Inventory Interface, Management, and Additional View Options

[ErBear]

I just want one big list.... ; ; with auto sort.

[Efrye]

I just want one big list.... ; ; with auto sort.

Why doesn't this post have a gazillion likes already? This is so much more important than text vs. icons!

If we end up with a text inventory that's still divided into four bags, it will be just as useless to me as it is now.

[Merton9999]

I appreciate the detailed explanation from the developer. Nevertheless I'm happy text display is on the list of future enhancements. I would vastly prefer this. As others mentioned, too many icons are the same and cannot be distinguished by a glance. I spend way too much time looking for items.

[ForteXX]

I dont think Ive ever seen a game that used text for inventories, so not sure what to think of this.

[EriEtou]

yeeeesssss auto sort please.

[Coldbrand]

PS3 limitations.

[Ilitsa]

PS3 limitations.

Are people STILL whining about this?? Jesus Christ. Get over it.

Only complaint I have about the inventory screen is that there isn't an auto-sort feature. While I'm sure there's a dozen more important things to do, I would love to have it all the same

[Returnee]

Just an observation since many players are saying they haven't played an MMO that used text for inventory items, Eve Online, which has probably the most items and places the most emphasis on inventory of any popular MMO, does in fact provide a text based inventory list. It also provides an icon based inventory and a detailed text view.

I know, it's only to be expected from a game commonly described as "spreadsheets in space" (it has an embedded web browser, even!) but there you are.

Also, while people are wishing for inventory features, I'll just toss in a wish for FFXIV to blatantly rip off the ArkInventory mod from World of Warcraft; I've never seen a better inventory system in an MMO than that.

I know it'd be a ton of work though, so I won't be too disappointed if that doesn't happen.

[Jinko]

Also, while people are wishing for inventory features, I'll just toss in a wish for FFXIV to blatantly rip off the ArkInventory mod from World of Warcraft; I've never seen a better inventory system in an MMO than that.

I'm sure many people in here and the devs themselves don't even know what ArkInventory add on is, so you should probably give more detail if you want it to be considered.

I am hopeful that the addition of text commands for the up coming sort feature and addons will allow these kinds of things on PC anyway.

[Returnee]

I'm sure many people in here and the devs themselves don't even know what ArkInventory add on is, so you should probably give more detail if you want it to be considered.

Good point; I'll give a brief description.

ArkInventory allows a creating lists to contain items and rules to decide which list items go to.

One could create, for example, the following lists:

Conjurer
Caster
Tank
Food
Default

And these rules:

Rule 1: if (gear is in my Conjurer gear set) put it in Conjurer list
Rule 2: If (gear is Disciple of Magic specific) put it in Caster list
Rule 3: If (gear is Gld/Pld/Mrd/War specific) put it in Tank list
Rule 4: If (item category is Food) put it in Food list
Rule 5: If (item doesn't match any rule) put it in Default list

So it's possible to group items by attributes you care about.
It's possible to get far more specific than this, e.g. looking at item stats or using regular expression matching on item text even.

One can also decide sort methods for items in the lists. For instance, one may want to use alphabetical sorting, or sort by the equip slot, or perhaps sort by the time the item was added to inventory.

I found this mod to be incredibly useful and convenient; I always knew where to look for an item and didn't have to manually move things around in bags trying to keep some semblance of order.
It made a part of the game that had always been a pain into a non-issue.