Guild Wars 2

I really like the “Deposit All Collectibles” option. It’s convenient and awesome.

I really don’t like the “Compact” option. It messes up my organization (minis in my invisible bags, blueprints at the bottom, different weapons in the middle… you get the idea).

These two are right friggin’ next to each other on the inventory Options drop-down! Many times, I have attempted to deposit all my collectibles, only to jam all my stuff as far up as it will go.

I propose an easy fix. Well, two fixes, either one of which would work, but they could both be implemented and I think they’d be easy to do.

Option 1: Implement a “Deposit All Collectibles” hotkey in the Control Options, perhaps under Miscellaneous or User Interface, and let us bind it wherever we want. I’d probably do Alt-I, because I’d want it to be easy to remember but difficult to do on accident – I’m altering my inventory!

Option 2: Add a setting under General Options, perhaps under User Interface, to disable the “Compact” option. That way, people like me who literally never want to compact our inventory can simply take the option away. There could maybe be a drop-down selection to enable it, disable it, or ask for confirmation (“Do you really want to compact your inventory?”) for those who want to do it sometimes but not accidentally.

I know it’s a minor thing, but I think this could be implemented with less than one half of one staffing-hour, if the person really knew the UI code. I mean, I don’t know how you guys organize everything, maybe the inventory code and the other options code is just all over the place, but it seems like it would be a really easy thing to do that would save a lot of headaches from a simple (and very close!) mis-click. I mean, the text is small on the screen and the buttons are right on top of each other, so it’s easy for us to mess it up.

Anyway, that’s it. Thanks for listening!

Compact doesn’t touch invisible bags.

Even so it can be irritating when you click it by accident and it shuffles all your other bags.
I’m +1ing the OP’s suggestion, as there can never be too much UI customisation.

Though i dont realy agree with compact being broken (you should look into just getting some 18 slots bags and do away with the organizing bags and dont show separate bags imo) I do like your option 1 idea. the other one is kind of iffy beause it seems like a very niche concept

tldr + 1 to option one idea

Envy, I’m in the process of pursuing my Master’s degree in order to become a librarian. I believe in being organized. It doesn’t matter how much space I have, I will organize the things I put in that space.

Even with my current 8- & 10-slot bags, I normally have about 2/3 of that space empty when I’ve cashed my trash, so the problem isn’t a lack of space. The problem (which I’ve solved by organizing my stuff) is that I don’t want to have to look for stuff when I need it, I want to know where it is. So there’s a place for everything, and everything goes in its place. That way, when I need an arrow cart blueprint, I know I just have to “press I, scroll down, second from the left and double-click.” My vendor trash all goes in the top two bags so that I never accidentally vendor the stuff I want to deposit in my bank or sell on the trading post. And bags with gathering tools and non-depositable collectibles like badges, karma jugs, boosts, and other rewards you get periodically (and might want to save up because you don’t know which character will need them later), get hidden so I don’t have to look at them until I go back to the bank or need to equip a new gathering tool.

As a result of this system, whenever I die, it takes me less than ten seconds to repair my stuff and cash my trash (while most people I’ve seen take a minute or two), letting me get back to the action that much faster (i.e. “playing the fun part of the game”). I’d say that what you call your “opinion” is really more your “playstyle” (with respect to inventory management), and I just have a different one. As in, I don’t disagree with you – nothing you said was false or bad in any way at all, and yeah, the second option is pretty nichey now that you mention it – I just do things differently in a way that’s not compatible with the way you do things. Because I do things differently than you. So while you may think I’m a slightly-OCD neat freak, I do get a tangible benefit out of it (front-loading my thinking in exchange for free time on the back end); I, on the other hand, think you’re a slob who wastes time sifting through inchoate piles instead of minimizing boring vendor times, though you also receive a tangible benefit from your system (the freedom to not give a skritt about organizing your stuff).

TL;DR version: Thx 4 +1, +1’d back, ur right on #2.

+1 to both. I also like to organise my own bags and never use Compact, nor do I want to. (Pressed it once by mistake, it messed everything up, never used it again.)

DoctorFaust.7103:

Option 1: Implement a “Deposit All Collectibles” hotkey in the Control Options, perhaps under Miscellaneous or User Interface, and let us bind it wherever we want. I’d probably do Alt-I, because I’d want it to be easy to remember but difficult to do on accident – I’m altering my inventory!

OMG ORGASM

Aren’t there already bags you can craft that do this?