Hi, not sure where to post this. Years ago, players rallied to have the Compact button moved so it was not so close to the "Deposit all" option in inventory. Now it's directly beside again cries. I cannot find any option to disable or move that hell-button. Anyone else have luck?
eta: yes, ability to hide this button would be amazing
Give us an option to remove compact all button from the UI, i accidentally compacted my inventory cause of this change....
And please even if you make new buttons leave options in the menu as well or give us an option to revert to inventory without the buttons, we're used to it.
Give us an option to remove compact all button from the UI, i accidentally compacted my inventory cause of this change....
And please even if you make new buttons leave options in the menu as well or give us an option to revert to inventory without the buttons, we're used to it.
"Compact" button is dangerously close to "Deposit all" button.
This change obviously was not tested by those who actually is playing the game, and no doubt - seemed to be good on paper. Moving buttons here and there is not QoL implementation, but an imitation of an actual work.
My inventory looks like a simple grid without any bag separators. Moreover, each item is on its place. I always know where all my tools and consumables are. "Compact" button will ruin everything. I know some people prefer to split inventory tab into bag sections, and I can't say whether this part of playerbase is a major or minor one.
Whoever supported this feature ever thought how often do players use "Deposit all" and how often do they use "Compact" function to put both buttons on the same level of physical and functional availability? I encourage to re-think this implementation with a proper and wiser approach considering players' experience, and not only UI designer / Software engineer / Manager.
@Rihar.3465 said:
Anyone who supported this feature ever thought how often players do use "Deposit all" and how often do they use "Compact" function to put both buttons on the same level of physical and functional availability? I encourage to re-think this implementation with a proper a wiser approach considering player experience, and not only UI designer / Software engineer / Manager.
I've been playing since launch and I always use the two buttons together, so this is an incredibly welcome change to me.
Ya'll probably should get an option to remove the compact button, but don't try and frame it as if everyone plays how you do.
@Rihar.3465 said:
Anyone who supported this feature ever thought how often players do use "Deposit all" and how often do they use "Compact" function to put both buttons on the same level of physical and functional availability? I encourage to re-think this implementation with a proper a wiser approach considering player experience, and not only UI designer / Software engineer / Manager.
I've been playing since launch and I always use the two buttons together, so this is an incredibly welcome change to me.
Ya'll probably should get an option to remove the compact button, but don't try and frame it as if everyone plays how you do.
That's why these buttons should be at least optional. In example, add check boxes to "Compact" and "Deposit" menu buttons to move this functionality to inventory UI itself as separate buttons. That is, for players like you it would be better to keep both buttons at the same place. For players like me, it would be preferable to keep only "Deposit" button (this will reduce "open menu" -> "click deposit" actions to a simple "click deposit button").
Right now it is easy to misclick them since they are very small and located too close to each other.
@CaspeR.6943 said:
Yeah. Please add an option to hide or disable "compact" button or an option to revert it back to menu.
I agree with this.
I like that the deposit button has moved out of the menu because (once I get used to the new position) it makes it slightly easier to use, but I really don't like that it's so close to the compact button and I'd like them to restore the option we used to have to seperate the two.
I appreciate some people use deposit and compact together, and I assume it's one of those types of people who made this change, but I'm the opposite. I never, ever want to use the compact option and if I do it means having to stop what I'm doing to put a bunch of stuff back where it belongs, which is really annoying. If I could remove the compact option entirely I'd do that, but I'd settle for being able to seperate them. That was possible when they were in the menu - there was an option to move compact to the bottom of the list so there was no risk of hitting it by accident. It would be nice to get that back, or something which achieves the same effect.
I asked years ago to move the "Kick from guild" to the bottom away from the "Send mail" which is right above it. Never happened other than me kicking a guild member twice because of cursor alignment, lol.
Playing the PvE scene because WvW is just "BAD"...
In general I like the tweaks to Inventory but, can we have an option to remove the Compact Button? Previously there was an option to move the Compact button down the list so it was out of the way, wondering, now that it is gone, could it be replaced with a 'Show/Hide Compact button'?
Agreed. I like that they've moved them out of the menu and I imagine for people who use both together this is a good change, but as someone who never, ever wants to use the compact option this is annoying because I'm going to keep hitting the wrong button.
It's especially frustrating because they fixed this problem once by adding the option to move compact down the menu. It would be really nice to get an equivalent for the new system.
Yes, please.
