Stacking Amunition.

[SilentSouth]

I had a little play around on another server (EFU:A is still better)
But anyways, i don't know if it was a feature from the CEP but they where able to stack arrows and such, in one pile up to 500 i think.
 
This would be cool if it could be done here as it would save alot of inventory space and make it look alot neater if you an OCD freak like me.

[Drakill Tannan]

If there could somehow be a way to infinetly stack potions/amunition/stackable trinkets, it would be most awsome.

[ScottyB]

I've been meaning to test some changes to base items. I could add this to my to-do list if no DMs object.

[Egon the Monkey]

Side note: It'd be useful for not wasting special ammo. If your basic ammo is in a stack of 300, then you won't run out halfway through a quest and auto-load your poison rounds.

[SilentSouth]

Yeah and as said above with potions, its also slightly annoying when you have two of the same potions and they will not stack no matter what you do.

Cool stuff Scotty, hope it goes well.

[Ghost]

I think it's a bad idea to do it it with potions, people would then stack ridiculous amounts inside bags. Potions have weights, and being able to only carry so man is a good thing.

Arrows, however, weigh nothing. And it's very annoying to auto switch to your best arrows when you're shooting at rats.

[Nightshadow]

Potions should be able to stack in high numbers, too. There are so few quickslots and so many different potions, it'd just be nice to not have to use so many on potions, so that I can actually quickslot some player tools and chat commands.

[Decimate_The_Weak]

I'm not against this.

I approve.

[The Old Hack]

I second the bit with the great annoyance of auto switching to rare and expensive arrows. One of my friends swore blind that the AI deliberately chose the most expensive and least appropriate type to change to whenever it reloaded.

[Egon the Monkey]

I heard it was to do with inventory order. Shall have to test it. As for potions, if they all were one type, poisoned ones would stand out like a sore thumb. plus some are marked as stolen to prevent resale and some are not. That'd lead to either gold inflation or an inability to offload crap potions to NPCs. It would be good if at least healing potions of the same type could stack up to 20 or 30 though. People always have large numbers of those and use a lot consecutively.

[Drakill Tannan]

I think it's a bad idea to do it it with potions, people would then stack ridiculous amounts inside bags. Potions have weights, and being able to only carry so man is a good thing.

Arrows, however, weigh nothing. And it's very annoying to auto switch to your best arrows when you're shooting at rats.

The weight of the potions wouldn't change, and even if so, you'll rarely get a 60% magic bag, so even if you had 1000 potions on a magic bag, it wouldn't make much of a diference.

[Egon the Monkey]

No, because magic bags have limited space.

Say you have a magic bag, 20% weight reduction.

• You'll put all the densest things in the magic bag, to get the best loss of weight. The heavier the item per square of size, the more effective losing a percentage of its weight is. I tend to use magic bags for spare weapons and stacks of grenadelikes, both have a lot of weight per square.
  
• Potions right now stack up to 10, so they are 1 lb per 2 squares.
  
• If you could stack 100 potions, they'd be 10 lb per 2 squares, and denser than armor.
  
• Thus, rather than getting 100 potions in a bag and saving 2 lbs, (or just 1 lb counting the weight of the bag too) you'll fit 1000 potions in the bag, saving a massive 20 lbs in weight.

So, 20-30 potions seems a reasonable compromise, as wands have 25 shots, and that makes potions stack to the same sort of full load.

[Divine Intervention]

All for this, playing a dedicated archer I find that running out of normal arrows and ending up firing expensive ones by accident is a real pain.

[SilentSouth]

Yeah, ok then i agree.
Arrows and such should stack.
And commonly used potions such as healing, invis and restores could be usefull stacking up to 20-30.
Nice input Egon.

[Letsplayforfun]

Personnally, i think PCs have way too much equipement already, so anything that actually wastes space is good.

While i do agree firing expensive arrows is sad, you have a message saying how many shots you have left, so pay attention.

Arrows weight nothing, yet they should. If anything, add weight to arrows (and gold pieces) ;)