THE COST OF INCREASING STORAGE SPACES

Shadowshire · November 2015

The following list is an excerpt from an e-mail reply by ESOTU SUPPORT (2015 -11-10 Patch 2.2.4) Text in italics is added by the OP.

"You can buy inventory space by purchasing pack upgrades from pack merchants. Upgrading your bags increases their size by 10, from 60 slots to 110 (now 140) slots. Pack merchants are in almost every major city in Tamriel. The price to upgrade your inventory space is:

60 to 70 bag slots cost 400 gold
70 to 80 bag slots cost 2,000 gold
80 to 90 bag slots cost 5,900 gold
90 to 100 bag slots cost 11,900 gold
100 to 110 bag slots cost 19,200 gold
110 to 120 bag slots cost 30,700 gold
120 to 130 bag slots cost 46,000 gold
130 to 140 bag slots cost 64,500 gold

You can buy bank slots by purchasing upgrades from the banker. Upgrading your bags (bank slots) increases their size by 10, from 60 slots to 130 (now 240) slots. The price to upgrade your bank space is:

60 to 70 bank slots cost 1,000 gold
70 to 80 bank slots cost 3,300 gold
80 to 90 bank slots cost 6,800 gold
90 to 100 bank slots cost 11,400 gold
100 to 110 bank slots cost 20,500 gold
110 to 120 bank slots cost 28,300 gold
120 to 130 bank slots cost 32,700 gold
130 to 140 bank slots cost 37,500 gold
140 to 150 bank slots cost 42,700 gold
150 to 160 bank slots cost 45,000 gold
160 to 170 bank slots cost 50,000 gold
170 to 180 bank slots cost 55,000 gold
180 to 190 bank slots cost 60,000 gold
190 to 200 bank slots cost 65,000 gold
200 to 210 bank slots cost 70,000 gold
210 to 220 bank slots cost 75,000 gold
220 to 230 bank slots cost 80,000 gold
230 to 240 bank slots cost 85,000 gold
"

NOTES:

(1) Future price changes, if any, should be disclosed in the Patch Notes for the TESO version in which the change(s) are made. Perchance an in-game price demanded by a bag merchant or a banker is different from the numbers above, you can report it as a bug (use the key that is bound to screenshots to make one that shows the price, then enter /bug in the chat command line). However, if the numbers differ, it is doubtful that the developers will change the in-game data soon, if at all.

(2) For each character that you create, you can buy one Bag Space about once per day as a "Riding Lesson" from a Stablemaster -- up to a maximum of 60 slots. Currently the cost is 250 Gold Pieces per lesson (15,000 GP total). Be aware that the benefits of Riding Lessons are bound to the player's character, not to any mount. If the avatar summons a different mount, the benefits of the Riding Lessons go with the avatar to that mount. So, Bag Space cannot be increased by purchasing an additional mount(s).

Update: adding Bag Space with Riding Lessons for a character has no effect upon the increasing cost charged by Bag Merchants for additional Bag Space.

(3) We also can add 10 Bag slots or 10 Bank slots either by purchasing the corresponding "pack" at the Crown Store for 1,000 Crowns, or by using Crowns credited to our store account if we have an ESO Plus subscription. Note that using Crowns to add 10 Bag and/or Bank slots does increase the GP cost of further upgrades in-game, in accord with the price lists above.

The ESOTU Support reply continues: "... We are genuinely interested in your opinion and what you think about The Elder Scrolls Online. The fastest way to let our developers know, is to submit feedback by using the /feedback command in the in-game Chat Box."

Please use that feature to express your opinions and/or to offer suggestions about ESOTU storage space issues, not by replying to this post.

So now you know (as Paul Harvey always concluded his newscasts). ;-)

BabeestorGor · November 2015

Shadowshire wrote: »

The following list is an excerpt from an e-mail reply by ESOTU SUPPORT (2019-11-10 Patch 2.2.4) Text in italics is added by the OP.

"You can buy inventory space by purchasing pack upgrades from pack merchants. Upgrading your bags increases their size by 10, from 60 slots to 110 (now 140) slots. Pack merchants are in almost every major city in Tamriel. The price to upgrade your inventory space is:

60 to 70 bag slots cost 400 gold
70 to 80 bag slots cost 2,000 gold
80 to 90 bag slots cost 5,900 gold
90 to 100 bag slots cost 11,900 gold
100 to 110 bag slots cost 19,200 gold
110 to 120 bag slots cost 30,700 gold
120 to 130 bag slots cost 46,000 gold
130 to 140 bag slots cost 64,500 gold

You can buy bank slots by purchasing upgrades from the banker. Upgrading your bags (bank slots) increases their size by 10, from 60 slots to 130 (now 240) slots. The price to upgrade your bank space is:

