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An appeal To the Devs: Moving you closer!!! - Could not get close enough

This is a new behavior and this absolutely makes squeezing chicken very difficult (or pulling stuff into inventory from a distance).

1. Chickens: Most chickens start flying when you go near them. To squeeze them easily and quickly, I normally click on the grain icon from a distance away. But now, that click makes me go near the chicken and then popup the menu instead of squeezing directly. With the reduced squeeze amount, this essentially makes squeezing chickens a whole lot more tiresome.

2. A lot of times, when stuff was high (on trees, ledges etc) we could drag the item even if we were not directly under the item. Now the same action causes us to move to under the item (which, if it happens to be over empty space will cause us to fall down and hence lose focus. Additionally, the distance from where you can drag has been massively reduced.

My appeal: Please remove both these behaviors. This is the first time I've ever asked for a rollback because this really takes away useful functionality that existed before.

Posted 7 months ago by Rah Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • +1
    Posted 7 months ago by Koftun Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I will agree with #2. Not being able to drag something from a higher floor in my house (or attic) straight in to inventory pretty much stinks. You seem to have to drag it to the floor next to you, then to inventory.

    ETA: Also, being able to drag things into an SDB from a different floor was also very convenient. Now, you simply can't do it.
    Posted 7 months ago by Joe Blow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 7 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've noticed a similar thing today.  I keep my seed bags by my gardens.  Until today I could drag a seed bag from across the garden into inventory.  Today i could not, I had to go much closer to grab the bag and then my Glitch was in the way and I had to move in order to plant.

    The same with squeezing chickens.  If I get too close to a chicken it flies and I waste a lot of time trying to squeeze it.  until today I could reach it from a distance for a squeeze.  Today squeezing was difficult because the chickens flew all over.

    Whatever happened today may be a good thing overall (must be some reason for it) but until I know what makes this "better" it is just an annoyance.

    ETA:  This may have been fixed.  I had no problems just now and squeezed from afar.
    Posted 7 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can't squeeze my chicken in my attic anymore :(
    so sad.
    I can see why this was implemented. Petting pigs is better but some of it stinks like piggy plop.
    Posted 7 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah I can see how useful this change could be for those playing with a mouse. For me it doesn't make much of a difference except for the fact that I can't:

    A) pick up bags from a different floor.
    Dragging a bag down from floor to floor until it's near me and then sometimes having it fly off to GOD only knows where on the left is incredibly frustrating. I can't see how this improves anyone's game play or prevents abuse. If I'm in my home decorating and I can drag anything out of my bag onto another floor I should be able to put things in my bags or put bags themselves in my inventory from any floor.

    B) Collect my milk or meat from my collectors that live in my attic.
    Now maybe devs don't want us to utilize our attics for things like bags and collectors but... if that's the case maybe they should make it nonfunctional? I'm of course not advocating for that as I like having things I don't need immediate access to out of the way. If they don't mind us using our attic as extra storage we should be able to collect without taking collectors out of it.

    TLDR? I think I should be able to drag things to my inventory without standing right next to it, at least in my home. Other than that the changes are cool with me.
    Posted 7 months ago by SkyWaitress Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So I'm on my 2nd / 3rd floor, I attempt to place an item on the ground but it doesn't want to go there, instead it goes sailing off to the left, through the brick wall and out onto one of the islands in my back yard. Before I could just drag it back, but now...oh no .. now I have to go downstairs, out into the backyard, levitate up to the island, because its still too far away.. collect said item and go back upstairs to complete what I was attempting to do...frustrating! Please fix :)
    Posted 7 months ago by Teena Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If i'm a distance away from a tree and I click on it, it walks my avi up to it but now slings it all around. I can't stand it. It was better before for trees. It was smoother. I'm really finding that this is more of a serious pain than good.
    Posted 7 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • With the recent change I can no longer empty and fill RHK tools because "I'm too far".

    "Context menus can now be opened at a distance (rather than moving you over first). " kinda implies they wanted us to have a greater range...not smaller. I hope.

    RHK stuff is ugly let me hide it up high like before please.
    Posted 7 months ago by M<3tra, obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hmmm...it looks like this change has actually increased slinging.

    Oh dear.  Magnetic hens.
    Posted 7 months ago by Biff Beefbat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm fine with the new chicken and tree behavior, and actually didn't notice a difference.  But that maybe because I use the keyboard for everything that I can.

    One thing that I do really like is that the game no longer rigidly moves you when harvesting. That's a really good change!
    Posted 7 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm wondering if this should have been in the bugs forum :/ Not that I'm picky about that sort of thing I just wonder if it would have had a better chance of being seen and considered there.
    Posted 7 months ago by SkyWaitress Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to OP.

    I am not a fan of this new-fangled way of doing things. :(
    Posted 7 months ago by foolbunny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • SkyWaitress, I don't think it is a bug but a feature based on the recent glitch log entry
    Posted 7 months ago by Rah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh! I thought there was something wrong with my mouse, or the trackpad, or my fingers; I use the keyboard for most actions so I didn't make the connection at all. I'm definitely not a fan of this change.
    Posted 7 months ago by Wrong Way Subscriber! | Permalink
  • -You limit iMG gain, e.g. limit to getting iMG from singing to butterflies that makes sense.

    -You take away the zoom's awesomeness, that's fine

    -You take away our ability to stay in Ajaya and visit our test house, that's OK.

    -Gardening in some areas is slow, no big deal.

