Updated 3/19/2014 - Auto-Stack Option (a glowing effect applied to stackable items when stacked)

So, no comment on the simple stack glow to solve this annoying issue?

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PrimeHydra wrote:

So, no comment on the simple stack glow to solve this annoying issue?

To my surprise, no.

P.S. The OP has been updated with an image to illustrate the glowing effect idea, although an animation effect going across the screen of what's being stacked is a good idea too.

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HeavyMetalGear wrote:

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PrimeHydra wrote:

So, no comment on the simple stack glow to solve this annoying issue?

To my surprise, no.

P.S. The OP has been updated with an image to illustrate the glowing effect idea, although an animation effect going across the screen of what's being stacked is a good idea too.

Yes, combine the 2 approaches for the ultimate foolproof* solution.

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

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HeavyMetalGear wrote:

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PrimeHydra wrote:

So, no comment on the simple stack glow to solve this annoying issue?

To my surprise, no.

P.S. The OP has been updated with an image to illustrate the glowing effect idea, although an animation effect going across the screen of what's being stacked is a good idea too.

Yes, combine the 2 approaches for the ultimate foolproof* solution.

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Banana.

I'm not sure what the banana is all about, but yes: a glowing effect, a transparent animation going across the screen, the number shown of accumulation in a stack, AND the option to turn ON / OFF this feature would fix this problem and complete this idea 100%.

P.S. The OP has been updated again.

The obvious and elegantly simple solution is to change the counter and behavior on the shards such that they stack to 200 and DON'T automatically transform into an orb. Show maximum stack size by default and let experienced players turn it off. When you get 20+ shards, the hover-text should tell you to click to convert.

Since most of the code already exists, this should require less work to modify than attempting to drastically change item behavior in the stash.

This will reduce micromanagement of stash pages and reduce in-town time every trip. If you can't be assed to right-click on a stack to convert it to 1-10 orbs at once, you shouldn't be picking up so much shit when you farm.

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SoylentJello wrote:

The obvious and elegantly simple solution is to change the counter and behavior on the shards such that they stack to 200 and DON'T automatically transform into an orb. Show maximum stack size by default and let experienced players turn it off. When you get 20+ shards, the hover-text should tell you to click to convert.

That is an interesting alternative approach. Have it so it doesn't auto complete an orb and instead request you to Right-Click the shards to convert them (Complete orbs would occupy the space previously occupied by the shards, otherwise left overs would use the system proposed by the Op... which is defeating the point lol.)

Let's keep this on page 1.

Nice, gotta love the old move-without-replying.

You don't need to have some arbitrary glowing effect on stacks. That's just more code for them to deal with.

The main problem is Shards -> Orb -> Sort.

You don't need to search through all tabs, just one tab that is currently open.

You take the newly created orb from shard stacks, and perform a search / function call to sort.
It takes the current tab and looks for the highest count stack, that isn't full, and places the orb into that stack. If it finds none, it just creates the stack as it does now. The only thing you have to worry about is orb stack count or rare cases.

This helps players place shards where you want them, and not have to hassle where the orb goes.
The only thing a player has to worry about is when they don't have any shards leftover, or run out of stash space. In which case the item would be placed onto players hand/hold slot.

There is another Company I know that had a similar problem.
Players are going to stack the slot anyway, which just adds more 'transactions' on the players end than necessary, and more network traffic (not that it matters so much). So they added a sort feature.

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Rhys wrote:

Not really a "bug", per se, but I agree it is really annoying; it would be a nice quality-of-life improvement.

It's one of those things that's really low priority, but every time I play I run into this and I'm like, "Man, this is annoying; I should really get around to changing that..." so yeah. It'll probably happen eventually.

When something in a game's UI is really annoying every time you play, shouldn't fixing it be a reasonably high priority? Especially with the elegant, not-particularly-complex solution proposed in the OP?