Holiday Storage?

And Dye isnt a specifically designated item? A 15^50 insignia isn't a specifically designated item?

Hmmm, can I have a holiday item (Dragon Mask) and put a rune on it... Now MY dragon mask is different from everyone elses... so it is no longer a specifically designated item...

So take YOUR ignorance somewhere else if you dont mind.

I simply hope its not for event items only...

yay hat storage

*cheers anet on, cmon anet now all we need is armor storage you can do it cmon anet *

I would actually agree with you, if there actually WAS an inscription trader.
But as of now, there isn't.

I really hope it will be possible to store Any hats in the new storage, as every character has usually plenty of them so it would be really useful. Because of ridiculously small storage space in this game i kept ell event hats only for 1 of my characters, (had to delete others) so i hope this addition will be useful for all my characters not just one.

Then perhaps they should spend more time on these technical issues rather than spending it on holiday hat storage.

I'm not flaming them, because I'm sure there are such issues involved, it seems simple on the surface but I know it isn't. I'm just saying that 3 chapters in, it's about that time to give us a bigger storage box.

Or instead of holiday hat storage perhaps rune storage, dye storage, insignia storage... SOMETHING for items that have an actual purpose.

Because it takes up more storage space. Anet sold 3 million copies of the game so far so imagine if each user will need an extra 100kb to store their account information, that will heaps!

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I doubt it is that simple. Considering Anet does not own their servers (NCSoft does), the problem might be more complicated than just... making the storage space larger.

same...a bit late A.net

3 million copies is about 2mln accounts, most of which are inactive anyway.
Even a massive storage update wouldnt exceed even +10kB per account in my opinion.
A single item should take under 64 bytes of data, and more standardized things like stack of materials or a rune is probably 2-4 bytes.
Also, server storage space is extremelly cheap nowadays, seen those 3GB+ free email accounts or free hosting services for huge files ?

So i'm sure server storage space is not the reason we're not getting more storage. Somehow Anet doesn't want us to have more.

The Wintersday Update does not bring about a strict hat storage addition. The system is different. So, no, no one is suggesting that the parameters, limitations, or timeline regarding storage have changed in any sense.

Sorry, but in fact it doesn't sound at all like armor storage. If it does sound like that to anyone, please read again, and if it still sounds like that, then I apologize because the Wintersday feature involves hats, only, and that's how it was intended. (I know, I wrote it. ) I really want to make sure that we keep realistic and not go into excesses of what we desire suddenly becoming what we expect or even--heaven forbid!--what we think we were "promised." (This from the person who gets accused of promises she does not make allll the time. )

It is much more complicated than throwing up a few rows in the storage bin, and not all the complications are related to servers, not at all. I'm sorry, unless you have source code, please don't make speculative statements about how it would work or what it would take. And don't presume to say what we do and do not want to do. Please, it's wrong and it's rude.

I don't usually quote heated posts like this. However, what you've said contains a lot of truth and I admire the spirit in which it was made. Here are some thoughts I put together on this:

I'm seeing a bit of commentary in the community saying, "Only reconnects? Only party search?" (Which we all know happened to be two of the most-requested features ever!) Yet I do believe I've seen, "Only those? Why not chocolate-covered candies delivered personally by members of the Dev Team?" Now, of course I'm teasing there, but the fact is, there will always be things that are wanted, there will always be things that we want to bring you as much as you want to have them. But it is impossible for us to do all of them in the here and now. We can only do what we can do, and cannot do "all that and a cherry on top." We will always try to please and even surprise you, and I think all players will admit this mysterious "hat thingie" does come as a surprise.

Perhaps in the future changes to storage will be made. For the here and now, this is a gift, something wanted, something cool, but not something required to play the game. I saw how the designers took extra hours of their own time to work on this; I saw the programmer chomp into that code and work hard to bring this to be. Between you and me, I was told it was only 30% likely we could get it into the Wintersday Update, because there is so much in the update and time was running short. "30%?" I thought to myself. "Aw heck, it would have been so cool, especially for the way in which it works, which I think is charming." And when they told me a couple of days later, "It's a go!" I was excited, for my girls, for your characters, for everyone.

I hope that in the spirit of the season, everyone will see this as the fun and delightful gift that it is.

Well, I'm still hapy and excited for whatever we get^

Well, I'm still happy and excited for whatever we get^

Since you won't listen to what I have to say then maybe you'll listen to Gaile:

It really is another case of people throwing tantrums when they have no clue how complicated things are. They just demand and scream without thinking.

So I'm picturing a system where you 'place' your hats with the Xunlai and then they implement a pull-down menu in the Inventory screen which lets you toggle between current boring armour hat () and all the special hats that particular character has obtained.

It'll save me about 25 storage spaces so I'm keen, and actually simplify changing your hats too

Dude, you need to go back and learn to read... She didnt say anything that contradicted my reply to you.

You gave an example that was WRONG, I called you on it... I quoted you, and you even went back to edit your post to remove what you said as you realized it was wrong.

I dont need to say anything else, you removed from your post what I quoted so you must agree with me that you were WRONG.

Guess again. Check the time of edit and the time of your post. I edited before you posted. It had nothing to do with realizing I was wrong. Which I wasnt. I tried to edit again but Guru crapped out on me. But no. Try again, I wasnt agreeing with you.

ah thanks for clearing things up, i myself was also thinking it was a armor storage not just a "hat" storage but still can't wait for it THANKS ANET

"Technical reasons" being they want to keep size down and access fast on servers. If they can add extra data to a character like heroes, they could add another bag to characters (with perhaps some major PITA data shuffling though)

Anyway, first realistic guess, /hats command, spawns any holiday hats your character (account?) has acquired. So you can trash them when they aren't needed and spawn them when you want them.

Second, too-good-to-be-true guess: pull-down menu for making helms visible/invisible updated so you can choose a holiday helm appearance for whatever stat helm you're actually wearing (based on "unlocking" holiday helms, per char/account/whatever)