Syldras wrote: »

In my case, a furniture bag would solve the whole problem.

Aye that would help me a lot as well.

Giving more inventory space would not make any difference. Players would quickly fill all those slots then ask for even more. It would be much more effective to just stop collecting more than there is space for.

I am on PC so just got an addon where I can now find all the furniture I put in houses, so I finally finished clearing out my bank of all the furnishings I have collected (and don't want to get rid of). I also found out that I DID have a crafting station I could have used, instead of buying one, I just didn't remember what house it was in.

So far, with ESO+ I have managed to keep ahead of everything, but without ESO+, when I no longer have the craft bag or double furniture limits or double slot limits? I will be hurting.

It also doesn't help when you have things that don't stack with each other, things that are bound that you might want to use one day, and don't want to destroy (I am finally using up the experience scrolls that have been given out in the dailies), surveys, if you keep them, writs, maps and so on, it adds up quickly. I tend to like to do things in batches, so I keep writs to do when I get enough and feel like it, I sell maps, but I don't want to have to keep running to a bank everytime I get one to sell it on the guild trader, and surveys I just destroy, because I don't want them cluttering up my slots.

While I can understand that part of the game is about inventory management, that has never been an aspect I have liked in a game, especially when you never know what might come in handy later on in the game or when you are leveling alts.

I could definitely use a little more but it's also not a high priority for me. I'd like to see more things like allowing us to store our surveys in the craft bag.

That said, I do think they need to do something about the Plus problem.

I’ve been slowly cleaning out surveys, maps and other things that take up more space than they should, and I stopped doing daily crafting writs to avoid getting more of them. Inventory situation is therefore a little better now than it had been (and will be even better still once my newest alt finishes leveling up all his crafting skills) but it takes a lot more management than is enjoyable.

JemadarofCaerSalis wrote: »

I am on PC so just got an addon where I can now find all the furniture I put in houses, so I finally finished clearing out my bank of all the furnishings I have collected (and don't want to get rid of). I also found out that I DID have a crafting station I could have used, instead of buying one, I just didn't remember what house it was in.

Which addon are you using? My bank is cluttered with furnishings all the time (actually it's more or less everything I keep there, except for a few items to swap between characters every now and then) because I want to have an overview about what I have on hand, and if I put that stuff in houses, I lack that (of course I could begin to write spreadsheets, but honestly, in the few hours I might have each evening, I'd rather be playing than writing lists).

Syldras wrote: »

JemadarofCaerSalis wrote: »

I am on PC so just got an addon where I can now find all the furniture I put in houses, so I finally finished clearing out my bank of all the furnishings I have collected (and don't want to get rid of). I also found out that I DID have a crafting station I could have used, instead of buying one, I just didn't remember what house it was in.

Which addon are you using? My bank is cluttered with furnishings all the time (actually it's more or less everything I keep there, except for a few items to swap between characters every now and then) because I want to have an overview about what I have on hand, and if I put that stuff in houses, I lack that (of course I could begin to write spreadsheets, but honestly, in the few hours I might have each evening, I'd rather be playing than writing lists).

I got Inventory Insight by Mana Vortex.

Housing cataloging is initially off, but you can just turn it on, but you do need to go to each of your houses for it to scan them, but once you do, it works great, it can tell you how many, where they are, whether they are in the bank, or which house(s) they are in as well as how many there are in each house. Only thing better would be if it could pull them from the other house, but not sure that is possible (or is it with regular housing? I haven't really done much with housing due to the limits and how hard it is to keep track of things)

It can also keep track of what you put in the furnishing chests, so you can easily see those as well.

It doesn't seem to keep track of things like non-combat pets that you put in houses (which, if you think about it, why would it, you can use them in as many houses as you want) but it did tell me where my armory was (I apparently have it in three locations)

It also had a slight issue where, when I placed everything finally, it was still telling me I had it in the bank, but I think that is more of a visual glitch because it updated once I left the house and the items weren't in the bank anymore.

I just got it today, (well last night, but just played with it today) so all this information is just what I discovered so far.

Since it also keeps track of all the other items, not just housing items, it can also be useful if you have multiple characters to keep items on as well. It also seems to work for companions to tell you what they are wearing (I got a different addon for that so I can see level, rapport and what items each companion is wearing without having to summon them) but not sure how good it is at that.

All these addons because I needed something to mark items as junk and potentially destroy items I don't want to keep while I am running around on my under 50 character leveling him :P (I did get one that does that as well )

Sometimes, I have ESO+, and sometimes, I do not. I realized long ago that how much inventory space is available is utterly irrelevant if I choose to ignore managing what I stored. The more inventory space I had, the more work it has been to manage that inventory.

I voted yes, but the option isn't particularly accurate for me.

For me, my main concern in inventory space more so than storage.

I haven't maxxed out my bank or storage chests yet. As I don't hoard a lot of stuff.

However, what always gets me is how quickly my inventory gets filled when I'm out actually doing content (Especially with the constant junk spam from event boxes...).

This gets even worse the more sets my characters get that they will swap between for different content, so they might end up carrying around several full gear sets to swap on the fly (I suppose getting a Bank Assistant would help with that, but at 5k crowns... Yeah, no.)

