New Storage Tab: Customized storage

Mylon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

I really want to see another tab for storage of customized items. This would give us a place to put alternate hero weapons, alternate sets of armor (so people could go collecting!) and especially holiday gear! It can be character specific, unlike other storage (since items are customized per character, not per account), and even possibly expandable by some means or another.

This would, if anything, have a positive impact on the economy because people would be more willing to buy armor and more willing to customize weapons and take them off the market.

Dark Angle

Dark Angle

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2005

/signed

looloo

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

/signed storage just too little in Gw

Cr4zyPl4yr

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

/signed

We could really use a key ring in this game as well. A new 5th inventory spot on your character for keys only.

The storage we get via the storage agent though is way too little.

Mahanaxar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Italy

Lupus Et Agnus

R/

Storage 10X10.
And give the possibility to buy more, like char slots.
The current storage is meant to hold items of ONE campaign.
Now we have three campaings, with different armors, weapons, event items, minipets.

Oh a GW forum

Oh a GW forum

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2006

W/

/signed

I'm so RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOin tight on storage it isn't funny. I have 2 mule account even

Xpl0iter

Xpl0iter

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Just A Digital Pimp Slap [DPS] - Guild Co-Leader

E/

i love the idea /signed!
LOVE THE KEY RINGS, i want my Female ELE key rings now ^_^i actualy had to purchase a whole new account in game just to create mules to keep my materials and weapons :/

Kais Unduli

Kais Unduli

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Room V

/signed


One hell of an idea, one that I'm sure a lot of players would find extremely useful.

Mylon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

My original idea was to have Xunlai faction points earnable by exploring the map, and spending these faction points to increase storage. Cartographer titles can increase the cap on this faction using the new mechanics like with Balth Faction, but I'm sure there are other ways that players can "earn" a bigger storage.

Diablo???

Diablo???

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Seattle

SPQR

N/R

Key rings are a genius idea!

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

/signed

mr_groovy

mr_groovy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

No Inherent Effect [NiE]

More storage means more serverspace Needed to store this data, aka a investment of Anet.

But A very good investment it is .

/Signed

Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Toronto

Hopping

Mo/A

/signed

Not that this will ever happen, I mean come on, were talking about Anet.

SoliceMoon

SoliceMoon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Little Rock, AR

Legacy of Echovald [Echo]

W/R

/signed

Oh a GW forum

Oh a GW forum

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by mr_groovy
More storage means more serverspace Needed to store this data, aka a investment of Anet.

But A very good investment it is .

/Signed
Um wrong. Everything is already there... how the hell is just having a tab for it taking up more server space for armor that already existed stuffed into every available space you had? Do you even think about something before you say it lol?

Ermac

Ermac

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Finland

Hoggies fan [club]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Oh a GW forum
Um wrong. Everything is already there... how the hell is just having a tab for it taking up more server space for armor that already existed stuffed into every available space you had? Do you even think about something before you say it lol?
It would require more server space + people would hog even more stuff on their account. :P

Do YOU think before you say ?

edit: i dont know that much about databases and such...but think if our account was 11kb's large...and say this increased it by 4kb per account... thats alot when you multiply it by the amount of accounts in the game. >_>

Mylon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

2 million accounts x 4 kb (which I agree that 4kb is reasonable) comes out to 8 billion bytes. Or 8 GB. Which is smaller than the smallest hard drive you can buy from a computer store.

Oh, and could I get some more meaningful replies, than, "/signed"? Great way to spam a thread. It's supportive spam, but still not terribly helpful.

Erudition

Erudition

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

Q&A section

Unique Warriors [UnWr]

/signed

I especially like the Key rings idea

teenchi

teenchi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

PST

Heros of Titans Realm [HotR]

W/Mo

/signed

thezed

thezed

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

Iowa, USA

HoTR

/signed

I think storage would be the single best thing Anet could add to the online store in their "Upgrades" section. They could make a lot of money selling additional storage space.

Solar_Takfar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Funny that I was thinking exactly this yesterday, as I watched my storage space be taken up by holiday hats. I was just about to post this here

/signed

I don't agree that it should be sold, tho; every character should have a full custom storage upgrade (unlockable like the materials storage, and as big as the normal shared storage space) for free. If you want to buy storage, just buy a new char slot and create a mule char, and there you go: 45 storage slots for 10 dollars.