After I'd compacted my inventory by accident (and messing it up completely), I looked for a "hide compact button" option and was disappointed that there wasn't one.
@Sinistra.4190 said:
Am I the only one who thought it was already fine the way it was?
Nope. I'm baffled too. Change fo rthe sake of change, fixing a problem that didn't exist. Deposit all was just fine where it was
Please revert ANet or just hide that compact button
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Please revert or make it customisable. This is an annoying change for me
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I agree with everyone who wants the "Compact all" Button to be removed or at least have the option to remove it from the UI. I've sorted my inventory for the 3rd time now in 25 minutes....
@Gryphon.2875 said:
Who even uses the compact function?
Everytime I open the bag. Open bags within bags within boxes within bags. Breakdown stuff, deposit all, compact all. Close inventory.
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Since the headstart weekend in 2012 when I began playing, I think I've used 'compact inventory" a total of 2 times, both by accident. For me, as an individual, it is a useless feature. However, I imagine those who use it may be happy to see it given a quicker access, just as I am with the deposit materials.
I applaud the UI team providing quicker access to these buttons, but please allow players to toggle both of these -- if toggled on, the individual button is presented next to the cog wheel, like in today's update; if off, they remain in the cog wheel menu. Or maybe the toggle only controls the additional buttons, and keep them in the menu as before regardless (I find myself, out of habit, going into the menu looking for the deposit option a lot so far!).
UI changes are great -- especially since I think this is one many folks have wanted for a while? -- but providing options for users with varying preferences is even greater.
@Topalai.4789 said:
+1, let us get rid of that compact button that just messes up the inventory.
Or at least put is somewhere where we can't accidentally click it.
Having options to move, hide are fine. Outright removing would be a terrible idea for those using it.
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to add, add a space between the option menu and the search bar.
at times i click to fast by accident but ones the search bar is clicked it can't be undone unless i close my inventory and open it again.
@Katsugankz.7156 said:
I've been playing since launch and I always use the two buttons together, so this is an incredibly welcome change to me.
Ya'll probably should get an option to remove the compact button, but don't try and frame it as if everyone plays how you do.
I like the new buttons quite a bit. For the sake of all non-compactors though the button(s) should be toggle-able.
Or all the options of the cog could be transformed to toggle-able Icons. Just activate the ones you need & want. (What? A lass can dream, right? )
Agreed with all who ask for a compact button removal or deactivation.
Some of us have inventory management which completely gets screwed if the button is pressed. Having it this close next to the deposit all button is very dangerous and can lead to unnecessary issues for some players.
You used to be able to moved compact button to bottom of menu, because randome stuff happened >.>
Why did you put it so close to the deposit button???
Please changed the moved compact buttom to bottom in option to toggle compact button on or off
oh goody.. now i get to show/hide rarity rather than store anything thanks to 8 years of muscle memory and a UI you just arbitrarily decided to make a "change" to.
+100000 on the remove compact all button.
if you lot are running out of things to do theres an entire WvW game mode that needs dev time.
It took years of requests before it became possible for the "compact" menu option to be a bit further away from the "deposit" button. It was a great solution to make it configurable: people who were happy with where it was were served as well as the people who wanted it gone. Now this, this doesn't feel like a QoL feature, but a step backwards.
I've deposited stuff twice since the update. The first time, I started off with toggling the rarity indicator. No big deal, but both times, I sat up straight before approaching the buttons, apprehensive of accidentally hitting the wrong button. Wide-screen, small interface, fast mouse pointer. Accident waiting to happen.
Please implement an option similar to the earlier one.
[edit] And shouldn't you then use invisible bags for everything?
Well, you need at least one or two that aren't invisible, because otherwise you won't be able to sell stuff anymore, as things in invisible bags don't appear for vendors or the trading post.
It would also mean equipping a lot of characters with them, as so far I have used the normal 20-slot bags e.g. from Halloween, as they're easier to obtain.
The options would therefore be (at least in my case)
a) spent a few hundred gold to retroactively get invisible bags for all my characters
b) ask for an option to toggle the button
What irony. A few years ago the two options to clean up inventory and to bring total chaos to inventory were separated further apart in the menu. I think that change came shortly after a streamer had misclicked in a live stream. And now you add this as buttons right next to each other, again super easy to hit the wrong option? What a great idea... not.
@DeanBB.4268 said:
You guys don't use invisible bags for the stuff you want to manage? Why?
This is a welcome addition, but I'm certainly not opposed to making it an option.
