Item Stacking

My suggestion starts with an analogy, so bear with me


Recently, empty blood bags were introduced. Purchase one and take an education course, then the empty blood bag can be altered or filled with your type blood. If your blood type is A+ like mine and you fill a bunch of bags (assuming there will eventually be an honor or merit since its now being counted in personal stats), youll have a stack of Blood Bag : A+, and a stack of the Empty Blood Bags. If you are a collector/hoarder of many items (like me), that works out fine, you can buy a stack of each type blood for your collection. Makes sense, right?

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See how my A+ blood bag stack and my empty blood bag stack make the medical section of my display nice and tidy?



Now on to my actual suggestion:


According to Ched, All newly added weapons / armour is now displayed individually, just like on the items list. This is so we can store and display unique data (coming soon).


If the unique data for weapons means they will be alterable items, much like the empty blood bags, why should they not stack if the altered item is identical to another altered item, much like my stack of A+ blood bags?

Heres a screen shot of part of the melee weapon section of my display, also nice and tidy.

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My issue started this morning when I added some new baseball bats to my display

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Alterable items that have yet to be altered, much like empty blood bags, but these dont stack.


My suggestion, is to make the unaltered items stack and identical altered items stack so I could have the following stacks in the melee weapon section:

Stack 1: Baseball Bat (original unaltered item)

Stack 2: Baseball Bat : 10 Nails (or whatever clever name they end up with)

Stack 3: Baseball Bat : Barbed Wire (with a different clever name)


Instead of having 5 pages of unaltered baseball bats, 2 pages of baseball bats with nails, and yet another page of baseball bats with barbed wire.


Comments and/or discussion?

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Would hate to have my display looking like trash also, Torn is full of collectors so i think this is a great suggestion.

From my point of view the proposal is logical and makes sense. +1

Great suggestion!!

I'm not a collector but I do like the idea.

So much to read, but it was a worthwhile read :P

Rate + for Lucy xD

Rated + With the parcel you already have many items in different parcels stacked.
Shouldnt be hard to code that in.

I like this, even though I don't have much in my display cabinet.

R+

I turned off the icons and have been using the list. Would be cool to see them stack with icons.

Agreed. The choice they made with the current display seems so odd to me, because the way you have described is so obviously "better". There is similar precedent in countless other games with alterable items/weapons/armour/etc. Or ... maybe they have something else planned that none of us expect, and it will all make sense in the end.

Not rating, but I agree with you...

Sometime just before the Egg Comp...weapons unstacked. So let's be thinking good thoughts for customizable weapons.

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I think what Ched planned might be that every single weapon is different w/o any modifications. So each hammer will have a slight variation in damage or accuracy when you get them from the shop.

Nevertheless, if ^that is not his idea, I support this suggestion.

Check Ched's response on this thread: http://www.torn.com/forums.php?p=threads&f=19&t=15943528&b=0&a=0

The usual "SoonTM".....

I think we should have higher quality weapon manufacturers that can guarantee unaltered items will be identical!

+1 I was about to make this suggestion I remember when weapons use to stack in the inventory and display case now I see a stretched inventory of weapons cause they won't stack DX

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Good idea R+

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