Please add encumbrance for the Expansion

[LadyCrimson]

I see there is a 'don't restrict stash' option. What does that do? Is this what I'm looking for !?

I believe that just means you can't access the stash from "anywhere" - you have to be in certain places or safe spots or something (I'm not sure what the actual req. are).

 

But since if your chr inventory is full, new picked up items appear to be auto-placed into the Stash, it's not as helpful as one might think if one is trying to limit carrying capacity to only a select few items.

[Eurhetemec]

 

Encumbrance was not awesome

Says you. Ok, I hear you.

 

 

Explain to me, if you will, recalling that I am a veteran of basically every CRPG post-1988, and some before, and an extremely experienced DM/GM/Storyteller for pen and paper RPGs, how encumbrance, specifically encumbrance, is awesome.

 

I will await your detailed response.

 

If you're not saying it's awesome, just you like the inventory management chore/mini-game, fine, but if you like that particular mini-game, please be aware that there are vastly better ways to implement it than the encumbrance style (where all items have a "weight" - which may or may not actually also be a factor of their bulk - and you have to stay under that limit).

 

 

I see there is a 'don't restrict stash' option. What does that do? Is this what I'm looking for !?

I believe that just means you can't access the stash from "anywhere" - you have to be in certain places or safe spots or something (I'm not sure what the actual req. are).

 

But since if your chr inventory is full, new picked up items appear to be auto-placed into the Stash, it's not as helpful as one might think if one is trying to limit carrying capacity to only a select few items.

 

 

It makes very good sense as a design decision, because if you didn't do that, all you're doing it making people go back through areas to pick up items they had to leave, which, unless the area respawns/repops, is merely an exercise in tedium (even though I know it makes some people feel good in an instinctive kind of way!).

 

The important thing it does prevent is manufacturing and hoarding tons of one-use items, then cycling them back into inventory as you use existing ones up.

Edited March 27, 2015 by Eurhetemec

[Superdeluxe]

I hate encumberance :D no offense.  Please keep it the way it is.

[Bazy]

These threads are all the same:

 

Some people want X

Some people want Y

 

Niether is right nor wrong

 

Ideally they make X and Y both optional and everyone is happy. 

 

Arguing about opinions is doublepalm facepalm worthy. 

 

/Thread

[MattSanderson]

I like the system as it is, personally. Encumbrance can be really annoying when it has an integer value. The slots themselves act as their own sort of encumbrance, anyway. if they're full, you can't move, it just doesn't display as a number value, which is fine by me.

[ilhdr]

Never got the argument, if you feel that carring 4 packs of armor is wrong, just drop them.

 

But a option on this would made everyone happy.

[Eurhetemec]

These threads are all the same:

 

Some people want X

Some people want Y

 

Niether is right nor wrong

 

Ideally they make X and Y both optional and everyone is happy. 

 

Arguing about opinions is doublepalm facepalm worthy. 

 

/Thread

 

You don't understand how game development works, I'm afraid.

 

Features like encumbrance take time and effort to build, and test, and require the game to be designed around them. You can't "just make both" without sacrificing other stuff.

[Nekator]

Please, god, no. I hate encumbrance *so* much.

Exactly this.. it honestly is just a waste of time to run in and out of some dungeon at the best of times... and a main annoyance if you arent able to take something important at a crucial moment.

[LadyCrimson]

It makes very good sense as a design decision, because if you didn't do that, all you're doing it making people go back through areas to pick up items they had to leave, which, unless the area respawns/repops, is merely an exercise in tedium (even though I know it makes some people feel good in an instinctive kind of way!).

 

The important thing it does prevent is manufacturing and hoarding tons of one-use items, then cycling them back into inventory as you use existing ones up.

I meant that if your chr. inventory is full after a fight, you can't physically drop items so you can pick up/look at something in the field. So if the Stash anywhere-access setting is disabled, it'll still get put into the Stash automatically, where you can then look at it but can't go "oh I like that better, I'll put that on right now" because you can't access the Stash where you are.

 

At least, that's the way it seems to be working. I haven't tested it extensively to see if there's a way around it (maybe I'm missing something)

 

....at any rate, I don't miss encumberance myself. I just think system takes a lot of "do I want to wear this armor I just found in box" control away from the player if one doesn't have access-anywhere enabled.

[soulchilde]

I've noticed that if you fill your inventory and you try to pick up an item the character makes a comment that "it's too heavy" and it goes to the stash.

 

I suspect there was an item weight/encumbrance system in the works which later got cut out. I hope it gets added to the expansion and I believe it would make the game more interesting.

 

NO, the system is fine.  You don't have to use the stash if you don't want too.  

[Horrorscope]

When you turn off unlimited stash, how frugal is that? But I'm totally open for a toggle to lock down each player and what they can carry.

[WDeranged]

 

It makes very good sense as a design decision, because if you didn't do that, all you're doing it making people go back through areas to pick up items they had to leave, which, unless the area respawns/repops, is merely an exercise in tedium (even though I know it makes some people feel good in an instinctive kind of way!).

