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Usability flagging, meet... common sense?

djcdjc Member Posts: 76
in Feature Requests
There seems to be lots of item descriptions suffering of the following problem:

"Whoa, I found a weapon. Let's see the description!"

DAGGER OF A MAGE

...

Not usable by:
Fighter
Bard
Cleric
Druid
Ranger
Paladin
Kensai
Barbarian
Fighter/Mage
Fighter/Thief
Et Cetera
Et Cetera
Et Cetera

...


Why not

DAGGER OF A MAGE

...

Usable by:
Mage

instead? It would probably be a bit more player-friendly.

Comments

  • artificial_sunlightartificial_sunlight Member Posts: 601
    1000000000x agree!

    And the multiclasses in the description are a pain.

    For a lot lot of items, it should be: Usable by:

    Multi/dual/single class:
    - figters
    - paldins
    - rangers
    - barbarians
    - bards

    Exept
    - beastmasters
    - multi/dualclass clerics
    - Multi/dualclass druids

    All clear? So its unusable by:
    - clerics,
    - cleric/thieves,
    - cleric/fighters,
    - cleric/ranger,
    - cleric/mage,
    - mage
    - druid
    - fighter/druid
    - sorcerer
    - beastmaster
    - thief
    - thief/mage
    - Figter/cleric/thief
  • molloymolloy Member Posts: 105
    I think I heard a while ago, that this happened because with new classes and kits and all, they decided to generate these lists automatically.
    But that's no excuse at all, as it's a very lazy implementation. At least they could have determined if a 'usable' or 'not usable' list would be shorter and then use this.
  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155
    This is actually implemented but it's hardcoded, just that it doesn't trigger all the time, because it's calculated with all the kits in mind, and, blocking the kit's usability bits would cause (lots of) problems with kit mods, and I'm sure the devs don't want that.

    Still it's a cool feature request if implemented correctly.
  • meaglothmeagloth Member Posts: 3,806
    I believe there where some other thread about it. I believe @dee said that the usable/not usable list are generated by an algorithm, and are always the shortest they could be.
  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155
    edited October 2014
    meagloth said:

    I believe there where some other thread about it. I believe dee said that the usable/not usable list are generated by an algorithm, and are always the shortest they could be.

    Yeah, but actually listing all the kits as 'Usable by' would take up more space than just all the classes :)
    Hence what I said before.
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