The Definitive Storage Thread

[Facco]

/signed x 1,000,000,000 !!!! Need many more space !!!! URGENT !!!

[Sjeng]

Originally Posted by MStarfire

It would maybe help if we didn't need the books in our inventory AT ALL. Suppose this: a new NPC is added to your guild hall for a fee. A reasonable fee. Each time you acquire a book the first time you show it to him, much like the hat dude. You pay 10g and he agrees to put the book in his archives.

Then, every time you do something relevant to a particular book, you go back and see him and there's a new button that says something nice like "I have a new story I'd like you to record." And then a page is added to the relevant book.

At any point you can click on a button that says "I'd like to read a book." And you can check your progress in a particular book and read the fanciful writing that Anet staff came up with.

When your book is full (or at least to the point where you can start turning it in for rewards), there's another button that says "I'd like to take my book now." And the book goes into you inventory and you can give it to whomever you'd like.

I think this idea is a lot more /win than programming another storage tab or whatever.

A different idea than mine, but good also. Now do the same for minipets and armor, and I'm happy!

Best solution to storage space is not adding extra storage slots, but taking away the need to store certain items (such as books). The container idea is also pretty good for dyes, minipets, tomes and armor.

[MithranArkanere]

Originally Posted by holymasamune

People will never understand the difference between what is "required" and what is "nice to have." More space is never required, but always nice to have. If it's absolutely required, then how are people handling the storage situation now?

By not making all the armors I'd like to make, since I'll have to discard the ones that I have.

I'd really like to make new armors, but not as much as I love keeping the ones I have.

[Liam016]

/signed......

[daze]

Originally Posted by TrippieHippie89

.....if i see another qq thread i swear to god
you dont HAVE to have every single book on you, its like 100g per page at the storyteller folks
or even better idea! if youre going to do proph, get a proph book and have 1 space taken up in your inventory of 35, even if you for some reason have all 11 you still have 24 slots open
its like nobody else has heard of mule chars

....If i see another flame Troller I swear to god.
At least this thread is not a QQ instead it is a very good suggestion which i /DOUBLESIGN

We shouldnt have to have mule characters. I myself have a bunch of halfway completed books that i have to hold somewhere. what is the count? 11 books including both HM and NM? And god forbid i try to play books on multiple characters. ATM my inventory has a few items that are permanently in there (id kit (1), salvage kit(2), 4 books (6), clovers(7), alcohol(8), 3 different glasses(11), 4 weapon sets(16), res scrolls(17), consets(20) and powerstones(21).) So lets see that makes up 21 items lol dedicated to my inventory, If i wanted to play the other books too that would make 28 items.

My first page of storage is packed with green weapons. Second page is packed with gold req9 weapons. Third page is weapon mods and holiday items. Fourth page is Tomes and material overflow.
I have my rituilist working as a mule to hold Minipets. I have my Sin working as a mule to hold collectors items and armor sets for other characters. My second ele holds all my keys tokens, dye and other random crap that i dont want to get rid of. My warrior is starting to hold the overflow of gold weapons. Now you are telling me i need to make a new mule just to hold books?

So yes, i would welcome some extra storage with a huge smile.

Originally Posted by Notch Yo Daddy

i cant really see this as being added. I think they would much rather us spend 10 dollars on another character slot. But i will sign it as I DO agree.

Alos how many books are there. when you count todays update. the HM/NM for GWEN, the bonus mission packs. and others too.


/signed

OMG i didnt even think of the bonus mission packs. LOL. well that effectively doubles the amount of books. A personal library storage would be the best addition since the storage expansion a couple years ago

[Si Mana]

It seems essential that Anet provides more storage.
4 eotn books, now 3 more for each campaign. With chars of every profession, that adds up to a ridiculous amount of books to be carting around.
And yes, then there's all the other stuff, armours, weaps, mods etc, etc, etc.
Please Anet! More storage!
Also, I can't understand why they don't have storage for sale in the GW Store, they would make a fortune!

