Consumables should be carried in an account-wide inventory bag.

Playnice

It is cumbersome to carry the same potions, drinks, food, soul gems, lockpicks, siege, repair kits, poisons, etc on every character. Why not just allow us to carry those items in a "consumables bag" that is accessible account-wide? If you feel that this would hurt your eso plus subscription revenue then how about increasing the additional storage space for those items for plus members?

Tandor

No thanks. My characters use different consumables and carry them individually, we don't need more account-wide generalisation.

TaSheen

I'd be okay with that if it was sold for crowns in the store, making it optional. I don't want another "account-wide" bag thing to sort through.

katanagirl1

I agree with you on soul gems, I have stacks of those on every toon and it would be nice if they went in the crafting bag.

Different toons need different food and other consumables, though.

ArchangelIsraphel

There is absolutely no down side to this account wide feature as it does not influence questing or character development. It sounds like a good idea.

Have a bag that allows tons of consumables. It wouldn't interfere with other characters because you can just quickslot whatever they specifically use.

A "favorite" function that operates on a per character basis could even be implemented, allowing the consumables specific to that character to appear at the top of the bag. No need to dig through.

Playnice

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

There is absolutely no down side to this account wide feature as it does not influence questing or character development. It sounds like a good idea.

Have a bag that allows tons of consumables. It wouldn't interfere with other characters because you can just quickslot whatever they specifically use.

A "favorite" function that operates on a per character basis could even be implemented, allowing the consumables specific to that character to appear at the top of the bag. No need to dig through.

Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I like your "favorites" function idea that would serve each character's needs.

Danikat

This might be ok if you do use the same ones on all characters, but I don't. I have characters of different levels and with different builds used in different situations so they use different foods and drinks (and poisons) to suit their needs. Having everything jumbled together would make it a mess.

It might be ok if I could have 10-15 favourites on each character and hide everything else so I only see the ones which they're using...but that seems like a lot of hassle to recreate the existing system. Or if this was an optional function I could turn off as soon as the update goes live and never turn on.

ShadowPaladin

This may sound like a good idea in theory. But as you can see Playnice, its one of those ideas which aren't that good in reality. Why? Because a lot of players do have different playstyles for each of their chars and therefore also different consumables they use. If the storage would be generalized and account-wide, it would be clogged really fast. In addition to that I could imagine that there could be also certain problems with the programming/coding and database usage.

If you do have problems with the size of the inventory regarding the amount of stuff you are carrying on each char, I am with you on that. But I do think there are better options to decrease the number of items. Options which would be highly sought after by many, many, many players. For example an extra *Furniture Bag* where all furniture items would be stored in you do loot or stackable Treasure Maps and Runeboxes (those for Morphs and Pets to learn) or an extra collection for Disguises (I do have 12 of those which you can't get anymore in the inventory of my oldest char) or stackable Glyphs .

CameraBeardThePirate

Tandor wrote: »

No thanks. My characters use different consumables and carry them individually, we don't need more account-wide generalisation.

How would consolidating consumables hurt you in any way? It would literally only add convenience. There aren't enough different consumables in the game (that are actually used) for something like this to create any sort of clutter. Even if you use different food and potions for every character, that's only around 30 items total that would be in the consolidated consumable window.

You'd also still have a consumable quickslot wheel to use. The only time you'd even have to enter this hypothetical consolidated consumable window would be to change to a new type of consumable.

Lapin_Logic

Playnice wrote: »

It is cumbersome to carry the same potions, drinks, food, soul gems, lockpicks, siege, repair kits, poisons, etc on every character. Why not just allow us to carry those items in a "consumables bag" that is accessible account-wide? If you feel that this would hurt your eso plus subscription revenue then how about increasing the additional storage space for those items for plus members?

Not just consumables, It's rediculous how much time is spent logging in and out of characters to transfer/search for gear to put on another toon.

At least give us the option to mark some items for "Account wide inventory" that would keep everyone happy, Bank is not fit for purpose in this regard

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Lapin_Logic wrote: »

Playnice wrote: »

It is cumbersome to carry the same potions, drinks, food, soul gems, lockpicks, siege, repair kits, poisons, etc on every character. Why not just allow us to carry those items in a "consumables bag" that is accessible account-wide? If you feel that this would hurt your eso plus subscription revenue then how about increasing the additional storage space for those items for plus members?

Not just consumables, It's rediculous how much time is spent logging in and out of characters to transfer/search for gear to put on another toon.

At least give us the option to mark some items for "Account wide inventory" that would keep everyone happy, Bank is not fit for purpose in this regard

That is exactly how my bank is used...

rpa

Just allow consuming and quickslotting consumables from bank. Make default option to consume only from inventory for those who rather have separate stash of consumables for each character. That way it can be released for all without putting more "convenience" in crown store.

erdbeerheld

At first glance, the idea sounds good, but it would definitely require refinement and redefining, what "Consumables" we are looking at. There a numerous different items, that are categorized as Consumable, that would definitely fill up the extra bag, and are being consumed via inventory and not quick-slot (Master writs, Crafting Motifs, Scrolls, Style Pages, Collectible fragments, ...). And there are consumables, that would not end up on your quickslot wheel (like alternate bufffood/drinks), that you would still want to have "convenient" access via an inventory-like UI ... without the need to search through the other consumables in that extra bag (that is probably one of the concerns regarding "clogged" extra bag).

Optional consumption from Bank sounds like a promising compromise.

BloodyStigmata

Is it that hard to run to a bank?

CameraBeardThePirate

BloodyStigmata wrote: »

Is it that hard to run to a bank?

You missed the entire point of the post. It's not about running to the bank, it's about taking the time to log out, log in, deposit, then log BACK out, and log in once more.

BloodyStigmata

CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »

BloodyStigmata wrote: »

Is it that hard to run to a bank?

You missed the entire point of the post. It's not about running to the bank, it's about taking the time to log out, log in, deposit, then log BACK out, and log in once more.

Or you could just get in the habit of depositing everything you use regularly before you log out of a character if you really think you're going to need it on another one. If you have to log out, then log in, deposit, log out, then log in again it's because you didn't do that.

Or you could, and hear me out, avoid that song and dance entirely by investing in alchemy and provisioning on your alts, and then you wouldn't need to share them. That is assuming of course that this is really that big a deal.

I'm failing to see how this issue isn't just a you issue. If we were talking about a furnishing bag or something I;d be on board, but this is just an inventory management failure on your part.