Side-by-Side Item Comparing

[Tarrant]

Deciding what item to use can be a difficult decision. Is the item you're looking at better than the one you're using at the moment? We've added a small feature to help make this deliberation process a bit easier - side by side item comparisons!

In Mod 9, whenever you mouse over a wearable item to inspect it, any item you're currently wearing that uses the same inventory slot will be shown along side it so you can more easily compare and contrast the items.

Example: You loot a new helm. You can mouse over the helm in your inventory, and not only will the item details window appear, but the detail window for the helm you're currently wearing will also appear beside it!

[Hobgoblin]

interesting.

so when is this "so-called" mod 9

[anatoli11]

Excellent idea!

Thankyou!

[Mirta]

Deciding what item to use can be a difficult decision. Is the item you're looking at better than the one you're using at the moment? We've added a small feature to help make this deliberation process a bit easier - side by side item comparisons!

In Mod 9, whenever you mouse over an item in your inventory to inspect it, any item you're currently wearing that uses the same inventory slot will be shown along side it so you can more easily compare and contrast the items.

Example: You loot a new helm. You can mouse over the helm in your inventory, and not only will the item details window appear, but the detail window for the helm you're currently wearing will also appear beside it!

This doesn't really seem too necessary, as item stats in DDO are pretty static. It's not like other games where I'm going to pull a helm of stat+155 and want to compare it to my helm of stat+143. Unless maybe you're giving us like 50 new effects in the next mod?

[frugal_gourmet]

You're just making it too easy for the unwashed masses and dumbing down the game.



(just kidding... this is awesome)

[Ustice]

Great new feature! Can we get a screenshot?

[Angelus_dead]

In Mod 9, whenever you mouse over an item in your inventory to inspect it

Some people might like to do this with items not yet in inventory, such as auction sales and binding raid loot.

On a semi-related topic, many players would like to be able to put bound items in the trade window so that someone else can see it.

[cdbd3rd]

Deciding what item to use can be a difficult decision. Is the item you're looking at better than the one you're using at the moment? We've added a small feature to help make this deliberation process a bit easier - side by side item comparisons!

In Mod 9, whenever you mouse over an item in your inventory to inspect it, any item you're currently wearing that uses the same inventory slot will be shown along side it so you can more easily compare and contrast the items.

Example: You loot a new helm. You can mouse over the helm in your inventory, and not only will the item details window appear, but the detail window for the helm you're currently wearing will also appear beside it!

Cool.


Question: Currently, Mouseover has a little glitch where sometimes you can hold the pop-up open as long as you're holding the mouse over. Other times, the pop-up disappears almost instantly.

Is this known, tweakable, fixed, etc?

[Hellreike]

Im glad to see this one get in.

on a similar note, it would be super cool if we could link items into chat...since we can already examine other players loot from the chat window, i don't imagine it would be too difficult...most other games use the 'shift+click' method on the item during text entry. This would be really handy for sharing neat loot pulls with guild, or asking your friends if an item is worth keeping/selling/AHing.

[oogly54]

Heerrrree Mod 9, here boy. Come on, you know you want to show yourself. I have a treat for you. **** IT, GET YOUR ARSE OVER HERE NOW!!!

Reserve comment on feature until I actually try it.


HERE BOY!

[Xaxx]

100% grade a useless feature.. this is whats taking mod 9 so long.. ading stuff like this that no one will give 2 blue ape dungs about....

[Unknownperson]

100% grade a useless feature.. this is whats taking mod 9 so long.. ading stuff like this that no one will give 2 blue ape dungs about....

Maybe you will not use every feature in mod nine but the variety of things they have been showing us is pretty cool and will enhance many a players enjoyment in the game.

If you want more/quicker development maybe spend some time promoting the game to others so they get a larger player base (therefore more money) instead of putting worthless comments in this forum.

[KaKa]

Ok we can already do this by pressing the lock button on the examine window for both items to compare.

What I am reading here is you are now doubling the windows that show up on my screen when I examine an item.

Don't see why this is more helpful.

[Theboz]

Cool.


Question: Currently, Mouseover has a little glitch where sometimes you can hold the pop-up open as long as you're holding the mouse over. Other times, the pop-up disappears almost instantly.

Is this known, tweakable, fixed, etc?

If nobody has yet given a answer to this, I have a fix for this when it happends to me. I go into my options and find the slider that tells how long a window to stay open, I move the slider to the maximum and then I look at a item, it whould stay on and not dissapear, then you can move the slider back to your preferred time for such windows to stay open.

[ArkoHighStar]

Ok we can already do this by pressing the lock button on the examine window for both items to compare.

What I am reading here is you are now doubling the windows that show up on my screen when I examine an item.

Don't see why this is more helpful.

no, it wont work like that, if they make it like LOTRO, which is where the tech came from, it will be txt in another color below the items text. What we are seeing here with a lot of this stuff is the trickle down effect of the shared engines

[Anthios888]

This would have been really really helpful when I was first learning the game

[Xaxx]

You sir are worse than a troll, you are troll dung. Maybe you will not use every feature in mod nine but the variety of things they have been showing us is pretty cool and will enhance many a players enjoyment in the game.

If you want more/quicker development maybe spend some time promoting the game to others so they get a larger player base (therefore more money) instead of putting worthless comments in this forum.

ooh look i just pulled a new helm lets look at it.. oh wait im wearing minos legend or perhaps a gs helm.... yeah that features gonna be REEEEEAAAAAALLLLLL useful, you know in something like wow... yes quite useful... here... big waste of coding time.... look man if you wanna brown nose go ahead... but dont call me out fo speaking the truth.

oh and promoting the game... maybe thats something turbine should do... ONCE.

[Gorby]

Cool.


Question: Currently, Mouseover has a little glitch where sometimes you can hold the pop-up open as long as you're holding the mouse over. Other times, the pop-up disappears almost instantly.

Is this known, tweakable, fixed, etc?

When I've seen this happen, I've noted that the item examination window is appearing on-screen between the mouse cursor and the item I am hovering over. Since the item is no longer under my mouse (it's now the examination window under the cursor) I am no longer 'inspecting' that item and the examination window disappears.

[KaKa]

no, it wont work like that, if they make it like LOTRO, which is where the tech came from, it will be txt in another color below the items text. What we are seeing here with a lot of this stuff is the trickle down effect of the shared engines

That would be acceptable, but Tarrant's Example says that both "Windows" will be there side by side.

I hope you are right and its just the text added at the bottom, but if two windows pop up boy would that clutter up the screen. Some clarification is in order I think.

[Thoon]

Some people might like to do this with items not yet in inventory, such as auction sales and binding raid loot.

This new feature works for items in chests, on end reward lists, in trade windows, on the auction house, in broker or vendor windows, in your bank, and mail attachments. It does not show up when hovering over your toolbar or if you disable tooltips.