[daze]

Originally Posted by Shayne Hawke

Yeah, there's like, six or seven grind titles now? I have a really hard time working on them all at once... We should MERGE them. Yeah! I can't bother to play focused on one goal at a time, so let me just put ALL of my titles together so I can just do that!

[/sarcasm]

We do not need more storage. You (all) need to learn how to focus.

/notsigned

So in all reality, what you are promoting is a grind-fest. You are saying that we should only grab one book and then FOCUS on it until its done(which can get boring IMO) Sorry, but im not one for grinding one thing in to the dirt. Im a multitasker.

I personally like to maybe vanquish an area or two, then i might go help a friend get guardian, then i might go to FoW, then i might go do some dungeons, then i might go do a couple missions from the bonus mission pack, then i might want to work on my Tyra book or something.

Originally Posted by Si Mana

Also, I can't understand why they don't have storage for sale in the GW Store, they would make a fortune!

WTB 3 more pages of storage. Id even pay 5-10$ a page.

[Si Mana]

Anet seriously needs to provide more storage.
Another option would be to be able to purchase storage per account through the GW store.

I agree runes should be stackable.
/storage is also a great idea

[Gorebrex]

They DO have storage for sale in the store! Its called "Character Slot"...

I wouldnt hold my breath waiting for more in-game storage though, as it took a couple years to get one extra tab, but we got two more not too long after.

[daze]

Originally Posted by Gorebrex

They DO have storage for sale in the store! Its called "Character Slot"...

So then if i ever get an itch to play on my sin, all i have to do is empty my storage to a new mule, then jump on my sin and empty his inventory to storage, then jump on my new mule and swap out inventory for storage??

Hmmm
Sounds like a couple extra tabs would be a tad more convenient.

[Blackest Rose]

Originally Posted by Gorebrex

They DO have storage for sale in the store! Its called "Character Slot"...

I wouldnt hold my breath waiting for more in-game storage though, as it took a couple years to get one extra tab, but we got two more not too long after.

I completely agree with the sarcasm here, more characters is not the same as more storage and the reason is that you spend more time organizing inv and switching between toons that you do playing the game.
Trust me I know...

That was a contributing reason for me to stop playing - now I only log on for events to get a new hat or something and very occassionally just to see what's new.

All this after getting 4!!! accounts with 20 toons coz I wanted more storage.
With several thousand hours on 2 accounts, I got fed up with swapping inv...
So I don't play anymore - I'll definitely get GW2 but don't think I'll get addicted again. Once was enough to waste that much life on GW (but a little part of me misses it....)

Just look at all the crap they want us to carry now :
- each chapter has it's own set of unique items (lots share the same graphic but do they stack - NO!)
- Armor so many type but each taking 5 storage spaces.... come on....
- Weapons - any decent toon needs a selection and can't just use one or two.
- Books - we carry enough now for each of us to start our own library.
- Pets - what are we up to now - about 33?
They solved the masks problem thankfully.

If Anet wants to allow us to buy stoage then let us buy storage, not another toon we have to juggle inv on.
All too late for me though......

[Hyper.nl]

Yes, PLEASE. This has been asked many times now. Maybe some larger bags and some more Xunlai chest space. Or a storage room inside your Hall of Monuments.

[Zera Fang]

Originally Posted by TrippieHippie89

so, unless for some unbelievable reason you save every single drop you get then i highly doubt you are so hard pressed for room that a few books is much of a hassle and if it is, quit bitching about more storage, buy a few character slots, make pvp chars, buy them bags and lookie there, 45 more storage slots

Umm, do you PvE? Ever? I'm just curious. I rarely ever PvE and yet each of my PvE characters has so much crap on them it isn't even funny. Runes, Dyes, Weapons that I could sell, but never have the time to sit around and do it... You just amass stuff and these books aren't really helping. On my monk I've got two armor sets, somewhere around ten or eleven different weapons for different things, salvage/ID kits, ONE BOOK, a mini-pet, some consumables, a few odd quest pieces that I need to take to a certain area or have to talk to a certain person with... If I want to do anything outside the PvP world I have to say, "What do I have to transfer out of storage onto a PvP character to transfer stuff into my storage for stuff that I will amass as I'm PvEing?" AND THEN! I have to worry about deleting my PvP characters because they might have something on them that I want/need. It becomes a serious bother. Anet should just give us infinite storage for all the crap that there is in game. If you've found a way to deal with all this stuff, well, great for you, but some of us need a little more organization than mule characters. Remember, this isn't Diablo. You can't have next to infinite characters to lug all your stuff around.

