Guild Wars 2

Please add changes you’d like to see to this thread, I’ll edit this first post for a while as best I can so people don’t have to read thru too many pages to get the gist.

Here’s mine to start:

1. In the sell listing window, show us “Total profit”, not “Total price” in big ole letters.
2. In the “Home” tab, bring back the Top Demanded and Top traded items. We don’t need to see “Sell My Items” “Buy Armor” and “Buy Weapons”, that is redundant and useless.
3. I used to be able to buy or sell in ONE CLICK after opening the TP. Now it’s two clicks. As many times as I open that window in an evening, I want a ONE CLICK option back. You guys should know that adding clicks is always a bad idea.
4. When I’m searching for Armor or Weapons to buy, by default the results add my current alt’s profession as a filter. That’s bad. I am a level 80 on almost all my alts. I rarely need or want to buy things for them, let alone every single time I open the TP. So I want to see ALL armor and ALL weapons by default, not with a profession filter. Having to X out that filter is yet another unnecessary click I never had to go thru before.
5. When I have a popup window opened, hitting ESC key closes the WHOLE TP ui! Why? Just close the popup only, simple right?
6. When I hit the “List This Item” or “Sell Instantly” button, the green popup window that says “Success” appears just a tad too high for me to be able to click on the “OK” quickly without moving my mouse. It would be nice to have that lowered a bit so I can just quickly dismiss the dialog in a rapid two-click move.
7. “I am Evon Gnashblade” should be the default view, and icons resized accordingly. No one wants to only be able to view 9 items at a time.
8. added: Ability to select MULTIPLE items at once for sale (not items of the same name or type, we mean ANY items) in one or two clicks/keystrokes, along with the ability to deselect individual items.
9. added: Some people still having stability issues with game client when using the TP

OK that’s all i have for now. Love to hear what you guys feedback is.

EDIT: started adding suggestions.

changes I’d like to see:
1. the game not crashing when i use the TP

Well, CuteLilKittenHugz.2064 asked me to post here so here is my 8-bits worth. Provide a trading GUI that allows us to choose items to be sold simply by clicking on them and which if multiple clicks are executed compiles a list of items we wish to sell.

It should also have a ‘global’ feature so we can click a single box, or highlight and collect (like in an OS GUI) to select multiple objects. When said listing is ready, it should be displayed for review with a box (checked) next to each item, and beside that the number of items in that slot – which can be altered manually or left on the maximum default available . A third row may offer the option of selling lowest or highest simply by clicking on a UP or DOWN arrow. If you wish for example not to sell that item, simply de-select the checked box without distrupting the listing. The user can then choose to sell everything automatically with the push of a single button – and THAT would work for me. At the moment when I clear inventory it can take anything from five to fifteen minutes, yet can be accomplished in seconds if done as suggested above.

Something else – from time to time I give people materials, because I’m just a generous sorta guy … but it proves to be very difficult to give somebody some iron ore (for example) if I have say, forty ore and want to give them ten as there is no way of sub-dividing that ore, or any other item when there is more than one of that item. I propose that an inventory slot have the option when clicked on to allow a user to enter a number and then transfer a number of units to another available slot or to a message to another person (which would be the main usage).

My final suggestion relates more to transport than anything else. As you know when you get to the higher levels, teleportation costs some serious money so I propose that we be offered beasts of burden that we can keep, rez as needed and put away and which would act much as pets do yet can be RIDDEN. These would travel (when ridden) at three times the maximum speed of a running character class. It would be a fun way of getting around and would save the hardcore explorers a lot of cash and time. I often run across Tyria rather than use teleports so why has ArenaNET not yet given us mounts? I’ve been asking for them since the opening week in 2012.

All good points, firstly April’s feature pack introduced unneeded clicking, whereas before we just hit H to change gear now we must hit H AND then equipment… The client remembers what was last opened but then forgets on shut down… Also what the hell with this trait system, what was wrong with letting us pulldown a list from the trait area rather than having to select them all from the left of the UI?

