Regarding Characters and Retainers and charges

[Sonomaa]

http://sonomaa.com/random/extracharacters.png
as per the website, since everyone is freaking out

basically, when you buy the game, included in the service fee is 1 playable character and 1 retainer character (mule).

I will ask the powers that be for more clarification just in case.

[LD]

I don't...
What...what's the problem? Seems cut & dry.

[Cray]

How does anybody need clarification on this?

[Destinye]

How does anybody need clarification on this?

You'd be surprised...

[Shiku]

It all makes sense to me...

[Null]

Kinda funny that they acknowledge the fact that there is a horrible limit on character space. Which forces us to make another character to use as a mule. But instead of doing something about this, they will continue to use this to their advantage and charge us.

[LD]

Kinda funny that they acknowledge the fact that there is a horrible limit on character space. Which forces us to make another character to use as a mule. But instead of doing something about this, they will continue to use this to their advantage and charge us.

That would be a fair logic to use if they weren't giving us a free storage character to begin with. -_-

If you bring up the line about how we won't know how much space will need, potentially necessitating more retainers, we might also need LESS than they're actually giving us.

[Sinzfeldt]

Looks like i missed the train, i thought people were only freaking out over the ps3 release date.

[Null]

My mistake, was under the impression that that extra was just free for the first month.

Still so, weird to be stated that a second character is there just for storing stuff. Sucks to have to log into another character to grab crap.

[Kachi]

Who says you have to log into it? It'd be strange if you did.

[Jinfire]

My mistake, was under the impression that that extra was just free for the first month.

Still so, weird to be stated that a second character is there just for storing stuff. Sucks to have to log into another character to grab crap.

I dont think retainers work like that.... Infact I dont think anyone has actually seen retainers. I would assume retainers would let you
A) Bazzar stuff while you are offline
B) Extra inventory (I.E. Mog locker, notice we prolly have our own mog storage ect on main char)
C)Extra Auction Slots / their own set of auction slots (I just get the idea you can sell more with more retainers which I think is the main point, sell more stuff / sells stuff while offline and storage)

[Destinye]

iirc they said the main use for retainers were for bazaaring stuff and etc anyway.

[KuroTsuki]

Sucks to have to log into another character to grab crap.

one non-playable retainer character (a non-playable character that provides free item storage and in-game merchant services).

I'm assuming with that you don't log into it.

[fussel]

Worthless overanalyzation:

1. Overall situation about mules in ffxi: Almost everyone had them. They're all lowbies that are intended for storage and bazaaring only. Only a small part of the playerbase actually leveled and equipped a mule on the same account as their main, because character development in ffxi is intense.

Comment: Someone at SE might have thought, that the situation described might be part of the "FFXI culture". Everyone can probably remember running their first mule to Jeuno, this feels to me like one of the typical "character development" thingies, too.

With the retainer, we'll get game mechanics for that. would be interesting, if it's actually a full character with physical and skill levels locked to level 1. It specifically says "non-playable character".

2. Noteworthy other actions a mule might do in ffxi: Mog Bonanza ticket buying spree, crafting.

Seems if you want to repeat that, you have to cough up $3 for those chars.

.ooOO( courier chocobos transfer stuff from your main to your retainer. )

.oooOOO( ib retainer limitations. )

[Tineey]

Not sure if this was already posted but:

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2010...system,1.shtml

Page 5 has some info on retainers; instanced rolanberry etc.

[Loaar]

Not sure if this was already posted but:

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2010...system,1.shtml

Page 5 has some info on retainers; instanced rolanberry etc.

Thanks, some new info.