Suggestion for A Realm Reborn's inventory interface.

[Shamdeo]

The current system:
In A Realm Reborn a player's inventory current looks like (Fig. 1) when opened. Each "page" has 25 slots which comprise a 100-slot inventory. It appears by clicking on a "page number" that the inventory box will flip to the corresponding slots. To move items in your inventory you must flip to different "pages" of your inventory while dragging and placing items. Items that are gained by the player populate in the first box before spilling over into subsequent pages.

The problem I see:
It looks and feels rather inefficient to manage your items in this fashion, having to click an item and then a corresponding "page" and then placing an item in a slot when the game now employs and boasts a drag-and-drop system.

My suggestion to resolve it:
An option illustrated in (Fig. 2) to display all four "pages" of the inventory at once, so that a player can more easily visualize their inventory space. Note how I've segregated different types of equipment and consumables into different bags for easier reference. The screen space it takes up is comparable to some of the other interfaces we've seen that can be brought up in the micro menu or by key stroke. In addition to the poorly-MSPainted graphic I made below, each page could also be brought up with a different mappable keyboard stroke that can be set in a options interface.

For example:
I (brings up your entire inventory, all 100 slots as seen in Fig. 2)
F1 (Page 1 only as seen in Fig. 1)
F2 (Page 2 only as seen in Fig. 1)
etc.,

World of Warcraft, for example, uses a bag system with a different amount of slots for each bag. Since A Realm Reborn does it differently by allotting a static 100 slots, there isn't quite as much of a need for malleable window size. If a player should click the tab to display key items or crystals, the window itself would revert to it's original smaller window size. Key items and crystals could possibly be displayed on the same extra page, or perhaps there's enough screen space to include them on the main inventory window.

I feel that this interface would better assist people who are constantly switching between various types of play including: combat, gathering, crafting, and questing and the items they correspond to. I don't feel that this sacrifices a large amount of screen space to accomplish as well. I think this will make inventory management a bit less tedious so that we can spend a little less time messing around with sorting items in the interface and a little more time enjoying what A Realm Reborn has to offer.

What do you guys think?

For reference, the original screenshot Square Enix released that I used to build these mock-ups: http://i6.minus.com/ibjWjloC6zTuNe.png

Fig. 1


Fig. 2

[Felis]

Shouldn't this thread be in the soon coming beta forum?

[Zenaku]

They adding a system where it can organize the item for you like one tap would be for junk,one more gear,one more other and so on.

Also SE could make it where you can see all bags as one or someone could make a addon like they did in wow. I really don't understand the issue you trying to say but if you see that issue i think it be best to post it in the beta forums where it be look at more.

[Alhanelem]

I like having bags, but it would be nice if we could tear bags off into seperate windows.

[Shamdeo]

Shouldn't this thread be in the soon coming beta forum?

Everything discussed here has been either demonstrated in a Live Letter or through the assets Square Enix released. Yeah, I could wait until then because that's when they'll be incorporating more feedback, but my intention was to get opinions about it from players such as yourself. Why wait to discuss it until then?

They adding a system where it can organize the item for you like one tap would be for junk,one more gear,one more other and so on.

Glad to hear it!

[Altena]

Ditch the bags. Bring back the list.

/end

[Alhanelem]

Ditch the bags. Bring back the list.

/end

No. Lists suck. Too long to scroll through.

[Shougun]

I hope they have an inventory API such that an addon can be made to make bags and lists and graphs and tables so we can all have our own neurotic inventory management system.

Just in a direct matter with your images OP, I prefer the second one. I don't like dragging items from tab to tab.

Having the tear away from the main page into a separate piece window and then back into a one piece would be a cool option.

[Cynthis]

Ditch the bags. Bring back the list.

/end

Seconded. With thousands of items the icons become so similar they are very hard to distinguish and I always have to mouse over them. Lists would be much faster.

At least give us an option to use lists.

[Radacci]

You thought about that some people might have suggested this in alpha, and posted about it in alpha forum, and devs already fixed it?
Alpha version was a bit out-dated to begin with; so it seems a bit odd to make suggestions for beta, when you havn't seen beta client yet, and don't know how it's working.