chilly summit
After nearly 50h of playing i finally came across the infamous bag slot issue on followers. During my early weeks as a rebellion inciter I utilized active companions to farm large swathes of forest/mushrooms/flax fields you name it. This led me to believe rushing the t1 bag to double the follower inventory to be a valid strategy. However after a few nights of this style of farming i noticed my followers "filling up" their inventory much quicker than normal and returning to my side shortly after i had given them a command to collect wood or logs. Today i was in bradford with a few of my first called upon followers in order to expel them and transfer their gear over onto some new followers when I removed the bag from my follower my inventory was FLOODED with spoiled food.
This leads me to believe that spoiled food in follower inventory, often coming from stashing them with excess food so they dont revolt and return home, is generating spoiled food that cannot be seen in their inventory and yet is taking up a valid inventory slot. Since then i have taken to every couple of nights removing and replacing their bags and its become consistent to see spoiled food on anyone who was holding excess food during the nightly raid.
I'm not sure if this is a bug, a visual glitch, or working as intended however hopefully this helps out those wondering why bag slots dont seem to be helping increase their followers inventory
raven vigil
strong acorn