FFXIV: Inventory Management Simulator

[Niwashi]

RE: tell in duties:
I'd thought it was originally a technical limitation related to the fact that instanced content moves you to a different server and /tell <player name> <msg> could be ambiguous if there was someone in that duty with that name and someone else on your home world (possibly a friend or FC member) with the same name. But now that SE has already dealt with that problem as /tell <player name>@<world> <msg> in order to allow cross-world communication, it seems like it should have been enabled in duties as well as part of that update.

[Eloah]

RE: tell in duties:
I'd thought it was originally a technical limitation related to the fact that instanced content moves you to a different server and /tell <player name> <msg> could be ambiguous if there was someone in that duty with that name and someone else on your home world (possibly a friend or FC member) with the same name. But now that SE has already dealt with that problem as /tell <player name>@<world> <msg> in order to allow cross-world communication, it seems like it should have been enabled in duties as well as part of that update.

It's a bit of both. While the technical limitations were an issue at the time, that was also when Tells were the primary method of gil spamming. Many people had to move Tells to a different channel just to not have their chat bombarded by bots, since blacklisting didnt do much to alleviate the issue. While the technical limitations have lifted and gil spammers aren't able to send tells, mostly, SE was/is aware it could still be harassment if other players could do it while in a duty.

[Tohe-Spidhire]

I’ve only been in the game for a year, but I’ve all the DoL and DoH, plus two jobs at level 50. I also use retainers quite a bit.

My sense is that more tiers of items are introduced with game expansions, but the inventory remains static.

In my situation, I like to have my tiers of materia organized in columns. So if I have gathering IV materia, I know to slot it into the fourth row. And I maintain a collection of low-tier materia, so that I have it on hand when crafting for other people.

But I see that there are now VIII tiers for materia, with inventory panes having seven rows. So eventually, my arrangement into columns won’t work because there aren’t enough rows.

So my suggestion is that, for the character and retainer inventories, that the number of rows be incremented when an expansion introduces a new tier of crafting items.

Not everyone would organize things like I do, but the principle is to increase available inventory when the game has technically opened the possibility for needing more storage.