a FC bank.

A good reason to join a Free Company, then. I shall have to look into this.

No, the developers have stated that the FC housing will not have such features. It was one of the questions asked to the developers and if I recall correctly it had something to do with space/data usage issues.

Well, that's a pity. But I have great sympathy for developers and memory/resource limitations. (I'm an avid PS Home user, and that's the wall we run into time and time again.) I shall have to learn how to live in a more minimalist fashion. It's probably good for me. I'm such a hoarder!

[Estellios]

Well, that's a pity. But I have great sympathy for developers and memory/resource limitations. (I'm an avid PS Home user, and that's the wall we run into time and time again.) I shall have to learn how to live in a more minimalist fashion. It's probably good for me. I'm such a hoarder!

It's really just this, honestly. You have to just get an idea of what materials are legitimately time-consuming to get and which you can get a ton of in no time at all. Stuff that requires very little time investment to procure is not worth valuable inventory space.

To use cooking as an example, Table salt is used in almost every recipe but not only does the synth make 6 of them at once, you can buy the materials for dirt cheap from NPCs in all 3 cities, so I do not hold onto it and just quick synthesis any I need when I get around to making food that uses it.

[YanDere]

Get rid of anything that you aren't going to use anytime in the near future (example: cooking materials if you have no intention of leveling cooking at all within the next, like... week).

Well, now I'm doing weaver but I keep mats for leatherworker because I don't want to throw away 99 leather, 99 hard leather and so on.
I'm gonna do other crafts as well to get the cross skills, and in the end I want to have every class at lv50.
I'm managing to keep 5-10 slots free every craft, for now XD

[Estellios]

You don't have to get rid of them but once you run out don't go out and get more just to stick it on a retainer. Leather and Hard leather are easily obtainable from NPCs.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Inventory space is not a problem.
Inventory managment is the issue, a serius one, like, damn, is this game from... 1990?

We need better item managment tool, like filters, sort buttons, material pages within retainers, etc. At the moment i have everything sorted by myself at the retainers, but the inventory per se is impossible to keep clean.

[L33K]

u can be a famous hoarder on a reality show... :P