Even with ESO+ so crafting materials go directly into the Craft Bag, there's still a lot of junk that gets thrown into the inventory. Junk items, random junk potions/poisons, junk companion gear... On top of the plethora of actual items that I'd want to decon/add to stickerbook/research traits.

Syldras wrote: »

JemadarofCaerSalis wrote: »

I got Inventory Insight by Mana Vortex.

Thank you for your detailed description! I'll look for that one later.

JemadarofCaerSalis wrote: »

You used diamonds in Morrowind? I always just stuck them in my housing :P (but then again, I am a hoarder in video games, and I love it when I can use that stuff to decorate my houses. That will forever be one of the main disappointments I have going from Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim, is how much loot they cut out :P)

I used diamonds in Morrowind, too. Well, at least most of them. I never used lanterns or candles, though. Too important as a decoration

You're welcome.

I never got any inventory management stuff, because it just never occurred to me. But, with the new character leveling to 50, I needed something, and I had always lamented that I didn't know where I put things, which is one reason I never truly considered using a house as 'storage', because I would always forget which house

To me, *everything* in Morrowind was decoration. It didn't matter what it was. Modded companions? Check. Modded animals? Check. Whatever wasn't nailed down in a town? Check. I remember when I quit, there was someone talking about converting all the furniture in morrowind to items that could be picked up and placed (and there was a mod that did that, but it didn't convert existing furniture), and I really needed that mod. Just give me a hammer, and people would be wondering why their houses look ready to be sold :P

I *have* gotten slightly better about selling things I won't ever use, but in a game like ESO, with so many different items, it is hard to tell.

I never thought, for example, that I would need trait materials, because I never planned on creating my own armor as the stuff I Found was always better. Yet, I have made three sets of armor for my second character with training. Also, after a year of playing, made my first set pieces (I made one set piece once, just to see what it was like, but nothing else), again for my second character.

So, for a year, I have had those trait materials just sitting around in a craft bag collecting dust. If I hadn't had plus, I probably would have sold them long ago, then needed to buy them, or just gave up on making the gear myself. Same can be said for a lot of the crafting stuff. I do daily writs in spurts. Some times I will do it for a week or two, every single day, other times it can be a month or two between doing them. Again, all those items are just sitting around without my touching them, until I need them.

Again, without plus, and the craft bag, I probably would have sold them all a long time ago, making doing daily writs a lot harder as I don't always feel like going out and harvesting things, or buying from NPCs (assuming you can buy some of the materials) and the guild trader system? As a seller, I like it. As a buyer, I hate it.

Same thing for the furnishings. I don't always want to decorate my houses, but occasionally I get the urge to. Will I use everything I have? Probably not, but I never know what I might be in the mood to use any particular day, and I know the minute I get rid of something like a certain style of lantern, the next day I will need that specific lantern for something I am doing.

So, it is easier to hold onto stuff than it is to sell it. With the craft bag, it has made things a lot more manageable to me, since I don't do endgame PvP, or trials or things like that, where I need multiple sets of gear. I also don't have different sets of gear for different roles. I don't have different sets of gear for my companions for different roles. For those that do? I don't really understand how they can keep track of everything, even with addons or spreadsheets. It would drive me up the wall trying to keep track of where everything is, or constantly be running to the nearest town to deposit stuff in the bank or sell items (as not everyone can get the merchant or banker. I can only afford one, and I am still not sure I want to spend my money on either, and I keep waffling on which one would be the best to get anyway)

I vote Other.

I support increasing bank and inventory space if possible. However, I estimate that if transmute crystal cap was lifted completely I could gain back between 250-300 slots across 3 characters. That would help more than anything since most PvE characters have plenty of inventory space but the PvP characters accumulate all those transmute geodes. If the total possible number of surveys could be reduced it would help even more. I do not store them but accumulate enough on my main character from all my alts that it fills up what space I have left quickly. Stacking treasure maps would help too.

Inventory management is not fun

Syldras wrote: »

In my case, a furniture bag would solve the whole problem.

My furniture goes in my chests.

My gear goes in my bank.

Misc stuff goes on my mules.

Furnishings. A way to store or catalog unlimited furnishings in a furnishing craft bag that doesn't take up bank, chest or character inventory spaces. I have 7.. count em, SEVEN houses full of overflow furnishings.. about 4000 pieces at last count. I cant decorate those houses because I need them for storage.

I almost crashed Quondam Indorilia by using it as my lighting storage house. Try putting 500 lit lights in one place, the house was acting FUNNY. Extinguishing the lights helped but still.

You might say this is a packrat problem and you're not wrong but after years of collecting, decorating, antiquities , lux vendor, building and tearing down and rebuilding houses that stuff adds up. Id give a lot to have a craft bag for furnishings that you could draw upon while decorating your house like it lets you do with your banked stuff.

Also, I'm not techy but I've wondered if all those discreet pieces of code do anything to server performance. They must take up a lot of... space? And Im just one person, I'm sure there's many many millions of furnishings in the game both in decorated houses and and storage houses and banks and chests. Would consolidating them into a storage format be helpful? I dont know but I'd sure like to be able to decorate those seven houses rather than use them for storage.