 

The important thing it does prevent is manufacturing and hoarding tons of one-use items, then cycling them back into inventory as you use existing ones up.

I meant that if your chr. inventory is full after a fight, you can't physically drop items so you can pick up/look at something in the field. So if the Stash anywhere-access setting is disabled, it'll still get put into the Stash automatically, where you can then look at it but can't go "oh I like that better, I'll put that on right now" because you can't access the Stash where you are.

 

At least, that's the way it seems to be working. I haven't tested it extensively.

 

 

Ahhh yeah, you can't drop stuff.  The stash behaviour makes more sense now, I was wondering why you could still dump stuff there even with the restriction.

[Bazy]

 

These threads are all the same:

 

Some people want X

Some people want Y

 

Niether is right nor wrong

 

Ideally they make X and Y both optional and everyone is happy. 

 

Arguing about opinions is doublepalm facepalm worthy. 

 

/Thread

 

You don't understand how game development works, I'm afraid.

 

Features like encumbrance take time and effort to build, and test, and require the game to be designed around them. You can't "just make both" without sacrificing other stuff.

 

Ideally they make X and Y both optional and everyone is happy. 

 

 

Reading hard.

[Gairnulf]

 

I've noticed that if you fill your inventory and you try to pick up an item the character makes a comment that "it's too heavy" and it goes to the stash.

 

I suspect there was an item weight/encumbrance system in the works which later got cut out. I hope it gets added to the expansion and I believe it would make the game more interesting.

 

 

NO, the system is fine.  You don't have to use the stash if you don't want too.

I'm not using it, except for the crafting components which go there by default and I like the game much better that way. Still, I think it would be better with an actual item weight/encumberance system.

 

@Eurhetemec, I don't give a hoot what you're a veteran of, and I don't plan to explain anything to you. The game is single player, so your perception is yours and mine is mine.

[LadyCrimson]

Ahhh yeah, you can't drop stuff.  The stash behaviour makes more sense now, I was wondering why you could still dump stuff there even with the restriction.

Yeah...you can of course workaround it by never using the "pick up all" and constantly making sure to move  stuff to Stash first before picking new stuff up so things don't get auto-Stashed etc, but that feels kind of restrictive to me.

 

I'll probably enable access-anywhere because of that, but that's just me.

[Starwars]

From playing the backer beta, I thought I would actually kinda like the stash, but after having played the full game I have to say that I would prefer an encumberance system.

 

Unless you manually restrict yourself, there is just no thought to shift-clicking absolutely everything, and then shift-clicking it back into the shop interface and mass-selling everything. There is very little thought to looting now which I really don't like. You can just vacuum up everything you find in the world. Having some form of limit (not necessarily encumberance though I kinda like that) would make it feel a lot better in my opinion. Sure, if one has OCD one can still travel back and forth, but...

[Bazy]

I like the stash. I don't mind a huge stash. But an infinite stash is an immersion breaker. 

[Bazy]

Sure, if one has OCD one can still travel back and forth, but...

I liked traveling back and forth. It was part of the downtime between stressful dungeons. 

[Starwars]

 

Sure, if one has OCD one can still travel back and forth, but...

I liked traveling back and forth. It was part of the downtime between stressful dungeons. 

 

 

That's completely fine I think, I have zero problems with that.

[Lady Evenstar]

I've never found that trudging back to town when my pack got full/too heavy made games more "interesting"--and the weight to value ratio has to be pretty bad before they're allowed to leave unowned, saleable items behind. Not fussing with encumbrance/an infinite stash sound great.

[Bazy]

I've never found that trudging back to town when my pack got full/too heavy made games more "interesting"--and the weight to value ratio has to be pretty bad before they're allowed to leave unowned, saleable items behind. Not fussing with encumbrance/an infinite stash sound great.

It's not about "interesting" it's about immersion

Edited March 27, 2015 by Bazy

[rogue7259]

Please no. Inventory micromanagement is so much not fun.

I concur on the NOT fun part!

[sim-h]

I've decided to manually enforce my enbumbrance, using the stash for gems, herbs etc but not weapons and armour.

 

All that's missing is the ability to overload oneself and suffer in-game penalties from carrying too much. That would be nice for us immersives who like work. (yes, we really do).

[Bazy]

 That would be nice for us immersives who like work. (yes, we really do).

I keep telling myself "magic" and try not to think about it

[zombietom]

Typically, I prefer some system of inventory restriction. The play style of "LOOT ALL THE THINGS!" is not nearly as interesting to me as being presented with a choice about what is junk and what is treasure. On the other hand, I get why other people don't want to deal with shuffling their inventory around so they can get their luggage weight below the airline's carry-on limit.

 

What baffles me, however, is the arguments like "if you don't like being able to carry 5 sets of plate armor, just don't pick up everything! No one is forcing you to that. Just don't impose your 'inventory encumbrance' religion on me, because I don't like being forced to go back and forth 5 times as I pick up everything!" ...What?