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Do we need more inventory slots?

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I mean, most other games grant more inventory slots with the release of DLCs.

Do we need more inventory slots? 293 votes

Yes for character and bank
76% 224 votes
Yes for character only
1% 4 votes
Yes for bank only
9% 27 votes
No
12% 38 votes
  • Tandor
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    New releases bring some new sets, and render some old ones obsolete. No need to hang onto them. The game already panders to far too much unnecessary hoarding, adding more slots would just keep some players quiet for a few days and then they'd start lobbying for more slots again.
  • DUTCH_REAPER
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    Ah yes, but imma loot whre and can’t help myself 😉😈
  • TaSheen
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    I don't. I don't use anywhere close to all the ones I have on any of my many many characters. Nor are my banks full on any of my three accounts, both PC megaservers.
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  • DUTCH_REAPER
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    Not to mention with the armorer, my guy has a tank spec a dps spec a healer spec and a pvp spec. Lots of gear that take up space because putting in the bank and getting it out pfft. No way
  • daim
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    The more you have inventory space the more you have trash.

    Although a few new furniture chests wouldn't hurt...
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  • Veryamedliel
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    Do I need more space.. Not really. Would I say no to more space? Never. There's no such thing as too much inventory/bank slots.
    Edited by Veryamedliel on October 30, 2023 11:39PM
  • Monte_Cristo
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    Since they keep adding new crafting mats, 1 more bank upgrade (10 spaces) per chapter would be nice.
  • LunaFlora
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    i would Love more inventory slots always.
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  • evymyu233
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    yes pls
  • peacenote
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    Yes. I picked both, but if I had to pick one I'd pick bank space. And, while everyone might not agree with "need," I certainly do.

    I primarily like to make healers and tanks. I do dungeons, trials, PvP, and also putz around in the world solo (well, technically with companions) with these characters, chasing achievements, unlocking skill points, etc.

    Let's just focus on healers for a minute. Here's a list of various sets used by end game healers. Do you need all of them? No, of course not. But, if you're doing end game, it's better to be able to wear what is generally requested. It also is nice if it doesn't take you 20 minutes moving gear between characters or running around to storage chests to find all the stuff. So, if you're a decent end game healer you're probably carrying around SPC, Pillager's, RO, Jorvuld's, a handful of arena weapons, a handful of monster sets, and some mythics. At a minimum.

    And that is just for PvE group healing. Then we've got the sets I wear when I'm being hybrid-y, the sets for my PvP build and soloing.... And THAT doesn't even cover niche setups I want to try, or sets I am working towards obtaining, etc. It's not like when a set comes out I magically have all the pieces in the right weights with the right traits.

    I could get started on the different foods and potions I carry around too. But I won't. I will say that, when all is said and done, I generally have, if I'm lucky, 30 free slots to loot with in a run, and for trials like vSS, it's not nearly enough. I'm always having to pull out the merchant or ragpicker in between pulls while trying not to slow down the group.

    Now let's say that character PvP's at least once a month. So I always have a few camps, some siege, some repair kits in inventory. Usually, that stuff is the first to go from inventory, such that I am not always the best PvP teammate. But there just isn't space. And PvP stuff is horrible about stacking.

    I really am not a hoarder. However, I will say that generally speaking, the stuff I'm "saving" that could be called hoarding would not solve the problems I have regarding day-to-day character inventory management for my support characters and the fact that sometimes my bank doesn't have enough spots to move 7 armor pieces at once. I do have four mules and my housing chests are basically filled. But that storage has things like... purple and gold rings and necklaces from dungeon and trial runs, because they are so expensive to make, unopened transmute geodes, some fun historical memories like original white "clothes," and furniture. I could get rid of all of this stuff tomorrow and it wouldn't help me in the slightest with the fact that the various sets I use on my supports still need to be accessible in character inventory or bank. I'm just not going to keep, say, my RO gear in housing furniture. That's too many load screens away.

