Poll: preferred solution to archery woes?

[Al-Khwarizmi]

It seems that every ADOM player agrees that the current UI for archery leaves to be desired, but there is not so much agreement about what is the worse problem (investment of game time in reloading? Spending of real-life time reloading? Inventory clutter?) and what is the preferred solution.

Note that you can choose multiple options... if you select the quiver, please also select at least one other option as TB has said he will not implement the quiver due to being too much work (but I include it for informative reasons).

[SirTheta]

am I missing something? don't see no poll.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

Sorry. I now actually created the poll

[SirTheta]

well, I think "Implement a way to mark or bundle a set of different missiles for auto-reloading" is by far the most obvious and best solution (though it's basically a quiver). I'd be curious to hear what other people think, though.

[Stingray1]

Agreed with SirTheta. Sorry.

[asdf]

well, I think "Implement a way to mark or bundle a set of different missiles for auto-reloading" is by far the most obvious and best solution (though it's basically a quiver). I'd be curious to hear what other people think, though.

It does not solve inventory clogging issue. It still requires manually check every stray single missile in clogged inventory. So i've voted for removing arrow variety. Large stacks of arrows is the only way to minimize unnecessary actions during active archer gameplay.

[Qui]

Large stacks of arrows is the only way to minimize unnecessary actions during active archer gameplay.

This. Also, it is fast and easy to implement as I understand, and therefore unlikely to introduce new bugs.

[grobblewobble]

I agree with asdf here. Bundling is great in theory, but it's a unintuitive design, confusing for new players. And worse, you'd still be doing micromanagement. Every time you find a new arrow you'd have to mark it as part of your bundle.

I'm starting to think that removing missile variety is best. Unfortunately that doesn't help when you're throwing daggers, so I'm not really decided yet.

[Booster]

I'm torn on this one, but feel the best choice is to limit the variety in missile weapons. As grobblewobble mentioned though, it doesn't factor in throwing daggers (or spears)..

[Al-Khwarizmi]

well, I think "Implement a way to mark or bundle a set of different missiles for auto-reloading" is by far the most obvious and best solution (though it's basically a quiver). I'd be curious to hear what other people think, though.

It provides very similar functionality but TB said the quiver was too much work to implement (understandably, due to ADOM not having container items) while the marking/bundling was feasible.

This is also the best solution IMHO.