ZOS: How do you stack items in our inventory???

Hawk269

I see that there is a "Split Stack" option, but there is no way that I have found to stack items. With inventory space limited in both the bank and characters, why is there not an option to stack items? Unless I am missing it, I have not found a way to stack items in the console version of the game. I was breaking down items into smaller stacks for my guild, but decided to not break them down as much as I did, but then that is when I noticed that you cannot stack items.

I even put the items into the guild bank and the withdrew them thinking the game would stack them, but that does not work. Again, unless I am missing something and someone can tell me how to stack or ZOS seriously messed up here and did not give us the ability to stack.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Is it possible some of the items you are trying to stack are stolen versions and regular versions of the same item?

Hawk269

Jessica,

They are all normal items. I have no stolen items. I broke down Bone and other crafting items for my guild and there is no option to re-stack. Pulling them in and out of the guild bank does not stack them.

For example, I broke down a stack of 100 Raw Maple into 25 stacks, then decided I wanted to combine them into stacks of 50, but there is not option to do that. When you hit "Y" On Xbox One, there is only a Split Stack option.

Hawk269

I just split a stack of 50 cotton into 2 stacks of 25. I deposited 25 into my bank. Exited the bank and then opened the bank back up and pulled the 25 out of the bank and into my inventory and it did stack them. However, for Starmetal and Bone it is not doing it.

Should there not be an option to combine like items into stacks like on the PC version? I know it probably should do it on it's own.

Also, since I have your attention, why is it that when you deposit items into the regular bank it asks for quantity if you have more that 1 of the same item, but when you deposit into a guild bank it does not give you the same option?

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Hawk269 wrote: »

I just split a stack of 50 cotton into 2 stacks of 25. I deposited 25 into my bank. Exited the bank and then opened the bank back up and pulled the 25 out of the bank and into my inventory and it did stack them. However, for Starmetal and Bone it is not doing it.

Should there not be an option to combine like items into stacks like on the PC version? I know it probably should do it on it's own.

Also, since I have your attention, why is it that when you deposit items into the regular bank it asks for quantity if you have more that 1 of the same item, but when you deposit into a guild bank it does not give you the same option?

These are good details, thank you. Not sure what the answer is to your second question, but we'll check!

Hawk269

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hawk269 wrote: »

I just split a stack of 50 cotton into 2 stacks of 25. I deposited 25 into my bank. Exited the bank and then opened the bank back up and pulled the 25 out of the bank and into my inventory and it did stack them. However, for Starmetal and Bone it is not doing it.

Should there not be an option to combine like items into stacks like on the PC version? I know it probably should do it on it's own.

Also, since I have your attention, why is it that when you deposit items into the regular bank it asks for quantity if you have more that 1 of the same item, but when you deposit into a guild bank it does not give you the same option?

These are good details, thank you. Not sure what the answer is to your second question, but we'll check!

Your welcome. I was going to test some other items, but the game crashed on me and now I can't login due to Login Errors. But when I do, I will test a few more common items like Ore and other materials. But right now in my inventory I have 5 Starmetal of varying quantity and Bone in varying quantity that are not stacking and no ability to manual stack them.

Thanks in advance for looking into the issue and I will update as I test more stuff out on this issue.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Hawk269 wrote: »

Your welcome. I was going to test some other items, but the game crashed on me and now I can't login due to Login Errors. But when I do, I will test a few more common items like Ore and other materials. But right now in my inventory I have 5 Starmetal of varying quantity and Bone in varying quantity that are not stacking and no ability to manual stack them.

Thanks in advance for looking into the issue and I will update as I test more stuff out on this issue.

Sounds like there may be an issue with the Bone and Starmetal materials. We'll check--curious if this is also the case on PC/Mac.

EramTheLiar

I can stack Bone and Starmetal up to 200 on PC.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

EramTheLiar wrote: »

I can stack Bone and Starmetal up to 200 on PC.

Thanks for the confirmation.

Hawk269

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hawk269 wrote: »

Your welcome. I was going to test some other items, but the game crashed on me and now I can't login due to Login Errors. But when I do, I will test a few more common items like Ore and other materials. But right now in my inventory I have 5 Starmetal of varying quantity and Bone in varying quantity that are not stacking and no ability to manual stack them.

Thanks in advance for looking into the issue and I will update as I test more stuff out on this issue.

Sounds like there may be an issue with the Bone and Starmetal materials. We'll check--curious if this is also the case on PC/Mac.

I will log into my PC copy to try that out. But even if it is an issue to these 2 items, should there not be an option like the PC to stack items? On occasion the PC version does not stack the items on it's own, so we can do it manually when it does not do it, but I fail to find that ability on the Console version.

Give me about 20 min and I will try it on the PC.

BigM

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hawk269 wrote: »

Your welcome. I was going to test some other items, but the game crashed on me and now I can't login due to Login Errors. But when I do, I will test a few more common items like Ore and other materials. But right now in my inventory I have 5 Starmetal of varying quantity and Bone in varying quantity that are not stacking and no ability to manual stack them.

