(Gem) Golem Chip Icons

[Steelclaw]

Can the icons for gem golem chips be switched to something that doesn't resemble the icon for uncut gems (or any other loot drop, for that matter)?

PleeEeeAAAsssEeEE?

Or am I the only one who has trouble telling the two apart?

[Charys Stormchild]

No you're not, lol, I always have to check which is which

[Takora Drakan]

Oh yes please, make other icons !

[Deth]

They are easy to tell apart. They are bigger.

[Chasing]

When i tilt my glasses and peer at the screen about an inch away i can tell the difference between the 2 :P

Agree with ranqthas here they need to be made more 'user friendly' to tell the difference between.

[Justa Mirage]

I disagree with you Deth.

They are "slightly" bigger but when you are in a hurry to loot and run and don't want to load your inventory up with raw uncut gems, the sizes are too close. Maybe a triangular icon of the same color as the resource.

[Favoran]

I agree that they're similar, but for the most part it's easy to tell which is which when you have 300 of one and 3 of the other.

But I always stop and check, just in case. You can never be in so much of a hurry that you can't spare the time to double check yourself. After all, making a mistake like that will just slow you down more.

[Takora Drakan]

Maybe use the stone golem fragments and recolor them?

[Fratricide]

Why not just add a dot to the middle of the image or something.. that way it would be quite easy to tell the difference.

[Drevar]

There are a couple of unused or very rarely used gem/crystal icons available. Possibly use one of those? If created from scratch, I would suggest something similar to a 12 or 20 sided die, though not as regular in shape. It would only have to be made once, and then just tint and/or use shaders for the different versions.

Drev

[Deth]

I wanted to say I am not against the change just that I can tell at a glance my self.

[Shian]

Could just take the chip icon and tilt it so it's at a 45 degree angle instead of viewing it straight-on. Or make the uncut gem even smaller to match the other gems.

Either way, I have little trouble telling the difference between the two simply because I don't think I've looted a single gem-There's always more than one and not too terribly puzzling as to why this one citrine isn't stacking with the other gems.

[Favoran]

No necessarily true, Shian... I've had some annoying golems that, for whatever reason, have 13 uncut citrine and 1 uncut citrine. Just loot it and you get 14. Dunno why they don't stack. *shrug* Other mobs that drop resources have that issue, as well.

You know... I doubt it'd be too hard for someone to make a mod for this. After all, you'd just need to replace the current image of the components with one of your own, right? Unless the fact that the components and uncut gems have the same image means the devs were taking a shortcut, and they actually refer to the same image, just one is scaled up a bit.

Cheaters. o.O

[Drevar]

You get two seperate stacks when the loot table rolls uncut gems on both tries. It doesn't autostack them, I believe, because they are item creation calls not simply moving an item into the corpse inventory (which would activate the autostack function).

Drev

[Dhalin]

You get two seperate stacks when the loot table rolls uncut gems on both tries. It doesn't autostack them, I believe, because they are item creation calls not simply moving an item into the corpse inventory (which would activate the autostack function).

Drev

If that is true, then why don't they just forbid the game from rolling Uncut Gems twice in a row?

If Uncut Gems was already rolled, make it so that rolling Uncut Gems -again- causes a re-roll, until something OTHER than Uncut Gems is rolled.

That way, you would never get more than 1 stack of Uncut Gems.

OR,

At the End of the Loot Table code, when it is done figuring out what the mob has, add a Sort routine to the very end of the process. It would roll Uncut Gems... roll again, come up with Uncut Gems again, and then when "End of Loot" happens, run a Sort routine, which would cause the auto-stacking to happen, and THEN end the Loot Procedure and then the server tells the client what loot is on the mob.

[Favoran]

I know that's how it works, Drev. It's the only way that makes sense, from a programming standpoint.