[dev1357] The Armoire

[Oniji]

I understand that the current infrastructure in place is somewhat shoddy.

But two extra variable calls for each item being "taxing on resources". I don't buy it. The retainer system is already in place and does it perfectly well. Adding The Armoire with the same functionality as a retainer, would have just changed the storage type, and not increased the overall server traffic, considering you cannot do both transactions at the same time.

I'm not complaining. I just think that another reason was behind them limiting it in this fashion. Maybe it has to do with how much development resources/testing they wanted to devote to this.

Either way, I don't see people using this feature very frequently beyond the initial item drop off.

[Molly_Millions]

I understand that the current infrastructure in place is somewhat shoddy.

But two extra variable calls for each item being "taxing on resources". I don't buy it. The retainer system is already in place and does it perfectly well. Adding The Armoire with the same functionality as a retainer, would have just changed the storage type, and not increased the overall server traffic, considering you cannot do both transactions at the same time.

I'm not complaining. I just think that another reason was behind them limiting it in this fashion. Maybe it has to do with how much development resources/testing they wanted to devote to this.

Either way, I don't see people using this feature very frequently beyond the initial item drop off.

If I had to guess the reason you can only store items at 100% and remove any spiritbonding is more an issue of the time it would take to add those features more than any sort of technical limitation.

[Jinko]

If I had to guess the reason you can only store items at 100% and remove any spiritbonding is more an issue of the time it would take to add those features more than any sort of technical limitation.

So its just a slap dash job, sounds like SE didn't learn anything from launch.

As others have said, if they didn't have the time or the server wasn't capable of such a feature why even add it.

Casting changes and the /equip linkshell feature are two similar examples.

P.S. where is Reinheart I would like to know what the JP side thinks about this.

[Molly_Millions]

So its just a slap dash job, sounds like SE didn't learn anything from launch.

No no no, that's not what I meant at all. The feature is usefull, it doesn't seem broken to me, just kinda incomplete. There's a rule in the development world (scrum) that says to deliver 80% of the possible functionality by doing 20% of the work. IMO that's acceptable. If the remaining 20% of the functionality takes 4X as long to deliver, why not deliver us a working product (The Armoire) now?