Inventory is at a premium

[Tumbao]

But SE has shoved multiple dungeons worth of gear sets, 3 full token/tome/ex weapon sets, 3 new jobs worth of equipment sets, a new raid armor set and new crafted/post 50 wepons and armors. Theres new pvp sets on the way for every job, new crafted gear on the way and another raids worth of gear.

Why is inventory a premium? I'm not trying to carry anything other than what is being offered in the game (not including multiples), and even 2 more retainers wouldn't be enough to hold everything.

[Saccharin]

Why is inventory a premium?

SE want you to pay more per month for lots of additional retainers.

[Diana_Pepper]

There's been quite a number of threads explaining this already which explains that saving the data to the back up servers is roughly 15(?) seconds at the moment in case of rollbacks, crashes, etc (was mentioned in the Liveletter a week or two ago).

Having more inventory/retainers would slow that process and hence they made extra retainers for 'premium' to deter people from possessing too many retainers.

[Saccharin]

There's been quite a number of threads explaining this already which explains that saving the data to the back up servers is roughly 15(?) seconds at the moment in case of rollbacks, crashes, etc (was mentioned in the Liveletter a week or two ago).

Having more inventory/retainers would slow that process and hence they made extra retainers for 'premium' to deter people from possessing too many retainers.

No, it has nothing to do with backup servers. The data in memory is written to disk every so often so if the server was to crash the data on the disk would be recoverable and you would only lose data between that small gap.

Since data for retainers that are inactive is not needed then there's no writing of data for those ones. Each retainer has a set amount of spaces no matter how many you have so adding additional retainers will not increase the amount of data written to the disk.

They sell them because people will pay for them. This is the shady part of the game where these things are sold as optional but retainers give a large advantage with ventures and also the much needed additional storage space.

[PotatoWafflez]

No, it has nothing to do with backup servers. The data in memory is written to disk every so often so if the server was to crash the data on the disk would be recoverable and you would only lose data between that small gap.

Since data for retainers that are inactive is not needed then there's no writing of data for those ones. Each retainer has a set amount of spaces no matter how many you have so adding additional retainers will not increase the amount of data written to the disk.

They sell them because people will pay for them. This is the shady part of the game where these things are sold as optional but retainers give a large advantage with ventures and also the much needed additional storage space.

Having 8 retainers I will tell you getting the 4 new ones up to max level isn't that fun and managing them all is a hassle with all the going in and out of menus. I will say though that if you have 8 battleclass retainers at level 60 with the right ilvl you will have an advantage on selling monster drops just because of the low drop rates, but I see this as a good thing for the economy more than a bad thing because easy supply is good when there is clearly a demand due to the low drop rates, but it is still very far from pay to win and venture minions drop much easier now as well.

[Tabmow]

There's been quite a number of threads explaining this already which explains that saving the data to the back up servers is roughly 15(?) seconds at the moment in case of rollbacks, crashes, etc (was mentioned in the Liveletter a week or two ago).

Having more inventory/retainers would slow that process and hence they made extra retainers for 'premium' to deter people from possessing too many retainers.

This is the coolaid drinking excuse.there is no reason apart from having to pay cash for extra retainers that exists in this game.

[Jayjohn]

If you level 7 alts to level 10, you can get a free 14 retainers. But it's so hard to do that, so it probably won't happen.

[nssixn6]

If you level 7 alts to level 10, you can get a free 14 retainers. But it's so hard to do that, so it probably won't happen.

SHHHHHHhhhhhhh!!!
Dang it. Now everybody knows

[Evangela]

If you level 7 alts to level 10, you can get a free 14 retainers. But it's so hard to do that, so it probably won't happen.

retainers can be shared with characters in the same account or what?

[PotatoWafflez]

retainers can be shared with characters in the same account or what?

They can't however you can put all your alts in the same FC and use the chest to move items between characters and if you purchase extra retainers you can employ said extra retainers on those characters giving you a maximum possible amount of retainers for a account on a server to be 64 giving you 12,950 item slots possible for one account holder per server if you also count inventory of all 8 characters and the FC chest itself.