Hey there Cerims,
With Hotfix 3 came quite a shocking change for Wicked Players, the 99 item stacking for inventory management, as we had been sitting on 20 since the game launched, this is quite the massive change and was welcome with open arms by the community. I, however, am not impressed.
Why is that? Well, I simply do not believe that the item stacks in our inventory has ever truly been the main culprit sending us back to town, sure for food and consumables, this is a huge quality change and for the early game where we only deal with few resources, sure, this is great. Some may be able to fully clear the orban glades before ever encountering Warrick without being full on ressources.. Gears however, they’ll have to pay a visit to Fillimore to have those sold periodically.
Gears do not stack.
No amount of stack changes to inventory nor Chests will solve this problem. The same goes for Runes. These are the main reasons why people own houses for Gear piles. As a collectionner, I have a set of every armour and a copy of every weapon in the game for both fashion and set crafting.
But let’s get back to ressources in our inventory.. This is what my inventory looks like after clearing a plague zone ;
I am still left deleting ressources for others trying to justify which to keep and which to drop as all 3 tiers of ressources are storming me all at once.. 3 ore type, 3 ingot type, 3 wood type, 3 plank type, dozens of animal parts, 3 hides, 3 leathers, 3 clothing materials and so on. Now just imagine how this will look like when we get to tier 4, 5 or dread and I think 6.
This new change doesn’t fix anything for the end game, it’s barely a band-aid fix to make you all (And the devs themselves), they’ve solved a problem.. Yet it still remain.
Solution? I know they don’t want to hear this ; Send to storage. if your inventory is full and you attempt to pick up a ressource or piece of gear, it should be sent to a special infinite storage container located in sacrament where you can pick it all back up in due time. Make it a post office or have a mail delivery NPC.. This I care not.
So how do we balance this? Simple! This infinite storage doesn’t actually register as storage, meaning you cannot craft from storage based on resources located there. You would have to eventually claim them and store them to fully make them your own. This solution also could be interesting as Thomas once mentioned the idea of giving us a “temporary home” that would end up being destroyed, many didn’t like it as we didn’t want to lose all it contained, but if it were to all be sent to this Mail man NPC, I don’t think people would be angry at this event going off.
Let me know what you guys think about this, Has this change actually impacted you all that much? I know it has for my consumable tab..! No more carrying 6 stacks of my favourite food.. My resources tabs however, has yet to be impressed.
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