Servers in Danger of Crashing RIGHT NOW!

[AnaviAnael]

You know this whole thing could be worked around effortlessly if they allowed us to send items to alts and they could act as mules, all diablo style.

Pretty much this. I think it's time for SE to start seriously looking into having an account-wide bank like a lot of other MMOs do. I know Aion had a system like this. You place the item in a chest and another character on your account can pick it up.

[LunaHoshino]

I am no IT wizard by any means, but, let me get this straight. If problem is server/database storage, then giving me an extra retainer will add to the stress and crash the servers, but my paying for 1 or 2 or 6 would not cause this problem?

It's simple.

Give people six free retainers = EVERYONE would make six retainers.
Give people the option to pay for six extra retainers = only a limited number of people will do it.

It's a way to allow those people who feel that they absolutely must have all that inventory space to have it while discouraging the majority of people from hoarding gear and items.

[Sakuraluna]

Give people six free retainers = EVERYONE would make six retainers.
Give people the option to pay for six extra retainers = only a limited number of people will do it.

Actually, it's more like:

Give everyone one free retainer = everyone would use one additional retainer.
Give people the option to pay for six extra retainers = just as many if not more retainers would be created and used as above, but only by people who are willing to overlook an obvious moneygrab.

[Yshnal]

I'm still waiting for the third "free" (because we're already paying a sub that should take care of these QoL features) retainer that was mentioned some time ago. Meanwhile, we've got an expansion with new crafting mats, new gear sets, three new jobs (more gear slots needed), 10 new levels (even more gear slots needed, and more than what we needed from 1-49, as now each set has a job restriction and you can't just use the same to level multiple jobs), new tokens (Alexander, for instance, with different tokens from both Normal and Savage), etc. All that without a single extra inventory slot. Just a quick question: Are we expected to sell/destroy/whatever the gear of our level 1-59 classes/jobs, or the glamourable sets (yeah, imagine crafting the thavnairian sets just to be "forced" to delete them in the future), or the "youcan'tstorethiseventiteminthearmoireyet" items, and buy/craft/farm them again when we need/want to use them? Or is that our fault too, because of poor inventory management yadda yadda?

I seriously doubt that adding another retainer would stress the servers that much, especially when those are not updated all at once every 15 seconds. It would only require more server space (a tiny bit), but it wouldn't affect data transfers.

This is going to get worse with each subsequent patch, once more and more items are added. And paid retainers just add insult to injury, as our inventory issues should have been resolved before doing anything like that.

[NozomiKei]

Here here!