Requested Capablities

[Aldaron]

Originally Posted by chiefweasel

You could create the container Home as gear instead of as minion/follower. Then it would just show up in the characters gear listing. make it a weight 0 and it wont have any encmberance either.

Just a thought.

Yep, that's what I normally do. But as I said, there are like thirty or so items which really cramps up that character's gear listing.

I'm trying to figure out a way of doing it so that I can put the gear in a 0-encumbrance location, but without that location showing up either on the gear listing or in the Dashboard.

[chiefweasel]

The Home, used as gear, would show up as 1 item, like a bag.

[Aldaron]

Originally Posted by chiefweasel

The Home, used as gear, would show up as 1 item, like a bag.

But all the equipment the character has in, say, his backpack, still shows up on the list...wouldn't it still be the same with a customised container? Sorry...I'm at work at the moment, so I can't test it - but I'll try it as soon as I get home.

Sorry...I missed that last post. Let me clarify:

Let's say the character has 25 items, totalling 500 lb of gear, which they want to store at home.
I create a custom container, and call it "Home", and give it a weight of 0 lb.
Now, if I transfer those 25 items into it, they'll all be contained in "Home", but from memory (as I said, I don't have HL in front of me atm), the 25 items would all still display in the character's gear list, with the little icon next to each one to say it's stored in the "Home" container, the same as if I'd put them in a backpack, for example.

[Aldaron]

Okie-dokie. Just got home and created a test character. I added some ridiculously heavy objects (like an anvil and a printing press) which you would obviously not want to cart about with you, and created a 0-weight custom container I called "Home"

When I clicked on the container icon for each item, and selected "Home" as the place to store it, the items all got the little "held by" icon, but they all remained in the Gear list, and the character's encumbrance stayed at 300+ lb.

I'm not worried about the weight, as I can just select "dropped to ground" for the "Home" container...what I'd like to do is not have the items show up on the Gear list; the specific character I was initially talking about has close to 30 items in his gear list, and I have to scroll through lists of tapestries, paintings and silver-inlaid iron tankards to see if he's carrying a waterskin.

I'm not trying to be a pain about this, honestly - and I'm not complaining about anything, I just think I haven't explained what I'm trying to do well enough...

[chiefweasel]

What about putting them into a Journal entry?

[Aldaron]

Originally Posted by chiefweasel

What about putting them into a Journal entry?

Aha! Mr Weasel, you are a genius!
We rarely use actual journal entries in HL, so it just never occurred to me!

*takes hat off and bows to CW*

[Mathias]

Before the gear and mule character discussion goes too much further.

Yes, the option to remove characters from the tactical console is already something we want to add.

Yes, gear handling is something we know we need to improve.

There is nothing mutually exclusive about those - we want to support both the mule character method of storing gear and have gear stored in containers on your own character be better organized.

[drakahn99]

i usually just create a home npc and when i want to see what i have there i use the bags at the right of the screen under the one designated under the npc, though usually i have a hireling i pay to look after my home when i'm away.

[drakahn99]

Originally Posted by Aldaron

I'm not worried about the weight, as I can just select "dropped to ground" for the "Home" container...what I'd like to do is not have the items show up on the Gear list; the specific character I was initially talking about has close to 30 items in his gear list, and I have to scroll through lists of tapestries, paintings and silver-inlaid iron tankards to see if he's carrying a waterskin.

i believe shadowchemosh made an adjustment that can push things to the top or the bottom of your inventory list. not sure if itl do what you want but may be an option for you as i haven't played with the adjustment as it hasn't become necessary for me yet.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by drakahn99

i believe shadowchemosh made an adjustment that can push things to the top or the bottom of your inventory list. not sure if itl do what you want but may be an option for you as i haven't played with the adjustment as it hasn't become necessary for me yet.

It currently only works on weapons actually. I do have new ones coming out that will let you add or change the name of a Gear item. I don't know if gear can be hidden. I am sort of doubtful.