Streamline the salvage tab!

So, now that the Incarnate system has been introduced, there are now 7 tabs in the salvage window:

All
Base
Component
Event
Incarnate
Invention
Special

Out of all these, Invention is obviously the most useful. Most characters no longer have Base and Component salvage, since it was deprecated in Issue 13. Characters below level 50 will never have anything in their Incarnate salvage. All of these push the infinitely more useful Invention tab way farther right than it needs to be, typically outside the window unless you make your salvage window enormous.

So, some changes I propose:

1) Give us the option of hiding empty tabs.

This will mean new characters no longer see the Base and Component tabs unless they go out of their way to acquire said salvage. It will also mean the Incarnate salvage tab will not actually pop up until you can earn Incarnate salvage.

1a) Give us the option of hiding any tab we choose.

Much like the map window, we should be able to display or hide anything we are or are not interested in. No events running? Hide the event tab until you're ready to do something with it.

2) Let us rearrange the tabs like we can with tabs in the chat window.

They are the same tabs. Presumably there's a fairly simple switch that makes some tabs mobile and others fixed. Looking at the All tab is annoying, since it piles everything in together. Even with the sorting options, you're more often than not going to look at a specific type of salvage instead of every piece you have.

3 and 3a) Let us make our own tabs, and let us move salvage into whatever custom tabs we choose.

This one is a little more complicated, but will provide excellent functionality that I believe the current Salvage window lacks. If you're crafting, you can now make a tab called Crafting Storage, and move the salvage you want to hang on to into into that tab. Obviously it would still count towards your salvage limits, but ideally it wouldn't show up on the vendor window to sell. This would also work well for people crafting Incarnate components. If you know you need 32 Shards in addition to your components, simply slide them into your newly created Very Rare Alpha Slot tab and don't worry about accidentally using them to turn a common into an uncommon.

4) Put your Influence total visible somewhere on the window.

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Great suggestion. Just the ability to reorder tabs would be enough for me. I could push unused tabs off to the right and I'd never see them. If the first tab remains the default, that means I won't have to seek out the one I want most of the time, as soon as I open my salvage window it'll be right there.

5. Merge the Base, Component, Event and Special tabs into one tab. Event and Special salvage comprises a total of 17 items (five of them only present during one story arc) and not many characters have base or component slavage anyway so it's not really making things harder to sort through.

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