Inventory Space Update

[KatieKuro]

One of my posts about inventory management got a lot of attention, and while some were talking about the spaghetti code, others were simply saying "fix your hoarding problem." Which is fair! I have actually cleaned up a lot of my inventory, but still have stuff I'm not sure about.

I have made it a personal goal to not buy many things off the market board for my character. Mainly because I'm saving every dime I get for a large house whenever the next housing district drops in 10 years. I say this because I don't like to toss things only to later need to grab it from the MB. I think it would be a good idea to share what I have in my retainers, to get feedback of stuff I will never need to use.

In my first retainer I'm holding everything that's "special." These are things like mats for relics. I have been passively gathering what I can with seals and poetics. I also like collecting them as a batch, so I will get 4 bombard cores for every relic weapon that requires it all at once. What I have now adds up to about 2 and a half rows specifically for relic stuff. I'm very unaware of Eureka and Bozja relics, so I don't know how much more materials I will be hoarding for those in the future. I also am working on getting every Soul of [insert crafter here]. I haven't used these yet, and don't know what they do nor do I know if I need to get one for all of my crafters. You can't keep them all in your soul crystal thing because there's not enough room, so any advice would be appreciated. It's also holding housing items you get through the msq which takes about half an inventory page. I'm holding several ARR materia because I know ARR relics need them. I have a little less than half a page of gathering and crafting low tier materia. I don't know anything about penta melding, or crafter/gatherer melding in general, so if I can get rid of literally all of this tell me. The last bit is faded orchestrion rolls. I just have a lot from extremes and alliance raids. I figure when I start leveling crafters again getting rid of these will be pretty easy so I've kept them.

My second retainer is the one that's really clogged up. I have crafting mats for level 50 in there waiting until I go back. I'm hoping it clears up more once I get through the... star crafts? Or whatever you call them. The mats I have take up 3 entire pages. I have so much because I'm trying to craft everything as I level instead of using leves or the restoration. The last page is full of seeds. I am not in an FC, out of choice, and don't have an apartment (i don't even know if you can garden there) and all of these seeds are ARR seeds as that's when I paused crafting and gathering. Are any of these worth while or can I get rid of all of them?

My personal inventory is very clean so when I do go back to crafters/gatherers my inventory is open to get everything for logs and so I can take everything from my retainers and mass craft. My saddlebag is full of dyes.

[Myrany]

I would like a separate bag for fishing bait. Otherwise I don't have a lot of problems with inventory

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I would like a separate bag for fishing bait. Otherwise I don't have a lot of problems with inventory

That's what the saddlebag is for.

[Myrany]

That's what the saddlebag is for.

ANd I use it for that but it would be nice since we already have the seperate thing in the fisherman skill that shows a much smaller bag with the bait we have in our regular inventory if that became say an item we could put in our regular inventory that we could place the same limited amount of bait in. 1 inventory space used (for the bag) rather than multiple.

[GlowClam]

I urgently need an inventory twice as large, which would easily allow for several simultaneous projects with my craftsmen and collectors.

My organization...

Inventory: essential item currencies such as Giza Leaf, Projection Crystals, buff food, items for current crafter project, empty slots for gathering and drops.

Chocobo bag: Drops from item currencies in dungeons and trials

Assistant 1: Materia, Demimateria, books for crafters and collectors

Assistant 2: Valuable equipment that does not fit in the projection chamber and treasure cabinet.

Assistants 3 to 5: Materials for several projects with craftsmen and collectors

Tidying up requires expert knowledge that beginners in particular do not have. It took me years to recognize what was superfluous.

Wizards could help here: Materials from older content that are item currencies (trials from Alexander or from difficult content). Wizards could also check which items are currently very cheap on the market that can be deleted from the inventory and the helpers.

[Truen]

Inventory issues in 2024 is rather ridiculous. We should have far more room than we currently do. It's inexcusable really. We've only 1 character for the most part too!

The issue exists because they make profit selling attendants, which is rather disgusting.

[Hasrat]

I would like a separate bag for fishing bait. Otherwise I don't have a lot of problems with inventory

Having caught everything, I keep on hand exactly two types of bait. (versatile lure and metal spinner)

I'd much rather have inventory that's more useful than for storing things I will literally never touch again.

OP:

I likewise have a one retainer holding onto materia + relic items. First of all, you shouldn't be keeping all those crafter souls... actually I don't even know if they allow those to remain useful. You're only ever supposed to be allowed to have 3 crafters designated as specialists, and if you ever need to change that, you need to trade in the designated soul with a separate stackable item to swap specialist. The stackable item is all you ever need (and that rarely), just make things specialist and stop holding onto whatever you have in regards to that.
Materia: Grade 1-3 combat materia are good for ARR relics. Grade 4 can be nice for that, but will often be unnecessary (unless you're trying to give relics "good" stats, but there is zero point to that at this time). Sell/trash all of your gathering/crafting materia. These are only useful at "endgame" stages, and only for the highest tier hardest items. Most players will find no use or value from them. And even if you do find you need/want them, they are far, far easier to reacquire with scrips you can get in abundance.
Faded scrolls can start piling up, definitely worth getting to those eventually if you feel more inventory crunch. But it is a pain getting to them as soon as you get them, so having room to stash a few is nice. Just don't go stashing too many copies, or holding onto ones for scrolls you've already made; very few are really worth selling at all.

Sell all your seeds. Especially if you're just holding onto whatever you gathered, it's clearly easy to gather them. Only a handful are likely of any real use/value, and only if you're actually gardening. Apartments can't do much fancy with that anyway, the important stuff is all garden bed cross breeding.

Your crafting mats are probably your biggest problem, especially if you're going with the approach of wanting to craft everything in the crafting log. Your inventory is going to suffer for this, and for no good reason. Check marks and achievements, all so you're left with piles of items nobody wants. You either realize crafting everything is a bad idea and only keep materials for crafts you might actually use (minions, bardings, Extreme trial weapons), or you decide you're going to dedicate to completing the crafting log, and hopefully recognize you are almost certainly underestimating the undertaking.

Eventually, you're probably going to have to start asking yourself if you want to buy one extra retainer to start storing all of your raid tokens, as it very much sounds like you'll end up trying to hold onto all of them. I did. One extra retainer isn't too burdensome, personally. I don't think I could possibly find enough use to justify more than that, tho.

[Asari5]

we dont need more space. but i guess its easier to complain about it than to learn how to manage it and how to differentiate between stuff you need and dont need. pr to finish big projects before starting another one.

i guess it would make sense to at least turn all those many tokens into actual currencies, but again, most will never be used anyway sitting in your inventory til they close the servers

if its something inventory related i'd rather have the making a collection/catalogue/wardrobe work. which would also help with spacemanagement and they wouldnt need to give as tgose 800 slots in the glsm dresser anymore

[Zeastria]

I wish we could have a crafting bag!
So that we could carry and store all the materials we farms/buys there..
without needing to waste inventory space/retainers..ect

[Erin1491]

As much as I support additional inventory space (a bait bag or dye bag at the very least) Sadly I just don't see it happening. I know they expanded it from HW -> SB, but the fact that they sell extra space in the form of hiring extra retainers with real money and people support that and use it essentially ensures this likely will never happen.

It's the same issue with housing. Why implement private instanced housing when you can squeeze people to stay subscribed to keep their homes? SE sees real money from these services and won't implement any solutions for this exact reason.