Spiral Knights - Follow-up Proposal to Loadouts Feature

Follow-up Proposal to Loadouts Feature

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Sun, 01/01/2012 - 23:16

Squishat

First of all, thank you for introducing the Loadouts feature! It's made gameplay easier, especially with the introduction of the arsenal stations!

After considerably using them for a while though, I do have a few follow-up suggestions to make it even better.

===Main Concern===
With having a lot of weapons/armor/trinkets, different levels, Lockdown, Blast Network... there would naturally be a lot of Loadouts. (Mine is at 32)

1) Currently they are sorted alphabetically and the only way to choose a certain Loadout is to type the name of it in search. This creates a problem when you want to see all your PvP loadouts in the same area without having to name them all with an A prefix.

2) Many of us have had the issue of forgetting to mark/unmark a loadout for PVP and then get thrown into the wrong tier PVP, because sometimes you can't see all your loadouts on the same screen, or accidentally marking/unmarking a loadout previously while changing at the clockworks.

3) Having to scroll or type wasting time changing loadouts in PvP locker rooms.

===Proposed Solution===

While the search feature is nice, there has got to be an easier way to shift through all the different loadouts.

Currently the most feasible one I think is a sorting option, not unlike the one we have for Arsenal, where we can collapse or open up panels.

The panels can be either preset or customizable (preset would probably be easier for you guys), having a few main categories such as:-
- Lockdown (lockdown at the top for easy access for PvPing)
- Blast Network (maybe not so much needed)
- Clockworks
- Bosses

Or even a few set number of categories that we can name ourselves.

In this way, it'd be easier to only mark PvP for the Lockdown loadouts, and not mix it up with other stuff :)

I also would think that not having to rename the entire loadout when simply changing one piece of equipment would be a good improvement as well, but that would be harder to implement I think.

P.S. Please add a hotkey for Gatemap! Needed more than ever now with Arsenal stations and switching every level

Comments? Things to add to it?

Original Proposal for Loadouts - http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/19536

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 23:32

Iceeboy

^+1^

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 05:31

Juances

Cheap solution

You could use prefixes. For example all lockdown loadouts should be called LD - X. That way you 'sort' them taking advantage of the alphabetical order.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 13:15

Liveice

Nice, your suggestion got

Nice, your suggestion got used! *takes notes*

Anyways as far as managing the current way it is set up if I ever make a change I just equip that load out then save it again with the exact same name.

And as for the order all of my load outs are labled A.*** B.*** C.*** and so fourth, even some sub sets like Ca., Cb., Cc. and so fourth.
But the only problem I have is any time I make a new load out and it has to go between to already existing load outs I have to go down to the bottem of the lest and rename everything a letter lower then it used to be and being unable to see them all have to remember exactly what I called them, this is a bit annoying, I would be nice if we could drag them around and order them at will at least.

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Follow-up Proposal to Loadouts Feature