It's Time: THE TACKLE BOX.

[Jojoya]

It's also time to remind people that the developers have said they can't implement a tackle box without taking up what could otherwise be general inventory slots...

If you even vaguely understand programming (Even giving the benefit of the doubt that it's spaghetti code)

Yes they can.

Cool. Show us how SE adding a tackle box will let me use those 40 or however many slots for storing my crafting reagents and ring overflow instead of only bait and lures (and possibly seafood).

At the same time, show me how I can use the offhand compartment in my Armory Chest to store my dyes and housing interior fixtures. I only have 12 offhands so there are 23 slots going to waste that I would dearly love to use for other things.

No, they can't with their code. Every game allots characters a maximum amount of storage space. What gets restricted to one item type becomes storage space lost to other items types. Better to have everything general use so players can store what's relevant to their game play.

At least the saddlebag is a separate container from your general inventory so you can sort specific item types into as you like to find things easier. What would be helpful is for SE to detach it from the chocobo so it can be accessed at any time, then allow us to choose bait/lures stored in it just as we can choose those stored in our general inventory.

Yes, obviously by my picture I am using my saddlebag as my tacklebox...which means I can't use my saddlebag for more...useful things. I for one like to have bait on hand, for whatever fish I may need to go after next for whatever reason. It's more efficient to have it all on me than to have to stop, run back to a housing ward or a specific NPC, go to the scrip NPC, then run back out to my fishing hole (And maybe miss my time window for the catch, or drastically reduce my time to catch said fish by all the running around.)

I would argue if not a tacklebox, perhaps everyone can simply get a gathering tab - where crafting materials go directly into that bag. (Including bait.) I'd even be happy with something like that and I'm sure our botanists and miners would also be happy with something along those lines.

No, I wouldn't. I want all storage to be general storage so when I don't fill out the space with one item type, I can use it for others.

An improved sorting system would be nice but not restricted storage.