Inventory management is exhausting

[Paladin_of_Power]

We need more storage space lots of storage space all kinds of storage space like now. And a faster way to clear the TR cash out add a button sent all items to character bank and another button to send all items to my inventory. Can you add another button send all bound to account items to shared bank bingo three steps done

[Drunkendex]

I have hated the fact that DDO is a Barbie dress-up game for many years. I want to play a character who's power is inherent to the character. My cleric should be powerful because his god makes him so, not because he found just the right dress to put on. Sadly, the munchkin campaign that is DDO makes gear far, far too important. m.

I never played tabletop,but I always was under impression that gear is VERY important in it.

Fight something with DR/magic with masterwork weapon and you won't have a good time. <- just an example

[cmecu]

Think of it from the perspective of a hoarder.

House is full, no more rooms to store stuff in. Either build another addition onto the house to keep more stuff or have the epiphany and get rid of all the stuff that is either redundant or easy to farm up again the next life.

You'd be amazed at how much stuff that is irrelevant to whatever you are playing now just drops casually as you go through the next life.

That is not always the case. You can ransack a quest and use all 3 rerolls for like 21 chances to get in item and it never drops. As for adding an addition to the house.. the house has no more real estate to build on. Just named set items alone , heroic and legendary take up many mules. Then toss in all non named set items. Heroic and Legendary.

Your making suggestions to put a band-aid on a gushing wound.. Also no one should have to toss items out they worked hard to get , especially if you get lucky and have nice ones with Reaper Bonus and Mythic Bonus. Toss in pots, cosmetics..and all the other tons of times in the game. There just isnt enough room, and they compound the problem by releasing more and more content with more items that has no room to go.

I solved the issue though. I just stopped playing. Been like 2 months or so since I last played. But I will continue to criticize them for their lack of empathy and their silence on the matter. Them fixing the banking issues , might be enough incentive for me to play a little, but too many other fun games to play with out all the issues this one has

[Wizard1406]

So... did anyone of the dev team see this post or any of the other multiple storage problem posts? Can you say something about future plans to fix this problem?

[magaiti]

They added bank upgrades 3 & 4 to DDO Store. Why are you still not happy?

[Logicman69]

You really think those who advocate minimalist approach don't consider themselves "clever"?

I actually don't think I am clever, but I recognize the system for what it is and adapt my playstyle for the game.

Inventory in this game has been an issue since the beginning. Before shared bank space, we had to mail items and play to our other characters. Or we would enlist a trusted guild member to pass items or plat for us via trade window. There was no sorting, no shared bank, no crafting storage. So however broken you think the inventory situation is now, it has been much worse.

I am not saying there is not still a problem. There is. SSG does not recognize that there is a significant amount of the player base that enjoys collecting. They get enjoyment over getting all the gear, all the mounts, all the cosmetics. I absolutely get it. But if we are being real, SSG has made it very obvious with their actions (or lack of) that they don't consider this an issue. So that leaves 2 choices. If you are a collector, you need a bunch of mules (each with max coin lord and house K favor plus max bank space) to store all the items on. This is the only current way to accomplish this. The other avenue is to take a minimalist approach to gear. Keep what you need and feed the rest. If you are frustrated with the first option, then people suggesting you try the 2nd is not clever or insulting. Its just simply providing an option for you.

A solution that would help solve this, and something that the player base has been asking for FOR YEARS, is player housing. Like guild ships, let me buy (with shards, plat, or points) a cottage/apartment/castle. Let me upgrade it (again with shards, plat, and/or points) with its own storage (start with a simple chest, upgrading it eventually to a vault that can hold thousands of items) and maybe even some minor buffs (like the guild buffs). Let me decorate it and add things like paintings to the wall, rugs, furniture This would not only solve our storage issue, but also give us a new aspect to the game and generate $$ for SSG through upgrade purchases. This is a win/win for all sides.

[Wizard1406]

The lack of space will not make a good impression on new players (code and movie should bring new players). Hope there will be an improvement soon.

If it's not possible to increase space anytime soon, at least an improvement in mule management (see inventory & bank of other chars? export all gear to list?) and a reduction in price, because currently getting enough space without TOO many mules is whale (or at least dolphin) level IMHO.

Having quality of life should not only be for rich players, look at other games...these days inventory space is less often monetized, because it is disliked by players.

[CaptainSpacePony]

#1 top solution to inventory management. Stop being a pack rat. Ask yourself how often you transfer items around to fix inventory, but you havn't actually equipped the item in over a year.

GL on clearing out the clutter.

Don't come at me with your "Reasonable" suggestions. I can't/won't do it!

I admit, I'm a recovering altaholic. Cutting down on played characters was a huge effort. Now you suggest I curb my digital hoarding? That's too much. Just sell me some more space, man.

[Bunker]

Don't come at me with your "Reasonable" suggestions. I can't/won't do it!

I admit, I'm a recovering altaholic. Cutting down on played characters was a huge effort. Now you suggest I curb my digital hoarding? That's too much. Just sell me some more space, man.

The sad result of my post was that upon logging in, I too ended up trimming the inventory fat in my bank.

It stung, but if I'm not using any item in over 10-15 lives, and it is something that can be farmed on the easy side, it was removed.