Anyway back to tp, yes that darn thing has crashed my game consistently all day except on the first few tries it worked very well, granted the layout’s poorly designed and needs more unneeded clicking, as Kitten rightly put it extra clicking’s always bad, as well as data redundancy, if you can fit stuff on one page without it being cluttered, why spread it out to several pages? That means extra loading and processes, for a game with millions of players that’s a big waste… & for sure it displays too few items at once…

Lastly being able to sell or buy multiple items is genius, congrats for that suggestion. Efficiency is key! I’d also like mounts, one decent thing with gw2 characters is vs other mmos we run very fast on foot and even when swimming, I hate the wp costs as well. WvW has no costs but it pretty boring running all the time especially in Borderlands… Some transports would be nice in WvW, golems don’t count as they are super slow.

So in conclusion, the old tp’s performance stank till April, the darkening screen bug still happened quite often, still exists in this new tp as well grrr, generally however the old tp’s UI was okay, sad to say with all the great things this game has to date it still has the worst trade system in performance I’ve used for any game…
The UI improvements for the game also while not as bad has followed this year’s trend of badly designed UIs… The BBC iplayer website and the space game Star Conflict have made far worse snafus, even so I can never understand why companies wreck stuff and worse still pass them off as new and improved!

Yifang I agree, Belenus’ idea to be able to select multiple items at once IS a great idea, I spend waaaay too much time going thru my 100+ slots of inventory to sell loot. So yeah, anyways I’ve added it to the list. Sorry I can’t add everything, I gotta stay on topic re: the TP UI only so this thread has a legit chance of going somewhere.

Im also not happy about the selling of items, as you’ve listed it now takes longer to sell stuff and i find it frustrating i now have to double check where that little tick is. Simply annoying.
But whats worse is the browsing experience, to buy things has been completely ruined. (I don’t even understand how someone was dumb enough to suggest this new system and how so many people were idiot enough to approve it to be frank)
I used to search through weapon skins, dyes, minis, other bits and pieces by setting a price to high or low and just just browsing through various pages buying things as i pleased, well now if i do that i get to see 20 odd listings then at the bottom im told to “refine my search” well how the hell am i going to refine my search when i don’t know what i want is named? Hell sometimes im not even after something in particular, im just looking and might buy something. So with this new system if i was just looking to buy some dyes for example, but didn’t know the exact name of the color i wanted id now have to go and Google for a page with all of the colors, then go and refine my search and do this many many times, before i could just browse through and go ‘hey i like that color*buy*’.

I like how previously you could just right click an item click sell on tp then click sell(auto highest buyer was selected) then everything was in one window, click next thing, click sell bam bam and bam, no annoying kittening popups, no looking at 2 seperate listboxes with highest seller selected .. <sarcasm>yeah I want my kitten sitting on the tp for months</sarcasm> and no ridiculous scroll bar .. I wanna sell it all quick and get back to doing what I was doing .. if I want some unique odd selling of 3 items out of 80 let me just type 3 and be done.

It’s much more tedious now, not that it’s impossible just saying.

1. Current transactions Buying/Selling page must not fully refresh after I cancel 1 order.
2. “GET MORE GOLD” button. Come on. Are game sales that low now?

Selling is incredibly counter intuitive.

The default setting are quantity 1/10 , for example, and ‘match lowest sellers price’ .

These are both wrong and should sell 10/10 default and ‘sell to highest offer’ as before.

If you click on the ’sell to highest offer ’ AFTER you hit the quantity scroll bar, it resets!!

What? Come on! This is basic programming…

- I’d like to see the max quantity button back and have it default to selling the max quantity like it used to. I never want to sell 1 of the 15 claws in my bag and moving that slider every time I want to sell a stack is annoying.

- Once you set a quantity to sell, it should not reset when you click between Sell Instantly (or whatever) and List Items. Moving that slider multiple times is just annoying and extra clicks.

- The armour search fields are strange given that all armour of a given quality, type and level have the same stats. Why not just have ‘Berserker, Rabid, etc.’ in the drop down list instead of the Diablo 3 like stats and numbers?

- Fix the TP on the Mac client so it doesn’t crash the game and/or my system.

- Too many clicks to sell items.

- Possible bug: Both my husband and I have had the situation where we get the ‘Partial success’ message when attempting to buy a stack of cloth, et cetera. When we then go to buy the rest of the quantity we wanted, it seems to have defaulted to making a buy order rather than a instant purchase. Both of us ended up accidentally making buy orders this way when we thought we were just proceeding to buy more.