UPDATE 7/3: I ended up doing some summer cleaning today while rerolling guns, got rid of most of my vault/inventory. Very sad day. Most of the collection I was amassing is gone. But it had to be done. R.I.P. Hundreds of hours of work.
UPDATE: If the issue is with the loading of all 3D models as we are currently assuming, would you be willing to forgo those to increase vault space, and only have that in the inventory? Maybe even be unable to see perks unless the gun is in your inventory if necessary?
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Original Thread:
I have a good solution to this, another company has already adapted this for their own game. So Bungie's main argument is memory usage on the consoles for all the weapons. While many argue against that being a possible issue, let's assume that is correct. So what's the solution?
An external vault. In a game all about collecting them all having the space to actually keep 'em all is essential. Anybody else know a game that has way too many collectibles and not even space?
Pokemon.
There's so many Pokemon I'm the game, and the bank does not allow you to hold them all (Edit: I stand corrected by many users, the newer games do allow you to store them all, they give you ample space without pokebank. I was unaware, haven't played the new gens, forgive me). Whether or not this is an arbitrary limitation or an actual memory limitation of the games I have no idea, but they made a solution recently.
It's the Pokemon bank. An external application that holds an insane amount of Pokemon. They charge 5 dollars a year for the service, and have many the game truly about catchin' them all.
This is the exact solution we need in Destiny. Whether or not the charge is necessary or sufficient is something you can discuss, but I'd gladly pay 5-10 dollars a year for vault space.
How do you feel about it?
Edit: Thank you everybody for keeping this alive for 1k posts!
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Yeah, no vault space in TTK, F TTK.