Item space suggestion for Retainers

[PretzJG]

OK, we all know that you can buy more retainers for each toon by spending 2 dollars per month for each extra retainer you want. I very much love the boosting stacks to 999 allowing me to get plenty of what I need, I'm still finding that with having NQ and HQ of each item it's filling my retainers up quite quickly. So I have an idea to help out players like myself who overstock stuff.

Retainers have classes that level up when you send them out on Ventures. So since they can level up let's add in where you get a permanent 5 spaces per every 10 levels a Retainer gets in any class. So if they level a Retainer to 70 in Botanist, they'll get 35 extra spaces, and you can set it as a separate total for each of the class types, 1 for Fieldcraft, 1 for Battlecraft, and 1 for Tradecraft. So if you level them to 70 in Bot, Carpenter, and say Archer then you'll have 105 extra slots opened on that retainer.

[PretzJG]

This would give players who want to work hard on getting space the option to do so without having to pay extra real money each month. It also gives players who need more space even after buying more retainers the ability to do so. So players like me who stockpile will be able to work hard and improve that space, but it doesn't break the game for everyone. With 2 expansions out already we have crafters who are vendoring or just dropping lower tier items to make space for the end game items, which is normal yes but would be nice to not have to worry on that point.

Didn't know where else to post this so if there's a better place for it please move it to that location. I do enjoy the game and love the crafting system, being said I do think it would be better to give crafters the ability to hold enough to have 1 of everything they need in both NQ and HQ.

[LeoLupinos]

Space is a real problem. Once I tried to level a crafter/collector and it's super hard to manage space. I will stick to combat class only until they fix this. It's impossible to level max dol/doh for me.

[CrystalRainbow]

I didn't have a 3rd retainer till SB. And never have issue with space. And only 2 crafts aren't capped.

Sell stuff you aren't using. Buy it back when you need it. Often times for much less.

[Vstarstruck]

SE needs ways to give incentives for people to buy retainers, so I don't see them ever fixing inventory space.

[Lilseph]

Or they may as well stop being so stingy about it and give us at least 1 extra free retainer. Said retainer would be unlocked after purchasing SB/SB CE or something. We're 2 expansions in, with plenty of new items introduced. Come on...

[NephthysVasudan]

sorry...but I disagree.

With the latest change with 999 stacks...this would break the system and defeat the whole point of being responsible with inventory space.

Believe it or not...aside from glamour dresser - I have more than enough empty space...and that was before i got 2 retainers on top of my 2 free ones.

Time for you to start managing your inventory better. I do not see SE changing this at all.

Don't forget you have a choco saddlebag.

[Jojoya]

Pretty sure they aren't interested in accommodating players who overstock stuff. Inventory is still data storage and data storage costs money.

Get smarter about what you keep. Only keep what you're constantly using. Don't store items that can be purchased from a vendor or can be found cheap on the MB. You'll make more gil doing other things with the time you'd have to spend gathering those items yourself.

As for retainers, there's no work involved in leveling them. It happens just by sending them on ventures. Also, last I checked retainers couldn't have DoH jobs. Did that change?

Don't forget you have a choco saddlebag.

Tacklebox. Serious fishers probably have it filled up by now.

[NephthysVasudan]

Tacklebox. Serious fishers probably have it filled up by now.

You've got a valid point....a tacklebox upgrade/change is a dire need.

[PretzJG]

Ok here's where I'm sitting at, with 7 total Retainers, to show why I'm worried with space. Now yes I know a lot of people are just saying, "sell what you don't use much, or what you can get at a vendor." The Vendor stuff I can see, but I still like having it on hand so I can just Search Item and know exactly how many I got and where. But here's my breakdown of stuff:

Retainer 1: Ingredients, 140/175
Retainer 2: Stone/Metal, 158/175
Retainer 3: Wood/Lumber, 40/175
Retainer 4: Leather/Bone, 82/175
Retainer 5: Cloth, 38/175
Retainer 6: Reagents, 109/175
Retainer 7: Materia/Dye/Gardening 50/175

Now yes I have plenty of space when you just look at the base numbers, however I have yet to get hardly any of the lvl 50 ARR items, and still have to go into Heavensward and Stormblood content.