Loot All Button

[sirgog]

Here's how I'd handle "release all":

Have an option in some UI menus that by default is set to "Never Allow", but that has three settings:

Release All:
Never Allow: "You cannot use the release all feature"
Confirm: "You can use the release all feature. When you do, all scrolls, gems, gold, dragonshard fragments and arrows will be auto-released, and all other items will only be released if you click a confirmation box (which will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen)"
Always Allow: "You can use the release all feature. When you do, all items in the chest can be taken by anyone. Turbine will not replace items accidentally transferred with this feature."



That way, it's the best of both worlds - those who want speed only need to ever make one change to their settings & they have speed (without security against accidents). Those who want security against accidents have a setting for them too. (Personally I'd use Confirm).

[Griphon]

I can see it now..

"Back in the OLD days.. We had to double click on EACH piece of loot we wanted!"

Which should be accompanied by "while walking both ways uphill in snow up to our chests.. In the middle of summer!"

[vainangel]

Edit: If you really want to give me a l00t-gasm, give me the option to lock a backpack slot so all the gear that's currently in the slot returns to it when I unequip it.

I am with that!

[Gornin]

Meh. Not a big deal personally, but again, options are good.

[Do'Urden]

Nice. May I suggest as a next step the *Haggle All* button which sends all chest loot automatically to my Haggle bard and sells it for the highest price at the appropriate vendor?

[DragonKiller]

Does this mean I can get more back pack space?


/loot wh**e on

[eyepuppy]

Wow. Something I suggested is actually going to be put in the game.

Nice work turbine. This is going to make looting things faster!

[Grenfell]

I would MUCH rather have a "Delete All" button on the mail.

/gren

[Hambo]

Not sure if asked BUT, how will LOOT ALL be effected by backspace. Like potions, if you gain it after backpack is full, like from jester, it gives you a warning but holds that 1 item off in nowhere till you clear backpack of one slot.

I see the potential of not 1 but maybe many items this could effect depending on how close attention someone pays to thier inventory. ATM since you click 1 at a time, you can't over loot even by 1 item. Loot all could end w/ 3 or 5 items not going into your backpack.

Hate to see people loosing item like tomes or vorpals or OMG a WoP because it poofed from lack of space.

I would hope for a message stating "Unable to store item" or something similar in that case.

[WestiesMA]

This is nice - but please make sure the "Loot All" does not apply to bound loot.

[Tanka]

This is nice - but please make sure the "Loot All" does not apply to bound loot.

Items that bind will still ask for a confirmation prior to ending up in your inventory.

Done.

[WestiesMA]

Done.

Ah - that is what I get for not reading the entire thread! Thanks!

[SableShadow]

Done.

Actually, I've thought about it and I think you're right. So long as it's a chest button rather than a user setting, shouldn't be any problems.

[Drwaz99]

How about "Release All", which marks the remaining items as free for anyone to take? (And which prints a message to that effect in the Loot chat)

I 5th or 6th this idea, I like this more than the Tolero''s announcement, but don't get me wrong Tolero's is nice too!

[Ralmeth]

Thank you! Every time I open a chest I wish I had this button.

[Mockduck]

I predict my ranger will be carrying far more cleric spell components in the future...

...but I like this!

[Praut_Ektor]

Only if we make you do a thumbprint verification and recite the alphabet backwards first! Just kidding... but having a one-click "give all my stuff to someone else" button is a very sensitive subject, and would have to have some SERIOUS confirmations happening.

My husband ran Valak's and received the rose diamond from Dead Girl. He was like 'boo I hate you rose diamond" and dragged it out to destroy it. Confirmation box came up "Would you like to destroy the Dragonshard?" ... yes, I want to destroy the stupid rose diamond. Wasn't until after it destroyed his dragonshard that he realized he should have read the confirmation box :X (I never let him live that one down heh)

I've seen players delete their characters even though we make you type your character's name in the box so it's things for us to take into consideration with something like that

Hey now, you said you'd never tell!

:-p

[sephiroth1084]

This is a nifty idea.

I would definitely like a panelt added under gameplay with some customization options for this feature, as others have suggested, such as an option to always leave stackable items with a separate checkbox for each of the item types (scrolls, pots, gems, arrows, bolts, throwing weapons, wands).

On the issue of a release all button, I don't like it. Just seems like it'd either lead to far too many "Oops! Oh S***!!!!" situations, or would have too many confirmation boxes for it to be worthwhile.

That said, I would like a release option added to the drop-down menu for each item in addition to the ability to assign a particular item to a particular player. That is, instead of moving a potion to player 2 in your group, who may not even desire the potion, you may click Release on that same dropdown menu to make it available to all party members. This avoids most of the real issues with a release all button.

[Anastasios]

I don't think that this is all very important to the mechanics of the game...a nice little feature, but somewhat of a useless development imho...

Now if you could make it a bit more easier to go around selling the loot you pulled at a higher price by placing all vendors who could resell the loot in a central location, then I would be impressed...heck I'd even be impressed if you actually got rid of some of the BS vendors out there...but that's a different topic I'm sure.

Making a chest easier to loot isn't that great...I would hate to think I would waste that much extra time picking what I take out of a chest versus finding the **** in my inventory and selling or deleting it among the clutter of other things. You would waste more time on the latter imho...

[Sirea]

I can see it now..

"Back in the OLD days.. We had to double click on EACH piece of loot we wanted!"

Which should be accompanied by "while walking both ways uphill in snow up to our chests.. In the middle of summer!"

You forgot: "Ya dern spoiled whippersnappers, NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!"

But ya, nice feature