    I have a system. All regular whites and greens are vendored along with trash and treasures. Since stickerbook, all other pieces are de'ed except unique jewelry, which is stored on mules, and monster sets, which are all stored on a particular mule. If a notice a piece can be researched, I do so, but saving for research is not a thing. Furniture gets put in "slow" storage, to be moved to a storage home when I have some free time. I usually sell the inspiration whites on a guild trader. All enchants and jewelry are bounced to my mail so alts can use them to level enchanting and jewelcrafting, which takes forever. All motifs get put in my bank, to be learned on my main and the rest sold as my main income on the guild trader. All treasure maps all get put on the guild trader, because they just aren't worth my time to chase down. The bank also holds stuff like...fragments of stuff I'm working towards building (guar stomp emote, etc.), lesser used sets for my supports such that they don't need to be carried everywhere, regular writ stacks (Markarth Mead, Musera's Remorse, etc.). I try to reduce my backlog of surveys about once a month or so.. in the meantime they go into the bank, so the character doing the survey can pull out all of the surveys in one location across my account and get them done at once. Master writs live in the guild bank and I try to clean them out every time there is a double xp event. I try to have at least two of each class so that no one is carrying both DPS and support gear.

    Per character, inventory tends to be.... 60% needed, actively used gear, 5% PvP stuff, 20% stuff I'm constantly picking up and getting rid of, 10% consumables, 5% random stuff I will eventually deal with ("Construct's Integral of Introspection".. at some point I should look up where that needs to go).

    As an aside, it does amuse me how, in the days when monster sets were king, I faithfully de'd my helm and shoulders because "I'd never need them" and to this day my stickerbook is missing so so many helm and shoulders. :lol:

    This post maybe got away from a little, but really... inventory management is this much of an overhead for me and I subscribe. I literally can't imagine how the people without craft bags deal.

    I will say that more "bags" could also be a way to help with inventory. If all surveys went to a centralized bag, with unlimited stacking... my bank would be a different place. While ZOS has repeatedly said no, obviously a furniture bag would be most welcome. A treasure map bag. PvP Siege bag. Companion Gear Bag. Runebox Fragment Bag. Master Writ Bag.

    I am surprised the request for more storage space isn't an extremely loud and majority-voiced request. The only thing I can think of is that not a lot of people compared to the majority play support or enjoy multiple parts of the game... which I guess is somewhat validated by the Dungeon Finder queue times. But imo "need" is truly the right word for where we are at with storage, and it's hard for me to imagine that anyone who fully explores all parts of the game (crafting, PvE up to and including end game trials, PvP, Companions, achievement-hunting, guild trading, etc.) doesn't feel the same.
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  • kargen27
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    We will never be happy with the amount of inventory space they give us. If they gave us 347 more slots we would be happy for maybe a month. Then those slots would be full and we would want more.
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  • ArchangelIsraphel
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    peacenote wrote: »
    Yes. I picked both, but if I had to pick one I'd pick bank space. And, while everyone might not agree with "need," I certainly do.

    I primarily like to make healers and tanks. I do dungeons, trials, PvP, and also putz around in the world solo (well, technically with companions) with these characters, chasing achievements, unlocking skill points, etc.

    Let's just focus on healers for a minute. Here's a list of various sets used by end game healers. Do you need all of them? No, of course not. But, if you're doing end game, it's better to be able to wear what is generally requested. It also is nice if it doesn't take you 20 minutes moving gear between characters or running around to storage chests to find all the stuff. So, if you're a decent end game healer you're probably carrying around SPC, Pillager's, RO, Jorvuld's, a handful of arena weapons, a handful of monster sets, and some mythics. At a minimum.

    And that is just for PvE group healing. Then we've got the sets I wear when I'm being hybrid-y, the sets for my PvP build and soloing.... And THAT doesn't even cover niche setups I want to try, or sets I am working towards obtaining, etc. It's not like when a set comes out I magically have all the pieces in the right weights with the right traits.

    I could get started on the different foods and potions I carry around too. But I won't. I will say that, when all is said and done, I generally have, if I'm lucky, 30 free slots to loot with in a run, and for trials like vSS, it's not nearly enough. I'm always having to pull out the merchant or ragpicker in between pulls while trying not to slow down the group.

