Lonzrick wrote: »

Worse than running out of inventory room is to run out of room then discover you have to abandon what you're doing to run across the map to the only bank in a 100 mile radius.

Um, most of the crafting functions automatically access things in your bank at any crafting station, IIRC.

Lonzrick wrote: »

For those with unlimited funds that can afford to drop the money to use the shrines there and back....

=*)

Ah so it is a case of not knowing how shrines work then.

If you go up to a shrine in the town you're crafting in and use that to go to the bank town's shrine, there is no charge.

I run three characters with two crafts each. It's pretty simple for me. Bank holds the motif and enhancment materials for clothing, woodworking, and blacksmithing, since those get shared between the characters. One character has the most space since he does blacksmithing and woodworking, so I often have him carry the extra equipment I'm researching, and any iron or maple and stuff I have. One character is doing clothign and provisioning. He gets the provisioning mats for all three alliances, but I only keep the most recent level of mats. I've started trashing old goat and pork in favor of kwama eggs for example. the last one is enchanting and alchemy. Those crafts have the largest low level requirement for items, since only alchemy water, potency runes, and aspect runes are affected by skill. The other items can be used regardless of skill level. He carries all the runes and I regularly make potions and sell or distirbute them to empty out my alchemy mats.

I am using horses, but only a few slots on them so far. Will be more cost effective to buy horse slots once I have another 2 backpack upgrades. So far I have 75 slots on each character, and havn't had too much trouble.

The reason it costs to store stuff is (almost definitely) not a resource issue, it is a money sink that progresses with player growth.

What makes no sense to me, really, are the trophies. They can be neat props, but they take up an inv slot, which makes them less than useless, but an active burden.

My general thing in returning to a town from questing is to shuffle the bank inventory so I can give my other crafting chars the mats and disassembles they need, which is pretty annoying logging in and out.

travell

Lonzrick wrote: »

For those with unlimited funds that can afford to drop the money to use the shrines there and back....

=*)

??? Traveling between wayshrines doesn't cost money. Running to the nearest wayshrine is almost never an issue. And then from there to any other wayshrine is free. I just go to the town where the bank is closest to the wayshrine (currently Shornhelm for me).

If you already have a horse there's really nothing else to spend gold on...I wish they would add cosmetic stuff to buy with gold for gold sinks...so I have been spending all my gold upgrading bank/bag storage.

Never needed to buy anything from the auction house and I'm level 48 so far and have a lot of my professions really high in level so I've been able to make any gear/weapons I would need and usually always get the special materials from deconstructing.

More gold sinks zenimax....making everything so expensive instead is ok I guess but give us stuff to buy with gold, pets, outfits, more variety in horses, player housing, furniture, etc...

I am doing OK with my inventory. I have 80 slots with around 35 in continual use, the rest I use for loot, and crafting items I need. I keep a list of what I need and only take those items that I require for smithing or provisioning. I then go off, craft away, and flog off what I have looted and made, or keep it if need be. I keep a lot of smithing items in the bank, and access them as needed via the crafting stations dotted around Tamriel. I also deconstruct any item worth deconstructing, and research the hell out of others. It all depends on how you play the game, but it seems to me that you have to be discriminatory in what you pick up, thinking all the time about what you need, what skill lines you are using etc...

Having played Oblivion and Skyrim previously, cramped inventory space is something I am accustomed to in Elder Scrolls games. Although space there depended on encumbrance rather than a fixed number of slots, I still remember all the times I would stand at the end of an Oblivion or Skyrim dungeon, fretting over which items to leave behind as I could not pack them all. While I believe I rank among the most obsessed of pack rats in other games, I learned to adapt to this and thrive nonetheless. It is part of the challenge.

I would not mind if there were more banks dotted around the maps though, even if the wayshrines make getting around quite simple. Oh, and also the distances between banks and crafting stations are a tad far to my tastes, although I have a couple of private thoughts of why that might have been a very conscious choice by the developers.

Is there more to add to this thread, other that I agree on this. It is cumbersome and ridiculous that the space we have is so tiny. There simply is not enough space and too many items that you want to hold on, not to mention the ridiculous business of CE edition treasure maps that you can not store and take space, yet when you sell them, you also forfeit all of the treasures I heard.

So I guess nobody in here heard of the bank-bug?
Missing Bank Items, Bank Slots, & Skill Points
Everything in my bank is gone/deleted while playing
ingame bank slots reset issue
bank reset to level 1 upon receipt of duplicate emails for preorder + imperial digital edition bonus
.. and similar treads in German & French.

The inventory implementation is simply not acceptable.

Even with using the buggy bank as my crappy provision mat dump and offloading everything else on alts thus having 50 slots free, you still need 10-20 for that damn potion wheel, other buffoods and misc. crap.

Even on a haphazard boss farm attempt in Ebonheart´s first Magic Guild questline dungeon (Armature thingy?) I was filled up in 5-10 mins.
Ridiculous..

I don't think it's bad design. I think it's brilliant. A lot of people are just spoiled by games that allow unreasonably large amounts of nearly infinite storage to satisfy their inner pack rat. They don't like the feature because they want limitless storage. At the end of the day though, no amount of storage will ever be enough for the pack rats. Whether they fill it with brooms or pieces of armor, they will pack every thing they find away until it is full, then they will come back to the forums and cry for more storage. The best solution is limited storage that forces the player to decide what is most important and encourages them to unload the rest.

NixiPixi wrote: »

Never before in a game have I struggled with my inventory space and had to return to town so many times to deposit in the bank than in this game. I am thoroughly enjoying the game itself but it is tainting my experience having to destroy items constantly to make way for new ones.

This is a game with an abundance of materials and I am the sort of person who checks every box, barrel and bag so my inventory space gets used up fast and I don't like destroying things

I have upgraded my bank once and bag twice and am saving up to do it again but am nowhere near the amount I need.

Is anyone else having the same problem? Am I just hoarding too much? And are the prices to upgrade inventory space too high or realistic?

I use a guild bank for storage.

This works because the group I run with is composed of older gamers who know each other from other games. We store everything in multiple banks, are careful who we invite, and the bank is a community chest. Its how a guild should be.

You should make an effort to socialize and make a group of 10+ who can trust eachother in this way