[edit] And shouldn't you then use invisible bags for everything?
You can't use all invisible bags, otherwise you can't sell or deposit anything. I keep a lot of stuff in my invisible bag, but there's other items in my inventory which I want to stay where they are as well.
I have my inventory split by bag, sized as a 5x4 grid and placed above the chat box so I can open it during combat and still see what I'm doing, and on the bottom row of the first bag I have 3-5 consumables so I can access them quickly when I need them. I'll sometimes also have other things I'm keeping in other bags, again seperated by function (for example weapons bought with karma to unlock the skins which I'm saving until I have enough to put them in the Mystic Forge, which I don't want to mix up with the useful weapons in my invisible bag). It's not worth buying special bags to keep them because things are constantly shifting around based on what I'm doing, but I still don't want it all dumped into the top bags mixed in with random loot.
Literally the only problem I've had with this system in 8 years is randomly hitting compact when I meant to deposit, and for a long time that was solved by seperating the two options. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask Anet to reapply the solution they had already created, even if there are other players who don't need it.
I can life with the "Deposit All" button being where it is right now but seriously - get rid of that kitten "Compact" button. It's at the worst possible location.
I can life with the "Deposit All" button being where it is right now but seriously - [give us the option to] get rid of that kitten "Compact" button. It's at the worst possible location.
Finally found time to log in and look at this. Like several others, I greatly appreciated when the Compact button was moved away from the Deposit All button in the menu list. With the change, I find that both options are much more convenient. For me, though, rather than opting to remove one or both of the buttons, I would be satisfied with just giving them a bit more space between them to make it less likely for me to click the wrong one. /shrug
This change was something between useless and disrespectful.
As mentioned by the OP, an option was introduced many years ago to move the compact menu item away from the deposit materials one for a reason.
Whoever implemented this change should've realized how wrong it is by the time they simply removed the checkbox from the Option dialog. Or they really didn't care about why it exists in first place.
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Hi, not sure where to post this. Years ago, players rallied to have the Compact button moved so it was not so close to the "Deposit all" option in inventory. Now it's directly beside again cries. I cannot find any option to disable or move that hell-button. Anyone else have luck?
eta: yes, ability to hide this button would be amazing
Please just give us option to hide the button. Thanks. It is the most annoying button in the game, completely destroying any order in inventory.
Give us an option to remove compact all button from the UI, i accidentally compacted my inventory cause of this change....
And please even if you make new buttons leave options in the menu as well or give us an option to revert to inventory without the buttons, we're used to it.
Give us an option to remove compact all button from the UI, i accidentally compacted my inventory cause of this change....
And please even if you make new buttons leave options in the menu as well or give us an option to revert to inventory without the buttons, we're used to it.
Yeah. Please add an option to hide or disable "compact" button or an option to revert it back to menu.
"Compact" button is dangerously close to "Deposit all" button.
This change obviously was not tested by those who actually is playing the game, and no doubt - seemed to be good on paper. Moving buttons here and there is not QoL implementation, but an imitation of an actual work.
My inventory looks like a simple grid without any bag separators. Moreover, each item is on its place. I always know where all my tools and consumables are. "Compact" button will ruin everything. I know some people prefer to split inventory tab into bag sections, and I can't say whether this part of playerbase is a major or minor one.
Whoever supported this feature ever thought how often do players use "Deposit all" and how often do they use "Compact" function to put both buttons on the same level of physical and functional availability? I encourage to re-think this implementation with a proper and wiser approach considering players' experience, and not only UI designer / Software engineer / Manager.
If fixing this issue will take time PLEASE revert to how it was until it's fixed.
I've been playing since launch and I always use the two buttons together, so this is an incredibly welcome change to me.
Ya'll probably should get an option to remove the compact button, but don't try and frame it as if everyone plays how you do.
That's why these buttons should be at least optional. In example, add check boxes to "Compact" and "Deposit" menu buttons to move this functionality to inventory UI itself as separate buttons. That is, for players like you it would be better to keep both buttons at the same place. For players like me, it would be preferable to keep only "Deposit" button (this will reduce "open menu" -> "click deposit" actions to a simple "click deposit button").
Right now it is easy to misclick them since they are very small and located too close to each other.
Who even uses the compact function?
compact button next to deposit button ... how smart anet... please fix that
I agree with this.
