More storage space?

Does anybody know if they're going to increase the storage space for free anytime? The reason i say free is because as of now, the only extra storage space availible is other characters, which turn into unused characters because they have so much crap on them they couldnt collect drops or take quest items, so their's no use for em and the character slots cost money (i.e. from buying the game or extra slots your able to purchase).

I'm pretty sure im not the only one with storage issues, so like an update that created tabs for storage or even if we had to pay like 1k or sumthing for another 5 spaces or something would be great cause i would actually like to use my paragon, mesmer, and necro sometime, but they're all full up on weapons, dyes, materials, minipets, ect.

Its an issue of server storage space. I don't expect it anytime soon. Just transfer stuff from one character to another when you start to use them.

Well, since they allready are selling PvP unlock packs and character slots in their online store, why not sell additional vault "pages"? I don't know, like $1.99? No idea how it would be priced. Probably less than a character slot, considering another page on your vault box (like how they have the material storage tab, could just add "Vault Space 2" or something) would likely take up less space than a whole character (which has stats/skills/equipment/appearance/location/inventory to be stored)...

I don't know how well recieved that would be, but it seems reasonable to me. I'm sure tons of people would plunk down a few bucks to get more storage space. I know I would.

We need more storage. Mine is full and I have 4 slots left on my monk. Either that or we need merchants to buy our stuff at a fair price.

Cleaned up the thread, let's keep it on topic, please.


-Anarion

well the material storage was a great idea. Can we increase the cap though? I have 250 tanned hide, then another 250 in the regular storage, and now a third stack is forming so the material storage, although cute at first is not doing it's job.

One might say I don't need all those materials but I'd like to get all my characters lookin spiffy. A good idea would be to increase the stack to atleast 500. I'd be happier at 750 or 1k.

or maybe another tab for dyes and weapon upgrades

or a place for all your many different armor

yes, we need more spaces in our storage that's for sure, but yet again, no matter how big Anet increases, this complain will never stop. who knows, they aren't increasing the storage to make people buy more slots lol.

The best suggestion I've seen (it's in the suggestion forum somewhere, but I can't remember who posted it) is to make a "Customized Storage". This storage area would only hold items customized to your characters (armor and weapons) and it wouldn't affect the game's economy by letting said items pile up in storage since customized items are of no use to other players.

And, yeah, I agree with needing more storage space. I'm on the Hell's Precipice mission in Prophecies and I hate having to stop doing missions in order to sit in a town for 20 minutes to sell items so I have more room in my storage.

If you talk to the storage npc in Kamadan (not the normal Xunlai Agent, I don't have my game on this computer to check the name) they tell you something like "We have added materials storage with more improvements in the near future!" Could someone look this up and post a pic?

Of course the obvious answer to not keeping multiple stacks of tanned hides, etc is just to sell them. If you sell at market value (or even to material merchant) you will break even at worst *if* you need them for later armor.

And to Samuel ... If you are taking 20 minutes to sell items you are selling too much to other players IMO. Personally if it is not a perfect Mursaat Hornbow, Hammer, or Fellblade (from that area) it goes to the NPC merchant so I can get back to killing stuff.

ANet may have various reasons not to increase storage space, but I assure you, server storage space is definetly not the issue here.

Ive said it once and I'll say it again. Storage is probably the single best thing Anet could add to the "Upgrades" part of the online store. I would be more then happy to give them an extra few bucks for more storage. As long as it was reasonably (less then $5) priced.

Selling expansion space is unbalancing. PvP unlock packs don't give you anything you can't get in game.

The reason for storage limitation is for gameplay reasons. It prevents you from hoarding items. This may seem like an annoyance, but imagine what would farmers and re-sellers with 10+ accounts do. A single person would take over entire market. Already it's rather trivial to get unlimited storage - the pro traders in LA and similar districts never seem to be in short supply of any mod you want.

Perhaps the best addition would be armor storage, since multiple sets of armor are very common in PvE.

But resources, dyes, runes and collectibles are intended to be sold.

And server storage space has nothing whatsoever to do with it. After all, the character space has at least quadrupled with introduction of hero (runes + insignias + weapons + mods + builds)

well depending on how u wanna look at it, they already do sell 'expansion space' for $9.99 (extra character slot).

Selling storage space in the online store for real world money is just a bad idea.
This is part of the game and it should not be for real money.

If you want more space then buy a character slot for $9.99 and you have your self 45 slots mule after you get the belt/bags/runes for that character.

If they intend to add storage tabs for dye/armor/etc then that should be as a free update.

Why do I have a feeling that this topic has been mentioned before ?

As far as seeing a storage update, it may/may not happen. Everyone has been begging for it every since Prophecies came out. If it happens, I'll be glad when that day comes. We'll just have to wait and see.

I cant understand why dont they just do it. How many tb(terabyte) would it takes to make it x10 of current space. Isnt this items are just codes as:
Zealus Sword of Fortitude [00125425]
how many bytes would this take? Lets say 1kb(which is a lot more than normal just tried 36 byte about 1/20 of 1kb ) now lets multiple this with player population. And space that would be added. If the population of guild war is 5 million people it would be bout 120gb. Lets make the calculation:
50b for each item. if 500 more slot at storage. 50x500:25.000b
25,000x5.000.000(people):125.000.000.000 byte
125.000.000.000 byte means about 125gb if we say it is /1000 each unit. İt is normall 1024 it makes 116gb. Population of gw isnt 5mil as I know make your own calculation if you like.

I have a solution for this.
Since storage is 50G the first time, buying a double space upgrade would be 1K, double it again for 2K, double it thrice for 4K. Also, let armor sets stack so all my scar pattern stuff would take one slot and all my tormentors stuff would take another, not 10 slots total.

If you wanted a specific piece equipped just drag the stack on like normal and a window will pop up asking "Equip [V]ALL[V]" the [V]ALL[V] is a drop down menu from which you can choose All, Head, Chest, Legs, Hands, and Feet.

I understand the need for more storage, the materials tab was great. I could see maybe a collectors (items you trade to collectors for stuffs) or dye tab, but for weapons and armor, that doesn't make too much sense to me. Maybe add another 5 slots on the main storage and add the tabs for dyes and collectors items, that seems to make sense. If you have too much crap or hording way too much stuff then that's your own fault. don't blame them for your lack of control to horde. It's a game people enjoy and share.