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mr_groovy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

No Inherent Effect [NiE]

09 Jan 2008 at 07:34 - 1

We all know Anet is franticly working on GW2. And have thus less time or no time to spend on GW updates, aside from the occasional skill balance.
But what small feature do you really miss in the game, that you would think Anet already would have implemented. For me:

Titles organised as the Questlog.

As there are 41 Title tracks, with the current system it fails to keep track of.
Everytime you rezone the titletrack is set back to default (which is annoying if you want to keep track of let's say cartography, or Gwen Rep. Tracks.)
Solution:

PVP Titles:

Hero
Champion
Gladiator
Hero Battle

Account Titles

Kurzick
Luxon
Lucky
Unlucky
Gamer

Max Titles

Max Title Track
Legendary Survivor
Legendary Protector of Ascelon
Legendary Guardian
Legendary Vanquisher
Legendary Cartographer
Legendary Skill hunter

Tyrian Titles

Protector
Guardian
Vanquisher
Cartography
Skill Hunter

Canthan Titles

Protector
Guardian
Vanquisher
Cartography
Skill Hunter

Elonian Titles

Protector
Guardian
Vanquisher
Cartography
Skill Hunter
Sunspear
Lightbringer

Eye of the North

Dwarfen
Norn
Asuran
Vanguard
Master of the North

Consumables

Drunkard
Sweet tooth

Now if you would Like to keep track of let's say your Cartography of Tyria it would look like this:

PvPtitles
Account Titles
Max Titles
Tyrian Titles

Protector
Guardian
Vanquisher
Cartography
Skill Hunter

Canthan Titles
Elonian Titles
Eye of the North
Consumables

Small Feature big gain

.

Also perhaps Instant zoning.

Tyria

City
- Ascelon
Outpost
Mission

Cantha
Elona
Eye of the North

Another would be 1 extra field in the friendslist for trades. You put somebody in friends list for trade. The guy doesn't show up for a couple of days. Then all of the sudden your with I don't know how many trade persons and new friends that you don't know which is which.

Improvements that other players gave in this thread:

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Originally Posted by slowerpoke

* Heroes sorted by profession in the Search panel.

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Originally Posted by Numa Pompilius

* option to sort skills not just by profession or attribute, but alphabetically by name.
* different displays of minions for necros. E.g. if you have a flesh golem, 8 fiends, and one horror, you'd have "1, 8, 1" displayed as number of minions, instead of just a "10". Ideally color-coded, and clicking the number would select the closest minion of that type.

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Originally Posted by zwei2stein

There is this neat feature in most of listbox controlls: pres letter and focus goes to next element starting with that letter,when looking for skill.

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Originally Posted by Hissy

Small thing - surely easy to fix? Don't popup player names when Alt is pressed.

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Originally Posted by zwei2stein

Also, it would be cool thing to be able to "follow" target when someone calls another person or friendly npc (especially helpfull when pointing out cool armor/title in outpost or when directing people to npc).

Also, it would be cool to have ability to select person by his name, i.e. command like /select in whisper box. would be most helpfull in trading (normal "lookup" of person you want to trade with involves inviting him to party, not always option)

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Originally Posted by quickmonty

Ability to arrange items in HoM the way I want them to display

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Originally Posted by foo

Friends in town showing in a different color.

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Originally Posted by cosyfiep

how about let me put them in the order I want (or by levels...then at least my mules would hang out together)

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Originally Posted by AceeBlueEagle

Timeout feature that changes your status to "Away" when no keyboard/mouse activity for x minutes.

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Originally Posted by Chrono Re delle Ere

Drag and drop-on-screen any title track bar
I.e: you know that greenish bar that keep tracks of your % of exp till next skill point / level? A bar like that (not green plz xD) for any title

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Originally Posted by lilDeath

Something that I've been thinking about for quite a while now is being able to control the Heroes / party formation when in a zone.

Ps: Yes we would like more Trading options, No that's not a small feature so don't even start on that subject as that would be reason to turn this thread in to a flame fest

Woop Shotty

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

Ruthless Mafia [RM]

Mo/

09 Jan 2008 at 07:39 - 2

Guild storage. Playground for Zenmai.

slowerpoke

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2007

Cuba

09 Jan 2008 at 07:43 - 3

stable for zhed
and some hay

..and er a proper suggestion:
* Heroes sorted by profession in the Search panel.

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

09 Jan 2008 at 07:53 - 4

To the OP: /signed.

