Recipe and Item name-color diversification
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Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2011-02-17 10:59 in Suggestions and Ideas
...No, I don't think they are. Might want to check your video card settings, or possibly your eyes. I believe most of all of what you laid out is what currently happens in-game (to the best of my recollection).
Not 100% sure this isn't a troll thread...
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The game really has no way of knowing how you got a certain IO, though. Certainly there are different pools of them, but it can't tell if you got a pool A recipe from an enemy or from a merit purchase. This is complicated further from the fact that you can sell them. Does a buyer need to know if the seller got it from merit purchases, or that it's the rare one that they are looking for? I know that I don't particularly care where it comes from.
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MOST of it is, yes.|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
...No, I don't think they are. Might want to check your video card settings, or possibly your eyes. I believe most of all of what you laid out is what currently happens in-game (to the best of my recollection).
Not 100% sure this isn't a troll thread... |
But some of it isn't. In particular: Red, Green, and Blue are unused. Also, the salvage outside of Invention salvage and Incarnate Components currently has completely random color assignment. Vanguard Merits simply RAIN DOWN in ritki missions, yet are orange. Candy Canes are white, despite not dropping signifigantly more frequently.
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Certainly there are different pools of them, but it can't tell if you got a pool A recipe from an enemy or from a merit purchase. This is complicated further from the fact that you can sell them. Does a buyer need to know if the seller got it from merit purchases, or that it's the rare one that they are looking for?
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In the UI, I would want Pool C and Pool D recipes to have green text. And Pool A recipes to retain their current ingame coloration.
I have no care or concern for where a particular item in the game "came from", rather, the point of the color coding would be there to help people learn where they can get it from. New players would notice that all their merit rolls spit out Greens, their mission completes randomly dumped blues on them, and in PVP they'd (rarely) get reds. The consistency would serve as a teaching tool. Then, later, at the market, when they're shopping, they'll see that Positron's Blast has 1 blue, 2 Green, and 3 orange recipes, and they'll say "Hey, I see why this nonsense is so expensive! [Luckily, I know where I can get my own! // I guess it's worth it to not have to farm merits!]"
It proves even more useful later on when more recipes are added to the game.
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I was about to say I didn't see the point, since if you got a particular recipe from, say, a mission complete...you'd kind of know.
But I also agree that the IO system is a bit of a user-unfriendly mess due to lack of full documentation of things like drop pools...
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Common IO / Temp Power recipes (AKA Pool A Common) and Common Invention Salvage and Costume Part Recipes (AKA Pool E), and Common Incarnate components, and Small Inspirations
Uncommon Enemy Dropped IO / Temp Power recipes (AKA Pool A Uncommon) and Uncommon Invention Salvage and Uncommon Incarnate components, and Medium Inspirations
Rare Enemy Dropped IO / Temp Power recipes (AKA Pool A Rare) and Rare Invention Salvage and Notices of the Well and Large Inspirations
Ultra Rare IO recipes (AKA Purples) and Favors of the Well
Mission Complete awarded IO recipes (AKA Pool B) and Incarnate Shards
PVP recipes and Special and "Non invention" salvage (Candy canes, Vanguard Merits) and Special Inspirations
Reward Merit IO recipes (AKA Pools C and D)
Look at that list. Look how pretty it is. Imagine, memorizing a short list of colors, and being able, at a glance, without consulting a wiki, without looking up gamefaqs.com, without MESSING around with NONSENSE, knowing where an item came from.
Beautiful, isn't it. Oh yes. Allow me to bask in it a while longer.
The developers seem to have adopted a "Lets make this item name Orange so people will be excited about it" attitude, which just ends up being confusing. EVERYTHING is orange. The whole list up there? Blue through green? Those are all currently orange. Posh. Nonsense. Fix it.
BTW I LOVE YOU GUYS YOU MAKE GREAT ORANGE TEXT I'M JUST SAYING MAYBE SOME OTHER COLORS WOULD LIVEN THE PLACE UP XOXOXOXOXOXO LUV YA!
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