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Perceptive Mind

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So yea, the reason for this is simple, I have every ability tree in the game, with different ways to combine the loadouts, now I'm faced with a choice, I'm limited to only 10 combined hotbars for 10 different loadouts. Adding another 10 or 20 to this will increase the ability to set up more hotbars and change to them alot faster, now I know it's probly a hard thing to do to save all those hotbars, but I think it would be useful to the people like myself that have all of the abilities.

Plus, I can't see any reason why this would unbalance the game. I mean personally 100 hotbars would even be better really, but 30 or 40 is good to, so please devs, It really does suck when I have 18 hotbars filled and everytime I wanna load up heals or area hacker I have to change the hotbar 19 and 20... Plus I have 4 different loadouts for ma, 4 for guns, 6 for hacker, 2 for coder and 3 for spy. I cannot have all these loadouts placed on my current 20 limit hotbar. Plus it would be nice to have a spot for macros and clothes so you don't have to go through your inventory to look for stuff. Not to mention loadouts that branch and hybrids, this 20 limit is to low... Pls raise it. kthx SMILEY




Perceptive Mind

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Yeah its been said before, and it still needs doing.


Jacked Out

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I have stopped counting the We-need-more-Hotbars threads a long time ago. In addition to more actual Hotbars we could use a drag-down border at the bottom of the Hotbar that allows us to have more than 2 Hotbars visible at the same time. As has been pointed out by SOE personnel some time ago: Neither will ever happen


Jacked Out

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I store different copies of my hotbar files as a workaround for this.

Honestly I would rather see more inventory space, no workaround for that....


Femme Fatale

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Crowlos wrote:
I store different copies of my hotbar files as a workaround for this.
You know, I had the feeling this was possible but I hadn't got around to playing with it yet.  Do you need to relog or can you just switch the files/filenames and hit a loadlo?



Perceptive Mind

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I'm just saying, they raised the hotbar count from what was it in CR1 10 hotbars? I think 20 is ok but for people with all the trees and different ways to use them, changing the hotbars seems alittle repatitive... It would be alittle better if these were already pre set up... I mean I could use the hotbars cause I change into about 4 or 5 loads a day... Depending on the situation, now if I didn't have all my pvp loads on the hotbars I could put other stuff like heals and upgrades.

Also I have no spot for dance macros or umm you are not authorized in this area macros... Just saying, how could it hurt the game to give everyone 10 or 20 more hotbars?




Vindicator

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Skull101 wrote:

I'm just saying, they raised the hotbar count from what was it in CR1 10 hotbars? I think 20 is ok but for people with all the trees and different ways to use them, changing the hotbars seems alittle repatitive... It would be alittle better if these were already pre set up... I mean I could use the hotbars cause I change into about 4 or 5 loads a day... Depending on the situation, now if I didn't have all my pvp loads on the hotbars I could put other stuff like heals and upgrades.

Also I have no spot for dance macros or umm you are not authorized in this area macros... Just saying, how could it hurt the game to give everyone 10 or 20 more hotbars?


I'm just saying that we've asked for this before, and then again I'm just saying that this thread seems nostalgic. Just make room on hotbars that you don't use that much anymore, because it seems we're only going to be able to use what we already have, you know what I'm just saying?

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Systemic Anomaly

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I think having restricted inventory and hotbar space is a good idea. Much like the Diablo series, having restricted space means you have to make decisions about what you keep, and what really matters.

It helps make for a more diverse game.

It would be nice to just keep collecting, but really it's better for the game that we can't.



Jacked Out

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More inventory space and More hotbars plz


Perceptive Mind

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I understand how limiting what we have and do is sometimes a good thing, however, not in mxo. This game is so much more flexable in terms of loadouts, and abilities. We have so many trees, and can mix and match such trees with only the limit of memory. But to limit how much we can acctually save via hotbar is alittle lame, as far as I know /loadlos are unlimited, but why are our hotbars limited to 20? I'm sure they could raise it, inventory space I don't really care about but our hotbars are limited to 10 loadouts and some of us have 20 or more, I just think this is alittle low and unless there is some significant reason as to why they limited it to 20, perhaps it was cause of the short keys or something, otherwise I don't see why, if enough people agree, that they wouldn't increase it by 10 or 20.

Stop limiting the creative inventive loadouts, raise teh hotbars to 30 or 40 plskthxbai.


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Vindicator

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Skull101 wrote:

...inventory space I don't really care about...

Stop limiting the creative inventive loadouts, raise teh hotbars to 30 or 40 plskthxbai.

Yea this is someone you should listen to devs! Only wants what helps them and not others! SMILEY



Perceptive Mind

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This isn't just about me, I'm sure players that don't have every ability in the game could use the extra hotbars for something. It's just the fact that they limit all those that have spent hundreds of millions and countless hours making all these abilities only to limit which ones can be saved on the hotbars.

But you are correct, I think it would benifit me, but there are quite a few others in this game that have the same problem I have, they limit us with the stat hack mission but the amount of hotbars for loadouts shouldn't be a factor in this game. I'm not sure if it would really be that hard to do but come on, it's not like your doing anything other then changing the number from 20 to 30 or 40. It cannot be that hard... They did it once and I feel it's time they do it again.


Message edited by Skull101 on 08/03/2008 06:56:12.



Femme Fatale

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I feel it's not really that necessary, if you're having trouble then you should probably come up with a way to manage your resources better. 



Encrypted Mind

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Eh. Either back up your hotbar files, or I don't know, remember how your hotbars were before you replaced them with something else.

It's really not that hard to re-create a hotbar again.

Also, save whatever macros in notepad or a similar program to save some space.

Message edited by eval on 08/03/2008 20:45:16.
 
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