My suggestions:
* option to sort skills not just by profession or attribute, but alphabetically by name.
* in hardmode, option to get a > arrow on the radar showing the direction to the nearest enemy in the zone. It could even be a "ping skill" like the one used when chasing the nornbear - I'd be willing to give up one skill slot to not have to jog all around the map looking for that last missed mob.
* different displays of minions for necros. E.g. if you have a flesh golem, 8 fiends, and one horror, you'd have "1, 8, 1" displayed as number of minions, instead of just a "10". Ideally color-coded, and clicking the number would select the closest minion of that type.

zwei2stein

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jun 2006

Europe

The German Order [GER]

N/

09 Jan 2008 at 08:01 - 5

There is this neat feature in most of listbox controlls: pres letter and focus goes to next element starting with that letter.

Would be most helpfull when looking for skill.

Operative 14

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Arizona, USA

[OOP] Order of the Phoenix I

09 Jan 2008 at 09:16 - 6

One thing I was noticing while playing tonight is that there are a lot of skills that depend on the enemy being below 50% health, but there isn't a deinate way to see it. So there were a lot of cases when I'd use the skill when I thought the enemy was below 50% health and nothing would happen. I think a nice little change would be to put a little tick mark at the 50% point on the enemy health bar.

Oh, and also the obligatory post on my part about wanting a hair dresser.

Vaal 84

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2007

UK

R/

09 Jan 2008 at 09:34 - 7

Being able to store your armour in the HoM instead of just being able to display it. that would save some much needed storage space !

RhanoctJocosa

Legendary Korean

Join Date: Aug 2006

The Benecia Renovatio [RenO]

W/

09 Jan 2008 at 09:37 - 8

^

/signed OP too.

Riot Narita

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

09 Jan 2008 at 09:41 - 9

One small thing that is a daily irritation to me... is that pressing the Alt key to show NPC's or storage doesn't stop player names popping up when your mouse cursor is over them.

You press Alt to show NPC names... but it's hard to click on them. They dance around, because the names of people standing near them keep popping up whenever your pointer gets near.

Small thing - surely easy to fix? Don't popup player names when Alt is pressed. This would make a big difference to me, and would have no adverse impact that I can think of - you could still click players same as ever when you aren't pressing Alt (nobody presses the Alt key when clicking players anyway, the Ctrl key is used for that)

zwei2stein

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jun 2006

Europe

The German Order [GER]

N/

09 Jan 2008 at 10:06 - 10

Also, it would be cool thing to be able to "follow" target when someone calls another person or friendly npc (especially helpfull when pointing out cool armor/title in outpost or when directing people to npc).

Also, it would be cool to have ability to select person by his name, i.e. command like /select in whisper box. would be most helpfull in trading (normal "lookup" of person you want to trade with involves inviting him to party, not always option)

Sirius-NZ

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2007

Bellevue, WA (I know ... but I moved out of NZ)

Xen of Onslaught

D/

09 Jan 2008 at 10:22 - 11

This is Sardelac material, but categorising titles would be a nice idea, I agree.

Beren985

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

Spain

Caminantes de los Planos

Me/

09 Jan 2008 at 13:22 - 12

/signed, those small changes would make a noticeable improvement on the game

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

09 Jan 2008 at 13:28 - 13

Categories for titles
Sorting heroes
Ability to arrange items in HoM the way I want them to display

payne

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

england (currently located on the south coast)

R/

09 Jan 2008 at 13:32 - 14

Quote:

Originally Posted by zwei2stein

There is this neat feature in most of listbox controlls: pres letter and focus goes to next element starting with that letter.

Would be most helpfull when looking for skill.

/signed

----off topic >
BTW were did u get your avatar pic from? i want ^^ anti UB

Zeek Aran

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Earth, sadly

BORK

A/

09 Jan 2008 at 13:32 - 15

I wouldn't like being able to tele anywhere in the game by just looking at text. An example of why: I joined gaiaonline early when there were less than ten thousand users. There was a small map with two cities and a place in between. It expanded into three cities with four places in between. To go shopping and get to certain events, one had to go through the map. Now, [or, when I was still an active user two years ago] the map is nothing but pointless aesthetics that no one even sees since you can reach everything without looking at the map at all. I'm not sure if I put this in an easily understandable way, but I tried.

bokken

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

09 Jan 2008 at 13:32 - 16

/signed - for sorting heroes by profession. I have made this suggestion in the Sardelec area too. I just cant think why they didn't do this to begin with.

/signed - for sorting titles - It would make it easier when switching between titles especially while jumping between areas in GWEN.

free_fall

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

09 Jan 2008 at 14:35 - 17

I've always wondered why your inventory panel doesn't open automatically when you open the Xunlai chest (like it does when you trade with another player). I'd be satisfied with that one small change.

mr_groovy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

No Inherent Effect [NiE]

09 Jan 2008 at 15:13 - 18

We really have some nice small improvements here, Keep it up guys

I've added the ones I saw as a small but significant improvement to the game. Pls don't refrain from posting. All the improvements I've read are based on players experience with the game, rather then something that's not in gw but in other games. Let's keep it going in this direction.

