[Suggestion][UI] Looking at the Shop

More Functionality

from Elemental Forums

Playing some more Elemental, there are a few UI features I'd like to see added to the in-game shop.

  1. Subtabs to sort things to buy - perhaps: Weapons, Armor, Misc, All.
  2. A marker to see which items my character already has equipped (even when I'm in the buy tab)
  3. Showing me all items in "my inventory" even when they're equipped (use the same mark as #2)
  4. The ability to cycle between characters without leaving the shop.
  5. A button to take me straight to my character's equipment screen.
  6. A button to take me straight to the item trade screen.

I played around with the layout of the interface in my notebook.  Here's the scan.  Let me know if the handwriting is too small to read at this size.

After doing my initial sketch, I remembered that we already have a distinctive icon for the equipment screen, so I reworked the bottom bar, as you can see below.

For cycling characters, I'd also want the player to be able to click on a character portrait to jump straight to them, instead of having to cycle through with the side arrows.

Keep up the great work!

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I second the addition of the equip column. As it is we have to:

1-) buy new weapon 

2-)leave merchant interface, select the sovereign and change equipment 

3-)go back to the merchant to sell the old weapon.

 

Three columns (buy/sell/inventory) would make that problem disappear.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

There should also be the RPG-standard 'compare this item with the one I have currently equipped' tooltip, and allow the player to change hero in the shop without clicking out.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

All of the above. 

 

/Signed.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Agree with all of it, managed to buy the same stuff twice for one of my champs.

Point 4 is already there though

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

+1

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting onyx_blackbird, reply 4
Agree with all of it, managed to buy the same stuff twice for one of my champs.

Point 4 is already there though
End of onyx_blackbird's quote

Did I miss some arrow buttons somewhere? X|

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Absolutely.  The shop UI is painful.  Far too many clicks.

You can cycle between characters without leaving the shop, but not when equipping items, or trading items.

You should be able to sell, purchase, equip, trade items between your units all from the same screen.

Did I miss some arrow buttons somewhere?
End of quote

Yes, there is a tiny arrow near the portrait of the champion you have selected.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting _Scooter_, reply 7
Absolutely.  The shop UI is painful.  Far too many clicks.

You can cycle between characters without leaving the shop, but not when equipping items, or trading items.

You should be able to sell, purchase, equip, trade items between your units all from the same screen.


Did I miss some arrow buttons somewhere?


Yes, there is a tiny arrow near the portrait of the champion you have selected.
End of _Scooter_'s quote

 

i thought that was removed in 1.05? maybe not. either way, i found it rather buggy in gold++ because if i entrered the store with one character, but clicked over to another but when i went back out none of the items i had bought showed up in the inventory. if i opened the trade window, i could trade them to another champion and equip them there, but not on the character i bought them for.