Limited Blueprints Stacking up

Buzz Lightyear · 04-03-2008, 02:22

In almost every profession of crafting there are Limited blueprints. Many of which have to just be stored away in the gray books. Seems fine to most people... but....

Here is the problem: getting hundreds of L blueprints with only a handful of clicks and/or horrible designs which can't be crafted for a long long time. So our L blueprints just keep stacking up in storage.

But then I thought, wouldn't it be nice if we COULD actually stack them?

ie) you have Predator helmet (L) bp with 10 clicks, and 4 clicks and 36 clicks and 9 clicks and 8 clicks and 43 clicks... Shouldn't we be able to stack them all up? adding the pecs values of them up til it hits 1.00? making 100 clicks.

It seems silly to have 100 L blueprints with just 1 click on each... when we could have 1 blueprint with 100 clicks?

Not only does this save tonnes of storage and clutter. But it would make things so much easier when trying to craft L blueprints that have very few clicks.

Example of how it is now:
Open crafting machine, Open book, choose L blueprint with 1 click, add in all the materials, craft.
And repeat this again for each click... is very annoying.

This reminds me of how things used to be with refining. If you had a stack of crude oil, you had to split it all up in stacks of 100, then refine each 100 stack, and then manually stack all the refined stacks together.
You can imagine what that was like when you had to refine 50,000 crude oil.

Example of how it COULD be:
Crafting and finding several L blueprints, stack up all the ones which are the same. Item count down, storage not so full, easier to sell them on auction, easier to craft them, easier to manage it overall.

Just like refining with 1 click, has streamlined mining and made life much easier. I think this would really help streamline crafting a bit, so we don't have to be such packrats.

Fericious · 04-03-2008, 02:33

Sounds like a good idea. I have not gotten into that problem yet. Since I am now starting to craft. I have not gotten any L bps yet. But it would save loads of room. Because you figure if you can stack oil and other items. Why not the blue prints. I am pretty sure they must be smaller.

MrWizard · 04-03-2008, 02:36

This is such a good idea, MA would be foolish not to do it....it makes so much sense....its a wonder they haven't implemented it already...

jak · 04-03-2008, 02:42

Buzz has spoken, thus it shall be!!!!!!

Solaris · 04-03-2008, 02:47

Good idea

..also a good idea to be able to converge small tt limited weapons, into bigger ones. Same procedure. (If this hasnt been wiched for already - then I hereby claim the idea)

Immortal · 04-03-2008, 03:01

Good idea buzz.... but i'm not sure of the imlpications due to porgramming issues (if these are stackable...then they become lootable

) and it means you are in fact creating a new item - so it would need to be processed (and not just "oops i stacked it MA! I want to unstack")

Blueprint merger available from TT!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solaris

Good idea

..also a good idea to be able to converge small tt limited weapons, into bigger ones. Same procedure. (If this hasnt been wiched for already - then I hereby claim the idea)

This will never happen

Poisonhearts · 04-03-2008, 03:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Immortal

Good idea buzz.... but i'm not sure of the imlpications due to porgramming issues (if these are stackable...then they become lootable

) and it means you are in fact creating a new item - so it would need to be processed (and not just "oops i stacked it MA! I want to unstack")

Blueprint merger available from TT!

This will never happen

Not all stackables are lootable; ammo, bombs/probes, ME etc. And come on, programmers are problem solvers, they'll come up with solutions to these "programming issues"...