Pressing square/X 1000's of times, why?

MCBIZZLE300

Ive spent hours pressing square to make potions at the alchemy station, why is it that you cant choose the amount you wish to craft in one go? It puts me off making them at all! I dont see why this feature shouldn't be added immediately.

Anotherone773

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

VaranisArano

Some people just have a ton of Alkahest...

Anotherone773

VaranisArano wrote: »

Some people just have a ton of Alkahest...

I mean i have a good amount, but i dont feel the need to convert it all into poisons right now. I actually do my alchemy while waiting on dungeon queues.

Prof_Bawbag

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Unless things are different on the PC and you're not counting a stack to be 200 and poisons, then it's impossible to make a stack in 30 secs, especially on console. Each batch of 4 has an animation/process/cooldown it goes through before you can interact with the action button again.

Anotherone773

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Unless things are different on the PC and you're not counting a stack to be 200 and poisons, then it's impossible to make a stack in 30 secs, especially on console. Each batch of 4 has an animation/process/cooldown it goes through before you can interact with the action button again.

Make 4 pots at time and 16 poisons. They take about 1 sec each.

jedtb16_ESO

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Unless things are different on the PC and you're not counting a stack to be 200 and poisons, then it's impossible to make a stack in 30 secs, especially on console. Each batch of 4 has an animation/process/cooldown it goes through before you can interact with the action button again.

i'm not sure what constitutes a stack of poisons. but it isn't 200. after reading this thread i logged in to check what i could do. only ever made poisons for writs so far.

made 256 breach poison in 29.6 seconds.

anyone know how many poison make a stack?

Prof_Bawbag

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Unless things are different on the PC and you're not counting a stack to be 200 and poisons, then it's impossible to make a stack in 30 secs, especially on console. Each batch of 4 has an animation/process/cooldown it goes through before you can interact with the action button again.

i'm not sure what constitutes a stack of poisons. but it isn't 200. after reading this thread i logged in to check what i could do. only ever made poisons for writs so far.

made 256 breach poison in 29.6 seconds.

anyone know how many poison make a stack?

I was on about a stack of non poisons. That's why i stated unless that's what he was doing.

Prof_Bawbag

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Unless things are different on the PC and you're not counting a stack to be 200 and poisons, then it's impossible to make a stack in 30 secs, especially on console. Each batch of 4 has an animation/process/cooldown it goes through before you can interact with the action button again.

Make 4 pots at time and 16 poisons. They take about 1 sec each.

yup, and 50 x 4 would be 50 secs, thus not possible in 30 secs. Of course i wasn't on about poisons, i said as much too.

jedtb16_ESO

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Unless things are different on the PC and you're not counting a stack to be 200 and poisons, then it's impossible to make a stack in 30 secs, especially on console. Each batch of 4 has an animation/process/cooldown it goes through before you can interact with the action button again.

i'm not sure what constitutes a stack of poisons. but it isn't 200. after reading this thread i logged in to check what i could do. only ever made poisons for writs so far.

made 256 breach poison in 29.6 seconds.

anyone know how many poison make a stack?

I was on about a stack of non poisons. That's why i stated unless that's what he was doing.

hey, ok. i was just trying to find out what is and isn't possible without using addons

Prof_Bawbag

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Unless things are different on the PC and you're not counting a stack to be 200 and poisons, then it's impossible to make a stack in 30 secs, especially on console. Each batch of 4 has an animation/process/cooldown it goes through before you can interact with the action button again.

i'm not sure what constitutes a stack of poisons. but it isn't 200. after reading this thread i logged in to check what i could do. only ever made poisons for writs so far.

made 256 breach poison in 29.6 seconds.

anyone know how many poison make a stack?

I was on about a stack of non poisons. That's why i stated unless that's what he was doing.

hey, ok. i was just trying to find out what is and isn't possible without using addons

Nah, I wrote it down quickly and it wasn't the clearest. I'll let you off the hook this time.

klowdy1

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Unless things are different on the PC and you're not counting a stack to be 200 and poisons, then it's impossible to make a stack in 30 secs, especially on console. Each batch of 4 has an animation/process/cooldown it goes through before you can interact with the action button again.

Make 4 pots at time and 16 poisons. They take about 1 sec each.

yup, and 50 x 4 would be 50 secs, thus not possible in 30 secs. Of course i wasn't on about poisons, i said as much too.

My God, we're talking 20 seconds when compared to hours as stated in the OP. The point is still made.

Anotherone773

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Unless things are different on the PC and you're not counting a stack to be 200 and poisons, then it's impossible to make a stack in 30 secs, especially on console. Each batch of 4 has an animation/process/cooldown it goes through before you can interact with the action button again.

Make 4 pots at time and 16 poisons. They take about 1 sec each.

yup, and 50 x 4 would be 50 secs, thus not possible in 30 secs. Of course i wasn't on about poisons, i said as much too.

Ok lets say it takes 5 minutes to make 1k. in an hour you could make 12k potions. What on earth do you need to make 12k potions for?

Im not against a craft X feature by the way. Id rather type in 100 and hit a button than tap a button a hundred times.

temjiu

I totally agree that having a count should be a base feature in the game. While I appreciate the benefits of Add-ons, due to the inclusion of Consoles, QoL aspects need to be added and we can't just use "there's an addon for it" as an excuse anymore.

That being said, I do love the Addons that I can get with my PC. It's one of the reasons that to this day, I still play games 100% on my PC.

VaranisArano

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Unless things are different on the PC and you're not counting a stack to be 200 and poisons, then it's impossible to make a stack in 30 secs, especially on console. Each batch of 4 has an animation/process/cooldown it goes through before you can interact with the action button again.

i'm not sure what constitutes a stack of poisons. but it isn't 200. after reading this thread i logged in to check what i could do. only ever made poisons for writs so far.

made 256 breach poison in 29.6 seconds.

anyone know how many poison make a stack?

