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Do you buy Bigger Bags?

This is a no-brainer if you've got currants to burn.  But for those of us who still have to budget our spending, do you find the extra space of Bigger Bags worth the higher cost.  (I figure a Bag costs about 110 per slot and a Bigger Bag a bit more than 130, based on gaining 9 and 15 usable slots, respectively).  Me, I've bought 4 Bags and no Bigger Bags so far - I just can't see coughing up 2000 currants.  I'm very much into the cooking skills, and I love it that all my pots, pans and utensils just fill one bag so I no longer have to pick up each pan to use it and then put it down again when I'm done.

Posted 17 months ago by Hawkwell Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Yeah, Ebil - street projects were really what turned me into a bag lady - never know what you might need!  If you're just bopping around Ur completing quests and making sure you don't die, you don't "need" to lug around nearly so much crap!

    (And I didn't even take my blockmaker with me... that's how much crap I carried...)
    Posted 15 months ago by jasbo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • jasbo, the only issue with the script now is since they took away the ALL option on the realty pages, it only sorts by price for that page, which is by region.  Since the realty pages default to Alakol now, people may not realize there are other options.  That script was awesome when we had the ALL option...I could look across the world to see what I wanted in a certain price range...now, I can only look across a region.  IMO, taking away the ALL option really is going to make it hard for the newbs to figure out their real estate options. 
    Posted 15 months ago by ~Pink Flamingo~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cheap houses abound! Now needing the game to open so i can buy one. In lieu of that, need to find the house thread. :D
    Posted 15 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm in the same boat - I'm getting the smaller bags because they're affordable at my current currant level. :) I did hoard all my currants this last round and got a house for $3k. I'm AK and gardening focused so the cheaper house with the garden and tree patches was perfect. I love my tree house with its dream catcher. :D

    Folks have mentioned dropping stuff on the floors of their houses - things don't disappear when you do? I guess I've been trained by Runescape to assume stuff goes bye-bye after a minute. :)
    Posted 15 months ago by Grizelda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Grizelda, you can safely drop stuff on the floor of your house and provided nothing goes horribly wrong with the game, it should stay where you left it for however long you leave it there  :) Just careful not to drop too much stuff, as when it gets into the hundreds of items, it gets very very laggy to get in your house lol  I tried to make a carpet out of emblems before reset, and the more I added, the slower it got to get into my house lol
    Also be aware that if you let anyone into your house, they can help themselves to anything that's out on the floor, so you could be like me and let nobody in ever, however much you trust them,  or just be really choosy about who you do let in :)
    Posted 15 months ago by Ebil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grizelda,  Inside your house or in your private garden (meaning everywhere once you come in your front door), you can drop whatever you want and it will stay there until you pick it up again.  Except that anybody you allow into your house can pick it up, too, and walk off with it!  Stuff you put in your cabinet can only be accessed by you, so it's absolutely safe.  In general it's a good idea to only let people you know and trust into your house unless you have everything you value put a way in bags either in the cabinet or in your backpack inventory.
    Edit:  I see Ebil mostly beat me to it.
    Posted 15 months ago by Hawkwell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Right, Grizelda, things don't disappear when you drop them on the floor. Only exception are sno cones. They will melt eventually.
    Posted 15 months ago by GreyGoose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I buy the bigger bag straight out of the gates. In fact, I've never had a smaller bag in my possession. It's more per slot, but you also waste less slots on holding bags :)
    Posted 15 months ago by Lady Cailia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks all for the info! Glitch home invasions? heehee. I'll be careful. Thanks again for the great info.
    Posted 15 months ago by Grizelda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • YES, im all about the big bags. Of course I like cooking and gardening/herb growing which everyone knows means you need lots of room. I bought a 1000 currant house to store my stuff in till I can max out on big bags. It's a PITA doing things this way but it stops me getting the feeling that im being wasteful with my currants buying small bags only to replace them with big bags. Crazy & doesn't make sense I know because I wasted currants on a house but meh it keeps me happy.
    Posted 15 months ago by DramaticHamster Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Tibbi - you used to be able to buy a house when the game was closed. I can't really tell at the minute as I already have a house but if you are really keen, you can see if you can snag one now!

    EDIT: I suppose I should also say something about bigger bags ;-) I am surprised at how little bag space I seem to need at the moment, based on how much stuff and nonsense I was lugging around with me before reset. At the beginning it is probably better to have smaller bags because for the same price as 1 bigger bag, you can get 2 generic bags and 4 extra slots. Of course, if later you want to maximise carrying ability, you will need all bigger bags, so if you are really forward planning you might decide to give the smaller bags a miss. I like the smaller bags though, they are much prettier colours!
    Posted 15 months ago by Violet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You don't have to wait until the game opens to buy/sell a house now.
    Posted 15 months ago by xoxJulie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I bought one bag at regular size while I was saving for my first house.  But everything else is bigger bags.

