You can only make 8 Toons so you can't create your own guild that way. Besides, I think you need 10 accounts, not 10 characters.

However that is how you have to do it. Make Mules and use them for Storage. Give them names that make sense so you know what they have. So, if your main is name Gelthor then you have a Gelthor Alchemy, Glethor Clothwood, Gelthor Enchanting etc.

Then give the mules the first two cheap bag upgrades (400 and 2000 to get to 80 total) and then you will have enough space. Try to limit the mule count to 4 to 6 of them so you can make alts that you can actually play.

Then you get to do what the rest of us do, play Alt Logging and log in and out of Alts to maintain your inventory.

That sounds like WAAAAY too much work for a "game". I'd rather actually craft, do quests, and explore. It seems telling that someone actually wrote an addon specifically for exploiting the mail system for extra storage. I don't mean exploit as in a bannable offense either, at least I don't think it would be. I mean legit exploit. And where is a new player to get all of that gold to buy horses, bank additions, and bag additions for mules? It sounds more and more like I'm supposed to just level to 50 and not touch crafting or loot anything until I'm able to go out and do the insanely fun task of farming gold so that I can actually enjoy the game the way I want. I can also see how this would possibly push someone to buy gold with cash money, but I haven't seen any gold spammers. I guess they all left already.

No, I think this style of MMO is very good for me. I really really enjoy crafting, exploration, and sort of real-time combat, no quest hubs per-say, and no "go kill 10 boars" type quests. The ONLY things about ESO that I don't like so far are storage and gold. Everyone I've talked to has pretty much said that I have to level a character to 50ish in order to be able to afford anything. So I guess I'll just muddle through that first character and then maybe have more fun with the alts when I can afford storage and a horse.

Trick is, make your alts now. Buy em a horse if you've got the imp edition and log on to them at least once a day to feed it oats. By the time you actually get around to playing them, plenty of storage.

kewl wrote: »

Also have two vets that are over 90k gold. Its been very easy for me buy all the necessary upgrades to support eight characters.

Yeah, that makes it quite easy. As I said, I guess the game is designed so that your first character is broke until high levels, then you can afford a horse and storage. I've probably made 4-5k on my lvl 10 newb, but that's hardly a drop in the bucket for paying for storage and a horse. Actually, a random person gave me 1k of that just for doing pushups! 1k is a lot for me though.

Others have hit the nail on the head here for ways to get as much storage as possible. There are a variety of ways to do it.

Personally, I keep all of my unrefined mats for clothing, armor, and weapons, and style/trait mats for the same in my main bank, and constantly deposit those as I find them. When I get full stacks of these in my main bank, I move them to an alt that I have specifically for keeping stacks of mats. That way I always have stacks of mats I can use straight from my bank, and I can funnel all of the miscellaneous raw mats from mutliple toons into one space until I get a full stack and can move it into back stock.

I only have one, or at most two, of these crafts on one toon, especially since you need to use up skills to craft effectively, and that cuts into the points I can use for abilities. If you want to level all of the clothing/armor/weapons crafts, I strongly recommend a two (or more) toon approach. It allows you to get way more items as loot from quests, chests, and mobs, and then funnel them to the appropriate crafter. Two toons will get twice as many heavy items as one, and if you funnel all of those to one toon, you can decon them and level that craft twice as fast. Since deconning generates finished mats, I keep those on the toon that uses them, again, until I get a full stack, and then I move them to my back stock alt.

For enchanting and alchemy I have an alt devoted to them who holds all the base mats, and thats all I use those alts for. I don't do provisioning, but I wish I did, and I would use the same approach. Finally, I have an alt that I use to temporarily store glyphs until I want to decon them. This is probably unnecessary if you are actively keeping up with that craft, but since I'm not its a convenient way to keep hold of them. I also keep an alt for things like pets, costumes, and the cosmetic goodies that drop from public dungeon bosses, so those are out of my way. I even keep an alt for all the set item drops I get while I'm waiting to try and sell them.

