Remove useless items from inventory with end of quest

e.g.
Ardoris
the quests to find the murderer of the children that uses the black arrows
"Investigate the Tower"
"Accuse Rolf"
"Report to Cugel" (should be "Report to Captain Cugel" for clarity)

Spoiler

In the locked guard tower you´ll find evidence to incriminate the Guard that has lost his son.

After accusing the guard and reporting to Captain Cugel the quest is finished and the reward received.
However I still have these items in my inventory:

yellow quest item:
"An official notice of recall" (found in the tower)

white normal items, all found in the tower:
"A note about Jenn"
"A note about Scarlett"
"A note about Taylor"
"A note found in Ardoris Guard Tower"

At the last talk in the quest, reporting to Captain Cugel, he ought to take all those items as evidence from the player, both because it makes sense and to prevent them littering the inventory.

 

Those items are marked this way so we can't delete quest items (by accident).
Good idea so far.

Unfortunately some quest items - also those we get back after solving the quest - won't turn to "normal" items, so we could use them (for decoration purpose) or delete ...

Would be good to have the ability to delete items in inventory after the quest is done or to use them as decoration ... (also for player made quests).

For a lot of (quest related) items it still works.

May be @Sannio can help us with

 

Right click and select delete.

 

I suppose he meant to have an option, that it is done automatically.

 

Out of character from as technical point of view - sure, no problem.
If I ingame, as a player are positive that I no longer need the stuff for anything. Being a packrat who keeps everything and is constantly running around over encumbered that would not happen. Especially not for yellowcoloured Questitems. How would a player know that he no longer needs that item that is marked in the colour of "Important, do not give away or destroy"?

Ingame, incharacter you would destroy the evidence that the guy is the one stalking the kids and killing them with black arrows.
And the Captain of the guard who would need those papers does neither take nor ask them from you to persecute the guard, it just happens.

IMO a quest ist done perfectly when in the last talk before the reward is handed out all no more needed items involved in the quest are removed that in the fantasy world would have to be taken away as they would be needed and so that they automatically no longer litter the already crowded inventory.

 

I understand that from a story/quest perspective but I also know that you are able to destroy things that can be collected again. If it's a one-off then it's marked as a quest item and you can't destroy it.

 

*IF* the player is positively secure that he actually won´t be needing them anyxmore. The doubt that an item might be needed later can be prevented by removing anything useless related to the quest with the last speech in the quest.

Yellow as a quest item, like the "An official notice of Recall" letter that I mention in the first post, too?

 

I think at one point Sannio said that those quest items had to be remain on the character because removing them would essentially break the quest system for that quest.

Okay. I can understand that. How about hiding them from the inventory then? Add a flag to quest items that basically says "In Progress" or "Completed". If a quest item was that flag set to "Completed" then don't show it in the inventory.

 

I did not suggest to remove them before the quest is finished but only in the last talk where you get your reward and the quest is marked as finished.

Only if those items all have 0 weight. Hidden items with weight should not clutter my inventory.

 

I think items that are considered quest items have 0 weight. There are some items you get during a quest that are not specifically quest items. The notes about the children in Ardoris, for example can safely be deleted or displayed on a wall in your house (I *think* they can be displayed at least).

 

A work around I do is place all such items in a bag in your inventory or the bank. Then you don't have to worry about deleting anything important, and it makes my inventory less cluttered.

 

I just returned to Highvale Outskirts, Marissa to give her the "resource gathering" stuff. All of which were no yellow quest items, but normal items (3 Silver Ore, Nightshade and Citrine).
And when I got my 250 gold and XP she returned them to me.

This is not a yellow quest item that noone longer needs, but resources she urgently required for the provisions of the refugees in the monastery. Receiving them back is strange to say the very least.

11/25/2022 22:01
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I´m now at Soltown with Sada and had the letter of Wen in inventory.
However I had no option to give her the letter but only 3 speech options (e.g. 1) Truth - he did not love you.
And then she hands over the reward without ever having seen the letter:

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