Stack boxes

[Arkfrost]

Since inventory space is always a problem I would love to see something like this be implemented:

A box item (placable in your home), that you can craft or buy (doesn't have to be that cheap), where you can only put one kind of item inside, but up to an ammount of 1000 pieces. This would be so lovely for a material hoarder like me.

To dig further into this the object could look like this:
The box item is called "Stacking box [Empty]". When you right click on it a menu opens with an option called "Assign Item", where you assign the item you want to stack inside. Let's take voidsent blood for this example. After it's assigned it's called "Stacking box [Voidsent Blood]" and you can simply drag and drop voidsent blood into it until it's full (drag and drop it into a simple window when right clicking it). Then overflowing voidsent blood is simply sent to your inventory like when you try to put for example 50 items in a stack that has already 75 items in it. Meanwhile, as long as there is one or more items in the box the option "Withdraw items" is available by right clicking the box, which opens up a window where you can decide how many items you want to withdraw (one stack at a time).

In a more computer scientific way to describe this item, you'd simply have to create an item with 2 extra options (assign & withdraw) and a save slot for 2 variables (item id & item count). The name of the item would be "Stacking box [*item name*]"Assign sets the item id. Dragging items onto it removes the item from your inventory and adds the ammount to the item count of the box. Withdraw removes 99 (or all items if it's less than 99) from the item count. You could even say, that only NQ items can be placed inside (HQ mats being converted to NQ when placed inside) the item box to make it simpler for programming and balancing.

Since the item is an interior item

I'm sure most people would love this feature... right? Right :s ?

EDIT: I uploaded a picture I made how this window could look like:

[Dustytome]

As much as I'd love more inventory space, I think this would just make the housing issues worse by turning them into mass storage.

[worldofneil]

I'd love a chest type object in the house to put things in (like free company chest), but not sure about individual boxes for each item. We have such limited furniture space already without having to use up loads of those slots up just for boxes to store other things. And without some sort of signs on them, it'd be a lot of clicking to find what you want each time

[Culfinrandir]

Better (?) idea - allow us to install a piece of storage furniture with an inventory representing the drawers shown on the item. It would have to be bound to the estate & user(s) so be for private houses *only*.

I'd imagine it looking like the Manor Wardrobe (which is more of an Apothecary or Haberdashery Chest) with, say, 50 storage spaces able to take stacks of 99 items. It would be interesting to have it limited to crafting materials given what it represents in real life.

Ever better still would be if much of the 'fake' storage furniture was real so that wardrobes could store clothes, but only clothes. The Riviera Cupboard would only store cooking ingredients & meals plus CUL tools. You see where I'm going with this.

Until the PS3 & server issues are dealt with in 4.x it won't be possible but given it was possible in WorldsAway via CompuServe in 1995 & others it shouldn't be a problem.

[MPNZ]

It would be really nice to be able to put clothes in the wardrobes and storage benches, but I'm not too sure that it would be a good idea unless it was like "50 items per account", or something.