Thanks in advance for looking into the issue and I will update as I test more stuff out on this issue.

Sounds like there may be an issue with the Bone and Starmetal materials. We'll check--curious if this is also the case on PC/Mac.

There are only addons that allow to stack items in bank when the addon transfers it for you. But we still have bugs where once you fence items those items will not stack without an addon. LOL we been yelling about this for ages and you answer the consoles and have never answered one of these questions thru the whole year for us.

Amazing! Also if am coming across harsh with the amazing am sorry but it really hurts you have ignored the exact same questions we posted.

Hawk269

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

EramTheLiar wrote: »

I can stack Bone and Starmetal up to 200 on PC.

Thanks for the confirmation.

Jessica-

Just tested the PC version and no issues.

Here is more detailed that one of the programmers could test/answer:

Take any item and split it 4 times into smaller stacks. Now once that is done, on console how would you combine those stacks that were just broken down into one larger stack?

One test I did was take 50 Cotton, split it into 2 25 stacks. I could not combine them back into their original stack of 50, but depositing it into my bank and then withdrawing it did cause it to stack again.

I guess my ultimate question is how can we stack items manually?

Once again, thank you for your assistance with this! It is much appreciated.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Thanks! We'll look into this and try to get you an answer tomorrow.

Tiveria

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Thanks! We'll look into this and try to get you an answer tomorrow.

LOL if you are on pc get roomba if on console good luck

Hawk269

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Thanks! We'll look into this and try to get you an answer tomorrow.

Thanks again. I know you guys have a lot going on and I appreciate you looking into this for me and others that have this issue.

I have to take this shot though...bring back the Chat box. It is so hard to sell items in the open market without the ability to link to the item so the buyer knows what it is and what the attributes are. Again, had to take the opportunity to ask about that!

Hawk269

Good Morning,

Any update to this issue or any resolution?

I was able to do further testing (when the game let me log in).

I took the Starmetal that I had in 4 various size stacks, put them all in the bank and then retrieved them and it did stack properly. But I started to discover that it will randomly, like the PC version not stack items. I had some lemon in the bank and I added more and it did not stack. I pulled both stacks out of the bank and it stacked in my character inventory and then was able to put them back in the bank at the full stack quantity.

So technically, there is a work around, but I do not think it should be doing this. What needs to be added is the ability to Stack items manually if needed. Having to move items into the bank and out just to stack items if the game does not do it automatically is time consuming. On PC this is solved due to the ability to stack items in the bank and in our inventory, we just need the same function on console.

I also did more testing when putting items into a bank:

If you have more than 1 piece of a item that you are putting into the bank, the game will prompt you to select the amount/quantity that you want to place into the bank. Which is very convenient since you do not have to break it down into whatever stack quantity. However, when placing items into a Guild Bank, this option does not appear. It seems strange omission to give players a quantity counter when placing items into personal banks, but with the guild bank this option does not exist.

I hope this helps give the devs. more insight into making things better for the game.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Thanks, @Hawk269. It sounds like there may be an intermittent stacking bug somewhere. We're looking into it. Regarding the item stacking functionality that is available on PC/Mac (dragging items on top of one another) but not on console, that is working as designed. Some functionality slightly changed between the platform versions. It is possible we'll add it in the future, but for now it's intended that players on console use the auto-stack functionality by transferring items from one inventory type to another (such as character inventory to bank.)

Hawk269

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Thanks, @Hawk269. It sounds like there may be an intermittent stacking bug somewhere. We're looking into it. Regarding the item stacking functionality that is available on PC/Mac (dragging items on top of one another) but not on console, that is working as designed. Some functionality slightly changed between the platform versions. It is possible we'll add it in the future, but for now it's intended that players on console use the auto-stack functionality by transferring items from one inventory type to another (such as character inventory to bank.)

Thanks Jessica. I kind of figured that. On PC it works perfectly having the option, but on Console it is cumbersome to have to transfer to bank and then back out just to stack items. Hopefully the team will add that function since we have the Split Stack function.

Did you get any feedback about my other question in regard to placing items in the Bank vs. placing items in the Guild Bank? For a refresher.

When you place items in your personal bank and you have more than 1 of any item, the game prompts you with a menu to select how many of a items you want to put into your bank. But when you do the same exact thing, but are putting items into a Guild Bank you do not get the option to select the quantity you want to deposit. I am no programmer, but I would think it would be easy to implement since the function already exist for personal banks.

Main reason I ask, is that I and others like to put in certain quantity of items into the bank. I usually don't like to put a full stack of 200 Rough Maple, I would rather break it down into stacks of 50. If the guild bank would give us the same prompt like our personal banks, we would not have to split the stacks ahead of time.

Again, thank you. I know the team has a lot of things to work on and improve, so appreciate you taking the time to get back with me and take these things under consideration.

JosephZhengwow

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Thanks, @Hawk269. It sounds like there may be an intermittent stacking bug somewhere. We're looking into it. Regarding the item stacking functionality that is available on PC/Mac (dragging items on top of one another) but not on console, that is working as designed. Some functionality slightly changed between the platform versions. It is possible we'll add it in the future, but for now it's intended that players on console use the auto-stack functionality by transferring items from one inventory type to another (such as character inventory to bank.)

