Currently there’s 41 different items in the "Curiosity" section of my inventory. Adding two more categories would help:
[ul][li] "Plot/story", items that are acquired in the as a story progresses, and which can’t actually be used for anything.[/li][li]"Connected", for the re-usable items which are related to the various factions.[/li][/ul]With the addition of those the items left in "Curiosity" would be a lot more manageable.
I could get behind that. I wouldn’t be upset, either, if the inventory sections were made collapsible like the qualities are. It would certainly make finding things easier.
edited by Paflick on 9/14/2016
I’m with you on separating the connected items. There’s definitely enough of them to make their own category.
I also agree that there are too many items in the Curiosity section.
However, separating Connected items to their own category might not be so trivial: some of them, like the Pulsating Amber, or the Diary of the Dead, are already in their own categories, for thematic reasons.
Part of the issue right now is that some bug is sorting all the Curiosities alphabetically, instead of having the usable items grouped together at the beginning.
Yeah, I’ve also noticed that a few weeks ago.
I just assumed this was a deliberate change.
Yes, several of us commented at the time how impractical that section had now become. Pretty sure someone said it was a deliberate change as part of an ongoing process. Sorry, can’t find the thread at the moment. That gave some hope that things would improve again, but no luck so far.
Well, as I’m working on a FL extension I could add a collapsible part (or scrollable) to inventory items which hold more than, 4 rows, for example.
It will probably take me about a few more weeks to polish it, but what do you guys think about this option? All of the additions were based only on my experience so it’s good to have other input.
I would find a category like books/writing/publishing helpful. It could contain short stories, research papers or the newspaper stuff, perhaps even the typewriter.
Maybe we can have the Fidgeting Writer category? That could cut some of the Curiosity bloat.
Right now I have 46 items in my curiosity section without any of the Fidgeting Writer ones. Besides, you would (or at least, I would) usually convert them in stages - i.e. all sense of deja vu into glimpses, then glimpses into next and etc.
I’m pretty sure a reasonably curious person can go over 50 items, given I ran out of Ablution Absolution, wasn’t productive enough in the Empress’ Court, on expeditions around the Zee and recently lost all K&C tokens, so Fidgeting Writer is not the issue nor the solution here. Not that the it actually bothers me. Except, maybe, for sapphires and venom-rubies, which are rather mundane.
edited by Talkes on 9/14/2016
There are 76 items in my curiosity section. 3x newspaper copy, 3x research notes, different types of short stories and novels bloat the thing up. Also, various story items like the keepsakes from the ES.
To be fair, they already did a bit of a cleanup when they put the lodgings in a separate category.
edited by Johnny Felix on 9/14/2016
I have 77 Curiosities right now - how fitting for a Seeker. It would be even more if I had things like Tinctures of Vigour. I think some organizing is very much needed.
A Writings category would be excellent, though that might not be the best name. It could include items like Short Stories, Books of Hidden Bodies, works from Court, the Fungal-Themed Poetry from the FotER, Slowcake’s Exceptionals, O’Boyle’s Practical Primer, the Ornate Typewriter, Page from the Liber Visionis, newspaper copy, scientific notes and collected work… probably lots of things I don’t have. I suppose the scientific notes and volumes could go in Academic as well.
edited by Optimatum on 9/14/2016
For the Writings category, I’d have to disagree, as some of the items that a large amount of written work is scattered among other categories. Uncanny Incunabula are in Mysteries, Diaries of the Dead are in Rumours and Proscribed Material is an important part of the category’s upconversion process. Without them, the Writing section seems pretty arbitrary to me.
What I’d suggest is a more abstract ‘Accomplishments’ tab for short stories and Rosettes, your K&C medals and written works, Notes on the Case of the Speculative Arachnid and ES completion items, along with a Connected items tab. While the latter suggestion might remove the meaning they receive from their current categories (which I rather like as an idea), it would be wildly outmatched by the convenience of a separate category, in my opinion.
edited by Vavakx Nonexus on 9/14/2016
How about we just cut to the chase and ask for a search bar for Items, Qualities, and the Journal? It’s the obvious solution, no?
The problem with that is the fact that making a search bar for all of that would take a lot of work from the developers, while new categories are comparatively easy to implement. Just make a new category, and switch some item tags to it.
I don’t really have a stance on this issue but it prompted me to go and count, and I have a frankly ludicrous and very appropriate 77 items in my Curiosity section.
re:search bar
That’s all in the source available to the client. Try something like F12, Ctrl-F.
Well, this seems to be an issue to most so I come with a question: What would you think it’ll be best?
a) More categories; diamonds, Fidgeting Writer, etc?
b) Rearrange them and place usable at the beginning alphabetically ordered (A-Z a-z)
c) Scroll with max limit of X rows, but this kind of crowds them more
OR
d) Dropdown
It would also be nice to know if FBG has some plans in the near future regarding this matter. :)
[quote=Skinnyman]Well, this seems to be an issue to most so I come with a question: What would you think it’ll be best?
a) More categories; diamonds, Fidgeting Writer, etc?
b) Rearrange them and place usable at the beginning alphabetically ordered (A-Z a-z)
c) Scroll with max limit of X rows, but this kind of crowds them more
OR
d) Dropdown
It would also be nice to know if FBG has some plans in the near future regarding this matter. :)[/quote]
A) would be easy to implement although they might need community feedback to properly make the categories.
B) That’s quite handy too and might be the quickest fix in the four options.
C) Yeah, this might crowd the interface even more cluttered.
D) Well it worked with the Outfits…