    Now let's say that character PvP's at least once a month. So I always have a few camps, some siege, some repair kits in inventory. Usually, that stuff is the first to go from inventory, such that I am not always the best PvP teammate. But there just isn't space. And PvP stuff is horrible about stacking.

    I really am not a hoarder. However, I will say that generally speaking, the stuff I'm "saving" that could be called hoarding would not solve the problems I have regarding day-to-day character inventory management for my support characters and the fact that sometimes my bank doesn't have enough spots to move 7 armor pieces at once. I do have four mules and my housing chests are basically filled. But that storage has things like... purple and gold rings and necklaces from dungeon and trial runs, because they are so expensive to make, unopened transmute geodes, some fun historical memories like original white "clothes," and furniture. I could get rid of all of this stuff tomorrow and it wouldn't help me in the slightest with the fact that the various sets I use on my supports still need to be accessible in character inventory or bank. I'm just not going to keep, say, my RO gear in housing furniture. That's too many load screens away.

    I have a system. All regular whites and greens are vendored along with trash and treasures. Since stickerbook, all other pieces are de'ed except unique jewelry, which is stored on mules, and monster sets, which are all stored on a particular mule. If a notice a piece can be researched, I do so, but saving for research is not a thing. Furniture gets put in "slow" storage, to be moved to a storage home when I have some free time. I usually sell the inspiration whites on a guild trader. All enchants and jewelry are bounced to my mail so alts can use them to level enchanting and jewelcrafting, which takes forever. All motifs get put in my bank, to be learned on my main and the rest sold as my main income on the guild trader. All treasure maps all get put on the guild trader, because they just aren't worth my time to chase down. The bank also holds stuff like...fragments of stuff I'm working towards building (guar stomp emote, etc.), lesser used sets for my supports such that they don't need to be carried everywhere, regular writ stacks (Markarth Mead, Musera's Remorse, etc.). I try to reduce my backlog of surveys about once a month or so.. in the meantime they go into the bank, so the character doing the survey can pull out all of the surveys in one location across my account and get them done at once. Master writs live in the guild bank and I try to clean them out every time there is a double xp event. I try to have at least two of each class so that no one is carrying both DPS and support gear.

    Per character, inventory tends to be.... 60% needed, actively used gear, 5% PvP stuff, 20% stuff I'm constantly picking up and getting rid of, 10% consumables, 5% random stuff I will eventually deal with ("Construct's Integral of Introspection".. at some point I should look up where that needs to go).

    As an aside, it does amuse me how, in the days when monster sets were king, I faithfully de'd my helm and shoulders because "I'd never need them" and to this day my stickerbook is missing so so many helm and shoulders. :lol:

    This post maybe got away from a little, but really... inventory management is this much of an overhead for me and I subscribe. I literally can't imagine how the people without craft bags deal.

    I will say that more "bags" could also be a way to help with inventory. If all surveys went to a centralized bag, with unlimited stacking... my bank would be a different place. While ZOS has repeatedly said no, obviously a furniture bag would be most welcome. A treasure map bag. PvP Siege bag. Companion Gear Bag. Runebox Fragment Bag. Master Writ Bag.

    I am surprised the request for more storage space isn't an extremely loud and majority-voiced request. The only thing I can think of is that not a lot of people compared to the majority play support or enjoy multiple parts of the game... which I guess is somewhat validated by the Dungeon Finder queue times. But imo "need" is truly the right word for where we are at with storage, and it's hard for me to imagine that anyone who fully explores all parts of the game (crafting, PvE up to and including end game trials, PvP, Companions, achievement-hunting, guild trading, etc.) doesn't feel the same.

    You put it into words perfectly. While those who participate in only one aspect of the game might need less inventory, those who pursue multiple aspects of the game definitely need more and we feel the crunch when it comes to the sheer amount of sets we have to carry.

