So i recently read the developer manifesto about games being easy and fast to play, without unnecessary distractions that cost time but don’t add value to the time spent in game.
For me, one of those time killers are components:
- Having to pick them up manually is a waste of time. It’s just unnecessary clicks, for something thats always going to be picked up.
Suggestion: the option to enable auto pickup for components. - Same goes for completing them. Having to click on complete once in a while is not that time consuming, but tedious and unnecessary. And to be honest: how often does anyone use partial components in multiple items and stretches them thin?
Suggestion: The option to have components completed automatically. - Inventory management is the worst part for me. Not only do they take up space in the personal inventory, but for most of us a tab in the shared stash as well. And thats only if there are no partial components in there, then they take up more than one tab.
And of course, when you are looking for a specific component, you have to sort through a tab a samey looking mini icons - yay :eek:
Suggestion: have a component bag, where components are stored. Not grid based, but as a list for a better overview. Ideally with a small icon for the types of items it can be used in. And a shared bag for all your chars, to which you can move components or take them from. That way, self found would still be supported. At the smith, a small icon while crafting or a different background colour could indicate in which bag a needed component is in.