In the Battle Pass currently, there are specialized storage containers.
They look nifty.
They are strictly inferior to already available items.
They can only hold unprocessed/unrefined harvested materials, they are of extremely limited utility.
They cost the same materials to make as the Large Chest.
They have a comparable footprint.
They have the same capacity.
They can only store very limited items.
The Arcane Curio/Bookshelf is similar.
It uses more materials than the Cupboard.
Has a much larger footprint.
Has a diminished capacity.
In the effort to avoid pearl clutching over Pay to Win, it seems Funcom expects us to Pay to Lose.
If these items were simply new skins for existing items with the same functionality, cost, and footprint, this wouldn’t be an issue. We pay for shiny cosmetics. Hat sales have been a thing in games for years.
However, they are not. The premium cosmetics here are direct downgrades.
Oh for the love of heaven, don’t use them then. If the battle pass is unworthy, then don’t buy it.
I personally love the variety and it got me rethinking my entire storage strategies. They look good, they function and cost the same as the large chests that I sort anyways.
If you don’t like them, don’t use them. That simple. If it’s a deal breaker for you, then ask for a refund and accept access removed.
The OP could also point out information they found, and pass it along to others who may be on the fence about spending money on storage items that are less useful then the already in game items.
They do look good.
No deny.
Such a shame they are functionaly inferior to the free versions.
Such a shame such specific containers junk up already over burdened servers with overly specific and arbitrary restrictions.
It may seem strange, but this one really would prefer if the game did not sunset.
This one also would prefer that people playing on unmodded servers have nice things.
But that’s not your problem.
Games need to generate money to keep development going. Pay to Lose is not exactly a grand way to encourage greater investment.
Also, with how Funcom loves to have useless flavour text, it seemed important to mention to other players what they are actually getting.
The flavour text restriction is not flavour text, it is descriptive.
Better others know and avoid if that is a deal breaker than have to go through the anti-fun hassle of requesting a refund.
I’ve only unlocked the wood one so far, but I can already see it coming in handy. No need to sort out the wood I’ve gathered from the rest of the junk. Just walk up to it and hit “Give All”. Done. All the raw wood and branches goes into the box and nothing else. I can move it elsewhere later when I need to.
I like the new specialized storage but I’m enraged with Arcane Cabinet. It’s huge (almost 2 walls high, 2 foundations wide). It’s weak like a simple wooden box and can’t be locked (no use for PVP servers). It used to have extended storage instead - but it got nerfed now. It doesn’t make sense, does it?
Well, yeah, some people do. I frequently use sandstone as a framework material whenever I’m building something new. Handy to have the raw mats on hand for that. Also, saves space in the crafting benches and it’s good for handling overflow if you happen to come back with more mats than your benches can handle at the moment.
Plus if you need something for a recipe at, for example, your artisan bench, you can go to the box and get it rather than pulling it from your production line or running out and farming it.
There’s all sorts of ways and reasons people might use these boxes. Doesn’t mean you have to use them if you don’t want to. It’s just another tool in the toolbox.
Someone in another thread pointed out these might end up becoming boxes golems deep resources into automatically, implying they might eventually “patrol” for resources.
They already “patrol” far enough around their guarding positions. I’ve put one on guard on the beach of the IoS (our base is built on the water) and now it collects wood and branches making our place nice and tidy
It is ironic that you have initiated this subject @LostBrythunian, as I was less than 24 hours away from launching my own feedback thread geared arounf these new storage options myself. First I will commence with the positive facetts and recognition. From a visual and aesthetic standpoint, these items are downright gorgeous.
However, we do not need to start burdening players with additional, unwarranted restrictions. These new handicapped storage items represent a regressionist thinking, and ultimately deprive players of the freedom to sort items in a manner which they would deem logical. Instead opting to restrict player agency and sorting paradigms. It is invasive and blatantly uneccessary. Thus far I only have the wood box, so I will use it as an example. Although I am happy to expand upon this further as I progress further through the Battle Pass. So the new box does hold wood, dry wood, branches and bark. It does not however hold resin, vines (both also harvested from trees!), shaped wood, insulated wood, anything else. Thus we now need 2 storage vessels to hold all wood products in place of one. Look, as one of the most vocal advocates of More Storage Options, I would urge that Funcom to abandon and remove the placing limitations on them and let players make their own strategic repository decisions.
That would be interesting.
Also unfortunate if they only drop in specific boxes that are no longer available.
Pay to Lose transformed to what this one is certain will be called Pay to Win.
Ah, the forum feces fracas will be glorious!
Now if only the Robots would stop pondering resources under the mesh…
@Glurin
Gratitude for the insight.
This one still thinks it the less efficient process, but this one is only rarely in clans. And is far from omniscient besides. This one could pretend to scold you for wrong bad fun, but it would be hollow at best.
That is all well and good with me helium3, and I am fine with them being used for golem resource accumulation. BUT we should still retain the ability to place other items in them should we wish to do so. No different than being able to store aloe potions in a blacksmiths bench, or a stack of gruel on the saddlers worktable.
Like not able to process iron reinforcements on the fire bowl cauldron? The game is riddled with needless and unwarranted restrictions. It’s part of being a survival game. The reason for my reaction is that I (and I bet 90% of the players) already self restrict with chest for wood, chest for stone, chest for iron. I bet real money each one of us has a chest for golem parts already. So FC gave us variety in this OCD organizing, and now it’s 'Why is it soooo limited? '. Are you kidding me?
Plus, i believe these are precursors to resource drop offs for when thrall passive harvesting comes into play. The timing of these coming at us and golem harvesting suggests a linkage.
Golem parts live on the golem part crafting bench, or just get dropped.
But this one has no interest in your “real money”.
Facetious hyperbole is the currency of the internet anyway.
Literally who requested this?
Of all the requests for additional storage, who requested more specific storage that can only hold a tiny variety of items?
It’s Funcom just copy-pasting ideas from long-established mods. Nothing new really.
They check the steam workshop and copy mechanics and items ideas from the most popular mods out there.
