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Hello everyone, Happy 2018 by the way.

Here are a few suggestions from the top of my head:

1.- Get rid of the terrible cumbersome Hotbar. SERIOUSLY. I think a radial menu would be a better choice (If I recall correctly some other RPGs had it: "Temple of elemental evil"?
Right now the hotbar doesn't work properly. It won't automatically add anything to the second bar and beyond for me. Even with R and F keys it's pretty annoying to sort/navigate when you have a lot of skills.

https://www.giantbomb.com/radial-menu/3015-737/games/

2.- Add a toggeable option for ENFORCING AVATAR ONLY when starting conversations, specially important ones.

3.- Add an option to SORT BY LEVEL items in stores. Maybe adding some coloring would help too.

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With den dozens of skills you can have, I think a radial menu would be quite a mess too? At least not as much as necessary.

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I like the hotbar, at least in theory; in practice it could do with some improvement, but I guess there's little point in me covering old ground. As Kalrakh says, there's too much stuff for a radial menu to be workable and my admittedly somewhat limited experience is that they're really a compromise solution for controllers rather than something that's ideal for keyboard and mouse. Also in that regard I would've thought that function keys (with modifiers for other hotbars) would've been quite an elegant solution for accessing things*, it's just a shame that F5/F9 for quicksave and quickload are pretty much set in stone everywhere.

* well okay, admittedly not for 60% keyboards, but y'know.


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There should be just hotbars like in MMORPGs, like WoW. That would solve the problem easily IMO.

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Don't play MMOs so I'm not familiar with how theirs work.


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