    I have several "mains", but I favor my Templar- I'm always lugging around a huge amount of gear on him for whenever I need to switch roles, in both PVE and PVP (and like you, I also have experimental things I'm constantly trying out) I'd give anything to have a siege bag, or to have the armory store the gear for each build so that I could quickly swap into something and not have it take up my inventory slots. (of course I'd still be carrying at least ten million alternate sets for different scenarios, and that doesn't account for the need to combine things in different ways, but...)

    It really has very little to do with hoarding, and everything to do with attempting to be efficient at the role you are being asked to perform in the moment. Plus, having some space for your own experiments and for fun things like housing.
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  • MidniteOwl1913
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    If ZOS gave me a furnishings bag I wouldn't need more inventory.
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  • spartaxoxo
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    Yes because it's valid to want a stack of all the necessary food mats, potion mats, housing mats, and writ mats.
  • Amottica
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    Do we need more inventory slots? No. Do we want more inventory slots? Of course. Who would not.

    First, other games do not release 3-4 DLCs a year. It is typical to release an expansion once a year or every other year.

    Further, Zenimax has increased our inventory or reduced the need for inventory multiple times a year. The addition of new drop sets every DLC is no longer a strain on our inventory with the sticker book system where we can recreate pieces we have previously unlocked for our account.

    Further, until Zenimax has performance under control, especially with major improvements in Cyrodiil, we are not likely to see added space for our bags or bank as they add to the server load.

    The same applies to having a furniture bag added to the game and Zenimax has specifically stated the server load is the reason we do not get such a bag as the number of unique furnishings greatly outweighs the number of unique crafting matts.

    The best chance for more space in the near future is more of the stand-alone chests for our homes as they trigger a much smaller list of items.

    This is not an argument against more inventory space but merely pointing out Zenimax has greatly relieved pressure on our inventory needs and why it is unlikely we will receive more anytime soon.

  • The_Boggart
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    More space
    Each release & Dlc brings items needing trait materials, sometimes alchemical goods also.
    Without ESO+ The bank is nearly full without additional space for surveys etc
  • Danikat
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    I don't think adding more inventory space is actually addressing the problem. There will never be enough space because players will always find something to fill it with and then want more for the next thing. Then probably get into the problem that there's so much stuff in their inventory and bank that it's overwhelming trying to find what they want or sort it all out.

    I'd prefer ZOS to address the root cause of the problem and find ways to stop playing feeling like they have to hold onto every item forever just in case it becomes useful one day. They made a start with the sticker book and now with rebalancing jewellery crafting, I'd like them to continue that process of QoL fixes. Maybe even reassess how sets work.
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  • notyuu
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    I'm going to go with a resounding no on this one cheif, the only peeps that need more space are the ones that horde things, and if you give them more space they'll fill it up before you can even blink and then go right on back to complaining that they don't have enough space.

    In other words, bigger bags wont help, learning inventory management however, will
  • Sarannah
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    Yes, atleast 500 inventory and atleast 1500 bank.

    While questing my inventory fills up in 5-10 minutes as I kill and loot everything. That is not even mentioning some things we need to keep on us(which becomes more and more every time), or the armory build gears taking up space.
    Edited by Sarannah on October 31, 2023 11:24AM
  • Zodiarkslayer
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    ... But more storage chests would be a boon.
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  • SpacemanSpiff1
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    Danikat wrote: »
    I don't think adding more inventory space is actually addressing the problem. There will never be enough space because players will always find something to fill it with and then want more for the next thing. Then probably get into the problem that there's so much stuff in their inventory and bank that it's overwhelming trying to find what they want or sort it all out.

    I'd prefer ZOS to address the root cause of the problem and find ways to stop playing feeling like they have to hold onto every item forever just in case it becomes useful one day. They made a start with the sticker book and now with rebalancing jewellery crafting, I'd like them to continue that process of QoL fixes. Maybe even reassess how sets work.

    i agree with this. more storage will just lead to more hoarding.

    i cleared out much of my bank and storage chests long ago and things are so much easier. my characters carry all of their gear with decent room for picking stuff up. my bank has tons of space for gear to decon. the storage chests hold set pieces i may use in the future.

    now i just need to work on cleaning my houses.
  • Bobargus
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    Either more slots, or the daily login items should be sellable. Either way would work for me.
  • spartaxoxo
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    I think that it is very hard to argue that more space isn't needed if someone isn't playing with Plus. The abysmal storage situation is a key reason non-plus players quit.

