Bank storage increase option

I used the search function and couldn't find any related topics. Not at home so i cant check if this already exists on the vendors:

Anyways, i Just had a random thought that may or may not be a good idea - i'll let the feedback determine that. I think if implemented correctly, this feature could be another desirable that could bring revenue to the server or help balance the economy.

A "bank expansion deed" could be added to the dono/gold sink vendors (for whatever price is determined reasonable) that would increase the max storage of a character's bank. These deeds could be bought more than once to increase the storage until a set limit is met (possibly the same as the secure item count in a max storage house?). I don't see how this would be game breaking in any way (maybe more creative minds will). I don't think this would take away from housing for the most part because the ability to share items with friends/co-owners would still trump hoarding everything in your bank.

The extra bank space would obviously benefit the active players, but it would also act as a secure spot to store a large amount of items (that would otherwise be secured in a house) if a player were to go on a hiatus. The idea would be that if their house sitter encounters a catastrophic event that no longer allows them to refresh the owners house, the owner would only be losing their house and not all their precious hoarded items that can be stored in their bank now.

I'm thinking there would be low complexity in terms of implementation, but my concern would be whether or not enough people would actually consider buying the deeds in order to justify the effort of adding it to the game?

Any thoughts?
 

Hexoplex

Grandmaster
(possibly the same as the secure item count in a max storage house?)
Maybe an increase to a 7x7 storage capacity, or even just up to 250 with +25 each purchase. I would think max storage for every character on all 3 accounts would put a lot of strain on the server eventually.
 

wreckognize

Grandmaster
truth is it's a really bad idea to mess with the bank system because that's where everyone keeps their best shit. Also, these restrictions are part of a delicate balance here.

In order to keep lag down, if you want to store more than 125 items per character then you have to place a house, which may one day fall if you quit and all the items inside will decay.

Trust me, it's better than having you quit and having your 15,000 items stay in limbo lagging the hell out of everyone who is still here.
 
I would think max storage for every character on all 3 accounts would put a lot of strain on the server eventually.

I think this would be limited by the price required to buy such deeds, or restrict it to one "expanded bank" per account/ip? The max storage proposal was just throwing a number out there. I think on OSI there was a limit of 50-100 extra bank slots depending on the expansions you purchased (http://stratics.com/threads/what-is-the-max-bank-storage-with-the-storage-upgrade.253365/)?

In order to keep lag down, if you want to store more than 125 items per character then you have to place a house, which may one day fall if you quit and all the items inside will decay.

Trust me, it's better than having you quit and having your 15,000 items stay in limbo lagging the hell out of everyone who is still here.

That's good point i was wondering about; how much strain it would put on the server. Here again though, this would be limited by the price set on the deeds (which is a limiting factor for us that are not loaded out the ass like wreckognize).

I actually wouldn't even consider purchasing more bank space myself, i was just proposing the idea as a method to bring more "luxury" items to the dono/gold sing vendors that could help the economy/revenue.

Both valid points though Hexoplex and wreckognize.
 

Hexoplex

Grandmaster
Come to think of it there already is a way to get more bank storage. I believe the character expansion tokens are 1 mil each and you can have up to 7 characters per account. So as it is right now an extra 125 bank slots is only 1 mil gold. 12 million gold gets you 1500 extra bank spaces AND 12 extra characters with 1500 backpack spaces (3000 total extra storage spaces!! lol). Yeah it would get taxing trying to remember where everything got stored though.
 
Come to think of it there already is a way to get more bank storage. I believe the character expansion tokens are 1 mil each and you can have up to 7 characters per account. So as it is right now an extra 125 bank slots is only 1 mil gold. 12 million gold gets you 1500 extra bank spaces AND 12 extra characters with 1500 backpack spaces (3000 total extra storage spaces!! lol). Yeah it would get taxing trying to remember where everything got stored though.

Hah, that's one way around it!
 

wreckognize

Grandmaster
A fun fact here is that you can get 21 characters total with the use of character tokens, meaning you could have 21 bankboxes with 125 items per for personal storage. Compared to the storage of a keep which has 18 secure containers maximum.

That doesn't make it a plausible alternative for a simple bank storage increase deed, since you would need to spend 9 mill just to match a keep's storage, but still it's not worth messing with the bank system over.
 

Starnite

Master
what if they could combine the 3 toons bank account. instead of having 125 per toon you could have 375 for the account period.
 

Hexoplex

Grandmaster
With 7 characters per account, the shared storage would be huge. 7*125 = 875 bank storage accessible by 1 character.
 
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