Bonus Items Handling

Auntmousie

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2008

Maison Du Chat Noir

R/Rt

First let me say that I *love* having /bonus items. It makes it easy to give heroes a good basic set of equipment.

I know it's not a *big* deal but there's hardly anything in the game that aggravates me more than deleting 12 bonus items after equipping the one I actually typed /bonus to get. Wait, no, scratch that. What's most annoying is when I accidentally double-click on something while doing so, and equip the bonus item, only to delete my character's precious #1 weapon. (Only done that once. Only.)

Meanwhile, I was finishing a mission the other day and left some drops in the last few minutes, knowing I'd get them anyway thanks to that handy little window that pops up after the mission is over... and I wondered...

Would it be possible to have /bonus items come up in a "virtual inventory" window like the mission-completion window? That way, you could drag the one (or more) item(s) you wanted into your actual inventory, then dismiss the window and let them fade back into the ether.

Ekelon

Ekelon

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Rebel Rising [rawr]

A/W

/signed.

I have 8 bonus items that I can unlock. I have not yet run into this problem, but am quite scared that I someday it may happen to me.

Nyktos

Nyktos

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2007

The Nyktos Guild [win]

/signed

I only have the GotY bonus, but it's still really annoying deleting everything I don't need, though I don't really use bonus items anymore (the shield is the only one with stats worth spit, and I never use Tactics anymore since WY nerf).

Zokocow

Zokocow

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2007

E/Me

/signed

This always annoyed me too

Mattman243

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2007

Four Star Christian Force

W/Mo

/signed

Great Idea! I doubt it would be that hard to implement either.

crazybanshee

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Look out!

E/

/signed, not fatal but definitely annoying

pamelf

pamelf

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Australia

Lost Templars [LoTe]

Me/Mo

/signed. I actually like this one better than the other suggestion of checking the bonus items you want to create. Great idea.

michaelhunter81

michaelhunter81

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

House Valhaad

W/D

/signed
I have almost every single bonus item and it is so annoying deleeting them all the time

Solas

Solas

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Ireland

Currently LF Active HA Guild, Glad 2, Comm.3, R2

E/

/signed
really annoyign to go on a deletion spree

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Auntmousie
Would it be possible to have /bonus items come up in a "virtual inventory" window like the mission-completion window? That way, you could drag the one (or more) item(s) you wanted into your actual inventory, then dismiss the window and let them fade back into the ether.
One of the few good ideas that get posted here.

/signed

creelie

creelie

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

Alberta

Charter Vanguard [CV]

Mo/

That would be a really nice touch.

/signed

wanmoke

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

In the land of Do Not Disturb

Wind Riders

R/

/signed

Excellent idea. I haven't done what you did yet, but yea, it could happen.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

What you call the 'mission inventory' is the Unclaimed Items panel.

And yes. I do see it as the best solution for the /bonus issue.

Type /bonus, the unclaimed items windows appears and it's filled with all your /bonus items.

I think the maximum possible is currently around 15 or so, and the Unclaimed items panel has has 16 slots.

The special items that can be created once (like CE miniatures and so) would still be created in the normal inventory, but bonus items, which can be re-created again and again, would be sent to the unclaimed items panel.
Pick the ones you need, then close the panel, deleting the rest.

If the panel is already shown (like when it appears after a mission) the command would fail with a message, and you would have to either close or hit the Take All button to close the panel and ready it again for the /bonus command.

It's the best possible solution I can think so far to this.

Auntmousie

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2008

Maison Du Chat Noir

R/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by MithranArkanere
The special items that can be created once (like CE miniatures and so) would still be created in the normal inventory, but bonus items, which can be re-created again and again, would be sent to the unclaimed items panel.
Pick the ones you need, then close the panel, deleting the rest.

If the panel is already shown (like when it appears after a mission) the command would fail with a message, and you would have to either close or hit the Take All button to close the panel and ready it again for the /bonus command.
Agreed as to all of the above.

Actually, I could live with minipets etc. appearing in the Unclaimed Items window, as long as they continued to be created until you actually grabbed one. Not sure if that's quite as easy, though... but aren't they created by /special or somesuch?

Yawgmoth

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

I've been suggesting the use of an interface similar to the "Unclaimed Items" window for bonus items for a long time. It's just the simpliest and most convenient way to do it.

Just type /bonus to have this window opened.
It would allow player to see all his bonus items, hover mouse over them to read exact stats, then simply drag-and-drop wanted ones to inventory. Also multiple copies of the same item - typing /bonus again would refill the window with missing items, or even better - make them not disappear from there at all!

/signed,
this whole /bonus thing just begs for improvements, even more with the GotY upgrade still being sold as a product in the online store.

GaaaaaH

GaaaaaH

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2008

W/

/signed

nice suggestion on how to handle it too

Omnidragon42

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Pantheon of Shadows [dei]

W/A

/signed

I've got preorder items for factions, nightfall, eye of the north, and the game of the year edition. This would help with all the tedious deleting I have to do sometimes

Chris616263

Chris616263

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Me/

/Signed for everything everyone probably said above that I was too indifferent to read.

Red Sand

Red Sand

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2008

New England

Warriors of Wynd [WoW]

W/

/signed

Every so often there's a really good idea. How delightful.

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

E/

wohooo
/signed for great justice

Artorius.Maximus

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rising Rebellion

E/

Not sure how many threads exist on this topic so far, but I must say that I really like OP's idea for implementation. Would be a little work, but mostly copying and pasting code as opposed to writing from scratch. (Ok, might be easier to write from scratch than dig through the few probably billion lines of code that is out there, but either way).

/signed