Adjustment to Deposit All function

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kurushimi0
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Adjustment to Deposit All function

Post by kurushimi0 »

For the Personal Inventory Storage UI at the HQ, the "Deposit All" and "Receive All" buttons are interesting, but they're not particularly useful in their current incarnation.

Clicking "Deposit All" will transfer everything that can be transferred... which is to be expected from the name, I guess. But among the things it transfers are the spacesuit upgrades. I can't think of a reason why I'd ever want to store all of those, each time I'm depositing inventory. Could you make it possible to exempt player-indicated items from being moved, when the "Deposit All" button is clicked?

I'd like to recommend the addition of a "Deposit All Illegal Items" button, though. The Inventory Storage at the HQ really only has two gameplay purposes:

1. Reducing the number of items you have to scroll through when visiting station traders; and

2. Stashing away illegal items to avoid antagonizing station/sector security.

Other than becoming a long list of items over the course of a game, there's really no other gameplay cost to having legal inventory items in your possession. They don't weigh anything, and storing them in the HQ just makes them a little more inconvenient to access if/when I need the items in the game. So I'd argue that the HQ inventory storage's chief benefit is point #2 above. So ideally the UI for interacting with it would build on that.

One last thing -- if a "Deposit All Illegal Items" button is ever added, I'd like to also request that it be able to store all "potentially" illegal items, regardless of which sector the HQ is currently in. When the HQ is in Teladi space, I often visit the HQ to store illegal items only to forget that I'm carrying Hallucinogens, simply because the Teladi don't consider that illegal, and so there is no visual indicator to remind me that it's unsafe to carry it in non-Teladi sectors. And when the HQ is in an unclaimed sector, such as "Heretic's End", then none of the inventory items give any color guidance to help me find what illegal items I need to store -- forcing me to look through the entire list, no matter how long it's grown over the course of a game. So being able to click on a "Deposit All (Potentially) Illegal Items" button would be a huge time saver and headache reducer, for players like me who chiefly use the HQ storage for the safe storage of the illegal items.
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Re: Adjustment to Deposit All function

Post by CBJ »

kurushimi0 wrote: Fri, 30. May 25, 05:42 Clicking "Deposit All" will transfer everything that can be transferred... which is to be expected from the name, I guess. But among the things it transfers are the spacesuit upgrades. I can't think of a reason why I'd ever want to store all of those, each time I'm depositing inventory. Could you make it possible to exempt player-indicated items from being moved, when the "Deposit All" button is clicked?
I'm guessing you haven't tried it since 7.60. ;)
The release notes for 7.60 wrote: • Fixed spacesuit equipment, paint mods and SETA being included in Deposit All in Safe Deposit Storage menu.
kurushimi0
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Re: Adjustment to Deposit All function

Post by kurushimi0 »

Oh, cool -- no, I haven't installed 7.60 yet! Thanks for the heads up!

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