Feedback on collectible favourites

Danikat

Firstly thank you for adding this option, it's something players have been requesting for years and I know a lot of people will really appreciate it.

Unfortunately it's not much of an improvement for me because the favourites selected are account-wide instead of per-character. I have 8 characters (soon to be 9) and they're all very different people who use different collectibles and even different houses so it's not very useful for me to set the same favourites for all of them.

The way this is set up now it could be a slight improvement in that it lets me move the collectibles I never use to the bottom of the list, but it's no where near as useful as it could be and a considerable step down from the addon I was already using, and it seems will continue to use, to achieve the same purpose. (Another improvement in the way IsJusta Favorite Collectibles does it is that favourited mounts are collected together into one sub-category instead of remaining split out by type.)

I appreciate the effort to encorporate popular addons into the base game, but it's disappointing when the amateur version is still an improvement over the official one.

Kendaric

I'm extremely disappointed by their implementation as well, as an accountwide feature instead of a character-based feature it is basically worthless for me.

I'll most likely use an add-on over the current implementation.

alternatelder

That's annoying. Is the random mount selection account wide as well? I wanted to use that feature on another character or two, but not my main. Lately it feels like they don't want us playing multiple characters.

redlink1979

Danikat wrote: »

(...) the favourites selected are account-wide instead of per-character.(...)

The reason why I won't use collective favorites.

TaSheen

Yep, I'll just stick with the addon.

Füßchen

I was so exited about that feature too, but now that I finally have time to play after the update, I just realised it is account wide. I didn't even think about that possibility before since usually all things seem to be character specific. I mean we have to do the settings and keybind for every char again, but the favorites are account wide?

It's probably still going to be usefull for bodymarkings for me, since usually every char only uses one, but I tend to forget the names when trying out a new one that I just unlocked. At least I can favorite them and only have to look through the favorites to find them again instead of all of them.

But with the mounts, pets and costumes it's pretty disappointing. My chars are just to different for random favorite mounts to work if it's account wide and if I mark the favorite pets for every char, I'm going to end up with nearly all of them marked, so it won't really help with finding the pets I'm looking for either =(
And I wouldn't even know which char to choose if I would only use the favorite system on one char, because I don't really have one main anymore, but more like 4 chars that I play with most of the time.

MoonPile

+1 Love this feature, but please make it character-based, and please add this for pets too!

The decisions about what's account-wide vs character-bound are strange sometimes. I know a lot of it is just top-level profit-driven, like outfit slots. Those should really be account-wide, but I get why it won't be done.

Furniture plans and motifs could easily be account-wide as well, like outfit styles. IDK what benefit there is keep those character-locked. It just adds minutes of login screen transitions; I have zero interest in re-learning copies of everything expensive that my crafter unlocked.

Carcamongus

Interesting... I find it better that this favorites system be account-wide, as I find it very annoying having to redo settings for every character (for example: UI, guild colors and many settings). I don't believe the random mount is also account-wide, as selecting your mount is per toon, but now I'm curious to test it.

Maybe the reason I like the system the way it is is that I have a number of favorite outfits and adornments that can be used by all my toons. That number, though, isn't very large. For instance, I believe I set less than 9 costumes as favorites.

It'd be nice if we could have random pets too, perhaps have them change every time we port somewhere. I'm having fun with the random mount and I almost always chuckle when the game picks the stick guar.

Grizzbeorn

I'm guessing (could be a good guess; could be a bad guess [probably a bad guess]) that the decision behind making this feature account-wide was arrived at due to the same reason why Account-wide Achievements happened; the move away from per-character data storage (to decrease the amount of data being handled by the game, in order to improve performance).

spartaxoxo

I'm on console, so no add-on for me. I want to second this idea of it being account wide being an issue. I tried to not let it bother me because I don't have the max characters anyway. Only to find that I hit the collectible limit by adding things for each character into my favorites list.