Salvage mega vault

I'm really annoyed at the insane amount of micro-management involved with the invention system. There's just too many small stacks of salvage all over the place. With the personal storage, the vault, the auction house and the base containers, finding the salvage I need is a God forsaken PITA across over 200 storage.

I'd like to have a simple one stop shop vault accessible by all my characters on all servers to drop my invention salvage.

A super vault that would contain 1 stack of all invention salvage of at least 250 units. That vault could be accessed every where the normal vault can be accessed.

The server database would not really increase in a meaningful way. Considering there's 108 flavor of salvage, each tagged with a P string of let's say 32 characters (that's too much), and one number, let's go over the top with 32 bits (way too much) that's 288 bits per salvage.

At 108 salvage * 288 bits = 31104 bits per account.

Again let's go over the top and say 200,000 players find that vault interesting and get it

31104 bits * 200,000 accounts = 6,220,800,000 bits

6,220,800,000 bits / 8 = 777,600,000 bytes

777,600,000 bytes / 1024 = 759,375 Kb

759,375 Kb / 1024 = 741.5 Mb

One hard drive, for all the servers and an over enthusiastic number of buyers...


As for the impact on the market, it would be, IMHO, minimal and temporary. Not everyone would be interested by that feature, less if it's only available by the store. Those who have no interest in the crafting system would still sell their salvage, same for those who do so for the profit and for those who would use the mega vault, once it's filled up, would start or keep selling their over stock on the market (I know I would, instead of dropping it at the first vendor).

I'm sure codewise an "account based mega salvage bin" could be created if the Devs wanted to.
But since this is a character based game I highly doubt it'll ever happen.

I'd consider yourself lucky we can now at least email stuff between characters now. *shrugs*

i think they should just change the vault we have now to account wide instead of per toon

that would essentially solve this and it would be easy to get to if you had /vault command

As I understand it, they don't want to make it any easier for you to hoard salvage (instead of selling it, buying it, and keeping it in circulation) or transfer stuff between characters. You can do it, certainly (and easier in some cases than you used to be able to), but there are game design goals behind keeping it less than convenient.

There really is little reason to hoard salvage. I used to when I started, then found how nice the auction system is. Once you get enough seed money to be able to sell stuff for high amounts there's little reason to hang onto everything. I rarely keep common salvage or most uncommons. Rares it kind of depends on how useful/valuable they are.

And really, most recipes call for only 1 of any ingredient. There really is no major reason to store or carry 10+ of *anything*.

Obviously everyone works differently, but there isn't really a dire *need* to have that much super storage except for OCD people that want to hoard everything (no offense)