    Once I get enough skills, I'll be handing out PayItForward bags to newbies again.  Donations of your small bags are welcome, if you don't want to fill it and hand it out yourself.
    Posted 15 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • WindBorn! that's an awesome idea. Just wait till holiday season BAG STOCKINGS! :)
    Posted 15 months ago by HerbertSherbert Subscriber! | Permalink
  • On the topic of interesting pay it forward ideas, I have a plan for a bag scavenger hunt as soon as my Glitch is happily rich around level 25 or so.

    My plan it to fill up a bag with some interesting goodies and then hide it somewhere high above the street in the trees or behind a column. 

    Then I'll leave a note inside saying to contact me and inform me of your new spoils. :) I think it'll be a quick way to make a friend. :P I'll probably include a note saying I'd prefer you leave it for a lower level player though. No one around my level needs my hard earned stuff. :P
    Posted 15 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • woo bags!
    Posted 15 months ago by HerbertSherbert Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For starters; I buy three small bags, 1.applicances. 2 tools. 3. food/drinks.  and 4.  one Large bag when I got currants,only while leveling up. I managed to buy my first large bag for the free items like music box;s, Emblems, seeds , planks and all other items. I leave nothing in my little house, which I will upgrade. Because I never know when I will upgrade.

    The three small bags I will gift to new players and add some food stuffs for them.
    Therefore I will buy nothing but large bags after this.
    Posted 15 months ago by Joy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • DaveJohn, what a lovely idea.. that is so nice :)
    Posted 15 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cool idea Dave.
    Posted 15 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • On the original question: I'm a packrat and dislike having to go back home for stuff, so bigger bags are important to my play style.  When currants were really tight, early on before I had a home, I got a couple of the regular bags; right now I've only got those, one bigger bag, and a spice rack, but from earlier tests I know I'll eventually have bigger bags and specialty containers in almost all of my main inventory slots.

    Although it's possible to buy real estate when the game is closed, I think if you haven't got an individual unit scoped out ahead of time, it's really worth it to wait until the game opens and visit the street -- it's not clear from the realty page just how a particular dwelling looks on the street, or how far it is from the street entrance.  (Since I often use a slow computer, I would have been bummed if I bought a treehouse sight unseen, then discovered that accessing it required a fair bit of accurate jumping.)
    Posted 15 months ago by Fnibbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you don't have much time to play/earn money, you should go for regular bags at first. Then when you get farther along, buy bigger bags for adventuring, and use the regular ones for home storage and resource compilation. 
    Posted 15 months ago by La_La Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The reason I don't use regular bags is that they are a complete waste of currants. Almost everything in the game can be resold to a vendor for up to 80% of it's original cost, but bags can't. They are literally a money sink. You can't trade them, sell them, auction them, you spend the currants and then you're done. Then when you later replace them with bigger bags you just throw the smaller bag on the ground somewhere (or in your house) and it just sits there until someone takes it. The way I think of it is that if I buy a smaller bag, then a bigger bag I'm basically paying 3000 currants for a bigger bag instead of the two I would pay if I just waiting another 10 minutes of mining to pay 2000 currants.
    Posted 15 months ago by Skwid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The bag prices puzzle me: why do the bag prices vary by color?

    generic green bag = 925
    generic gray bag   = 950
    generic pink bag   = 975
    generic blue bag   = 1000

    Is there something special with the blue bag that makes it the most expensive generic bag?
    Posted 15 months ago by roderick ordonez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • roderick ordonez wrote: Is there something special with the blue bag that makes it the most expensive generic bag?
    yes, it is the most expensive shade of blue you've ever seen. It will make your neighbors jealous and your friends will privately ask each other if it is a fake!
    Posted 15 months ago by Skwid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Skwid: LOL
    Posted 15 months ago by roderick ordonez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm only buying bigger bags - and have a penchant for the special blue one... ees soo pretty.
    Posted 15 months ago by icatchm0nkeys Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ugh, keeping your bags organised is such a bitch
    Posted 15 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
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    Posted 15 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • since my first test revealed, that u cant sell them smaller bags anymore, plus i am always keeping stuff, also small bags instead of replacing them with bigger ones once all slots are full, i have decided before the reset to only go for biggerbags !
    Posted 15 months ago by StevenSoul Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Shexy- this is why I love tool boxes.  ONLY tools will go in there!  So no food or rock chunks will invade and clutter up your tools.
    Posted 15 months ago by Feylin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Regarding keeping bags organized...  I keep a bag in my first slot that has the things I always want on walk-about  -  emo bear, random kindness, etc.  I make sure it's at least half empty whenever I leave home.  That way, if I get a lot of new stuff while out and my primary slots all fill, the overflow will always go into that first bag.  So when it's time to reorganize I know that all the random stuff should be in that first bag rather than some other bag or bags who-knows-where in my collection.
    Posted 15 months ago by Hawkwell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I also tend to collect a lot of stuff but quickyl learned that the small bags were not enough for me. It seemed to take forever for me to save enough for the big bag but I needed the room so i did break down and buy 1 small bag which was ok for me until I I could buy a house. Now I will work on the spice and tool box. Do the cooking tools go in the tool box also or just the other stuff?
    Posted 15 months ago by megan76 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Feylin  -  I have toolboxes*, and spice racks, it's the bloody bags that are the problem

