Drag to delete

[Shian]

When trying to get rid of all the junk that pops up after a normal day of hunting, would make the process go a lot faster if I could drag the item to the outside of the inventory window and get a delete item warning message.

Might be too difficult to code as the inventory window can be any size.

[Favoran]

I would like that, though then wouldn't the game freak if you tried to drag an item outside of the inventory window and into, say, a silo window? Otherwise, I think it's a great idea.

Maybe just a 'Delete' window, where everything you drag into it automatically gets trashed? Perhaps not instantly, but it's inaccessible to you except to drop things into, and it empties every x minutes or something.

[Justa Mirage]

*cough* WoW *cough*

I presently like the system now.... keeps people from accidentally closing a trade window and you end up getting the "delete" request window instead.

also don't think the game engine allows "any" dropping of items except from "requester box" to "requester box"

You can't "drop" things in the game, or "give" things to other players or NPCs.

They "could" put a trashcan on the interface of choice so you can drag them to the trash can

Edit again: I do believe there IS a trashcan button on the interface, but I forget

[Shian]

Dragging to an interface simmilar to the hoard location would be nice.

I also don't get the "wow" thing. I don't play wow, nor is wow the standard for which all games are played. (apparantly I'm wrong though ) There's been several games long before wow that used this type of interface. It was just a feature I appreciated.

[Favoran]

Justa, the trash can is the exact same thing as right-clicking and deleting, or clicking the 'delete' button. It's just a shortcut directly provided by the game.

[Justa Mirage]

I have played several MMORPGs in the past

Asheron's Call: drag to the screen, it drops the item ON THE GROUND for other people to pick up... or view (in the case of pack pets)

UO (unless they changed things from 10 years ago) didn't have that option, neither did EQ or DAoC if I am right...

Only after WoW, did games incorporate drag to delete (LoTRO / AoC / CoH / ETC)

Horizons is the ONLY game where you cannot "drag to" a screen object and interact with it (like giving people potions, items, etc) like all other games I have played would let you do.

I would really love the ability to drag things right to the player and have it open a trade window with that person.

[Shur]

pssst: you can drop stuff on the hoard window and if it aint hoardable it'll just vanish

[Justa Mirage]

Psssst, that's because it is considered a 0 value hoard and just disappear.

and... pssst... it's going from window interface to window interface and not to the main screen with no windows


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[Shian]

pssst: you can drop stuff on the hoard window and if it aint hoardable it'll just vanish

No it does not. I just get the message "item is not worthy enough to be in hoard and it stays put.

[Dhalin]

Yaknow what would REALLY be nice?

Being able to select multiple items at once, a'la Windows Explorer. Hold down the shift or ctrl keys and select several items at once, and then click the trash can, you get a window that pops up, listing everything you had selected. You could click one of those items to remove it from the list, and then click the delete and BAM, everything's gone.

I would imagine this would also be nice for Consigner/Trade/Pawnbroker too, but this might already work, I never thought to try it....

[Zexoin]

Yaknow what would REALLY be nice?

Being able to select multiple items at once, a'la Windows Explorer. Hold down the shift or ctrl keys and select several items at once, and then click the trash can, you get a window that pops up, listing everything you had selected. You could click one of those items to remove it from the list, and then click the delete and BAM, everything's gone.

Erm, actually, you can do that

[velveeta]

Yaknow what would REALLY be nice?

Being able to select multiple items at once, a'la Windows Explorer. Hold down the shift or ctrl keys and select several items at once, and then click the trash can, you get a window that pops up, listing everything you had selected. You could click one of those items to remove it from the list, and then click the delete and BAM, everything's gone.

I would imagine this would also be nice for Consigner/Trade/Pawnbroker too, but this might already work, I never thought to try it....

you can do this, dha....and thanx illy too, as if you forget to check the 'auto decon' box when leveling blacksmith by making tools - you are overburdened! hold down the shift button and clicking the items will hold them in a group for moving/mass operation.......

[Drevar]

That is one of the beautiful things about the interface. While it is not a direct derivative of the Windows UI, it follows the standard convventions almost to a tee.

cntl-click works well in icon view, click-hold shift-click only works in list view.

Drev

[pevil2000]

You learn something everyday... *makes a note of the mass delete function* hehe. I would love the drag and drop to delete thing; I 'grew up' on UO as far as MMOs go and hate not being able to drop things on the floor in most 'new' MMOs, but if we cannot drop items then at the very least dragging to delete is very useful! I can't think of anything off the top of my head but I'm sure a few SP games use this feature.

[Drevar]

Dropping items on the ground is not likely to be in many newer games. You see how badly unpolished these new MMOs are released. Imagine how far behind they would be if the art teams had to create an "on the ground" model for every droppable item in the game.

There are also griefing issues. Having played UO I am sure you recall the lag caused by dropping multiple (100s) of torches or other light sources in the same area. Imagine if someone decided to drop 5000 individual stacks of iron ore in Bristugo.

Drev

[pevil2000]

ah of course i understanda ll that but hey, it feels more real to be in a world like that! I can live without it though