I wanted to get some thoughts from everyone on how THEY would improve the inventory in ESO. Do you think it needs work? Do you think it's good the way it is?
I really think The inventory system would greatly benefit from a few tweaks and additional options. Firstly, when viewing ALL, the bag space should reflect the total available space in the bag. If the size of the bag reflects the current bag capacity, a bag with 100 available slots containing 60 items would have 40 empty slots.
Additionally, players should be allowed to arrange their inventory how they see fit. By dragging and dropping inventory items the inventory should be able to be rearranged within each category.
The empty space when viewing ALL would allow the player to re-arrange their inventory in groups that could be separated by spaces, if the player so desires. The other inventory views (Weapon, Apparel, consumable, etc…) should also be able to be arranged in whatever way we see fit but should not have blank spaces.
Players should be able to click the various sorting options (Name, Value, etc.) and then recall their arranged inventory using a little “arranged” icon next to the “NEW” icon in the inventory screen. When in the arranged view, clicking NEW should rearrange the inventory by name and pull all the inventory to the top removing any spaces. This NEW should have a prompt “Rearrange?” to give the player the option to back out in case NEW was accidentally clicked. This NEW function would allow the player the option to reorganize their inventory without having to shuffle all the empty space.
Also, it would be very helpful if players had the option to view their inventory as a grid with 5 columns. This grid would maintain all the qualities of the above mentioned list inventory (blank space in bag represented with a blank space in the ALL view of the inventory and the ability to arrange the inventory). While in grid view, players would see an icon of their item and mousing over that item will bring up the little pop-up with additional information, the same way it works in list now.
These changes should also be implemented in the bank and stackable items should auto-stack in both the bag and the bank.
I stress that this view change should be a choice. Players should be able to switch between views with ease and the bags should not reorganize or reset when the player switches their inventory view from list to grid. Having this option to organize bag space and the ability to see it in a grid view will make many players quite happy and would alleviate some (just some) of the bag space woes.
I realize much of this is available with add-ons but I am of the belief that certain features, such as these, should be standard.
Thoughts?
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