    too much clicky clicky clicky... I want something that rationalises, tidies, does all the PITA work for me..  I'm not naturally tidy, so it all just ends up as a mess.

    * having said that,  I think toolboxes don't automatically get tools if they're to the right of your bags?
    Posted 15 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have 5 bigger bags now, and I'm as proud of each one as I am of my house.
    Posted 15 months ago by gimmegames Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Megan, go to   Encyclopedia ยป Items.  The first category there is Tools.  Everything in that tools list (and nothing else) can be put in a toolbox.  It includes all the cooking tools.
    Posted 15 months ago by Hawkwell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am only buying bigger bags on this test, and it is taking me a while to get a full inventory of bags.  But I bought a house much earlier than I did the last time around, woo! 

    After accidentally leaving many important things behind in my house on the last test, I named one of my bags "Dont leave home without it" and that's where I kept my fancy pick, my focusing orb and some of the other must-haves.  I just don't know if the toolbox is worth the extra cash.
    Posted 15 months ago by Varekai Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wait, you can't sell smaller bags? Can you at least throw them on the ground?
    Posted 15 months ago by Aoi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Since you can't sell items back for 100% of the price you bought them at, I haven't been getting small bags, since I'll just be replacing them anyway. They're only more cost-effective if you don't resell them and buy big bags.

    And of course, at this point, I hardly need two big bags' worth of space, much less a full inventory of them. 
    Posted 15 months ago by Capablanca Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bigger Bags are one of the best up-front investments you can make.  You WILL use them.  I've already basically filled up all my inventory slots with them.  And yeah, given that you can't sell your smaller bags when you're ready to upgrade, you might as well save up a bit longer and hold out for the bigger bag, saving yourself more hassle and expense in the long run.
    Posted 15 months ago by BeatFreq Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Besides everything in the tools list, toolboxes can also hold butterfly lotion, which is handy if you're into the whole lepidopteral lactation lark.
    Posted 15 months ago by dr_loplop Subscriber! | Permalink
  • AFAIK, you can't sell either kind of bag. 
    Posted 15 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I bought toolboxen before the reset, but thinking about it now, I don't understand the point.
    I can store all of my tools in a large bag while still being able to use any extra slots in them for other items. If it somehow protected my tools or gave some kind of added bonus over a bag, it might make sense to me.
    I only bought one small bag before reset as I found out pretty quickly that you can't sell them.
    Before reset , 4 toolboxen, 1 spice rack, 3 elemental  and the reset were large bags., but I think im just gonna use large bags in place of the tool boxen this time.
    Posted 15 months ago by MrBoogs Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The advantage of the tool box is other things don't drop into it. It's otherwise a Bigger Bag. And at level 13 I've already found the need for such (bigger bags that is). I cook - a lot - for energy and I have to carry my ingredients often, and in quantity and variety.
    Posted 15 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That's not an advantage. Its a waste of slots if you happen to be carrying toolboxes.

    If you want to have organized bags we just need to organize them a bit better, or have the option on your bag to prefer certain kinds of items.
    Ie a garden bag, mining bag etc
    Posted 15 months ago by MrBoogs Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I decided not to buy toolboxes this time around, I didn't find it advantageous at all to have a restricted by type bag, it was mostly a pain.
    Posted 15 months ago by Fleep Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, the specialized "bags" do provide that option actually. And my tool box fills up to the point that I had buy a second one before the last reset. I keep all my tools with me. I found that storing them at my house was a Bad Idea.. The Bigger Bags do pay for themselves in terms of security and time.
    Posted 15 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bought my first bigger bag.  Never noticed that scroll thingy on the side.  So nice to have more room. :)
    Posted 15 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For mining, yes. :D
    Posted 15 months ago by Cerulean Subscriber! | Permalink
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