Thread: Can we get an increase in Inventory space/Max Number of Retainers in 5.0 :D

More you have retainers, more they will be filled and full fast. I understand the OP pretty well but... drop that habit of yours to keep everything. If you check carefully, you will see there are many things you can put to trash or sell. All tomes stuffs that are not used for glamour : trash, GC seals or so. HQ or NM gathering, are you really using all of them? Ask yourself this kind of question, you will realize you can get some extra space (but yes, the way retainers are working could have a better management system). Green dungeon stuff? Only keep interesting glamour.
I did this and I still have half ot things I should drop.

Look, I know you're called RareItems, but if you managed to fill up 10 retainers with stuff, I'm sure it can't all be that rare. You have some crap you don't need, guaranteed.

The space we already have in this game (even without buying any extra retainers) on a single character is *extremely* generous, more so than any other online game I have ever played.

I suggest going through it and doing a cleaning so you can start 2019 with a bit of space, before you likely fill it all back up again with SB2.

Originally Posted by Seraphor

Hopefully they can increase base inventory space a little now that we've dumped 32bit.

Sorry to break it to you, but that's not what's happening. They're not going to be supporting 32-bit any more, but it will still be there in the expansion because they've warned it may be more unstable etc going forward. Maybe a future expansion will remove 32-bit completely (like we did in the past with PS3 etc), but it's not this one.

I dont think that more inventory space is the way to go here - what we actually need is a proper, decent glamour log instead of this wardrobe-excuse we currently have.

While it is true that crafting materials and things like materia, tokens, bait, consumables etc. make out a huge portion of the inventory aswell, most of those get outdated - once you're in 5.0, you can ditch most of the stuff from 4.0.
The only thing that doesnt apply to is gear that you're keeping for glamour - and thats the main reason people keep gear: Because they might want to use it for glamour at somepoint, but its difficult/annoying do get. So... gear piles up on retainers.
Just giving us more space wont solve the underlying problem and would only be a bandaid-fix.

...and if you cant part with crafting-materials that have little to no use anymore, that might be more of a hoarding problem than anything else...

I just weeded through a large swathe of my nine retainers that were completely full last week - takes time to go through everything and see what is worth keeping and what is not. Some random green gear piece from a retainer can be work over 100k sometimes, while most are sub 10k. Some monster drops are pretty pricey as well if they are rare or if someone has drained the market of them recently. Even when you par it down to things that are, to you, worth selling via retainer, takes time to price and take a lot more time for it to actually sell if it's not something of a mainstream item. Not hard to see how inventory can get way from you.

While I would love more room in retainers without necessarily increasing the number provided - I would be happier with some inventory management tools. If you search your inventory for an item and see 5 different retainers have a couple, and you have some, and there's one random one in your chocobo also - takes time to merge all of those together. Would love a way to auto combine stacks. Or a "Dump All" button to give everything in your inventory that will fit, top down, to your summoned retainer. That coupled with a "Sort and Combine" would be great - leave "Sort" as it is for those having specific uses for it, but with a "Sort and Combine" would help free up double or triple groups of the same item.

Tackle box for bait would be great too, like the key items tab.

We will definitely need more armory space, another general inventory tab would be nice or just change one of the Key item tabs to general. Never understood why we needed 2 full tabs since we only have 5-6 things in it while leveling at the most.

I know in another game one of the reasons developers gave to limiting inventory space was to keep databases under control. Plus that game was coded where your quest items were in your general inventory, and locations would scan your bags to see if X item was present to fire off events, etc.

Of course, after saying this, they released larger bags for RL cash and then a massive 88 slot bag for the super expensive preorder of their expansion.

I think having a limited amount of inventory room adds a depth to player choices - to keep people from being ehoarders. If you want to make a sword, you may not have every ingot possible all the time... Or the ores, failing that. So there is a need to play to get that item - from other players or from the world itself. Keep the cogs of the economy grinding.

Could be way off though.

I'd just be happy with being able to store my crafting materials in my house.