Sippin wrote:
I kept forgetting to thank you for this writeup as it's very useful. As soon as I'm done with my Artisan quest I'm considering going this route. It still strikes me that the guild bank is a rather inefficient preliminary storage device since it really doesn't hold that much. Actually incredibly little when you consider it's supposed to serve an entire guild's worth of players.
I'm glad you liked it! I've found it to be a very useful way to manage all the cruft of EQ :) Regarding the GB as a temporary staging area... for just one person, and if you're mostly hunting in the same level range, it works very well. Most everything that goes in there stacks, so it's very useful. Most anything that doesn't stack is quest related, and those things stay on the chars that loot them. There's about 300 slots in the GB, and an additional 40 slots in the deposit area. If you're swapping between chars in different level ranges a lot (and actually playing and looting mats in their level ranges), then the GB would run out of slots faster.
Sippin wrote:
I actually never realized you can access real estate contents without zoning into the zone. I should've known since I do see that window pop up when I'm outside. The whole real estate system always struck me as needlessly complicated so I've always tried to minimize my contact with it. But it does appear to be a huge and cheap source of extra storage so I should bite the bullet and make more use of it.
From reading your earlier comment, it sounded like you didn't realize that zoning in was unnecessary. And to be complete, using housing is huge and cheap, but it's also WAY more flexible. You >never< have to swap chars. Anything any char wants is always accessible to that character. If you're running on an SSD box, zoning/swapping chars may only take 5-10 seconds, but for most of us, it's 30-45 seconds, at least.
Sippin wrote:
I've also been mulling over using the parcel system as temporary storage since I can send stuff to my mules and the parcels can sit there awaiting me to have enough time to log in the mule and accept the parcels. You can have a LOT of parcels "in transit" although I haven't checked yet if there's an expiration date. I wouldn't want a few stacks of blue diamonds to "poof" just because they've been sitting in a post office box for weeks...
Again, the main limitation here (other than the expiration issue), is that if the item is in the parcel queue for character A, and character B needs it. You have to log in A, get the parcel, and then put it somewhere that B can get it, and then log in B. Too many steps for me.
Not sure what your Loyalty currency situation is, but for me, it's usually close to maxing, with me looking for something to spend it on to keep it from capping. But even so, if you're a long time sub (which I assume you are), you get 120 loyalty a week, and houses cost (I think) 432. So, every four weeks, you can get a house. And if you're maxed (5760), you have enough to buy ~12 houses.
Tat
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