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Mohnzh · Nov 20, 2008, 04:04 AM // 04:04

I voted "other" here. With all of the books available, they can easily fill up your storage. I don't even carry every book, just the ones I'm working on. But the problem with that is there are some I was working on, am not ready to turn in, and cannot put into storage (MOX, Saul's Story). So I now have 5 or 6 books in my inventory plus several other that are in progress in storage. Between all these books, I think some sort of library would be the best idea. Whether it act as another tab in storage, or would be similar to a portable storage and can house all of the books you need to bring along (obviously no more than one of any type of book should be held at a time). I would be more than satisfied if they came up with a way so that all the books on me only took up one inventory space. But they definitely need to allow us to put BMP and MOX books in storage. Are there any other books that cannot be placed in storage?

Konig Des Todes · Nov 20, 2008, 07:50 AM // 07:50

Mohnzh, the Mox book is not needed for anything. You get it from mox, get the quest, then you can delete it. No biggie. The BMP books, it's either empty or full. If its full, turn in for a weapon, if empty, delete and get later. The problem for Books and storage is when your working on multiple books at once. Otherwise it's fine. And the only problem to fix this is to add more storage slots.

I propose making the belt-pouch to 2 rows and bags able to go to 3 rows, and adding a 3rd Bag. And just one or two extra "anything" storage tab.

vandevere · Nov 20, 2008, 08:35 PM // 20:35

/signed...

My character slots are full, my characters' inventories are full, and my storage is full...

We need more storage if they're going to continue to give us more stuff to store...

Shayne Hawke · Nov 20, 2008, 08:46 PM // 20:46

/signed for an auction house so that you all can sell your junk and stop complaining about not having room.

squiros · Nov 20, 2008, 09:44 PM // 21:44

focusing is not an argument against more space. people who focus and lack the ability to diversify and consequently have no need for storage aren't representative of the needs of the community. considering intercontinental travel is available by la, kaineng and spamadan, the game developers clearly had no intention of limiting the characters to a single area (even earlier, before the patches). a better argument against storage is the economy. by enabling people to horde, there is less incentive to sell.

not getting a book is probably the worst solution of all. instead of not getting a book, why not just stop playing gw altogether? that way there's no worry about space at all!

as it stands, the standard storage mule is a pvp character. that way, all heroes are unlocked and ready to accept 5 runes, 5 insignias and a weapon set. however, this is a poor system since it is cumbersome to find any particular item. furthermore, retrieving the armor upgrades will cost a non-zero amount.

a masterbook, however, is an elegant solution to an overzealous book schematic. simply make the masterbook have all chapters. completion on normal mode results in a blue checkmark, similar to the way it is now. completion on hard mode results in a larger yellow checkmark (in compliance with the theme). completion of both results in a large yellow checkmark with a blue checkmark inside of it, signifying both difficulties. whenever it is turned in, the checkmarks simply disappear from the appropriate entries; the book remains. talking to vanguard rep, for example, will erase all blue entries from the eotn chapters. or gold checkmarks, if the hard mode book is turned in. this system allows all characters to have 1 book for everything. furthermore, if a character completes the same mission twice, it's possible to switch the order of the books and garner credit twice. as it stands, having 1 copy of every book is unlikely, having 2 copies of every book is unreasonable.

Sjeng · Nov 21, 2008, 06:40 AM // 06:40

Azazel: extra generic storage will just get filled up fast again. I'd love more storage, but imo a better solution is making dedicated storage for mini's, armor and perhaps dye/tomes/books. That way, those extra needed slots don't get cluttered with random stuff that Anet wants to keep in the economy anyway.

Scary · Nov 21, 2008, 09:05 AM // 09:05

Purchase more storage by a quest would be nice,
More storage by the GW store, nop not no.

cognophile · Nov 21, 2008, 08:20 PM // 20:20

/signed

Me too, more storage. Carrying up to 17 storybooks around in a backpack could hurt my characters' backs.

A bookshelf, wardrobe closet, weapons rack, hatrack, etc. in the hall of monuments would be nice. Then, everyone would have to buy GW EotN!

On the topic of focus, obviously many people don't play in a linear fashion through the storybooks. Some of us in guilds might even occasionally take time off from title grinding to help out some guildies.

Bigfoot 90 · Nov 22, 2008, 03:30 PM // 15:30

I agree, storage is a must!

/Signed

Qing Guang · Nov 22, 2008, 04:10 PM // 16:10

/signed for storage in HoM and for masterbooks (great idea!)

I don't need book storage, but in the immortal words of Senpai Lee through T-chan (go read Healbot Blues, all you confused people):
"Hey Ooze! Take a message - 'Attention ArenaNet! Monuments need closets!'"

Boneyard Spleeneater · Nov 24, 2008, 08:22 AM // 08:22

Tired of reading replies, so going to post this as a possible solution...

Bought a couple of slots, and extra proph accounts (sale at Best Buy, yay!), and still running out of space (Proph accounts mostly just pet farmers). While I would really appreciate some free storage options (Dye, collectables, Armor, etc), I would also be willing to pay for storage options as well. A mule character is nice, but having to switch back and forth between toons and remember which one has which stuff gets to be a bother.

It would be worth (to me) perhaps $5-10 a pop to buy another full xunlai chest that is available to my account. When I access my chest, it could ask me which one I want to access, I could have them named as to what I have in them, and thus it solves my major problems, and I don't have to spend large portions of my precious little gaming time swapping toons or having two accounts logged into my guild hall just to shuffle stuff around. I can do it all in my storage bins, I can organize what I have, I can more easily keep stock of what I have, whether or not I really need it, get it to the toon or hero that does, and in the long run probably use less space.