MDeshame

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Mo/

to what limit though. if it's 5 slots, you'll aquire 6 itmes and gripe.
If it's 25 slots you'll aquire 26 items and gripe, and if it's 1500 items, you'll aquire 1501 items and gripe.

Lets see we want pet storage and crafting material storage, and armor storage, and weapon storage, and automobile storage, and rune storage, and inscription storage, and key storage, and dye storage, more gold storage, and more weapon storage, and now airplane storage, and more pet storage, and customized storage.

Sorry, but I don't by your 10 characters have every set of armor dyed in every color, every green, every gold, every mod, etc. Delete some of that stuff and stop pack ratting.

While additional storage is never a bad thing, there has to be a limit, and players will just have to manage to stay within those limits

/signed
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Solar_Takfar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

While it's fair that some limit must be forced (and Anet itself stated the choices of what to keep in inventory and what to lose are part of what they think makes RPGs fun), it's also a fact that the increasing number of campaigns (thus new armor and equipment and collector stuff, and now heroes, too) and holiday event goodies brings extra stress to the existing storage options. Customized storage is a perfect way to solve the problem created by the need to manually equip heroes, and it also helps with the holiday items issue, as well as the fact that players often have various weapon and armor setups (which is part of the GW philosophy of free change-in-the-fly: if people don't have enough space to have adequate gear, they risk missing that great aspect of the game).

A large enough customized storage can be a permanent solution to many of these problems, while remaining restricted enough to not make storage too easy. As a side effect, it will also encourage people to customize their greens and golds, reducing the amount of such items floating around and keeping the market stable as new items are farmed. All in all, a good idea.

And if it still isn't enough for some people, they can go and buy a slot for a mule char, as I said. All the better for Anet, who gets another 10 bucks.

Dougal Kronik

Dougal Kronik

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2005

Ontario, Canada

Glengarry Fencibles

R/

I would love to see a key ring or an armor/holiday gear storage tab.

There are some things I just would not want to get rid of. Green weapons, Holiday Headgear, Mini Pets.

They gave us a storage tab, they could add other tabs for gold to upgrade.

I would also like to see a collectible drop drop that you would have to pay gold to unlock for each area; examples would be an Ascalonian upgrade, Krytan upgrade, Kournan upgrade, Jade Sea upgrade, for each area where the creatures are similar between explorable zones. You would unlock these at the Xunlai Representative in each City/Major Outpost.

hidden_agenda

hidden_agenda

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

/signed

It's amazing, I was just about to post something along the same line yesterday but got interrupted...

My proposal would be a tab containing a scroll box. Each entry in the scroll box would contain a mini-icon + simple text of the item + character it's customized for.

However, I like this idea of the tab being character specific. In which case, it might just be, for your character XXX:

XXX's closet:
furious pumpkin head
witch's hat
yule hat
bloody scar for necro
deathly scar for necro
etc...

That's be very kewl indeed.

dansamy

Chasing Dragons

Join Date: May 2005

Lost in La-La Land

LFGuild

Mo/Me

The problem is that we now have 3 chapters and at least 8 character slots (for linking), while the Xunlai box is the exact same size for 2x the number of character slots. I wouldn't mind the shared storage if it increased a little bit. I mean, c'mon, we have THREE chapters now.....

guinevere

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

Europe [Neths]

[iP]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mylon
My original idea was to have Xunlai faction points earnable by exploring the map, and spending these faction points to increase storage. Cartographer titles can increase the cap on this faction using the new mechanics like with Balth Faction, but I'm sure there are other ways that players can "earn" a bigger storage.
This would force people to explore and some just farm a little and PvP a lot more...

but a 'special bag' for just keys, another tab for custom weps would rock.

Best idea I heard in a while was keep the storage like it is now and just add another tab, like the one we have now, but make that new tab character only

this would increase the storage space a LOT no need to make weapons stackable or w/e (I'm against that (oro farming would be too easy)). This new tab should be bought at the upgrade agent for a bigger ammount of money. Lets say 1p p/character. You keep the advantage of being able to trade stuff between your chars without having to ask others to help u trade. Or having a 2nd pc with guildwars running just so u can get something of a mule account.