Quote:

Originally Posted by free_fall

I've always wondered why your inventory panel doesn't open automatically when you open the Xunlai chest (like it does when you trade with another player). I'd be satisfied with that one small change.

If you only need money for the merchant, or any other npc you don't really need the inventory open.

zwei2stein

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jun 2006

Europe

The German Order [GER]

N/

09 Jan 2008 at 15:17 - 19

Quote:

Originally Posted by payne

BTW were did u get your avatar pic from? i want ^^ anti UB

I made it (used gimp), you can get icon from wiki and rest is quite simple thing.

foo

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Scars Meadows [SMS]

N/

09 Jan 2008 at 15:21 - 20

Friends in town showing in a different color.

mr_groovy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

No Inherent Effect [NiE]

09 Jan 2008 at 23:26 - 21

Quote:

Originally Posted by foo

Friends in town showing in a different color.

Don't know if it would be easy, but they can do guild tag for alliance. So perhaps also for the whole friendslist. Makes trading a lot less cumbersome filled up cities.

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

10 Jan 2008 at 00:39 - 22

like title sorting,
would also like to be able to sort my characters on the sign in screen by something other than pvp or alpha (or none-chaos sort

) how about let me put them in the order I want (or by levels...then at least my mules would hang out together).

and would also like to stop twirling around when I use my mouse to move....spending the next 3 seconds dizzy is not my idea of useful---have the mouse END the way you are orientated....not really hard thing to do!

like hero sorting too....no idea how they are sorted now (nogru first????huh).

all I can think of with dinner on the stove--------

CougarTheTall

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

Dallas, TX

The Blood Spikers

N/Mo

10 Jan 2008 at 00:51 - 23

A way to cancel titles.

I have 9 fame and 3 Glad points. I hardly ever PvP and never seriously. I do not care about these titles and really don't care to see them on every character, taking up space.

Not a major problem, just more of a cosmetic thing.

AceeBlueEagle

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

ASH -Ashes of Humanity

R/

10 Jan 2008 at 02:25 - 24

Timeout feature that changes your status to "Away" when no keyboard/mouse activity for x minutes.

Smilin' Assassin

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2007

Cantha

Pixies O Wickid Nawtyness [pixy]

A/Me

10 Jan 2008 at 03:56 - 25

/signed re the OP's Titles organiser, great idea ..

~ a means of cycling "Next Ally" thru the target feature (can currently only target "Nearest" or hotkey party members)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Woop Shotty

Guild storage. Playground for Zenmai.

*yes a Guild Vault too please, that only Leader+Officers can access ~ I nag Gaile about this whenever I see her in a zone but my request gets lost in all the spam from others, lol

free_fall

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

10 Jan 2008 at 05:57 - 26

"If you only need money for the merchant, or any other npc you don't really need the inventory open."

I realize that's the thinking behind it but, while I can't speak for others, for myself I rarely ever use the chests solely to deposit/withdraw gold. I primarily use it for inventory management - dumping items to be transferred to my mules or collecting items from my mules to put on my main chars.

The only time I'd just put gold in is when I'm close to 85k on a char and, at this point, I'm going to have to start taking big chunks out and storing it on my mules as both my accounts are near their gold limits. Again though, I'd surely be moving some inventory around at the same time.

bel unbreakable

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

scotland

shadow hunters of light

W/Mo

10 Jan 2008 at 15:22 - 27

title organizer would be really nice

mr_groovy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

No Inherent Effect [NiE]

10 Jan 2008 at 17:11 - 28

I think the guild storage would require Server Storage space, so not a small update (Though it would be really nice!).

Another would be 1 extra field in the friendslist for trades. You put somebody in friends list for trade. The guy doesn't show up for a couple of days. Then all of the sudden your with I don't know how many trade persons and new friends that you don't know which is which.

I hope the devs are reading this because we can still improve gw, even with these minor improvements to make it beyond excellent

Keep up the suggestions guys.

TheRaven

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Virginia

Spirit of Elisha

W/

10 Jan 2008 at 17:32 - 29

For me, I'd like more sorting options.

Ability to sort heroes by Profession, Level, Alphabetic or the default.

Quests sorted by Campaign first then by region within the campaigns. The campaign that your character is currently in is opened and displayed by default and the others are collapsed by default.

