Inventory Capacity and the coming Expansion

[xbahax92]

While I think everything looks really interesting and tempting; I have some main concern about Stormblood and its content.
I cant wait to start leveling my main job and trying out both new jobs. The leveling will include my crafters and gatherers as well.

But there's only 1 thing at the moment which troubles me. I do like crafting and gathering, I do it whenever Im bored and need to gain gils. The problem is, once you start lvling all your crafters/gatherers, you are automatically enforced to get 1-2 or even more retainers through mog station. While I have no problem to pay some for a while, the amount of materials is increasing heavily and it will still in Stormblood. Now with the Inventory expansion and all, it wont be much of an increase. Atleast not enough for the 234141 materials, tokens, skins, materia, etc. we have ingame right now. I cant imagine to increase my retainers to 8+ cause we will likely get another 300+ new materials in Stormblood. While I admit using alts as deposit characters can help you out, but relogging and switching characters everytime to get an item is to much of an hassle if you just want to craft 1 item.

I wonder how you guys will handle the situation? Any ideas?

[Aramina]

They are adding space in SB, so I would wait and see how things shake out since we don't know how our free space will look until then.

[xbahax92]

They are adding space in SB, so I would wait and see how things shake out since we don't know how our free space will look until then.

As far I know, they will add 40 inventory slots and 10 armory slot (in each section) and thats about it, they wont add any space to retainers, right? Ofcourse there can and will be more additions, but for now I would like to know how to deal with the current capacity and the large amount of materials + the coming materials, drops, tokens,etc... (Without buying more retainers!!)

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Currently getting an additional 10 slots per armory chest section, and 40 slots in personal inventory, with more if system is stable

[Pixiehawk]

They said that was the initial increase. They would watch to see how the servers handled it, and how much it helps, then add more, watch how it all shakes out, rinse-repeat.

At least that's what I remember.

[Priya]

While I welcome more inventory slots, my crowded inventory would clear out dramatically if we had some kind of glamour log. The "Appearance tab" has been a God send in WoW. I hope SE can figure out how to give us something similar here. I think they can since they managed to give us the Orchestrion Log; just give us something like that, but for gear.

[Kaurie]

To answer your question, I have no desire to pay for more retainers, as I feel that is rewarding the devs for poor design. I simply live within the limit provided. I'm sorry I don't have a better solution for you.

I personally dislike the inventory expansion. They should have added more structured organization to the inventory system:

1. Glamour Wardrobe - I think most people know what this is, but basically you have an interface that lists every unlockable glamour in the game and you either have it unlocked or not, and it takes up 0 inventory space. You simply apply the skin to your gear.

2. Token wallet - we have a ridiculous amount of random tokens. Basically, 2 out of 4 pages of my inventory are useless tokens (i.e. pages for Alexander, primal tokens, beast tribe tokens, etc.) These should just be in a wallet, similar to gil and tomestones.

3. Resource wallet - gathered resources should be placed in an auto-sorted by type/name resource wallet.

After those changes, our inventories should actually be reduced.

Imagine the current system is someone's apartment. It's a small studio apartment, and the problem is that we have so much junk that it's just all over the floor. The dev's team solution of providing us a bigger wallet is the equivalent of providing you with a larger apartment. That's not a solution. What we need is structure/organization (i.e. like closets, dresser etc.)

[Felis]

Get rid of the 2.0 and 3.0 mats to make room for the 4.0 mats
Sort out what you can get easy again by sending out retainers or from a vendor NPC.
Throw away the tokens you don't need anymore.

optional (for RP): equip the maid costume while doing it

[JCharms]

To answer your question, I have no desire to pay for more retainers, as I feel that is rewarding the devs for poor design. I simply live within the limit provided. I'm sorry I don't have a better solution for you.

I personally dislike the inventory expansion. They should have added more structured organization to the inventory system:

1. Glamour Wardrobe - I think most people know what this is, but basically you have an interface that lists every unlockable glamour in the game and you either have it unlocked or not, and it takes up 0 inventory space. You simply apply the skin to your gear.

2. Token wallet - we have a ridiculous amount of random tokens. Basically, 2 out of 4 pages of my inventory are useless tokens (i.e. pages for Alexander, primal tokens, beast tribe tokens, etc.) These should just be in a wallet, similar to gil and tomestones.

3. Resource wallet - gathered resources should be placed in an auto-sorted by type/name resource wallet.

After those changes, our inventories should actually be reduced.

Imagine the current system is someone's apartment. It's a small studio apartment, and the problem is that we have so much junk that it's just all over the floor. The dev's team solution of providing us a bigger wallet is the equivalent of providing you with a larger apartment. That's not a solution. What we need is structure/organization (i.e. like closets, dresser etc.)

I was going to post something then read this, It covers it all, so i'll just quote it instead.

[Wrenu]

Every Job should get their own inventory