RMT retainers and how they deliberately hold back progress

[AmiableApkallu]

The tackle box lets you conveniently swap baits without going into your inventory but why isn't it just a separate inventory for baits?

The reasons to have separate kinds of inventory — armoury vs. chocobo saddlebag vs. tackle box vs. … — are (1) for immersion/role play and (2) to artificially restrict the player in some way.

The resources it would take SE to provide 100 general-purpose inventory slots that you can use any way you please ought to be roughly the same as the resources it would take to provide 10 tackle box slots, 20 chocobo saddlebag slots, 30 armory slots, and 40 general-purpose slots.

The former is far more flexible and what players should be asking for.

[YovelaLindswood]

The reasons to have separate kinds of inventory — armoury vs. chocobo saddlebag vs. tackle box vs. … — are (1) for immersion/role play and (2) to artificially restrict the player in some way.

The resources it would take SE to provide 100 general-purpose inventory slots that you can use any way you please ought to be roughly the same as the resources it would take to provide 10 tackle box slots, 20 chocobo saddlebag slots, 30 armory slots, and 40 general-purpose slots.

The former is far more flexible and what players should be asking for.

Either is still maybe 1mB at most per character of data storage depending on the size (which i'd argue doesn't need to be above 10 since that covers common baits and current big fish bait). Which is being very generous given the file size of any character in an mmo should maybe be 400ish mB (wow private servers as reference. IDK how awful SE's data storage method is). All that really changes is where that data is entered on your character spreadsheet. Given the only players who have extra data entered are the ones whose inventory currently has fewer slots available than the tacklebox i'd argue its an entirely negligible ammount of resources.