Ability to sort titles alphabetically, by campaign, by type or by level (the default). The title you are currently displaying is ALWAYS on top!

Tyla

Emo Goth Italics

Join Date: Sep 2006

10 Jan 2008 at 18:34 - 30

I think adding a tab onto the Quests Log telling you quests you have COMPLETED, so you can keep track of what quests you've finished.
And this might sound a bit from RuneScape but...quests you haven't found yet as another seperate tab?

/signed aswell, we need!

EDIT: also Armour Storage ( yes another "i want storage thing", but owning tons of Armour Sets isn't very beneficial to long farming trips where your Inventory fills up regularly per run )

Chrono Re delle Ere

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

The Land of Hyrule

[GoE]

W/

10 Jan 2008 at 22:22 - 31

Drag and drop-on-screen any title track bar

I.e: you know that greenish bar that keep tracks of your % of exp till next skill point / level? A bar like that (not green plz xD) for any title, just drag the selected title from the overall list and drop it on the screen. As it happens for the Menu buttons^^

Redvex

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

R/

10 Jan 2008 at 22:49 - 32

New Elite Areas
We have
Grenth -> Underworld
Balthazar -> Fissure of Woe
New God Kormir = Domain of Anguish

So:
Dwayna -> Heaven
Lyssa -> Labyrint of illusion
Melandru -> The Silencing Wood

What do you think about that?

Coloneh

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

D/W

11 Jan 2008 at 04:44 - 33

/signed

all of them

Kabroz the necro

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2007

N/Mo

11 Jan 2008 at 05:37 - 34

I Think many ppl agree with these: Can choose in what order your statues are in HoM. (Lucky, Sweet Tooth, Skillz, Drunkard, Unlucky) RLY want that order.

Btw, /signed.

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

11 Jan 2008 at 10:26 - 35

In a title-based game every title-grinder wants to be able to see the title he's working on. Now there's a total mess and often need to scroll down down the list to see your title of interest.
So yes, titles *really* need a way of sorting.
And I would love a progress bar for a chosen title to be displayed on screen all the time, for example replacing the completely useless Exp bar.

Also, my idea of a supersimple fix to HoM random sorting:
Now we have an ever growing pool of things the random rearranger chooses from, you can add more but you cannot remove. Just add 1 new button, that would show the list of all things selected for display and allow to click name to remove from list! Tada!

Torra

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2007

Australia

Empires Of The West

N/Mo

11 Jan 2008 at 10:46 - 36

-A Skill that let's you fly around :P But you got to admit that would be pretty cool.
-With that Guild Storage maybe when you put a item in there you can put a password on it.
-Be able to open up Guild Wiki in a window in game.
-Be able to choose the load up screen, i liked the old one before the new campaigns and the expansion. The one with the Post-Searing Ascalon with fire in the background i think there was.

Rushin Roulette

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Right here

Ende

11 Jan 2008 at 10:53 - 37

/ deffinitely signed

And while were on the topic of organizign GW a little.

The Trading screen in the main towns looks really really bad sometimes.

A simple separation of WTS, WTB and all the internationally recognized forms (Achete, Vendes, VK, Kaufe and so on) would be great. Sorting them alphabetically would at least be a start if a total separation takes time.

Riot Narita

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

11 Jan 2008 at 10:54 - 38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Redvex

New Elite Areas
We have
Grenth -> Underworld
Balthazar -> Fissure of Woe
New God Kormir = Domain of Anguish

So:
Dwayna -> Heaven
Lyssa -> Labyrint of illusion
Melandru -> The Silencing Wood

What do you think about that?

That doesn't sound "small"... O_o

mr_groovy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

No Inherent Effect [NiE]

11 Jan 2008 at 11:21 - 39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Redvex

New Elite Areas .....

Pls read start post. I'm talking about ingame improvements that shouldn't be hard to add, but make the game a much better Experience for the starting and the advanced players.
Yes a new Elite area would be great. No it will take a whole dev team to create.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chrono Re delle Ere

Drag and drop-on-screen any title track bar

This would be a real nice feature for the game.Keep it up guys

Redvex

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

R/

11 Jan 2008 at 12:40 - 40

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr_groovy

Pls read start post. I'm talking about ingame improvements that shouldn't be hard to add, but make the game a much better Experience for the starting and the advanced players.
Yes a new Elite area would be great. No it will take a whole dev team to create.

This would be a real nice feature for the game.Keep it up guys

Ah sorry.
mmm i'd like sort heroes by profession or name. another page in xunaly storage.
and SHORTCUT: possibility to memorize a fixed number of location to travel directly; for example i am in Kamadan then i wanna go to ascalon.