[Revolutionary idea] Inventory congestion is over !

[Nephera]

I was thinking of suggesting this. Having a list of unlockable armor appearances seems much less memory intensive than storing each item on a retainer, where the item has to keep track of what materia is (or isn't) on it at any time vs "does the character have the unlock for this item? yes/no"

[magdahmhara]

I'd be happy if they gave us a crafting retainer similar to the crafting bank in GW2, lol.

[Shougun]

I'd be happy if they gave us a crafting retainer similar to the crafting bank in GW2, lol.

O_o;;

All that is sweet and full of succor Yoshi please apply, I hate the limbo that is inventory management and the curse of being a pack rat. I don't know if they've tried much of GW2...

OP's idea is still great too, and I really hope they make that stuff easier with some cool log book - but really. ugh, Crafting retainer goodness.

[AltanRapsied]

I don't know if they've tried much of GW2...

Ya know GW2 is not really a game with an end game and HL raid and dungeon, it's pretty easy, I mostly saw it like a "farmingland" where you only spend your time getting materials, craft etc... but no real challenges. It can't be comparated with FFXIV, there are totally playing on different domain. But some function could inspire our devs.

[Noxifer]

Yes please.

I have one retainer completely filled with only lvl50 gear now, plus a bunch of it spread out over other retainer and personal inventory >.< And I have one retainer filled with non-50 green gear, because I don't want to throw it away. I might want to use it for glamour.

[Niqote]

+1

Even if we had to surrender that piece of gear (the gear is destroyed upon unlocking its glamour) to the system it would be so great.

I have 1 retainer just for gear... I think those 100 slots of data being freed up would be a good thing yes?

[AltanRapsied]

Little up for the live letter coming 11th april

[Elusana_Celah]

This idea is amazing and it would definitely use up less data by having an appearance database where it's just integers that determine whether or not you have unlocked something rather than inventory slots filled with raw item data... and lots of them.

[Eul]

I support this!

[Aladire]

For those going on about data storage, it is how people implement their system. SE did not do a good job and so the storage in the inn is limited.

Diablo 3 had this since they implemented the system in their second patch. What they did and GW2 too, was make it where the glamour was the same across the board for everyone. Then all they have to do to store the info for each character was have a flag for it. So, instead of storing the info of you having the item glamour, they have to store 1 bit of data per item. This would take far less room to manage.

I still do not have a good idea on how to store the info for the inventory or chest in the inn outside of storing the primary key of the item, but it can get rather large still for that.