Additiona freel retainers

[Nyalia]

Here's what I want to know. How did that "l" in this thread's title travel all the way to the end of the next word? o_O


But yeah, what we need isn't more inventory space, what we need is more off-character storage. That doesn't eat up expensive network bandwidth, only harddrive space, which is dirt cheap these days. Whenever I've seen SE asked about storage of any kind, the answer has always been that they can't because it'll increase network bandwidth, which is just wrong. If they don't want to give a third free retainer due to marketboard slots or something or having to save that many more characters, and they don't want to do anything that would take more coding, then they could just give each retainer an extra page of inventory space (100 more slots). That'd give about the same amount of inventory as a free retainer with minimal changes on their end.

And, if they don't have the server storage space for more items, they can store them in a compressed format. Let me sacrifice a retainer on an altar crafted from armoires to gain an armoire-like storage container that can hold 5x as much as a retainer, but only equipment. That would take up the same space as a retainer on disk but let me store so much more. They only ever talk about adding uncompressed storage, but who cares about that for glamour items and gear we're saving for classes that we haven't leveled yet? Or stuff that took tons of effort to get that we can't use anymore, but can't bring ourselves to hit the discard button on, like Lucis tools and Zetas?


But seriously, what's up with that "l"?

[Thandronen]

Here's what I want to know. How did that "l" in this thread's title travel all the way to the end of the next word? o_O

But seriously, what's up with that "l"?

I bet they were originally going to title the subject "Additional retainers" but forgot to add 'free' so instead of hitting space after the 'L', they hit it after the second 'A' in 'Additional' by mistake. lol

[Naunet]

Yet another thing SE seems to be incapable of doing that other MMOs manage regularly: expanding inventory.

The answer to, "What are they doing with our extra money?" can't always be, "EU datacenter".

[cgbspender]

Having 4 retainers here, but maining Culinarian as a craft, I had to give up most of the other crafts just to be able to continue cooking.
All glamours go into my personal room already, I desynth/spiritbond the others everytime I can, and for those that I can't do neither : Throw.
Still, massive pain in the neck.

[cgbspender]

Allocated resources for slots may be either extremely small or really big, we can't tell. However, increasing stacks to 150 or even 200 wouldn't cause any change to the allocated resources and would be a good start.



I'm genuinely surprised to hear the argument about how allocated resources could have an impact so big as it could potentially crash the servers. There are so much content added at every patch, including materials themselves, that it's hard to believe. If it's true that increasing stacks/slots has an impact so big though, it should be easy to fix, for instance by removing data that is close to useless. For instance, make recipes easier, requiere 1 instead of 2 iteam, 2 instead of 3, for the oldest recipes. Also, remove junk from the marketboard, such as bat's fangs, goobue's tooth which are used in what ? 1 craft only. And yet they fill the marketboard unecessarily. There are plenty of items that have no longer any use, and could easily be removed / replaced by other existing ones.

[AdamFyi]

I'm genuinely surprised to hear the argument about how allocated resources could have an impact so big as it could potentially crash the servers.

I think there was an official(?) statement about it. Someone posted something akin to it on the first page. Not a great explaination, mind you; but it was all anyone could go on. I have to agree that there are a lot of undesireable items that could be potentially removed.

[Kosmos992k]

Also, remove junk from the marketboard, such as bat's fangs, goobue's tooth which are used in what ? 1 craft only. And yet they fill the marketboard unecessarily. There are plenty of items that have no longer any use, and could easily be removed / replaced by other existing ones.

I'm not sure that the MB issue is a space one is it? Would they not be more concerned about giving potential RMT accounts 50% more slots to sell things on the MB potentially crowding out real players?

[Nyalia]

I'm not sure that the MB issue is a space one is it? Would they not be more concerned about giving potential RMT accounts 50% more slots to sell things on the MB potentially crowding out real players?

If they're honestly concerned about RMT sale slots, they can give each retainer an extra page of inventory space (another 100 items) instead of giving us all a free retainer...


EDIT: Or, better yet, they can give us a free Lazy retainer. Their max level is 1 in every class and they won't sell items on the MB. You can give them a class so you can equip them with glamour gear, but you can't send them out on ventures. They're just there to look pretty and hold your stuff. There, problems solved. Can we have more free space now? :P

[Kosmos992k]

If they're honestly concerned about RMT sale slots, they can give each retainer an extra page of inventory space (another 100 items) instead of giving us all a free retainer...


EDIT: Or, better yet, they can give us a free Lazy retainer. Their max level is 1 in every class and they won't sell items on the MB. You can give them a class so you can equip them with glamour gear, but you can't send them out on ventures. They're just there to look pretty and hold your stuff. There, problems solved. Can we have more free space now? :P

LOL, can we call that system the "Mule" system since retainers are different?

[MihaelB]

Agreed, we should've been given one at least 1 with Heavensward