Yes, more space is a good answer, but when does it end. If you give a pack rat more space, they will simply just ask for more space once they have filled up the extra that was given. It will never end.

[Madja]

One can only dream that one day we'll have like 1000 shared storage

[Eantarus]

One can only dream that one day we'll have like 1000 shared storage

At the current rate the game is adding them, it won't last that long.

[Sylvado]

One can only dream that one day we'll have like 1000 shared storage

I have 5 times that amount stored.

[Wizard1406]

The sad result of my post was that upon logging in, I too ended up trimming the inventory fat in my bank.

It stung, but if I'm not using any item in over 10-15 lives, and it is something that can be farmed on the easy side, it was removed.

Yes, more space is a good answer, but when does it end. If you give a pack rat more space, they will simply just ask for more space once they have filled up the extra that was given. It will never end.

Yeah but "farmed on the easy side" barely exists, because of RNG and too many different items per chest. (3 per chest is farmable, 4 borderline, 5+ can take ages). If RNG with no bad luck protections absolutely has to stay, maybe they could make bonus rolls, where you can target a specific piece of gear? Or divide named items between chests, like first chest drops #1-3 (#1-2), last chest #4-6 (#3-4/5)?

But really more space is best, shouldn't take too much data storage (many items are rarely moved so not many transaction logs) or reduce the number of gear sets you need (level scaling?).

[Bunker]

Yeah but "farmed on the easy side" barely exists, because of RNG and too many different items per chest. (3 per chest is farmable, 4 borderline, 5+ can take ages). If RNG with no bad luck protections absolutely has to stay, maybe they could make bonus rolls, where you can target a specific piece of gear? Or divide named items between chests, like first chest drops #1-3 (#1-2), last chest #4-6 (#3-4/5)?

But really more space is best, shouldn't take too much data storage (many items are rarely moved so not many transaction logs) or reduce the number of gear sets you need (level scaling?).

I ran some Melee lives recently. so for example. I have a SoS and a Thirteen bsword. If I needed space. I could trash the bsword and keep the SoS because the SoS would take longer to farm. Yes. That is not the best example, but that is where I was going with it. I would scrap an item I haven't used in a while, but if I had to choose. It would be the one I can farm easier. Though to you point. Farming as a whole is not easy.

[DaviMOC]

I do believe that most people except the hoarding folks are doing their best to optimize storage, the need for sentient xp also helps on that. There is many things you can do to improve on how you deal with storage in this game but really, even doing that the storage is a big problem. Having mule characters shouldnt be a thing. As bad as storage is right now people really thinks twice before storing anything, thats not a problem for the players to solve, we are already doing what we can to deal with a system that is ridiculous broken for very long for whatever reason ( guess is monetization).

[Eantarus]

I do believe that most people except the hoarding folks are doing their best to optimize storage, the need for sentient xp also helps on that. There is many things you can do to improve on how you deal with storage in this game but really, even doing that the storage is a big problem. Having mule characters shouldnt be a thing. As bad as storage is right now people really thinks twice before storing anything, thats not a problem for the players to solve, we are already doing what we can to deal with a system that is ridiculous broken for very long for whatever reason

The only people(not going to name names, but there are a few in this thread) who think storage is "fine" are the wackos who play naked from 1-29, a niche play-style almost as stupid as permadeath. For the normis out there? We deal with the headache that is storage.

( guess is monetization).

If the cause of the current nightmare that is storage were "monetization", we should be very concerned. It means SSG is very, very bad at monetization.

[Wizard1406]

Having mule characters shouldnt be a thing. As bad as storage is right now people really thinks twice before storing anything, thats not a problem for the players to solve, we are already doing what we can to deal with a system that is ridiculous broken for very long for whatever reason ( guess is monetization).

Yep.... I have 16 mules and still not enough space. I had even thrown out some more rarely used things. For example I thought I'd never play monk except a multiclass that doesn't use the monk abilities (8/8/6) for 1 pastlife. But now there is SacredFist (with good pastlives...)

I no other MMO I need anywhere close too that many mules... WoW 1 (for auction only; there is enough bank space), FFXIV 0, SWTOR 0, GW2 0, FFXI 3 (mainly for auction), Neverwinter 0, Rift 1 (for auction). Never played LOTOR... space extremely limited there too?


If it is for monetization I think it is short-sighted, you'll loose more money from people leaving, not staying after trying than making from the purchases.

[DoctorOfLiterature]

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I’m to the point where when I get to cap I dread it. I really don’t want to TR because finding room for my cache and moving it all around takes me a couple hours. I want to play a game, not work! Devs, it feels like work and that isn’t good. Recent bank changes have helped, but I am stuck at 240 shared bank and it isn’t nearly enough.

[Oxarhamar]

The only people(not going to name names, but there are a few in this thread) who think storage is "fine" are the wackos who play naked from 1-29, a niche play-style almost as stupid as permadeath. For the normis out there? We deal with the headache that is storage.



If the cause of the current nightmare that is storage were "monetization", we should be very concerned. It means SSG is very, very bad at monetization.

No one in the thread said storage was fine however ways to deal with limited storage have been suggested

YW

[CWBush]

How has a button similar to the LOTRO "sort bags" option not been added? Such a PITA having to drag things across tabs just to get some semblance of order to the bag.