Anyway, signed. No one SHOULD be against this if they have any mind.

[Sjeng]

Originally Posted by Azazel The Assassin

An idea was recently stated on Linsey's page that I haven't seen before.

It is to take the book item (ANet's term), such as the incubator, and have it be able to store armor. This idea was passed to Linsey (so don't say I said she said it). According to Linsey, using the current system is possible, but it would remove runes, insignias and the dye color. A "book" can hold 18 pages/items, but she said that isn't the limit. Of course the idea of having the armor take up 15 places (5 for armor, 5 for rune, 5 for insignia). But that still leaves the issue of dyes.

Anyways, Here is the link:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User_...dock#Armor_Box

Sorry to say it, but I totally misread that the first time too, but Linsay actually says they can't change the amount of slots in a "book".

Books can hold 18 items or pages. That isn't a limit we have the option to change (I already asked)

I also voted for runes being made stackable, but I can understand that stacking some items might not be desirable, because people would start storing stuff like runes and mods more, and they wouldn't be used or forgotten, and that would remove them from the economy, which in anet's eyes is bad, so I can live with runes, insignia's and weapon mods not being stackable, but it would save me some storage too.

[Sjeng]

Hey, why are there 2 threads on the storage topic anyway? I'd suggest posting in this one from now on to keep the discussion centralized.
Just a suggestion.

[newbie_of_doom]

we def need moar storage and like a libary all these books for eotn(4) and the other campaigns(also4) are driving me crazy

luckily i dont play pve too much

[newbie_of_doom]

Originally Posted by JAK3US

Wait... don't we want people to buy/sell items to keep the economy alive? If there are more (free) storage tabs, then people would never sell any of their stuff. Whereas now, running out of storage forces people to let go of some of the things they don't absolutely need.

I voted for more storage anyway

When people dont have space they go /merch. Or at least I do. and all ppl i know

[newbie_of_doom]

Originally Posted by JAK3US

Wait... don't we want people to buy/sell items to keep the economy alive? If there are more (free) storage tabs, then people would never sell any of their stuff. Whereas now, running out of storage forces people to let go of some of the things they don't absolutely need.

I voted for more storage anyway

When people dont have space they go /merch. Or at least I do. and all ppl i know

[MithranArkanere]

Originally Posted by newbie_of_doom

When people dont have space they go /merch. Or at least I do. and all ppl i know

I don't sell the armors I made, but I can't make much more, since I'd have to discard the ones I have.

[Konig Des Todes]

Originally Posted by Sjeng

Sorry to say it, but I totally misread that the first time too, but Linsay actually says they can't change the amount of slots in a "book".

Yes, I realized that after I posted that, and forgot to fix it. No point now really.

Originally Posted by Sjeng

I also voted for runes being made stackable, but I can understand that stacking some items might not be desirable, because people would start storing stuff like runes and mods more, and they wouldn't be used or forgotten, and that would remove them from the economy, which in anet's eyes is bad, so I can live with runes, insignia's and weapon mods not being stackable, but it would save me some storage too.

The counter-productive conundrum right here. Stackable means "messed up economy" (Really, at this point, ANet might as well let the economy get more messed up, there is no fixing it at this point) unstackable means less storage space - however that is fixed by selling and putting on hereos. If you MUST horde runes, then do so with heroes, and you won't have storage issues.

Originally Posted by newbie_of_doom

When people dont have space they go /merch. Or at least I do. and all ppl i know

And people also have a lack of storage due to multiple armor sets from filling the HoM(s) prior to it being announced to be account based. I personally don't care, but I'm sure many many many others don't want to be rid of their armors. I only keep enough for the different builds/runes I need (which for my sin is 3, my necro 2, and everything else 1 and some extra headpieces).