dropping items improvement


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Post Saturday, 20th December 2014, 23:43

dropping items improvement

When dropping items you should be able to see how many items you're holding in total and how many will be left afterwards. You can see it by going into view inventory but sometimes you've already the selected the items and it just gets annoying to not be able to see it there.

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Post Sunday, 21st December 2014, 00:15

Re: dropping items improvement

OP, I'm not quite sure what you're talking about. Pressing "d" brings up this interface (offline tiles, but online tiles and offline console are virtually identical), which includes how many you're holding in total. Figuring out how many you'll have left is very rarely any worse than two digit subtraction.
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Post Sunday, 21st December 2014, 00:24

Re: dropping items improvement

Arrhythmia wrote:OP, I'm not quite sure what you're talking about. Pressing "d" brings up this interface (offline tiles, but online tiles and offline console are virtually identical), which includes how many you're holding in total. Figuring out how many you'll have left is very rarely any worse than two digit subtraction.


maybe i'm just not seeing it, but where on that image can you see the total of the amount of items out of 52 that you're holding?
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Post Sunday, 21st December 2014, 00:28

Re: dropping items improvement

EugeneJudo wrote:
Arrhythmia wrote:OP, I'm not quite sure what you're talking about. Pressing "d" brings up this interface (offline tiles, but online tiles and offline console are virtually identical), which includes how many you're holding in total. Figuring out how many you'll have left is very rarely any worse than two digit subtraction.


maybe i'm just not seeing it, but where on that image can you see the total of the amount of items out of 52 that you're holding?


Ah, I thought you meant total number of items in a stack. Apologies.
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Post Sunday, 21st December 2014, 12:46

Re: dropping items improvement

What a great suggestion.
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Post Monday, 22nd December 2014, 00:37

Re: dropping items improvement

This is shown at the top of the inventory screen in online tiles (and console, IIRC).
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Post Monday, 22nd December 2014, 00:42

Re: dropping items improvement

nilsbloodaxe wrote:This is shown at the top of the inventory screen in online tiles (and console, IIRC).

Yes, and oddly not at the top of the 'drop item' screen (Which looks nearly identical to the inventory screen), which is what the OP was complaining about.
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Post Monday, 22nd December 2014, 16:08

Re: dropping items improvement

Weight used to be shown in drop screen. Now that that feature is gone, # items wrt designated drops would be helpful.
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Post Tuesday, 23rd December 2014, 16:29

Re: dropping items improvement

Okay (also in the pickup menu).

It doesn't currently show how many you will be left with: you'll have to do that arithmetic yourself.

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Post Wednesday, 24th December 2014, 23:16

Re: dropping items improvement

Thanks, Neil! Already been helpful.

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