Suggestions for the retainer interface (With mockup pictures)

[iLyrica-sama]

I was discussing an idea like this recently, and a friend sent me over the link to this post and it's good to see that I wasn't alone in my thinking! I feel like an interface such as this really gives us a way to see multiple retainer specs at a glance, and now that SE doesn't have to worry about PS3 limitations, I feel like this could get implemented if given enough time. I also made sure to share your post concerning this on tumblr as well to boost awareness! I would LOVE to see something like this in game, so fingers crossed that this gets recognized!

[Nimthiel]

I am one such person who saw this due to iLyrica-sama's tumblr post and I give it all my love and support! I personally only have two retainers and I'm very disorganized (didn't know what I was doing when I started putting the most random things in their inventories two years ago) and I hate constantly swapping back and forth.. I can't even fathom what it's like having several to manage. This would help everyone immensely! I hope the devs see this and consider implementing it into the game, we seriously need more retainer interface and this is a fantastic way to go about it~

[RenofManyAlts]

I love this idea! Support 100%!

[Shivaeyes]

Just one question... why ? Why this perfect idea is not already in the game ?

retainers menu is a pain ! Dev has to answer on this thread to explain why they dont upgrade that.

[Elamys]

Can we please just get this already?

[Shalice_Icefrost]

Holy cow hire this guy already. This is all I've ever wanted.

[Callinon]

I love everything about this.

[Keliae]

This is fantastic. Seriously incredible. I would LOVE to actually use this, and my carpal tunnel would appreciate the crap out of it.

[Hasrat]

I'd suspect the reason they limit retainer access one at a time is to reduce the load on the servers having to call so much information all at once. The difficulty here would surely be implementing the UI without changing that load significantly. As we've seen with the complications with expanding our own inventory, there's always going to be some core code roadblock preventing expanding on various elements.

[Callinon]

I'd suspect the reason they limit retainer access one at a time is to reduce the load on the servers having to call so much information all at once. The difficulty here would surely be implementing the UI without changing that load significantly. As we've seen with the complications with expanding our own inventory, there's always going to be some core code roadblock preventing expanding on various elements.

I doubt there'd be a significant difference between that and, say, FC chests. FC chests load tab by tab the first time you click them. Clearly they're retrieving their data from the server when they do that. So you just do that here and store the inventory data temporarily on the user's client just like the FC chests. Then when the interface is closed, that data is all sent back to the server for saving.