It COULD stack in personal BANK, but not the GUILD BANK! All items could not be stacked while you deposit into GUILD BANK! IT REALLY DRIVEED ME MAD.

Hawk269

JosephZhengwow wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Thanks, @Hawk269. It sounds like there may be an intermittent stacking bug somewhere. We're looking into it. Regarding the item stacking functionality that is available on PC/Mac (dragging items on top of one another) but not on console, that is working as designed. Some functionality slightly changed between the platform versions. It is possible we'll add it in the future, but for now it's intended that players on console use the auto-stack functionality by transferring items from one inventory type to another (such as character inventory to bank.)

It COULD stack in personal BANK, but not the GUILD BANK! All items could not be stacked while you deposit into GUILD BANK! IT REALLY DRIVEED ME MAD.

Them not stacking in a Guild Bank is a good thing however. Reason for this is if everything stacked in the Guild Bank, then people that take things are taking full stacks of items. For example, I am a PC player and made a ton of Potions for my guild and new players. If it stacked, then it would of been a stack of 100 Health potions. Instead, I split the stacks into groups of 10 and placed then in the guild bank and it worked out perfectly.

However, giving us the power to stack items would be beneficial to both our personal inventory and the guild bank. So when someone deposits 1 piece of wood and another person deposits 5 and a third puts in 2, giving us the ability to stack those together would be good. For now, we need to pull them out of guild, hope it stack in our personal inventory and then re-deposit.

But ultimately, I am glad the guild bank does not auto stack for the reason mentioned above.

fallensbane_ESO

so... really.... Your intention is for us to do the following...

Wait till guild bank is full/almost full.
Take every item that is not stacked properly out of guild bank
Dump every item that we just took out into our personal bank, with a large guild this will take awhile.
Take every item out of personal bank
Dump every item back into guild bank.

lol.. really?

How about getting your programmers to actually build an auto stack function like every other MMO on the market has as a basic feature for player inventories and guild banks? Join the current decade of gaming.

fallensbane_ESO

Hawk269 wrote: »

JosephZhengwow wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Thanks, @Hawk269. It sounds like there may be an intermittent stacking bug somewhere. We're looking into it. Regarding the item stacking functionality that is available on PC/Mac (dragging items on top of one another) but not on console, that is working as designed. Some functionality slightly changed between the platform versions. It is possible we'll add it in the future, but for now it's intended that players on console use the auto-stack functionality by transferring items from one inventory type to another (such as character inventory to bank.)

It COULD stack in personal BANK, but not the GUILD BANK! All items could not be stacked while you deposit into GUILD BANK! IT REALLY DRIVEED ME MAD.

Them not stacking in a Guild Bank is a good thing however. Reason for this is if everything stacked in the Guild Bank, then people that take things are taking full stacks of items. For example, I am a PC player and made a ton of Potions for my guild and new players. If it stacked, then it would of been a stack of 100 Health potions. Instead, I split the stacks into groups of 10 and placed then in the guild bank and it worked out perfectly.

However, giving us the power to stack items would be beneficial to both our personal inventory and the guild bank. So when someone deposits 1 piece of wood and another person deposits 5 and a third puts in 2, giving us the ability to stack those together would be good. For now, we need to pull them out of guild, hope it stack in our personal inventory and then re-deposit.

But ultimately, I am glad the guild bank does not auto stack for the reason mentioned above.

Split stack, dump back into bank like every other MMO out there. Just lazy programming sorry. Game is great but this and removal of proper chat system are two big missteps.

Justin.B

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Thanks, @Hawk269. It sounds like there may be an intermittent stacking bug somewhere. We're looking into it. Regarding the item stacking functionality that is available on PC/Mac (dragging items on top of one another) but not on console, that is working as designed. Some functionality slightly changed between the platform versions. It is possible we'll add it in the future, but for now it's intended that players on console use the auto-stack functionality by transferring items from one inventory type to another (such as character inventory to bank.)

As others said above, it is a pain to extract so many items from the guild bank and reconcile them into one stack. I know you probably don't have any authority to do anything on this matter, but it is still very annoying. In my experience, there have been five or more stacks of single crafting materials in multiple areas of the bank. It would be awesome to get some sort of time frame where we might see a fix to this problem. Nothing set in stone, obviously, but any sort of time frame would be appreciated.

dlepi24

No offence, but there's no way this is "working as designed". There's been nothing but complaints about it since the launch of the PC version. You can't possibly think that console players would be too dumb to realize that there's no way to stack items, did you? I understand there are other things taking priority at this moment, but this is something that should definitely be addressed at some point soon. By the time I take all the things out of the guild bank and get them stacked neatly, someone else has already dropped more items off into it. I remember the problem with duplication on PC and if there's no foreseeable fix to the stacking of the guild bank, at least give us the option to stack in our personal inventory. We would definitely appreciate something that automatically does it as well (such as Roomba on PC). I think we would all like something similar implemented.