UI improvement suggestions

[Garth_of_Sarlona]

Here a few suggestions from my hagglebot bard for some UI improvements. FYI - my modus operandi is that I run quests on 3-4 different toons, and after each quest or when my inventory gets full I mail all my loot to my haggle bard.

Periodically, or when the haggle bard's mailbox is full, I login as her, pull all the loot from the mailbox and go round all the brokers selling it. I pull loot from the mailbox in groups e.g. all weapons then all armor then all jewelry then all clothing - this is so I can dump it all on the same vendor without having to run out of inventory and run between mailbox and brokers too often.

So onto the suggestions:

1. Delete all read email button. After pulling each item from the mailbox, I have to click on delete to delete it - and then 'yes' to confirm. It would be nice if I could just pull all the items and then click 'delete read'. Or even have a 'delete read mail that don't have attachments' just in case I read an email then realise when detaching that my inventory is full (leaving the item attached, but the mail read). Additional note: currently if you click 'detach' then quickly click 'delete' before the attached item has loaded into the game then you get a rather annoying popup 'you cannot delete mail with attachments'. It would be nice if this popup was instead an error message in the (Error) window rather than something you had to click 'OK' on - that extra click sometimes costs me seconds of precious game time.
2. Mail groups and/or sorting. It would be nice to be able to sort the mail by title, or sort the mail by type of attachment - I know this requirement is pretty far fetched since the system probably doesn't fetch the item until you open the mail but I'm talking ideal world here - this would allow me to sort the mail into the weapons/armor/items groups for when I detach
3. Detach all button - what it says - click a button and it goes from the top of the list down and detaches all the items in your mailbox until your inventory is full - it should also delete the items as it goes.
4. Mail all unlocked - more for the toons that are doing the looting - right now I have to sort through my inventory panes and find the items I've looted, often mixed in with the other items. Alternative solution 1: add a sort panel to the inventory so I can sort all my unlocked items to somewhere - then it would make them easier to find. Alternative solution 2: change the UI for the mailbox to be the same as the 'sell' pane - since only unlocked items appear in the 'sell' pane, allow me to use the shopping basket UI to attach my looted items to mail messages.
5. Multiple attachments - ideally I'd like to drag and drop multiple looted items to a single mail. This would be great, but I do kind of understand why the current limitation is there (to prevent use of mailbox as a bank)... low priority request!
6. Typo detection - It's really frustrating to accidentally mail loot to the wrong person. Either implement auto-complete or drop-down from your last known addressees (probably quite hard given DDO's current UI) - or perhaps more easily add a warning box that pops up if you try to send an item to someone who is not 'confirmed' i.e. someone who is not a) in your guild. b) one of your alts or c) a friend on your friends list. This would eliminate 99% of the typos people complain about, without a significant impact on the user experience. Are you sure you wish to send those 5 large scales to 'Garht'?

That's all. I might come up with some more suggestions soon. Thanks for reading!

Garth

[Cadaia]

/signed

I'd add some, by my think hurts too much to brain right at the moment.

[Garth_of_Sarlona]

woot! I've been moved to the suggestions forum! Does this mean someone is reading these?

Garth

[Borror0]

woot! I've been moved to the suggestions forum! Does this mean someone is reading these?

No. It is to give you false hopes.

[Phax]

It does indeed. Thanks for the suggestions!

[Borror0]

It does indeed. Thanks for the suggestions!

See? Told you Garth! He is, indeed, giving you false hopes!

[Auran82]

Phax: 1. Borror0: 0.

[moorewr]

You did that just to make me lie, did you?

No, he confirmed you.. look again.. he immediately agreed, after your post, that he was there to give Garth false hopes...

[Borror0]

No, he confirmed you.. look again.. he immediately agreed, after your post, that he was there to give Garth false hopes...

Oh, you're right.

[QuantumFX]

Garth,
Don’t forget to show some cleric/bard love and ask for a checkbox to turn the annoying “So-n-so invites you to his party” pop up into a “So-n-so has invited you to his party do you accept or decline” message in the chatbox!

[Dracolich]

Why not have all mail go into the unconfirmed mail box, once you open or read the mail it then goes to the confirmed. The delete all is moved from the unconfirmed mail to the confirmed/read mail tab. I know the definition of unconfirmed is the source is unconfirmed. Just relabel them to read and unread mail.

[Ustice]

A button in the inventory UI for sorting by locked and by type would be nice for helping us find that one item that we are looking for.

[Garth_of_Sarlona]

Thanks for reading Phax!

...a favor reward that gives a larger mailbox would be nice too - I hate running out of space in my bard's mailbox.

Maybe favor for each house should also have a (greater) effect on the prices you get at the brokers.

Garth

[The_Phenx]

An even more simple solution... at least for the PITA multiple deleting...

Being able to select more than one piece of mail at a time.

Shift select all your read - detached emails you want to delete... and then hit delete key.... all gone...very common feature in all email programs.