60 to 70 bank slots cost 1,000 gold
70 to 80 bank slots cost 3,300 gold
80 to 90 bank slots cost 6,800 gold
90 to 100 bank slots cost 11,400 gold
100 to 110 bank slots cost 20,500 gold
110 to 120 bank slots cost 28,300 gold
120 to 130 bank slots cost 32,700 gold
130 to 140 bank slots cost 37,500 gold
140 to 150 bank slots cost 42,700 gold
150 to 160 bank slots cost 45,000 gold
160 to 170 bank slots cost 50,000 gold
170 to 180 bank slots cost 55,000 gold
180 to 190 bank slots cost 60,000 gold
190 to 200 bank slots cost 65,000 gold
200 to 210 bank slots cost 70,000 gold
210 to 220 bank slots cost 75,000 gold
220 to 230 bank slots cost 80,000 gold
230 to 240 bank slots cost 85,000 gold
"

NOTES:

(1) Perchance an in-game price demanded by a bag merchant or a banker is different from the numbers above, you can report it as a bug (use the key that is bound to screenshots to make one that shows the price, then enter /bug in the chat command line). However, if the numbers differ, it is doubtful that the developers will change the in-game data soon, if at all.

(2) At the time of this post, the cost is 250 GP each for a maximum of 20 slots (5000 GP total) for bag space on a mount. You can buy one space about once per day as a "riding lesson". Be aware that the effects of riding lessons are bound to the player's character, not to the mount. If the avatar summons a different mount, the benefits of the riding lessons go with the avatar to that mount. So, bag space cannot be increased by purchasing an additional mount(s).

In my experience so far, adding bag space on a mount has not affected the cost charged by bag merchants. But I suspect that bag merchant charges will increase to the next tier if I add at least 10 bag spaces for the mount. The person who replied to my inquiry ignored my questions about bag space on mounts.

(3) We also can add 10 bag slots or 10 bank slots either by purchasing the corresponding "pack" at the Company Store for 1,000 Crowns, or by using Crowns credited to our store account if we have an ESO Plus subscription. Note that using a Crown Pack to add 10 bag and/or bank slots increases the GP cost of further upgrades in-game, in accord with the price lists above.

The ESOTU Support reply continues: "... We are genuinely interested in your opinion and what you think about The Elder Scrolls Online. The fastest way to let our developers know, is to submit feedback by using the /feedback command in the in-game Chat Box."

Please use that feature to express your opinions and/or to offer suggestions about ESOTU storage space issues, not by replying to this post.

So now you know (as Paul Harvey always concluded his newscasts). ;-)

Bag space on a mount does not affect bag cost.
Also maximum saddlebag space purchaseable is 60 per character.

ladyonthemoon · November 2015

All this doesn't make any sense (not your post, the prices).

Yggdrasil_Gof · November 2015

I hate the cost, as you point 63.4k for me to get to 120 bag and bank space. I've been saving for ages, but with other cost I've had around 15k for a while.
@BabeestorGor is correct, 60 spaces, and no effect on cost of bank or bag space.

Oh_Skrivva · November 2015

Yeah inventory was a pain when I started, making alt/mules helps but is annoying to switch toons constantly to get a item and back again. I always seem to forget another item when I switched back and would have to do it again lol. Luckily a small guild a friend of mine made at launch that I was in. Slowly died out. Since most in the guild switched to console when they was able to transfer. I decided to stay with pc and my buddy gave me the GM of the guild. So now I have a entire guild bank just for my stuff. I also have maxed bag space on most of my toons including their horse bag upgrades abd upgraded my personal bank to max. I am a master crafter who has a somewhat hoarding problem so I use a lot of the resources of inventory that I have access to. I also have a second account that was my son's but he stopped playing a month after launch. So I can also use that as well. If I didn't have the methods of inventory options I have now. I would be really torn on trying to figure out what to keep or sell/trash. Doesn't help that ZOS gives us all these little trophies and trinkets that take up a good amount of inventory as well. They could atleast make those items not count towards your actual inventory slots.

Yggdrasil_Gof · November 2015

Almost every penny I've spent has gone on bank an bag space. My bank is full of crafting materials with about 4 souvenir weapons from end game. I still run out of space because I found a metal of gem that isn't in the bank. I need the space so I haven't got to carry those extra few materials that won't fit on the bank.
It's catch 22, I need the bag space so I can carry the extra till space is available in the bank by crafting enough it creates some space.
Does anyone have space under their bed, or in the garage for some of my stuff?

Oh_Skrivva · November 2015

If your really strapped for space. You can always get a friend to bounce mail back to you. That's what I did while back before I had the options I do now

Shadowshire · November 2015

Yes, thank-you for the correction: the maximum bag space on mounts is 60, not 20 -- 20 is what I am currently planning to buy.

Shadowshire · November 2015

Oh_Skrivva wrote: »

If your really strapped for space. You can always get a friend to bounce mail back to you. That's what I did while back before I had the options I do now

That can be a workable solution, but it has its limitations. I don't know what it would be, but I expect that there is a limit to how many messages can be stored in your inbox at any given time, as well as the 30-day limit for each respective message that you've received. I don't know what happens if you receive more messages than the inbox will hold. There is the cost of the "postage" for the attachments to the messages to consider. Also, things can go wrong, especially if your friend continues to hold the message(s) in their inbox instead of returning the items to you soon after receiving them.

