Why don't recipes and motifs stack?

disintegr8 · November 2016

Since they have now made survey writs stack in your bank and inventory, I would like ZOS to do the same with recipes and crafting motifs. With the influx of new sets in the game, it would help some of us suffering from inventory management issues if the 'paper' items would stack.

While they are at it, the same could also be done for treasure maps.

Diminish · November 2016

Who stacks "paper" items? All the sheets of paper I have around my house are all laid out side by side.

#logic

Mojmir · November 2016

Because it would make sense

STEVIL · November 2016

i cook all the time and i can attest that 100 servings of roasted meat packaged for travel does indeed take less space than two paper copies of the recipe it takes to make them.

yes, talks when drunk got out today.

Master_Fluff · November 2016

Indeed, I've always wondered this too. It can't be that difficult to add this to a future patch, can it?

Nestor · November 2016

Normally, this lack of stacking is not an issue, how often do we really have multiple copies of a bunch of recipes or Motifs? However, events like the one we are in, or just finished, certainly tax the storage systems in the game.

For the record, I think they should stack also, but I also don't see this as critical as eradicating the Prosperous Trait from the game.

STEVIL · November 2016

Nestor wrote: »

Normally, this lack of stacking is not an issue, how often do we really have multiple copies of a bunch of recipes or Motifs? However, events like the one we are in, or just finished, certainly tax the storage systems in the game.

For the record, I think they should stack also, but I also don't see this as critical as eradicating the Prosperous Trait from the game.

No disagreement - although running 12 provisioning writs a day... those recipes stack up.

saxgooner · November 2016

No disagreement - although running 12 provisioning writs a day... those recipes stack up.

How do you get your recipes to stack up?

Solus · November 2016

Nestor wrote: »

Normally, this lack of stacking is not an issue, how often do we really have multiple copies of a bunch of recipes or Motifs? However, events like the one we are in, or just finished, certainly tax the storage systems in the game.

For the record, I think they should stack also, but I also don't see this as critical as eradicating the Prosperous Trait from the game.

I have just about every treasure map you can have in game.. from farming treasure chests and thieves troves. I would love to have maps stack. Ive just been selling the motifs to my porta-merchant tbh. The only thing worth keeping extras of are the masks/ Bloody maras.

SHADOW2KK · November 2016

Mojmir wrote: »

Because it would make sense

Could not have said it better myself, and lets be honest ZoS are not particularly great on common sense stuff, even years later.

Solus · November 2016

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

Mojmir wrote: »

Because it would make sense

Could not have said it better myself, and lets be honest ZoS are not particularly great on common sense stuff, even years later.

Apparently the beta testers said that their coding would cause lag during PVP because of the way the packets are some P2P system..

Here we are three years later, Cyro w/ bad lag.

disintegr8 · November 2016

The stupid thing is that the last patch introduced survey map stacking while halving the number of survey maps you actually get. Maybe treasure maps, recipes and motifs will also start stacking when they halve the drop rate so will hardly ever stack them.

Anyone who runs, or plans to run multiple characters, and wants to bank these items so their alts can learn them, would benefit from this stacking. Also if you sell them in guild traders, you want to hang on to extras so you can sell 1 or 2 at a time if you have several, or need to wait until you have free sales slots.

I try and hang on to copies of motifs so I can give or trade them with friends, guildmates, etc. My treasure maps get stored so I can spend a couple of hours collecting all of them with the one character when I can't be bothered with anything else. I cannot even have two the same in my player inventory or in the bank as they are a unique item.