1000 poisons make a stack. I need to buy another stack for PVP. My bow eats poisons like they're cheap Easter candy.

VexingArcanist

another reason I can't play this game on console. At least for the PC I have an addon for this.

ZOS poured craptons of money into story and voice overs and the UI is poorly set up.

MCBIZZLE300

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Im making stam pots, mag potd and tri pots. It takes hours

MTijhuis

I would love to have a in-game option to craft a x- amount of pots. I like to gather materials and craft potions and poisons for my friends. But pressing the x button on the console for half a hour is quite boring.

I just saw I have over 5K of ingredients again, looking forward to press the x button over-and-over during dinner.

Iluvrien

VexingArcanist wrote: »

another reason I can't play this game on console. At least for the PC I have an addon for this.

ZOS poured craptons of money into story and voice overs and the UI is poorly set up.

It was an intentional design choice at launch. I remember seeing it in the pre-launch interviews about the crafting system. Every item a player crafted was intended to be valuable in, and of, itself.

Crafting stacks of anything at a single time would contravene that design concept... hence the current situation.

srfrogg23

It really wouldn’t hurt my feelings if they added a “make x quantity” button. It does get a little redundant having to hit the same button repeatedly just to make a full stack of food/potions.

Kanar

I would like to see them make it more difficult to make potions/poisons. First, remove the ability of add-ons to automate the process. Second, require the player to hit a sequence of 3 random keys to craft the potion. I would love to see that added to the game. Crafting should be more involved

Ohtimbar

Why? UX always takes a back seat in game design, sadly. It could be fixed, but that would require development time that could be spent on hats, crates, nerfs, etc.

Recremen

Yikes. We either need addons for our poor console players or ZOS needs to do a really big QOL pass for these things. Not having addons in ESO is like living in a nation with no infrastructure. You can still do all the things, just slowly, poorly, and while getting left behind in every respect compared to those who have them.

Jhalin

*pets my PC and addons*

Thank you for existing.

Beardimus

mcb123 wrote: »

Ive spent hours pressing square to make potions at the alchemy station, why is it that you cant choose the amount you wish to craft in one go? It puts me off making them at all! I dont see why this feature shouldn't be added immediately.

Batch cook also needed for provisioning

Beardimus

Recremen wrote: »

Yikes. We either need addons for our poor console players or ZOS needs to do a really big QOL pass for these things. Not having addons in ESO is like living in a nation with no infrastructure. You can still do all the things, just slowly, poorly, and while getting left behind in every respect compared to those who have them.

Disagree with that. Add ons are my main reason for wanting to stay on console, level playing field. Changes should be base game or not at all.

Sure QOL change like this be awesome, but majority of others jiat sound like cheating

Gilvoth

Jhalin

Beardimus wrote: »

Recremen wrote: »

Yikes. We either need addons for our poor console players or ZOS needs to do a really big QOL pass for these things. Not having addons in ESO is like living in a nation with no infrastructure. You can still do all the things, just slowly, poorly, and while getting left behind in every respect compared to those who have them.

Disagree with that. Add ons are my main reason for wanting to stay on console, level playing field. Changes should be base game or not at all.

Sure QOL change like this be awesome, but majority of others jiat sound like cheating

What addon do you think counts as cheating or uneven play fields? Miat's was fixed via API changes, and the majority of useful addons are very low-impact on hardware, so they aren't exactly tech gated.

DeadlyPhoenix

Video game makers all have contracts with console company's to force players to repeatedly press buttons so they get wore out quicker and you have to spend $50+ for a new one every few months.

Same reason your phone charger cord always stops charging your phone after a few months.

On a serious note though it's high time they finally add a way to mass craft. Keep the amount of time it takes the same, but at least let me set it up to craft 200 potions and it go through itself and craft them vs me pressing a button 50x

Meaning it will still only craft 4 at a time for potions or food, but it will keep crafting until it crafted the amount you set.

Danksta

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Assuming i already have ingredients set i can make a stack in 30 second or so. How is it taking you hours and more importantly how many potions are you making? I mean are you making enough for the entire year? Or your entire guild?

Unless things are different on the PC and you're not counting a stack to be 200 and poisons, then it's impossible to make a stack in 30 secs, especially on console. Each batch of 4 has an animation/process/cooldown it goes through before you can interact with the action button again.

Make 4 pots at time and 16 poisons. They take about 1 sec each.

4x30= 120
stack= 200
It also takes longer than 1 second, I'd say it's closer to 2 seconds.
I made 2000 weapon power pots, 1000 spell power pots and 8000 poisons in a sitting this weekend.
It wasn't fun... at all.

Kanar

Jhalin wrote: »

Beardimus wrote: »

Recremen wrote: »

Yikes. We either need addons for our poor console players or ZOS needs to do a really big QOL pass for these things. Not having addons in ESO is like living in a nation with no infrastructure. You can still do all the things, just slowly, poorly, and while getting left behind in every respect compared to those who have them.

Disagree with that. Add ons are my main reason for wanting to stay on console, level playing field. Changes should be base game or not at all.

Sure QOL change like this be awesome, but majority of others jiat sound like cheating

What addon do you think counts as cheating or uneven play fields? Miat's was fixed via API changes, and the majority of useful addons are very low-impact on hardware, so they aren't exactly tech gated.

You're niave to think no replacement for miat's exists. Raid notifier also continues to exist, babying the bad PC players who can't run a trial or even dodge an arrow without it. There's even ones that tell you when to recast buffs (or is that raid notifier?)