Open Containers in Storage

[Jackard]

Weight based inventory / lifting capacity solves problem with cabinets in boats.

Vehicles have their own inventories, equipping containers makes them larger?

With the wagons this would make the inventory screen too large to deal with.

scrollbars

you see, weight-based inventories use lists instead of grids. so they arent limited to a certain number of items

[ImpalerWrG]

I'd like to point to my grid system recommendations for wagons and boats.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5824&hilit=grid+inventory&start=10

Grids are visual and tactile and will always be much friendlier and easier to use then scroll lists, adding weight/encumbrance effects to a grid system is much preferable to combining independent weight and volume effects in a scroll list.

[Jackard]

Grids are visual and tactile and will always be much friendlier and easier to use then scroll lists, adding weight/encumbrance effects to a grid system is much preferable to combining independent weight and volume effects in a scroll list.

In another game perhaps - one with autosorting, autostacking, and no volume. You see, modern games do not include volume for inventories - your puzzle grid is outdated, a relic that was discarded for being tiresome and worthless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klotski
http://gangles.ca/2009/02/01/inventory-tetris/

[Granger]

you see, weight-based inventories use lists instead of grids. so they arent limited to a certain number of items

And get rid of merchants robe and backpack?

[Jackard]

no, you simply convert them so they increase the maximum weight

its actually easier for devs to add new equipment that increases inventory in this way, like say giving the leather coat a few pockets, instead of needing an entire row or column for each bag.

and then on top of that, you can also have the weight bonus affected by bag quality. so well-made bags are capable of securely holding more items

[ThirdEmperor]

I would complain about the tedious and overcomplicated weight balancung such a system would require, except that I'm a diehard fallout/oblivion fan, so I can't really talk.

[Jackard]

I would complain about the tedious and overcomplicated weight balancung such a system would require, except that I'm a diehard fallout/oblivion fan, so I can't really talk.

No, go on. I'd like to see you explain how autoarranging weightbased items in a list would be more tedious than fiddling with the tetris inventory.

[ThirdEmperor]

I'v spent hours calculating the value divided by weight of every item in my inventory to see which I should drop. Shouldn't be a problem in this game though. As I said I can't really argue.