...Inventory?

[Cerick]

The retainer system is very cumbersome as is, resorting is very time consuming and moving stuff the the armoire is also time consuming. We need a revamp of the system to let you access your "bank" and have all of it together rather than on separate retainers.

Use any of the retainers to access your bank or sell items. Separating it all out is a terribly annoying click click click .. crap that's on my other retainer click click click arg it's on the next one :/

[Terrini]

If they consolidated it into a single menu that would be nice. The retainer personalities would be the main issue with that though...

[Wade]

If their excuse is "we don't want to roll back and you lose stuff" - which at the moment stands of a maximum of 15 seconds of "stuff", player poll it! Ask us if we'd be happy to lose a minute of our time if that doubled/tripled/quadrupled our inventory...I bet I can guess the outcome...and that's only IF the server crashes, so it's a tiny inventory for those times the server crashes where you'd lose the last minute of your time (if in that minute you got an item in to your inventory) - talk about catering for a niche set of circumstances!

...which leads me to believe what he said was actually a lie - or at least a gross exaggeration of the truth. I won't speculate as to what the truth actually is: plenty of people have a few, probably accurate, ideas.

[Kayote]

...which leads me to believe what he said was actually a lie - or at least a gross exaggeration of the truth. I won't speculate as to what the truth actually is: plenty of people have a few, probably accurate, ideas.

Thats another thing... 15 seconds seems way too excessive for the off chance that servers crash. Even if they did, 15 seconds is nothing. Id hate to lose hours maybe, so long as it doesnt happen every day. I think this happened to me once during WoW around its release, lost 2-3 hours... sucked but it happens. Never happened again. Ive played quite a few MMO's since then and havent had a rollback happen. Has there been an actual server crash in this game yet?

[DragonFlyy]

Some of you are underestimating the loss in a 15 second window. Imagine getting the piece you have been farming for in an instance for a few hours/days/weeks and then it drops. You win the roll, and head to the exit. The instance server crashes and if the save was 1 minute or more, you just lost your item. 15 seconds makes that a bit less likely to happen (it will happen to someone, but not as often). I have seen this occur many times in other MMOs, Everquest being the worst. Theirs was a 15 minute timer. If you ever got an item in EQ the best way to assure your inventory was saved was to trade someone a copper piece. Trades forced an instant save. Can't count how many times I've lost drops because of their crappy system and no one around to force a character save.

[Jandor]

I doubt a solution is going to happen guys, not when extra inventory slots can be purchased.

[Drako]

Ya the inventory/armory is a complete mess. This is really something they should of prioritized imho. It's a real pain in the arse to deal with. Not only the space, but the visibility of all the different types of items is just a cluster. I wish they would do more in the way of using colors to denote the different kinds of items in your inventory. Maybe have gathered items/mats have a green shade. Also have a tiny symbol to indicate what class/job gear is for. Obviously it would get cluttered to hell if they put all the jobs symbols on a icon, but how about one that indicates ranged DPS, one for melee dps, one for healer, one for tank, and one for all. Or if they wanted to over simplify, just have a little square icon, that has the simple role colors, blue, red, and green. I just want a lot better visibility to the UI, like another poster said its intimidating when your dealing with a lot of stuff in your inventory.

[Wade]

DragonFly with a 15 second rollback you could still lose that item - if it crashes on exit that 15 seconds may have happened just before you got your drop and won't for 14.9 seconds more - you leave after even 14 second and your item is gone - it hasn't happened yet I don't think for FFXIV, bigger bugs have caused bigger problems.

My point was, would the increased risk of say 30 seconds for more inventory based on the stats to date and the low risk really not be worth it? You will always get edge cases, but I think saying "we want to save everything every 15 seconds" is a piss poor excuse to limit inventory size.

And honestly - I'd stay in an stance for 1 minute after I got my item to ensure a save check had happened and take twice the inventory any day.

[FallenArisen0990]

I'm happy with my 8 retainers.

[gtasthehunter]

I would rather have more space and I could even live with up 15mins rewrite times if it takes that long... which i don't think it would get that high...

And I can't even start gathering or crafting again all that much with almost not space and I'm not paying for 3 more retainers! They could added 2 free retainers then pay for 2 more retainers would have been good.