    -Rube used to be cool, I have everything I need.

    But. You. Do. This! :O

    #notbeingseriousbutyeahthischangekindasucksIMO_I_use_it_a_lot

    **However, I understand that the sentiment behind it was to bring certain changes, which are neat.  If there was a way to have both, which I assume may or may not be hard, that would be really awesome.
    Posted 7 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How do you get stuff out of the attic now?

    EDIT: OK, figured it out...drag it to the floor you're on, then pick it up.  Yuck.
    Posted 7 months ago by Biff Beefbat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Devs, this is the first thing you have done which I have to say utterly sucks. I can't drag a bag from across the room (same floor) into my inventory. No, I have to run my Glitch all the way over there and back to the door, which is jerkier, rather than smoother.

    My god, this is annoying. It is not subtle and it's not less jerky. It's a pain in the tuchus.

    Or are you just "subtly" trying to protect Hell-spawning goodies from people who clicked and dragged them, rather than drinking their Wine of the Dead like good little ...eh, corpses?  If that's the case, I'd rather you take the goodies out of hell and give us back the old functionality.

    ETA: Not sure this is related, but when I tried to put a piglet on a counter, it dropped down to through the floor into the room below.
    Posted 7 months ago by Filox Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Don't panic. We just launched this. It'll be tweaked. We didn't test enough with vertical actions, I suspect (it's an enormous improvement for horizontal stuff).
    Posted 7 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm kind of sorry for complaining, Stoot, because you let me play this game for free, but in the name of feedback, this feature may be a really hard sell.

    Second thoughts: The loss of the click-and-drag function makes things much more awkward. The "moving you closer" is highly inconvenient. (And I'm not sure of the reasoning behind putting a context menu on clicking objects at a distance if half the time the game is going to say "can't get you close enough".) If you can give us click-and-drag (click HOLD drag-to-inventory) and distant context menu (single click RELEASE context-menu-popup), that would be more satisfactory and more functional.
    Posted 7 months ago by Filox Subscriber! | Permalink
  • STOOT!!!!!!
    Posted 7 months ago by Maxy Cat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Fliox: Yes! As a mouse user (for grabbing things around my house and interacting with animals, etc.) this is far more awkward, both horizontally and vertically. I suppose it will take some getting used to and I am definitely suffering from "But, *sad face*, we used to be able to do it this other way" syndrome. And, while I am willing to admit I am being somewhat "panicky", I would prefer that items with only one context menu option still behaved the way they did before (like the grain, pet, water, milk and feed bubbles did, as well as picking up bags, etc.). *harumph!*
    Posted 7 months ago by foolbunny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was distressed to find that I couldn't pick up anything from my attic, but thanks to Joe Blow, above, I learned the move-to-floor-first trick. Whew.

    It's still very much sub-optimal, but at least those items are not entirely inaccessible.
    Posted 7 months ago by Lorikeet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Distance amount able to be dragged has been reduced drastically.
    I concur.
    Posted 7 months ago by Palindrome Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to the original poster and yes, please can we have our click and drag functionality fully restored, please :)
    Posted 7 months ago by Violet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to OP.
    Posted 7 months ago by Fleep Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you Stoot! Glad to know it's being looked into.
    Posted 7 months ago by SkyWaitress Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yes yes yes - I love it for reflecting on my shelves of icons, hate it for grabbing stuff off shelves to put in inventory - thanks for assurances stoot!
    Posted 7 months ago by gimmegames Subscriber! | Permalink
  • OK, I think we have fixed these issues. Pickup (by dragging to your pack) in your home locations should work from anywhere, and in other locations should now behave almost exactly the same as it did before, and many animal verbs have been tweaked to work more better.
    Posted 7 months ago by eric Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you, Eric :)
    Much appreciated by the Glitch community.
    Posted 7 months ago by Palindrome Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you for fixing the drag to inventory! So much better!

    Collecting from RHK still doesn't work at a distance though :/ Anyway we could get that fixed as well?
    Posted 7 months ago by SkyWaitress Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hooray for the more betterness!
    Posted 7 months ago by foolbunny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yes yes yes! Thanks eric!
    Posted 7 months ago by gimmegames Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Posting on here rather than making a new thread.

    I've been in the Enchanted Forests the past 2 days. When I water and pet all is fine but when I click to harvest, it slings my avi around and takes a step back. Usually this will cause my avi to fall off the ledge in the forest area.

    Please please fix this step back on the harvest part. It is MOST annoying.
    Posted 6 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh!! My poor little glitchy person is badly in need of a neck brace, here lately, what with all of the whiplash she's been getting from being slung around while trying to tend to the trees!

    It was so nice, there for a bit, and now it has become so bad that I find her trying to sneak up on the trees to keep it from happening.
    Posted 6 months ago by sgjo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't have a problem with either of these.
    Posted 6 months ago by Volkov Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We'll look into the tree problems ASAP!
    Posted 6 months ago by eric Subscriber! | Permalink
  • TY, eric!! :-)
    Posted 6 months ago by sgjo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • tysm eric. 
    Posted 6 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm having the same problem with the trees, but they only do it while harvesting. :(
    Posted 6 months ago by Hersche Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Please please please fix the slingback on the harvesting of the wood trees. I am falling off the ledges in the wood forests.
    Posted 6 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Eye Wonder: try it now.   
    Posted 6 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you so much! That is so much better. I just harvested the wood trees in my front/back yard and both were super smooth. =)
    Posted 6 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink