Quote Originally Posted by Hvinire View Post
One goal of the UI team is to make it possible for players to enjoy the game on various platforms, and in doing so they want to keep the UI fundamentally the same. With that goal in mind, certain aspects of the current PS3 UI will be addressed.
Could you please consider this instead:

Current situation: a 60/100 UI on all platforms
  • Low spec people enjoy it 60/100
  • High spec people enjoy it 60/100

Alternative situation: a 60/100 UI for low spec people, capable to scale up to more functionality/display to provide a 80/100 UI for mid-spec people and 100/100 UI for high spec people
  • Low spec people enjoy it 60/100
  • Mid spec people enjoy it 80/100
  • High spec people enjoy it 100/100

Because that is what an add-on framework should be able to achieve. We can select the computation-intensive add-ons that provide advanced functions or display extra information that our spec can handle.

Since add-ons are going to provide customized UI (i.e. different levels of enjoyment), why not provide some basic levels of customization on the default UI, too?

Please give me 100-slot bag display and 175-slot inventory display, no more tabs. Sorting will only help people who invest the time to write their own package of sorting commands that will float the wanted item to the front each time. A 100/175 full display of inventory will allow manual sorting that is intuitive ("I usually put crafting mats to the right corner, old gear to the bottom-left corner, consumables at the top row" etc). And it's even easier than implementing item sort.

Or are you going to enforce strict auditing of all add-ons such that every single add-on should be able to perform exactly the same on all platforms, too?