The thing that gets me really with this whole thing is actually from the lore of Destiny. Glimmer is just programmable matter, and Engrams are the patterns to be able to "encode" the glimmer to make some object. Does it not make sense then that once we find an Engram that we could just essentially store it for recreation at anytime? I mean, the technology comes from the golden age and is clearly still in use despite the collapse. Are you telling me that once the cryptarch decrypts the engram it is gone forever unless we find another copy? Any system which honestly decreased the rate at which we received loot, but simultaneously left us with the ability to reclaim something we had found at a later date for some appropriate cost would be beneficial I think to everyone. Collectors would be able to collect all the things. People concerned about meta changes wouldn't have to worry about "Oh no, the meta changed!" and then "Oh, -blam!-, I dismantled the 'new MIDA'", or shit resilience is new main stat, to bad I sharded all that heavy armor. I think the steps coming in next weeks update may be a partial fix for this with several vendors allowing you to purchase armor from them. Any space stored by armor in the vault would be decreased, requiring you to only store eververse and other such limited time, or RNG drop only gear. Within the spoiler is an explanation of why some things are the way they are, why some of these things are bad systems, and some miscellaneous stuff. [spoiler] Vault space - The hardware issues. -------------------------------------------------- On Bungie's end the hardware demands created by an increased file size per account for vault storage go up. This is something that I think people fail to fully realize how much of a headache it can be for a developer. Each file does not increase dramatically in size per account. As an example lets use the number 5MB per 50 slots. If they were to add 100 slots, that's 10MB. If you had 1,000,000 active accounts across all platforms (not even considering accounts which have been inactive since after week one). This is only ~10GB of storage space to account for this, which, by today's standard, a small amount. However, inactive accounts need the storage space as well. And they need free space to allow for new accounts to be created. Lets say that's another ~20GB of space. The fact that Bungie doesn't use dedicated servers for their network model also gives some insight to this. There is a likely-hood that Bungie's expenditure for the games required servers is kept as low as possible. The game server that hosts the character files is likely rented by Bungie. And they likely are renting an amount of storage space with it to account for their current systems with some wiggle room. Tacking on another ~30GB of storage space thus would likely increase the cost to rent the server space. This makes the vault slot issue something that is very much something that the developers would love to do, but that the person in charge of authorizing this increased cost has the final say in. Everything else ------------------------------ And the eververse is a root of storage space issues. If a player wants to collect (and manages to get) every exotic sparrow, ship, and ghost shell for each season, let alone the armors, the vault becomes quickly plugged up. Not to mention all of the legendary shells, sparrows, and ships. Including shaders in the eververse in an what feels like an attempt (even if it does not function as such) to fill the loot pool with "pad items" essentially decreasing the probability that you get the thing you actually want further feeds the storage space problem. The fact that shaders are now a consumed item instead of being essentially an ornament further plugs up storage space and also leads to players not wanting to use them out of fear of not having it anymore. The same applies to transmat effects. These two things are core elements of character customization. The customization at the beginning is truthfully a sad excuse for player customization, and one that is only potentially seen in cutscenes and social spaces. Shaders and transmat effects are however seen by the player and other players for 99% of the gameplay, and yet both do not provide the freedom for the player to freely apply them without worry that should they equip a new ship or armor that they will not be able to use it again. This is a poor system that fails to understand basic human psychology. Players of games with usable items rarely use those usable items if they are perceived as rare, even if they would make the game play easier on the player because there might be a situation later where they wish they had it. And that leads to a situation in which they never use it. Rare consumables are best served as items which grant an immediate benefit to the player which doens't make sense to hold on to (e.g. gives immediate xp, skill point, etc...) Shaders and transmat effects provide no benefit to gameplay, but still have the problem of, "I might want to have it to apply later to gear/ship I like more and if I use it now I won't have it then." There are similar issues with the current mod system having essentially duplicate mods that don't stack simply because they fit different armor slots, but provide the same effect. And the fact that transmat effects also fill this inventory space further makes it worse.[/spoiler] The problem with the vault space isn't the number of slots. Its that there are far to many things to fill up that space that do not need to, and should not be.