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quick-equip is a bust, please remove immediately.
ghyudt
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All it does is get in the way. When I want to remove something, I just double click it. This quick-equip thing just makes it more difficult. I don't want to replace an item, I want to remove all my items and change ships. Now instead of being able to simply do that, I have to drag and drop or right click and select unequip. At the very least make it optional whether or not we wish to use it.
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EDIT - just realised you can move the box yourself. bring it up and first, move it then double click away.
Just play with it and it'll be gravy.
Yes, it's annoying - but in my eyes the annoyance is outweighed by the usefulness, stupid as that sounds.
Before i would have to put my weapon in the inventory, then find the BOFF weapon, drag that to the inventory, then to my inventory, then go back to the inventory to give the original weapon to the Officer whom i'm trading with
Being able to access all the items from inventory and those already equipped on officers in one screen is great
In short its a massive time saver, and makes it far simpler to access weapons and armor on the fly
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And that's exactly how you look.
That being said; I've taken some days off to play this game bc of the new release and I've spent most of my time wondering why I bother because the damn game has been down for the majority of the past 3 days!!
For me (and this is only my opinion, hence the 'option' suggestion) this only gets in my way.
I understand some people like it. There are also those who don't.
Please implement a god-dang'd 'disable quick equip' option in the options menu. Forcing stuff like this on people who find it cumbersome is detracting from QOL.
It actually depends on your location relative to a bank at the time:
http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=1088781
And sign me up for the "disable" option as well. Nothin' but a pain in the buttocks to me.
I don't use it. To find my items in my inventory I always used a special trick. It involve sorting your inventory, and not put the items you want randomly in it.
Anyway, I'm glad some people like it.
This game could dispense twenty dollar bills, and some people would complain that the bills weren't sequentially numbered.
--Red Annorax
It could also hand out blank pages with "$20" scribbled on them in crayon and some people at the other end of the spectrum would be in stores trying to spend them, insisting that they were 20 dollar bills. :rolleyes:
1. Put the first menu option as <empty>, which will move whatever is in that slot into your inventory.
2. Make it so that ctrl+click (or some other combination) moves whatever is in that slot into your inventory.
3. Make it so that double click removes an item and ctrl+click brings up the quick-equip list (possibly more sensible).
In the meantime, the feature is a small inconvenience in exchange for a significant convenience. I like it.
Thank you
Except these aren't 20$ bills and we just don't have to care for them being shoved in everyone's mouth by default.
Allow us the choice? ... will ya pal?
And as for the annoying pop up that appears every time you go to change something? It's as simple as clicking on the little "x" in that box to close that window, and go about it the old fashioned way.
A disable feature would be nice. But it will never happen. So, just work around it.
I don't think that it should be removed, because when I want to quick equip things, it will come in handy.
I do believer that they should also make the things that you swap from your quick equip list, there should be a 10 space quick inventory bank that puts things into it, if they are removed from the ship you are using at that time, and cannot be equipped on another ship.
An example of why this would be needed, if you are equipping an escort, and it has dual heavy cannons, and you decide for some reason to use beams, you cannot equip the dual heavies onto a science ship. (For the most part). So, it will make sense that they would need to go somewhere. It would be a good idea to have a 10 space bank that is where your quick equip items go.
Also, please remember everyone that uses the quick equip feature, if you have a full inventory, and you use the feature, it will put some of your items into your over flow bank. If you are not careful, changing maps can cause you to loose things in over flow. Therefore, you may loose some important gear you have.
Tim.
I've yet to see them deploy any minor patch, no matter how destructive, to tribble without the very same code and issues making it to holodeck. If not, what is the point of tribble anyway? For all the good that is actually doing the game at this point with nobody listening to FREE testers, you might as well deploy directly to holodeck - same net effect.
I also noticed this annoyance, and mentioned it in the tribble patch notes for the feature. It was also directly reported as a bug, to be ignored.
>.< This should not even have made it to holodeck like this. It is very simply horrible UX design, that with minimal effort could have been fixed before holodeck release.
If the devs cannot be bothered to listen to user feedback on UX, they need a proper capable UX designer, as the current offering is pathetic. Each and every patch and update introduces more user-unfriendly UI 'features' wasting time that should be spent actually playing the game.
Dropdown menus no longer automatically close upon making a selection - they used to. Just another example of something requiring an extra click 'just to'. That is not even mentioning the horrible mess that is fleet starbase doff donations(it's called a "Check All" button. a basic requirement with a list as long as you present).
As a programmer myself, all I have to say is for shame, Cryptic. Stop being so bleeding lazy with the UI. There are websites with a better UX than this game. My code has better UX than this game. That is your first impression to any new player, and it is truly pathetic, to the point it looks like it was put together by a bunch of script kiddies with barely a clue of the language it is written in.
The devil is in the details.... you seem to be ignoring. Would you mind taking some pride in your work instead of shoving whatever buggy code you feel like into the game, please? It is truly sad when web development is ahead of you in UX.
Perhaps you have been lulled into a false sense of it being 'ok' by the subpar EOL forum software in use here?
The web has moved on. It is more user-friendly by far than this VB monstrosity. Catch up or hemorrhage players annoyed by your failure of a UI.
P.S. This is not a troll post. These are my true feelings as a professional programmer. Those of us who code for a living usually hold ourselves to a higher standard than hobbyists. You code like hobbyists. You code like Internet Brands, which I would encourage you to look at as your future if you continue down this road - hemorrhaging customers on a daily basis, and the latest version used by no one but the creators of it.
P.P.S. If you are offended by this post, please consider how much you offend the entire playerbase, much less me, with your completely unprofessional programming practices.
And why not?
I dont see this being an incredibly unreasonable request. A simple option to have it turned off like we can turn off help pop-ups or an additional option in the control panel like there are maybe a hundred more already....
Ditto. It's a clunky UI feature and I don't like it. I'd rather have it as a right click option than always-on.