I'm going on level 18 now, and I thought that I'd collect my thoughts on how I'd like the UI improved. I really really love this game, but some extra UI conveniences would make me love it even more.
Inventory
- Let us name and/or color backpacks from the right-click menu. I use backpacks a lot to keep stuff organized, but they change their order every time I start the game up, and they all look the same... If I could have different-colored backpacks and name them like 'quest items', 'crafting' etc, it would be great.
- Scaling backpacks, like scaling inventory. Let the backpacks expand vertically when more studd is added. It can be a huge pain to scroll through these bags when they have a lot of contents.
- Sorting of backpack contents, please.
Party management
- A button to group/ungroup all party members.
Crafting
- Preview of equipment stats when crafting from a recipe. I can never remember if I should stop at a large or huge healing potion, for instance.
- Mark favorite crafting recipes so they appear in a separate category at the top, so I don't have to scroll through hundreds of recipes for the ten or so recipes I use most of the time.
- An option to mark unwanted recipes (like the 'add to wares' option for gear) so those unwanted recipes don't show up unless I specifically want them to.
- And my biggest wish: Right now you can string search for recipes (which I only discovered after about 100 hours play, yay me), but I'd really love to be able to search all my current recipes for ingredients and see all hits. My problem is that when I'm considering crafting something involving a high-quality air essence, I can never remember if that's also needed for another recipe I'd like more. If I could just search 'high-quality air essence' and see all recipes with this ingredient, My life would be so much easier. I could also use that to get rid of ingredients I'll never use.