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Hello, If anybody would know it would be you guys. This isn't a rant about more storage space so I can hoarde as much as possible, I just don't get to decorate my bunker as well as I'd like and if it had the same lot/item ratio as the other buildings it would be fine.

I'm trying to think of the reason why they limit it to 400. It doesn't do anything for storage as a crafter would use other more effeicient building to get around that. The only other thing I could think of is an issue of loading in 500 items in a house. It seems to do 400 okay (though there's a delay and some lag), and I don't think jumping that to the 500 would be that big of a reason to limit it.

Since I'm stumped, I'm just curious if any of you old timers remember a Dev stopping by with an explination.

Thanks!

*edit* While I'm in here, I want to ask a question, but I don't want to start a new thread. The clear tactical display screens like those in the Hoth base (also by the 2nd tier RSF trainer). I saw a player character with them in his shop one time. Where did he get them?

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Pawlin wrote:

Are you asking why the limit is 400 / 5 lots while small/medium is 200 / 2 lots?

We could take some guesses. Initially the storage limit was 75 items / lot with a maximum of 250 items. Then they changed it to 100 items/lot with max 400 items. So theres some pro/con to using a bigger house, its less efficient for storage but has more physical room.

So why the maximum limit? I suposethat the loading time in houses that you mentioned may have a lot to do with it. ON my smaller server it can take 1-2 minutes just to load my medium house's contents. You might wait several minutes on a heavy populated server to load 400 items.

If it were just a database issue then they wouldn't have 200 items for small/medium houses cause people who want more storage can just use small houses. But database limits still might be part of it.

We can only guess really. I don't think SOE has made any specific explanations. /shrug

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The loading time also depends on your system and connection capabilities. There is a vendor house in Southern Theed on my server, that my friend takes 8 minutes to load, and for me loads in less than 30 secs. He uses an older computer and has DSL connection. I have a Newer computer and Cable connection. I think they aim so that it works in a medium basis, on a recommended system to be precise? Don't they?

Are you asking why the limit is 400 / 5 lots while small/medium is 200 / 2 lots?

We could take some guesses. Initially the storage limit was 75 items / lot with a maximum of 250 items. Then they changed it to 100 items/lot with max 400 items. So theres some pro/con to using a bigger house, its less efficient for storage but has more physical room.

So why the maximum limit? I suposethat the loading time in houses that you mentioned may have a lot to do with it. ON my smaller server it can take 1-2 minutes just to load my medium house's contents. You might wait several minutes on a heavy populated server to load 400 items.

If it were just a database issue then they wouldn't have 200 items for small/medium houses cause people who want more storage can just use small houses. But database limits still might be part of it.

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