Can having the an HQ ingredient and a normal ingredient not take up 2 spaces?

[Gilraen]

I don't get how two retainers and yourself aren't enough space. Even if you have a gear set for every class/Job there's going to be some overlap between the DDs, especially with accessories. Gathering and crafting classes can often share accessories between them as well. And materials... once you get late in the game all those low level materials are only really useful for making glamour prisms. Everything else has so little demand. So, really, what are you hoarding?

I say all this cause I have one retainer whose only holding unique items so I can have three of them between myself and my retainers (like unopened treasure maps) and the other retainer is just hold those things that I have sentimental attachment to but can't store in the armoire.

[RyuDragnier]

I don't get how two retainers and yourself aren't enough space. Even if you have a gear set for every class/Job there's going to be some overlap between the DDs, especially with accessories. Gathering and crafting classes can often share accessories between them as well. And materials... once you get late in the game all those low level materials are only really useful for making glamour prisms. Everything else has so little demand. So, really, what are you hoarding?

The mats themselves. There are exactly 44 fishing tackle, 136 ingredients for cooking, 276 seafood, 196 stone, etc. Double that due to high quality. 450 slots altogether over 2 retainers and a player, and it's still not enough room for all of it. Most TC's asking for is a quality of life change to make it a little easier. Considering I'm currently leveling all the crafting and gathering classes, I personally see where she's coming from. Mats mats everywhere, and not a place to put them.

[gamesmart]

The mats themselves. There are exactly 44 fishing tackle, 136 ingredients for cooking, 276 seafood, 196 stone, etc. Double that due to high quality. 450 slots altogether over 2 retainers and a player, and it's still not enough room for all of it. Most TC's asking for is a quality of life change to make it a little easier. Considering I'm currently leveling all the crafting and gathering classes, I personally see where she's coming from. Mats mats everywhere, and not a place to put them.

But why would you hold all of those, especially since some of them are so easy to get (buy em from a vendor)? As a level 50 everything I have less inventory space issues than I do Armoury Chest space issues, really. I don't even have a third or fourth retainer, and one of my retainers pretty much just holds green/blue gear and event stuff that I've never bothered to stick in the Armoire.

[Callum]

I don't get how two retainers and yourself aren't enough space. Even if you have a gear set for every class/Job there's going to be some overlap between the DDs, especially with accessories. Gathering and crafting classes can often share accessories between them as well. And materials... once you get late in the game all those low level materials are only really useful for making glamour prisms. Everything else has so little demand. So, really, what are you hoarding?

I say all this cause I have one retainer whose only holding unique items so I can have three of them between myself and my retainers (like unopened treasure maps) and the other retainer is just hold those things that I have sentimental attachment to but can't store in the armoire.

I'm only storing lancer gear on my 2nd inventory and everything is still full. Try leveling botany and culinarion and you'll see the clutter.

[Xandim]

I'm only storing lancer gear on my 2nd inventory and everything is still full. Try leveling botany and culinarion and you'll see the clutter.

I do have both leveled (only need FSH and WAR so all my classes will be lv50, and im lazy =P) and still I have one retainer for equips/materia and the other only for crafting materials and they aren't full. I myself carry around only a few materials also (mainly raptor leather, electrum ore/ingot and some other stuff).

So like Gilraen, I don't get it how you can't let go of that normal copper ore when you can easily buy from vendors or even just equip a lv1 miner and go dig them. Just save the materials that are hard to get and dump everything else.

[ispano]

I'm only storing lancer gear on my 2nd inventory and everything is still full. Try leveling botany and culinarion and you'll see the clutter.

Done and done, how about you just stop keeping things you don't need. Especially the things that are easily obtained or barely used.

[Adler]

I have all crafters and gatherers at 50 and 2 retainers - 1 retainer has almost full inventory, another is barely half full and my own inventory is almost full just because I like fireworks and bought tons of "pretty thingies".
All the low level materials are sold in big cities, beast tribes, fc house vendors and fc housing residental areas - there is barely any need to buy something in market place or even go gather unless you start mass crafting 1, 2, 3 star recipes. Basically learn to organise your stuff.
Now with desynth you also get additional items for free that you can just sell or use in your own crafts - more gil, even less gathering.

[Gilraen]

I'm only storing lancer gear on my 2nd inventory and everything is still full. Try leveling botany and culinarion and you'll see the clutter.

While I only took culinarian to 37 for Steady Hand II, I have Botany to 50 and I don't have anywhere near the clutter you allude to. I also have Carpenter to 50 and am working Leatherworker to 50 at the moment. Still no massive clutter like was calculated out previously.

Anyone who thinks inventory is at all an issue in this game must never have played FFXI, especially more than a few years back.

ITT: Plenty of people who have no clue how good they have it.

Ah, now there is a game where these kind of arguments ARE valid. I did play in said time, even before the added space from having a token or rank in Salaheem's Sentinels (that was the name, right?). You wanted more space, had to deal with the goblins of Jeuno. Housing space, load up furniture but not too much furniture or you'd just be replacing what space you're creating with furniture clutter (guilty as charged, my house looks like a house). Compared to that, I've got space for days in XIV.

[Kaethra]

I wouldn't mind if we got an entirely new inventory section just for mats to be honest.

[Nicobo]

+1
I like OP idea, but I have no idea how could it be implemented. ^^;