Topic

Bag swap

I've heard of folks having inventory contents swiped when they put them on the ground to reorganize. One thing that would help a TON would be some way to just swap the bags in your inventory... move one bag on top of another, and they trade places.

Oh, and can I have a pony, too?

Posted 18 months ago by Lilith Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • What's the point of trading all the contents of two bags?
    Also... Organize your bags in your house and don't let anyone in.
    Posted 18 months ago by sugarj Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think this is where my idea for a "hold" on items might come in handy. I suggested in the blockmaker thread that perhaps there could be a freeze/lock/hold put on dropped items to prevent blockmakers from getting stolen/dismantled/turned into MechaGodzilla. The hold would only last as long as the Glitch who dropped the blockmaker was still in the same street where they dropped it, otherwise it's fair game. This could work for all our other items as well. 

    If you want to leave something behind, you usually leave the street. If you want to give something to a particular player, you just give it to them, no dropping involved. But if you drop stuff, it's usually because your bags are full or you're trying to reorganize. I have no idea how hard this hold/freeze/lock thing would be to write into the game, mind...

    sugarj, not everyone has a house... usually the newer players don't have a house for whatever reason. (And some folks just don't have houses... I only got one during the test before this one.) And I sure as hell would have been turned off of the game as a noob if I'd snuck off to what I thought was a quiet corner to organize my stuff, only to have things stolen by fellow Glitches. Also: trading places of two bags might help keep stuff organized based on where the game automatically puts "new" stuff... which seems to be the leftmost open spot in the leftmost open bag. =) I wouldn't mind being able to swap places for individual items this way, actually.
    Posted 18 months ago by Jennyanydots Subscriber! | Permalink
  • When I was first starting out, I was told that a good place to sort bags was on the subway. You have the car all to yourself, and you can ride as long as you want. If, by some chance, someone else gets on at the same time as you, you just have to keep riding until they get off the line, and then start sorting. You have all the privacy you need, without the expense of a house, and no one to nick your property. It just costs you the 50c fare for the ride. 
    Posted 18 months ago by Essie Kitten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What if you went to a street that is out of the way, and people rarely go on?
    Posted 18 months ago by sugarj Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for hotswapping items/bags. I reorganize, on average, once an earth day and having to drop bags or items just so I can get them where I want them is tedious.

    I would also like to see a stack button to restack any items that have been split from using or what have you.
    Posted 18 months ago by Kippsi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I suggested this a bit earlier, that we should be able to switch item slots. Currently rearranging your inventory is a bit like playing a slider puzzle. Except not fun. Except that slider puzzles already aren't fun, and can be solved with a simple moveset thus rendering all slider puzzles a boring, mechanical task, if it weren't already.

    When I was starting out I stumbled onto a person dropping rocks. I just assumed s/he was throwing them away, but it turned out it was a matter of sorting bags... I was just lucky that she typed fast enough to let me know what was happening, before I left the street. I can't imagine this isn't the first time something like this happened before, and it hasn't happened to just me.
    Posted 18 months ago by Liridona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, I've thought of the item swapping thing before.  It works like that in many other games as well.

    Drag a bag over a bag, they get swapped
    Drag a bag over an item, they get swapped
    Drag an item over a bag, item goes in bag
    Drag item over an item, they get swapped

    Etc :)
    Posted 18 months ago by Vicereine Linnæa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I hope it's appropriate to bump this because it's exactly on what I was about to open a new thread: hotswapping items in my inventory. I really want to be able to drag items over another item, and have them switch places when I let go.
    Posted 17 months ago by hollow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would like to see this, too.
    Posted 17 months ago by Crucial Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I agree whole-heartedly--I mentioned wanting this a long time ago in another thread.
    Posted 17 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bump:

    Items should swap in inventory in many cases.

    http://beta.glitch.com/forum/ideas/4142/ (81 days)
    http://beta.glitch.com/forum/ideas/903/ (11 mo.)
    Posted 16 months ago by here Subscriber! | Permalink