I like that the deposit button has moved out of the menu because (once I get used to the new position) it makes it slightly easier to use, but I really don't like that it's so close to the compact button and I'd like them to restore the option we used to have to seperate the two.
I appreciate some people use deposit and compact together, and I assume it's one of those types of people who made this change, but I'm the opposite. I never, ever want to use the compact option and if I do it means having to stop what I'm doing to put a bunch of stuff back where it belongs, which is really annoying. If I could remove the compact option entirely I'd do that, but I'd settle for being able to seperate them. That was possible when they were in the menu - there was an option to move compact to the bottom of the list so there was no risk of hitting it by accident. It would be nice to get that back, or something which achieves the same effect.
Danielle Aurorel, Desolation EU. Mini Collector
"Life's a journey, not a destination."
Like @Katsugankz.7156 said, I always use the deposit and compact options together. I'm very happy with this update - less clicking for me.
I asked years ago to move the "Kick from guild" to the bottom away from the "Send mail" which is right above it. Never happened other than me kicking a guild member twice because of cursor alignment, lol.
Playing the PvE scene because WvW is just "BAD"...
In general I like the tweaks to Inventory but, can we have an option to remove the Compact Button? Previously there was an option to move the Compact button down the list so it was out of the way, wondering, now that it is gone, could it be replaced with a 'Show/Hide Compact button'?
I'd like a "hide compact button" option added as well. I've already hit it a dozen times.
same
Agreed. I like that they've moved them out of the menu and I imagine for people who use both together this is a good change, but as someone who never, ever wants to use the compact option this is annoying because I'm going to keep hitting the wrong button.
It's especially frustrating because they fixed this problem once by adding the option to move compact down the menu. It would be really nice to get an equivalent for the new system.
Danielle Aurorel, Desolation EU. Mini Collector
"Life's a journey, not a destination."
Yes, please.
After I'd compacted my inventory by accident (and messing it up completely), I looked for a "hide compact button" option and was disappointed that there wasn't one.
Am I the only one who thought it was already fine the way it was?
I keep toggling the rarity outlines instead of depositing stuff and it is extremely irritating.
SUPER agreed. It's a bane to almost all ...
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Nope. I'm baffled too. Change fo rthe sake of change, fixing a problem that didn't exist. Deposit all was just fine where it was
Please revert ANet or just hide that compact button
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I have my inventory sorted. To each their own.
+1, let us get rid of that compact button that just messes up the inventory.
Or at least put is somewhere where we can't accidentally click it.
Please revert or make it customisable. This is an annoying change for me
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I agree with everyone who wants the "Compact all" Button to be removed or at least have the option to remove it from the UI. I've sorted my inventory for the 3rd time now in 25 minutes....
Everytime I open the bag. Open bags within bags within boxes within bags. Breakdown stuff, deposit all, compact all. Close inventory.
Envy the Madman his musing when Death comes to make fools of us all.
De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum.
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Since the headstart weekend in 2012 when I began playing, I think I've used 'compact inventory" a total of 2 times, both by accident. For me, as an individual, it is a useless feature. However, I imagine those who use it may be happy to see it given a quicker access, just as I am with the deposit materials.
I applaud the UI team providing quicker access to these buttons, but please allow players to toggle both of these -- if toggled on, the individual button is presented next to the cog wheel, like in today's update; if off, they remain in the cog wheel menu. Or maybe the toggle only controls the additional buttons, and keep them in the menu as before regardless (I find myself, out of habit, going into the menu looking for the deposit option a lot so far!).
UI changes are great -- especially since I think this is one many folks have wanted for a while? -- but providing options for users with varying preferences is even greater.
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Having options to move, hide are fine. Outright removing would be a terrible idea for those using it.
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to add, add a space between the option menu and the search bar.
at times i click to fast by accident but ones the search bar is clicked it can't be undone unless i close my inventory and open it again.
the truth is harsh, my opinions are too.
I like the new buttons quite a bit. For the sake of all non-compactors though the button(s) should be toggle-able.
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Or all the options of the cog could be transformed to toggle-able Icons. Just activate the ones you need & want. (What? A lass can dream, right?
It isn't that bad. Just requires memory muscle.
Agreed with all who ask for a compact button removal or deactivation.
Some of us have inventory management which completely gets screwed if the button is pressed. Having it this close next to the deposit all button is very dangerous and can lead to unnecessary issues for some players.
You used to be able to moved compact button to bottom of menu, because randome stuff happened >.>
Why did you put it so close to the deposit button???
