New Bank Space News

[Heartsong_Steelsoul]

I suspect that with LoY they broke down and are making several DB changes at once (like the new item slot). They used the word "impossible" before when they really meant "difficult and time consuming".

[Hobbun]

Yaaay! Truly a great change. I know the info coming out for the bank is on the 21st but has anyone heard how they have it set up in charging you?


Hobbun

[Cidarenyae]

OMG! 8 more slots?!?!?! :!:

WOOOOOT!

I though it would only be like 2 more slots. 8 is unbelievable.

/e does the happy dance of joy!

More bank space alone = the price of LoY.

/totally agree!

[Ngreth Thergn]

has anyone heard how they have it set up in charging you?

There is one charge for the Legacy of Yekesha expansion (download only)...

If you pay you get:

New Playable Race: Frogloks
Expanded Bank Capacity
Enhanced Looking for Group Tool
Guild Management Tool
Cartography System
New Magic Item Slot: Charms
Customize Your Look with Armor Dyes
Dozens of New Creatures
New Zones (targeted generally for character levels 35-60)
New Spells

One charge gets all of that

There is a button on server select "pre order" if you click it, and you are setup with a CC it charges you and you are done.

I do not know what will be done for game card and direct debit folks.

if you curently see "All expantions enabled" on your server select screen... then you ahve already purchased the expansion

If it says "4 expansions enabled" (or less acroding to what you ahve bought) You have not bought it, unless you skiped one of the previous expansions... in wich case, you will have to figure it out yourself if you bought it

[Androsulach]

Reasons for buying....

I was looking at the bank capacity when I made up my mind. The new item slot, new spells, and new zones were icing on the cake for me.

Ngreth's right, we're getting a major bargain with LoY, since most of us are really just wanting that expanded bank vault. I wonder if that new item slot means more JC recipes to fill it.

[Iannyen]

Holy Schnikeys. After getting over the shock of the new bank space, if I read Ngreth's post correctly, they are adding a cartography system....

Does this mean we will be adding zone maps to our characters, ones we can make little notes on?

[atonic]

I do not know what will be done for game card and direct debit folks.

You can get an upgrade code from the store on the station website.

[Cigarskunk]

Unless the online stores are jumping the gun, I'm seeing sites now that are claiming you can order LoY from them, so the whole "download only" thing may have simply been a ploy to get folks to order directly from Sony first and cut out the middle men.

[lonewylfe]

If you preorder online though, you still get an email stating that there will not be any CD...they need to change their autoreply :roll:
I guess there was a lot of concern expressed by people who are on dialup or other slow connections, even if it is broken up into multiple downloads.
Plus a CD gives physical proof of having the account, in case it's hacked, etc.
I thought though that only EB was being given the CDs to sell. But however I get it, I'm gonna love the bank space

[Froni Thunderpaws]

Wowie Zowie

On order and drooling already. Windowed EQ already made life a lot easier for me and this is fantastic. I'll be filled up in a day, but I won't have to pester all my friends to help move things from characters all over the place; well at least not as often. I am most excited that I won't have to destroy all the stuff I forage ever time I need some space to work on other things. Right now I have about 60 no drop items on my main char - so whoot I can still have lots of unfinished quests (hmm maybe the space constraint was a good motivator.)

So CHEERS to SOE for some really cool improvements (but I still want to have a froglok necromancer.)

[Cravin]

yea but do I want to upgrade 1 account or all 3? I mean its good to have 1.5 accounts for Storage Mules right? heehhehe lets See 12 X 8 X 10 =960 more storage slots. or myabe I can delete a couple and make me a froggy to play with. Hmmmmmmmmmmm

[DeegerStormcrow]

just keeping my fingers crossed that it's part of the normal bank and not some special bank tucked away in LoY zone somewhere.

If I read the original post correctly they are adding a 16-slot bank. At worst I would think that all banks except a bank in a LOY zone have 8 slots and the LOY bank has 16 (meaning that the first 8 slots are shared across all banks). A book to the LOY bank would make it reasonable.

I'm actually a tad bit disappointed that they aren't adding more than 8 slots. How much harder would it be to add 20? Or 50? It's basically just more data on the database. That disappointment pales to the excitement of having 8 more slots, though

They could make up for it by changing the bazaar merchant bags to have 20 slots. It would be soooo nice to have, say, all my dex gear in one bag or all my tradeskill tools (geerloks, dairy spoon, etc.) in one bag.

[Araon]

I'm actually a tad bit disappointed that they aren't adding more than 8 slots. How much harder would it be to add 20? Or 50? It's basically just more data on the database.

I'm not the most serious tradeskiller around and even just doubling the space just isn't going to cut it for me. I was hoping the new bank space would be enough that I wouldn't have to spend half an hour every night transferring stuff from one character to antoher.

But I'll take what they give though

Expanded Bank Capacity January 21

/em checks his watch.

Grrrr

I want to read about it on the official site, and according to the site it would have more info today.

[Nolequen]

Whohoo!
They finally updated the Ykesha site and they did double the bank slots--
and it seems clear that this will be true in any bank you visit.

Huzzah!
Nolequen