So that is my two cents.

/signed on more space, and yes I would be willing to fork out a few bucks to Anet for some added functionality as well.

Sjeng · Nov 24, 2008, 11:56 AM // 11:56

Did anyone of you read this? It's an awesome idea ^^

Anet could do that, or place merchants in ALL explorable areas.

Phantom Flux · Nov 24, 2008, 12:54 PM // 12:54

/signed!!!!

I dont understand why the players who disagree with this are really brown nosing to Anet. More storage should've been thought of and made for a long while. What are you gonna do force players who buy character slots as mule? That would be anet scamming customers and not even the "heroes" trying to kiss up to them can say something that could hide denial.

We need armor storage, library, mini pet zoo and more.

pamelf · Nov 24, 2008, 06:07 PM // 18:07

I think an easy solution would be to have heroes as storage. When you click on them they have whatever storage you have and so your heroes can carry as much as you can. We click on them and it seems to change a tab already as it is, so it just seems a simple and elegant solution to a bit problem.

I understand that more storage means more server space, but it's been stated that by so many players for so long that we are willing to pay real money for extra storage. Surely the money from combined sales would add up to enough to upgrade or add onto the game's current server system?

MithranArkanere · Nov 24, 2008, 08:27 PM // 20:27

There are also other matters, like moving the stored data to bigger storage drives and things like that.

I can't see it other way. The only way to solve storage problems is removing the need for storage.
Like they did with Zho's Journal. It was annoying to store it, you no longer need to do that.

Unlocking it's the way to go for every single item that people usually gets once and never need to get ever again. That is, weapons, armors, miniatures, everlasting tonics, /bonus items and things like Zho's Journal.

Boneyard Spleeneater · Nov 25, 2008, 04:16 AM // 04:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sjeng

...That way, those extra needed slots don't get cluttered with random stuff that Anet wants to keep in the economy anyway.

What is Anet keeping the economy? Some rare skins and a few super desireable and hard to farm Greens? I used the price guide and tried to trade spam some stuff I had and wasted a month's worth of weekends for maybe 50k in trade, 1-5k at a time. In one weekend I farmed and merched, and made the same amount. Most of the stuff people store is semi-useful for PVE, but is so easy to farm that is isn't going to go for much on the auction block; at least not enough to waste time spamming chat.

Economy be damned, if they want us to sell stuff, they need an auction house. If they don't want to give us more storage slots, they need to make things stackable. Either way, I would like more storage, and would pay tons of in game loot, and maybe even real money for it. Screw $10.00 for another character slot, how about I just give them that for another Xunlai chest? Same difference, and I don't have to waste time swapping accounts.

BlueDevil08 · Nov 25, 2008, 05:00 AM // 05:00

I like the idea of just one "master" book. another nice addition to that book could possibly be that they add a list of all the quests in all 4 campaigns. yes that list would be long, but it would be nice for when a guild member or someone asks "hey, have you done this quest?" and you can't remember. With that they could possibly add another title for completing all quests in Prophecies, Factions, and Nightfall, then Legendary for completing all three.

bryann380 · Nov 25, 2008, 05:25 AM // 05:25

No matter how much space Anet actually gives us, you people would still be QQing wanting even more. /rolls-eyes

Sjeng · Nov 25, 2008, 07:27 AM // 07:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by bryann380

No matter how much space Anet actually gives us, you people would still be QQing wanting even more. /rolls-eyes

Well hello there Mr. Troll!

Man, there are so many things wrong with your post, I don't know where to begin. But I'll just go ahead and give it a try anyway...

"You people"? Yeah, let's just call everyone who posted in this thread by the same name, gg. Generalize much?

Then you call all of us QQ-ers. Way to make friends dude!

The purpose of this thread is to give suggestions to solve the ever-growing storage problem that, FYI, exists because Anet is creating more and more stuff in the game that needs to be stored somewhere. (Summoning Stones, Books, Tonics, Consumables (a great big lot of them), New armor with each chapter, and the list goes on.) If that is QQ-ing to you, then the whole Guru forum is, and in that case I don't see what you're doing here in the first place.

If you can't post anything constructive here, please do not post at all. You post was a plain Trolling post.

pamelf · Nov 25, 2008, 03:27 PM // 15:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sjeng

Well hello there Mr. Troll!

Man, there are so many things wrong with your post, I don't know where to begin. But I'll just go ahead and give it a try anyway...

"You people"? Yeah, let's just call everyone who posted in this thread by the same name, gg. Generalize much?

Then you call all of us QQ-ers. Way to make friends dude!

The purpose of this thread is to give suggestions to solve the ever-growing storage problem that, FYI, exists because Anet is creating more and more stuff in the game that needs to be stored somewhere. (Summoning Stones, Books, Tonics, Consumables (a great big lot of them), New armor with each chapter, and the list goes on.) If that is QQ-ing to you, then the whole Guru forum is, and in that case I don't see what you're doing here in the first place.

If you can't post anything constructive here, please do not post at all. You post was a plain Trolling post.

Not to mention that with the -relatively- new addition of the HOM and being able to 'dedicate' things they have created a dynamic of acquisition. We keep acquiring things that cannot be destroyed because we've been given this HOM and Anet have simply not increased the storage to offset it. We have had one storage update, but as the game keeps increasing, and as our options for purchase increase it is unrealistic to expect us to be able to get by with the storage capacity that we have.