And I don't even use horses, though I'm starting to think its not a bad idea. Anyway, I guess I would say that if you are trying to do all crafting on one character you are probably going to struggle, and since alts are a great source of storage, you might as well also use them as alternate crafters. It only takes hunting a few skyshards and a little leveling to get them enough skill points for one craft.

It's not too hard to manage Inventory.

First, leave alchemy and enchanting mats on the characters, as these can fill a bank up all on their own.
Second, get more space, buy Bag and Bank upgrades, and of course get a horse and eat it oats (gives 50 slots in your inventory)
Third, get rid of mats you won't craft with again. At level 25 for example you will never again wear armour made from Jutte or Iron, so unless you have a lower level alt, get rid of it.
Fourth, deconstruct weapons and Armour unless you are going to use them or research them.

Most players in the game do not use mules or play the bank game to transfer materials between characters all day. I don't recommend that people start.

To build on what AlexD said...

• Don't try to do all the crafts at the same time with the same character.
• Only collect mats needed for the character. If you have alts, let them collect or purchase their own mats.
• If you do collect for alts, choose your mats wisely and store them in the bank.
• Use the mats. Don't store more than you need.
• Sell mats you don't need, buy the ones you do need.

I am currently working on Blacksmithing, Clothing, Enchanting, and Woodworking across multiple alts. I am doing Alchemy and Provisioning on individual alts. I use my bank space to store the mats I need for the common crafts and make the individuals carry their own stuff. I only need to store those that are actually needed. I sell or dispose of the remainder. I mostly use the bank to collect stacks of things for sale, not for personal crafting use.

The only time I am in the bank is when I need to offload stuff for other crafters or stuff I will be selling. While I am there, I also note who else is in the bank while I am there. This is why I can tell you that most players do not do the bank alt thing.

lordrichter wrote: »

This is why I can tell you that most players do not do the bank alt thing.

Your forgetting the Guild Stores is the other reason they are in the banks. Also, all my mules visit the banks about once a day.

According to this, and the poll did not provide a 0 option, so looking at the posts where people said 0, a bit more than half the players that answered use Mules

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/125915/how-many-alts-do-you-use-for-mules/

I have a feeling that those that answered 0 are not crafting in a bunch of lines. One character can do Woodworking and Clothing (which covers 80% of the builds that one would want to craft for) and not have too many inventory issues. Throw in Provisioning or Alchemy or Enchanting, then a single character is going to have problems. Unless they are farming gold to buy bag slots at the bank. My thought is, if your farming gold to buy bank slots, then you might as well buy what you need and not get the bank slots.

Nestor wrote: »

Unless they are farming gold to buy bag slots at the bank. My thought is, if your farming gold to buy bank slots, then you might as well buy what you need and not get the bank slots.

The second mention of gold farming, really? I have all the gold I need without doing any of the activities associated with farming.

kewl wrote: »

My low lvl chars sit on about 4k gold each. No farming, no tricks, just questing and gathering. Also have two vets that are over 90k gold. Its been very easy for me buy all the necessary upgrades to support eight characters.

kewl wrote: »

• List items in a guild store for well over market value. It will remain on sale for 30 days, then be mailed back to you. There is a cost associated.

This is guild store abuse. Don't do it. Many people use guild store analysis programs like ShopKeeper and DataDaedra to analyze prices and calculate what the going rates are. If you stuff your Guild Store with overpriced stuff you have no intention of selling, you are harming everyone.

kewl wrote: »

• Right now, beverages and food buffs don't stack. Food buffs are superior, so I delete beverage ingredients. This will change in Update 6 or 7.

What this means is that you can't have a food buff and and a beverage buff active at the same time.

I'm maintaining stacks of beverage ingredients against the time when the new system arrives, at which point existing ingredients will be upgraded or possibly given a sale value; I imagine this will be particularly true of blue and purple ingredients. They will then be useful or valuable, or both. I devote an alt to this kind of storage. The only ingredients that I keep in my main bank and my provisioning character are the ones that I'm actively using.

The addon you should use to keep track of all of this is Sous Chef:

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info163-SousChef-ProvisioningHelper.html