Please changed the moved compact buttom to bottom in option to toggle compact button on or off
oh goody.. now i get to show/hide rarity rather than store anything thanks to 8 years of muscle memory and a UI you just arbitrarily decided to make a "change" to.
+100000 on the remove compact all button.
if you lot are running out of things to do theres an entire WvW game mode that needs dev time.
I like it, saves time when I'm in the field and realize I haven't taken care of my inventory for a while. Nice changes.
You guys don't use invisible bags for the stuff you want to manage? Why?
This is a welcome addition, but I'm certainly not opposed to making it an option.
[edit] And shouldn't you then use invisible bags for everything?
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It took years of requests before it became possible for the "compact" menu option to be a bit further away from the "deposit" button. It was a great solution to make it configurable: people who were happy with where it was were served as well as the people who wanted it gone. Now this, this doesn't feel like a QoL feature, but a step backwards.
I've deposited stuff twice since the update. The first time, I started off with toggling the rarity indicator. No big deal, but both times, I sat up straight before approaching the buttons, apprehensive of accidentally hitting the wrong button. Wide-screen, small interface, fast mouse pointer. Accident waiting to happen.
Please implement an option similar to the earlier one.
Well, you need at least one or two that aren't invisible, because otherwise you won't be able to sell stuff anymore, as things in invisible bags don't appear for vendors or the trading post.
It would also mean equipping a lot of characters with them, as so far I have used the normal 20-slot bags e.g. from Halloween, as they're easier to obtain.
The options would therefore be (at least in my case)
a) spent a few hundred gold to retroactively get invisible bags for all my characters
b) ask for an option to toggle the button
What irony. A few years ago the two options to clean up inventory and to bring total chaos to inventory were separated further apart in the menu. I think that change came shortly after a streamer had misclicked in a live stream. And now you add this as buttons right next to each other, again super easy to hit the wrong option? What a great idea... not.
You can't use all invisible bags, otherwise you can't sell or deposit anything. I keep a lot of stuff in my invisible bag, but there's other items in my inventory which I want to stay where they are as well.
I have my inventory split by bag, sized as a 5x4 grid and placed above the chat box so I can open it during combat and still see what I'm doing, and on the bottom row of the first bag I have 3-5 consumables so I can access them quickly when I need them. I'll sometimes also have other things I'm keeping in other bags, again seperated by function (for example weapons bought with karma to unlock the skins which I'm saving until I have enough to put them in the Mystic Forge, which I don't want to mix up with the useful weapons in my invisible bag). It's not worth buying special bags to keep them because things are constantly shifting around based on what I'm doing, but I still don't want it all dumped into the top bags mixed in with random loot.
Literally the only problem I've had with this system in 8 years is randomly hitting compact when I meant to deposit, and for a long time that was solved by seperating the two options. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask Anet to reapply the solution they had already created, even if there are other players who don't need it.
Danielle Aurorel, Desolation EU. Mini Collector
"Life's a journey, not a destination."
I can life with the "Deposit All" button being where it is right now but seriously - get rid of that kitten "Compact" button. It's at the worst possible location.
I can life with the "Deposit All" button being where it is right now but seriously - [give us the option to] get rid of that kitten "Compact" button. It's at the worst possible location.
Fixed that for ya. You're welcome.
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Finally found time to log in and look at this. Like several others, I greatly appreciated when the Compact button was moved away from the Deposit All button in the menu list. With the change, I find that both options are much more convenient. For me, though, rather than opting to remove one or both of the buttons, I would be satisfied with just giving them a bit more space between them to make it less likely for me to click the wrong one. /shrug
I am a very casual player.
Very.
Casual.
Compact button is the worst button in the game. Players who even use this button are psychos.
I liked storing materials being part of the list in the cog-menu.
I'd like compact and storing materials being back in there.
This was a terrible and unneeded change.
This change was something between useless and disrespectful.
As mentioned by the OP, an option was introduced many years ago to move the compact menu item away from the deposit materials one for a reason.
Whoever implemented this change should've realized how wrong it is by the time they simply removed the checkbox from the Option dialog. Or they really didn't care about why it exists in first place.
Booh.
I wish Anet hadn't wasted time with this change.
I'm also saddened that they force feed these options on us. Leave the prior methods alone and offer this new way as an option.
Give us a way to hide, remove or disable the compact option.
Just here to support the removal of the compact button. It already destroyed my Inventory Order twice since the update although I knew it was there