LifeInfusion

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

Extra storage for
Keys = yes
Armor sets = yes, but within reason: 10 slots/character should be reasonable (extra 2 sets)
CUSTOMIZED weapons = yes, but with limitation to 5 slots per character (do you really need 100 customized weapons?)
All holiday items = in on character storage (2nd backpack or something)

Moiax

Moiax

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Pink Animal Clan

E/

Customized storage sounds like a fine way to implememt the storage problem. It certianly stands to reason that as our characters grow and grow, so does our need for storage, although I suppode one could make the argument that you can already buy extra storage - get another character slot and make a mule. However I feel that ANet should give those of us who continue to buy campaigns at least a little boost in our storage.

/signed

Gris Greene

Gris Greene

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

California, USA

R/N

When a different weapons slot is selected the weapons from the previous slot go back into storage. It would help if the weapons and armor could just stay in the weapons slots. That would at least give you room for four full sets of weapons and armor for each character, without using any additional storage space.

[DE]

[DE]

Hugs and Kisses

Join Date: Oct 2005

Scars Meadows

/signed

I don't have room for no mules and buying another account? psht!

Lord Dobo

Lord Dobo

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Arizona

The Unseen Hand Of Fate [fate]

E/

/signed for Holiday Items (customized and non) for sure.
Keys and dyes would be nice, as would mini-pets, but I'm not so sure about armors and weapons. The storage has to exsist to hold something without giving everything away in free space. Afterall, that's it's purpose... to hold stuff. What makes armor and weapons any different than most of the other things you CHOOSE to store.
But seriously ANET... Holiday items are obviously meant to be kept... why make it impossible to gain a benifit from having participated? With new Wintersday items likely, I can't see any of my characters being able to adventure much at all without constant inventory swaps.

The Silver Star

The Silver Star

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

UK, Scotland

Il Guild Name Il

W/

/signed... I have TWO yes only TWO PvE characters that i actually use and i still have storage problems one solution was so merchant all my 15k armor sets and get fow which helped bt i mean i shouldnt have to do such a thing just to have In space +_+

But i have a total of 11 character slots... which if i used more of i would have even less room :/

CtrlAltDel

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Ohio

Brotherhood of Havoc

Mo/Me

I have a hard enough time managing my storage for my characters...now I have to gear out heroes...and I got no additonal storage space to do it in?

/signed

Gris Greene

Gris Greene

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

California, USA

R/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Dobo
What makes armor and weapons any different than most of the other things you CHOOSE to store.
I totally agree that we should have tabs for keys, dyes and mini-pets.

But, I also need to store armor and weapons. There are collectible weapons that need to be stored until sold. Armor is like clothes. Do you only have one set of clothes in the closet? Certain armor is better suited for certain areas of the map. You might want to break out the fur lined armor when going to Shiverpeak.

Also, it's nice to have some "armor" to wear for special occasions, like Halloween.

Avatara

Avatara

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

/not signed
you aren't meant to mule items like crazy... more storage place only gives people that mule clear advantage... remember dragon mask era dye prices? Smaller storage forces you to think on what to keep and what not. It also stimulates trading.

Fender

Fender

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Ohio

XoO

I think shared storage should go up by 5 for every character added to the base 4. So, if you have all 3 chapters linked and bought the pre-release bonus pack, you'd have an additional 35 slots in shared storage. Buy a char slot in the store? Get 5 more slots in shared storage.

Daemon Dremora

Daemon Dremora

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Millington, TN

Seele Erntemaschine {Nein}

/signed

well when each new chapter comes out they give us more char. slots and the ability to buy more with the online store. why dont they give us more storage with each new chapter, and the ability to buy some on the online store. because, for some people what they would get with each new chapter would be plenty to get by on. but of course the farmers and other item collecting people, (special items and stuff), would use the room they could buy on the online store. just like the people that need a million char slots. i think it just makes sense. /end rant

Ariena Najea

Ariena Najea

Silence and Motion

Join Date: Jul 2006

Buffalo NY

New Horizon [NH]

Key rings, cool idea =D

With customized-only weapon/armor storage it wouldn't disrupt Anet's original ideas for storage...

/signed

Mylon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Avatara
/not signed
you aren't meant to mule items like crazy... more storage place only gives people that mule clear advantage... remember dragon mask era dye prices? Smaller storage forces you to think on what to keep and what not. It also stimulates trading.
I'm proposing customized storage, not dye storage. And "no storage" doesn't seem to stimulate trading because people aren't trashing old sets of equipment so they can make room for new sets of equipment and later trash another set so they can go back to that one. No, that's not happening. But customized storage would encourage people to have more than one set of customized armor.