Topic

Arbitrary amounts when selecting quantities

There should be an option to enter the exact number of things. The options simply aren't good enough, especially if you have 5000 elements, and your options are 1, 10, 20, 30, and 5000.

Posted 18 months ago by RobotGymnast Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Such an option would come handy when feeding piggies - at least a quantiy of 3 would be nice to have. 
    Posted 18 months ago by Spixy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes.. it's very frustrating ... there's no in between amounts it should be 1, 10, 20, 50, 100, etc
    ty for feeding my addiction :)

    Q
    Posted 18 months ago by Qizara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't really see why we can't have a place to type in a quantity.  I'd really like to do that!
    Posted 18 months ago by Magic Monkey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i think stoot said they're working on that. it came up in a conversation about mail- i wanted to mail ONE stew, not all 8! i'm generous, but not really taht generous ;)
    Posted 18 months ago by greenkozi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Plus one'ing this for the greater good.
    Posted 18 months ago by Biff Beefbat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If we can't have a quantity box, it would be nice to have the list include a number for the uses left in the tool.  (If I can grind 7 more rocks with my Grinder, but I'm holding 150, I can't select fewer than 10 without choosing 1 repeatedly.)
    Posted 18 months ago by Tony Danza, Ph.D. Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ...and as Spixy said, keeping a 3 in the list would save me SO much time.

    It's kinda nice the way it is now... just a small dialog with a couple of options. In theory it could get all blown up to something like the buy/sell dialog with a text entry field and +/- buttons, but I think small & simple is better.

    Maybe it just needs to show some intelligence... at the moment it scales according to how many you have. Shouldn't be impossible for it to say to itself "you're feeding a pig? OK, let's put a '3' in there" or "your tool has 7 uses left? Let's put a 7 in there"
    Posted 18 months ago by Snazzlefrazz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like how small and unobtrusive the box is right now, but yeah, it is a pain when you have a load of items and no you don't want to use 30 drinks but 17, or something.
    Posted 18 months ago by Liridona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think it would be especially helpful when making donations, hope they implement it soon.
    Posted 18 months ago by Gizmospooky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Erm lets donate some red elements.....i drag 2000 and it says you want to donate 17256... :D

    To specify amounts will be good or at least to read from which slot you drag and to get only this quantity. Option to split stacks will be good too.
    Posted 18 months ago by Lilla My Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is also an issue when you're feeding pigs or batterflies.  You end up having to drop stuff in order to avoid overfeeding them.
    Posted 18 months ago by mirth Subscriber! | Permalink