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    Material Storage Overhaul

    So I consider gathering and crafting my personal end game. I don't really like raiding. That being said, I'm constantly struggling to store all the mats I get. I have 5 retainers and both sides of the saddle bag generally full of materials that I'd rather not get rid of. I like keeping a stock of commonly used materials so I can craft almost anything (barring a lack of specific niche mats) without having to go gathering.

    Now I get that limited storage is a mechanic of the game but so to is an ever increasing number of items. Each expansion adds hundreds if not thousands of new items but no new ways to store them. I feel like the amount of storage isn't keeping up with the number of things to store, at least not without paying real life money.

    I just feel that something needs to change to help store things, buch like the armory inventory but for materials or some other category to free up space in general inventory. I saw someone mention a materials exclusive inventory. That would be nice but I don't know how well that could be implemented without becoming OP. I'm not asking for infinite storage or even infinite material storage, just storage on par with the rate the number of items in the game is increasing by.
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    Player DrWho2010's Avatar
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    unfortunately for you this means you must pony up more cash for more retainers and the companion app so you can get access to the other chocobo saddlebag.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWho2010 View Post
    unfortunately for you this means you must pony up more cash for more retainers and the companion app so you can get access to the other chocobo saddlebag.
    Quote Originally Posted by Inddie View Post
    I have 5 retainers and both sides of the saddle bag generally full of materials...
    I... I do already
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inddie View Post
    I... I do already

    Lol Goes to show that they want you to "pony up" some more.
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    If you say so.

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    Frizze Steeleblaze
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    So my advice would be to let go a little bit. Sure, more storage would be nice. But until they tell me im getting more storage, im doing my best not to hoard things i dont actually need. I generally dont keep stacks of anything i can get back in less then 10 minutes. Ill make an exception for anything i use daily, but the exception expires when i no longer need something that often. As a result ive got about 1 inventory tab worth of crafting mats stashed, and the rest i gather or buy when i start a crafting project.
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    Player DrWho2010's Avatar
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    i believe you can have up to 10 retainers? sorry i missed where you said you had both saddlebags already lolz

    also don't keep things around that you can quickly get in less than a half hour or from a beast tribe vendor.
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    Go into your inventory and look at everything. Ask yourself if you've used the item to craft something in the last week. If not, get rid of it unless it's a rare and expensive item.

    Don't store what you can buy from a vendor. People forget that shards/crystals are still need to make the intermediate step crafting reagents and they have a value. Buying from a vendor frequently ends up cheaper.

    Don't store what is consistently plentiful and cheap on the MB.

    Don't store what you can easily gather yourself in the quantity you immediately need.

    Don't forget the Curious Crop exchange. Even if you're not growing the Voidrake/Althyk Lavender yourself, buying it from the MB can be cheaper than buying the ore/nuggets/etc. and a big time savings that you can be using to gather other things you need that can't be bought from a vendor.
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    While my problem is specifically mats and all of those tips are very valid, th epoin still stands that the number of items is growing each patch but the number of storage slots isn't.
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    And for the point of culling what I keep. I do just buy vendor mats and I don't keep them on me, but I don't just craft for me, I craft for my entire FC including newer players leveling so I tend to use mats across the board. I had a stack of darksteel ore I've been hoarding for months now that I wasn't using then just today we started a new FC vessel crafting project and I burned through it. Though there is a point. I can only keep mats from unspoiled nodes and hidden slot and the other wise less consistent/harder to obtain mats. And leave the still commonly used but easier to obtain stuff like dawrven cotton out if it.
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    Ulala Ula
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    No just no, if they gonna add more and more mats they need to give a way to store em. I wanna have a stock of my mats, I dont wanan have do deal with retainers and alts and whatever. Like, irl i can store stuff at my house you know? limit it to fc's only or smt if you have to but give us smt to actually store mats. just smt to store a 999 NQ stack of any mat is already golden.
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