    It's pretty easy to claim others are just hoarding when one has infinite, separate storage of the thing that takes up the most space.
    Edited by spartaxoxo on October 31, 2023 3:09PM
  • Kite42
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    I voted no, but I'd like more 'stackability' for some items (especially in the bank), and more ESO+ bag pouches (for crowns) for furniture, surveys, maps, companion items etc.
  • DreamyLu
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    I voted no, but just to reflect that I personally don't need that. Now if more should come, I have nothing against that of course... o:)
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  • El_Borracho
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    If ZOS gave me a furnishings bag I wouldn't need more inventory.

    Wouldn't mind a furniture storage space. I currently use several houses as dumping spots, like the Psijic Villa

    Would REALLY like a siege gear storage yard
  • Gray_howling_parrot
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    I don’t see a logical reason why anyone would say they DONT want more slots.

    Gimme more! :D
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  • SilverBride
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    I don’t see a logical reason why anyone would say they DONT want more slots.

    Because it's not going to make any difference.

    They could quadruple the number of slots and players would just fill them up then ask for more. The real problem is inventory management.
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  • Danikat
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    Danikat wrote: »
    I don't think adding more inventory space is actually addressing the problem. There will never be enough space because players will always find something to fill it with and then want more for the next thing. Then probably get into the problem that there's so much stuff in their inventory and bank that it's overwhelming trying to find what they want or sort it all out.

    I'd prefer ZOS to address the root cause of the problem and find ways to stop playing feeling like they have to hold onto every item forever just in case it becomes useful one day. They made a start with the sticker book and now with rebalancing jewellery crafting, I'd like them to continue that process of QoL fixes. Maybe even reassess how sets work.

    i agree with this. more storage will just lead to more hoarding.

    i cleared out much of my bank and storage chests long ago and things are so much easier. my characters carry all of their gear with decent room for picking stuff up. my bank has tons of space for gear to decon. the storage chests hold set pieces i may use in the future.

    now i just need to work on cleaning my houses.

    I do a big sort-out a couple of times a year. Normally when there's an ESO+ free trial, partially because it's easier to do when the crafting materials all get pulled into a seperate bag and I have double bank space, but mostly because it's an incentive to get on and do it because the trials only go for a few days. It's not the most exciting task, but usually only takes an hour or so.

    I dump everything all my characters are holding into the bank then I log into each one and withdraw only what they actually need (making a note if anything is missing, like if there's no food with the right buffs). Then I log into my crafter, who also holds stuff for selling on the guild store and sort everything still into the bank into things I'll use - which stay in there - and things I don't need which I either sell (guild store or NPC merchant) or delete. Some things I have a limit for how many I keep, especially lockpicks and those potions from login rewards, sometimes I find I have over 1000 spare in addition to whatever characters are using and I'm never going to get through that many. (Other reason to finish on my crafter is if anyone was missing food or potions he can make it for them.)

    At the end of it I usually have about 15-20 items in each character's inventory and about 40-ish in the bank.

    I have done it outside of ESO+ trials as well (I think once we went for about a year without one, so I had to) but then it's more hassle because I have to find somewhere to put all the materials while I pass stuff through the bank. Several of my home chests are full of furniture, so I put that into the Psijic Villa and used the chests for materials, but it was annoying to add those extra steps. I could also have bought ESO+ but buying 30 days of a service I only need for an hour or two doesn't seem worth it.
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  • flubber77
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    TaSheen wrote: »
    I don't. I don't use anywhere close to all the ones I have on any of my many many characters. Nor are my banks full on any of my three accounts, both PC megaservers.

    I have 3 guildbanks full of items, most yellow yewlery but also gear and other stuff like food and pots + siege items.

    my characters and bank are almost full, i need some space if i get new items so more character slot and bank space? 100% sure i need them :D
    Still a grudge, only to see false what u want and nothing less.
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