Fat-Larry-Makes-All · November 2015

Shadowshire wrote: »

Oh_Skrivva wrote: »

If your really strapped for space. You can always get a friend to bounce mail back to you. That's what I did while back before I had the options I do now

That can be a workable solution, but it has its limitations. I don't know what it would be, but I expect that there is a limit to how many messages can be stored in your inbox at any given time, as well as the 30-day limit for each respective message that you've received. I don't know what happens if you receive more messages than the inbox will hold. There is the cost of the "postage" for the attachments to the messages to consider. Also, things can go wrong, especially if your friend continues to hold the message(s) in their inbox instead of returning the items to you soon after receiving them.

I believe you can have up to 200 mails in your mail-box, any extra mails are simply que'd up untill you get around to deleting a few old messages to make room. Probably not indefinitely, but you don't have to worry about losing stuff because your mail-box is full.

Increasing bag-space was priority #1 for me so that's where all my money went at first. You don't have an awful lot of other stuff to spend your cash on anyway.

vamp_emily · November 2015

Some people are so kind, I was complaining about the cost of bank space and someone mailed me 40,000g so I would quit complaining.

Brrrofski · November 2015

Eh, I've spent over 3/4 of a mil on bank space??

Just yhonk of all the ancestor silk I could buy with it

Shadowshire · November 2015

Brrrofski wrote: »

Eh, I've spent over 3/4 of a mil on bank space??

Just yhonk of all the ancestor silk I could buy with it

I am still at the start of figuring out how to actually acquire 750,000+ GP. Not that I'm asking for advice here, that is a discussion for another thread. So far, the bank account has 50,000 GP. I am playing two avatars "simultaneously" (i.e., one goes up two or three levels, then I level the other one). They cooperate in various ways and both contribute to the savings, but for some reason or another the Breton has been gaining more coin than the Imperial. .....

Shadowshire · November 2015

Fat-Larry-Makes-All wrote: »

.... Increasing bag-space was priority #1 for me so that's where all my money went at first. You don't have an awful lot of other stuff to spend your cash on anyway.

From the beginning I decided that I would not focus upon crafting as my primary activity in playing the game. I did that in other MMORPGs, and I hoped for a different experience from TESO. I have come to love the stories embodied in the quests, and enjoy fighting NPCs especially in instances. ESOTU Is rather well "written" with respect to the lore, and well-designed in how that is brought to life, so to speak, in playing the quests.

So, most of the funds my two avatars acquired, before they started doing Crafting Writs, were obtained by selling looted items that they did not need to use themselves. The coins were spent for food buffs, potions, sometimes for a piece of armor or a weapon, and eventually for "riding lessons". I accumulated ESO Plus Crowns to buy the Breton's horse. The other avatar is an Imperial, which I created after buying the upgrade from installing the Explorer's Pack for the regular game; the upgrade included an Imperial horse as well as a distinctive pet and some cosmetic crafting benefits.

Currently I am considering creating an "alt" character just to have bag storage space for "trinkets" such as Collectibles, and for materials which must be accumulated over a long period of time in pieces. I've discovered that Trophies are (supposed to be) recorded in each character's "Journal Achievements" section. There is at least one Trophy which I've earned that is not on any of the lists, so I reported that as a bug. :frown:

After increasing bag slots to 100, the total cost is less to buy a "pack horse" for the alt and add 60 bag space to it, than to expend GP to increase the alt's non-mount bag spaces (or to add slots to the shared bank storage). You also end-up with 160 bag-space slots for 60,000 coin instead of 140 slots. (Hmmm .... I hope no one rats on me to the devs for this arithmetic!)

Regardless, the problem with an increasing inventory of anything is that there are too few categories into which items are sorted by the storage UI, There is no search feature to enable a player to find a specific item or group of related items without scrolling through the growing lists (for which alphabetizing things by "name" has its drawbacks when the "name" begins with an adjective for the noun).

Of course, I could suggest a search feature be added, as no doubt others have already done. But I wonder whether the Bethesda team has the chops to design and implement it correctly. They would probably just select some half-baked function for it out of some library (a function likely to have ill-designed, minimal features, and probably bugged), and integrate it into the existing source code. .... Eh, please pardon my cynicism, I'm a retired systems analyst and programmer.

Shadowshire · August 2021

BabeestorGor wrote: »

Shadowshire wrote: »

(quoted OP text omitted)

Bag space on a mount does not affect bag cost.
Also maximum saddlebag space purchaseable is 60 per character.

Thank-you for your reply. I have edited the OP to correct my original remarks. The OP is still being returned as a result by the Google search engine for the search string "eso bag space upgrade costs".

ZOS_Bill · August 2021

As this thread is several years old and some of the information is outdated, we will be closing the discussion going forward.