Thoughts on inventory management in mmorpgs

I'm curious to get your thoughts on this, as a lot of games like ESO and GW2 offer vast amounts of storage space for materials and items, as well as quick ways of accessing these items whenever you want. I personally dislike having too much storage space as I feel it detracts from the sense of adventure that is important in any RPG.

Do you think having lots of inventory space and quick ways to access it away from town enhances or detracts from the gameplay experience?

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Ramirez

Albion online system is perfect for aoc

Caeryl

I hate strict inventory limits, but most of that stems a lot from playing games with high inventory bloat. Basic craft materials should stack up high (99+) and only take one slot per stack.

Any holiday or event-related drops should take no space and no weight. Fragments should be part of collectibles and not inventories. Basically, if it anything that has to be “in-season” to use, if should not count toward any carry limit.

Gear meanwhile, I’m fine with having stricter limits, via weight limits or otherwise. Two or three full sets on hand sounds like a good cap. It means you bring what you use, not every niche set you may perhaps use in a specific circumstance.

Yuyukoyay

I'd rather less things drop, but when it does it is a good drop. Which complements having a small storage space limit. However, it depends how much junk is in the game because having a tiny amount of storage space and a lot of junk drops is annoying as hell. I'd much rather have no junk in the game whatsoever and instead just make everything have a purpose. You can just trade with other players the things you don't want.

I also like it when there is an auto arrange inventory button.

akabear

I go like the animations showing your character opening your bag when viewing your inventory, similarly reading a map or any number of character actions reflective of what they are doing whilst standing still.

Mahes

Yuyukoyay wrote: »

I'd rather less things drop, but when it does it is a good drop. Which complements having a small storage space limit. However, it depends how much junk is in the game because having a tiny amount of storage space and a lot of junk drops is annoying as hell. I'd much rather have no junk in the game whatsoever and instead just make everything have a purpose. You can just trade with other players the things you don't want.

I also like it when there is an auto arrange inventory button.

This so much. Part of the problem I have with online games is that there is this large amount of items. I would much rather have a nice drop then 20 lousy drops that I just vendor away. The glut of game items contributes to the problem of bag storage.

I want items to be rare and everything else to be gold. If I see an item drop, I want to be excited and hope it is something I can use. If I cannot use it, then I hope other players would be able to and thus be able to sell it.

uncounted

I prefer weight based systems for inventory/storage I don't like playing tetris with my inventory.
I would like these types of storage in a game like AoC:

Personal inventory should be very limited but you should be able to upgrade it by carrying a backup, different backpacks should have different pros and cons and you should be able to drop them to get rid of the penalties. When the backpack is down everyone should be able to pick it up but if he is not in your group he will be flagged as a combatant.

Mules should be a thing, animals that would help you carry much more stuff around, they should be able to be killed and looted or hijacked. Mules should have a variety of stats similar to mounts. Their inventories should be accessible as long as you are near them and to unsummon them they should have empty inventories.

City storage, if the mayor decides to build a warehouse in his node everyone can get some personal storage space in that node, it should be local and not accessible from other nodes. If you need more space you should be able to upgrade your storage space on that node for a monthly price, the more storage you get the more you pay. All the materials stored here are accessible to crafting stations inside the town.

Personal stash, similar to storage but has no upkeep it only requires you to have a house or apartment. Basically is a chest you place in your house/apartment and can get better ones with more space from the crafters. All materials stored in here should be accessible to all crafting stations inside the town.

Freehold stash same as personal stash but can't access it through crafting stations in the city only from crafting stations in your freehold.

Guild vault, same as personal stash but a lot bigger. It has a permission system and a log so the guild leader/officers can check who is greedy.

Quest inventory, work as normal inventory but only for quest items. No restrictions apply in this storage.

Market inventory, for all the skins you bought from the store. No restrictions here and it's account wide so you can access it from all your characters.

Any storage attacked and destroyed will drop a percentage of the items stored as loot.

Phyrehart

I am a pack rat. I love stuff and I love crafting. I need room to craft and store things I make. I hope they allow for that without having to pay through the nose or buy with real money space to store stuff.

Jxshuwu

Phyrehart wrote: »

I am a pack rat. I love stuff and I love crafting. I need room to craft and store things I make. I hope they allow for that without having to pay through the nose or buy with real money space to store stuff.

They're against pay2win, progress or convenience. Steven himself said that he hated backpack slot extensions and ESPECIALLY with real money.

Leonerdo

I imagine that if you want a ton of personal storage, you need to place more chests within your freehold (taking the place of something else useful). And if you want a ton of crafting/material storage, you would have to pay for it in a warehouse.

consultant

This one is easy this all depends on how long the game designers want you to go out and explore before you have to come back in. So to me personally think a toon should have the ablity to farm for at 2 hours then toon would have to go back and unload. Think this is especially important since there is no fast travel. So just insert the amoung of backpack space that allows you to do that.

As far as storage areas think there shoulc be pretty big limit on items that you plan to keep so ounce you put those items in that storage items can only be vendored and not sold to other players or something like that. If you do not plan on selling it then really does not affect the economy. But guess has to be some limits on storage because people can horde items and disrupt the economy although people have like bank toons and bank guilds so think should still be pretty generous.

Hevel

I think it would be good if every node would provide all players, regardless of citizenship, a small/moderate storage once it hits a certain level. Maybe even have a larger base storage for citizens. Then the Mayor can build a storehouse to increase this capacity significantly.

I do like the idea of having a global inventory tracker. If that seems too good, maybe make it a perk of an economic node building.

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